Presented by: Roy Boxwell
Sr. DB2 Product Specialist
Segus / Software Engineering

Db2 12 Continuous Delivery - New challenges

EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! Roy did a great job describing the challenges we face with Db2 12 Continuous Delivery. To learn what's new, watch, learn and enjoy...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show #Z84: Revival of the SQL Tuner"
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98% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl presented about increasing the attendee’s ability to identify and fix access path problems. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Kai Stroh
UBS Hainer

"The DB2Night Show #Z83: Copy Smarter - Unload/Load, DSN1COPY and beyond"
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96% of our studio audience learned something!Kai described the requirements and issues of copying Db2 data between environments. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Steen Rasmussen
CA technologies

"The DB2Night Show #Z82: The Db2 12 Catalog -- What happened since Db2 11"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Steen described the Db2 12 catalog changes abd their role in support new and improved Db2 features. Watch the replay...

Presented by: James Pickel
DB2 for z/OS SWAT team

"The DB2Night Show #Z81: Early experiences using Db2 for z/OS Transparent Data Set Encryption"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Jim described pervasive encryption for DB2 and the steps to implement it. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Patrick Bossman
DB2 for z/OS SWAT team

"The DB2Night Show #Z80: DevOps and Cloud Provisioning for Db2 z"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Patrick gave many tips for improving developer and DBA productivity by reducing waits in the development process. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Adrian Burke
DB2 for z/OS SWAT team

"The DB2Night Show #Z79: zIIP Experiences: Exploitation Not Abuse"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Adrian gave many tips for the proper use and exploitation of zIIP processors. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Peter Bendel
IBM STSM, Germany

"The DB2Night Show z78: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Update"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Peter gave insight into the many new enhancements of the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Jeff Josten
Distinguished Engineer, IBM SVL

"The DB2Night Show Z77: DB2 12 Update"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Jeff did a great of describing the highlights in DB2 12 and beyond. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Tony Andrews
Instructor and Consultant, Themis Inc.

"The DB2Night Show Z76: DB2 SQL Tuning Tips"
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97% of our studio audience learned something!Tony described many SQL coding issues that cause bad performance and then discussed the solutions. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show Z75: SQL Tuning in the Digital World"
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94% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl looked at how the data and transaction flood can be further affected by bad SQL and access paths. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Klaas Brant
Klaas Brant, IBM Gold Consultant and Champion for IM

"The DB2Night Show z74: DB2 Utilities: Changes you should know"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Klaas shared must know information on DB2 utilities and changes in DB2 11. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Dave Beulke
Dave Beulke, IBM Gold Consultant and Champion for IM

"The DB2Night Show z73: Justified Big Data Performance transforms your business"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Dave shared information on the IDAA with techniques to justify its savings as well as workload tuning tips to take better advantage of the IDAA. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Adrian Burke
DB2 for z/OS SWAT team

"The DB2Night Show #Z72: DB2 for z/OS Distributed Access - In the Mobile Age"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Adrian gave many tuning and management tips for distributed and mobile apps. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Jeff Josten
IBM Distinguished Engineer, DB2 z/OS Development

"The DB2Night Show #Z71: DB2 12 Preview"
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98% of our studio audience learned something!Jeff provided a concise, clear overview of the new features in DB2 12 for z/OS. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show z70: Advanced and Complex SQL Refresher"
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98% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl discussed how to improve SQL coding skills; specifically in knowing when to use which SQL feature. Watch the replay...

Presented by: John Iczkovits and Paul Wirth - Senior IT Specialist - IBM

Connecting DB2 Applications, Including Mobile and Cloud, with Data on z Systems

EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! In the polls we found out that 80% of the audience is using mainframe DB2 data in some web or mobile application. How can you connect these applications in a secure way to you mainframe data? Watch, learn and enjoy...

Presented by: Cristian Molaro
IBM Champion and Gold Consultant

"The DB2Night Show z68: DB2 for z/OS Trusted Contexts and Roles: What you must know"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Cristian provided valuable tips and insight into trusted contexts and roles, including their definition and configuration. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show z67: SQL Performance Tuning in 2016"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl discussed SQL features and performance in the most recent versions of DB2. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Martin Hubel
Martin Hubel Consulting Inc.

"The DB2Night Show z66: DB2 11 for z/OS: Some personal favorites"
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This show discussed some of the important but less presented features of DB2 11 including archive tables and new grouping functions. Watch the replay...

Presented by: David Simpson
Themis Education

"The DB2Night Show z65: Implementing Expanded RBA/LRSN in DB2 11 for z/OS"
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This information is timely for the multitude of companies moving to DB2 11! David covered the many aspects of the expanded LRSN /RBA. Watch the replay...

Presented by: John Iczkovits
Senior IT Specialist - IBM

What Every DB2 for z/OS Professional Needs to Understand about IBM Disk and Tape Virtualization

EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! John did an excellent job on explaining what disk and tape virtualization is. Do you want to know what that is? Then watch, learn and enjoy...

Presented by: Dan Luksetich
DanL Consulting Inc.

"The DB2Night Show z63: DB2 for z/OS DBaaS and The Advantages of Automated Objects"
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100% of our studio audience learned something! This is a must-see show. Taking the new terminology of database as a service (DBaaS), Dan presented the features in DB2 for z/OS that help reach that goal. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Roy Boxwell
Sr. DB2 Product Specialist
Segus / Software Engineering

Where is the BiF?

EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! Roy did a great job on explaining what can go wrong with the buitin functions (BiF's) when moving to DB2 11. Do you want to know what's new? Then watch, learn and enjoy...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show z61: DB2 in the Digital Age"
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90% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl took a look into the future of technology and DB2's role. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Dave Beulke
Dave Beulke and Associates

"The DB2Night Show z60: SQL Performance for a Big Data 22 Billion row data warehouse"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Dave shared a wealth of SQL tuning tips aimed at very large DW environments. A must-see! Watch the replay...

Presented by: Sheryl Larsen
Sr. DB2 Product – Specialist, BMC Software

"The DB2Night Show z59: Comparing DB2 to Oracle"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl gave a deep dive comparison of DB2 on z/OS to Oracle. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Cristian Molaro
IBM Champion and Gold Consultant

"The DB2Night Show z58: Must knows about DB2 for z/OS Distributed - Part 2"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Cristian continued his excellent presentation on distributed configuration and many other topics. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Peter Bendel
IBM SVL

"The DB2Night Show z57: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS - More Than Just Query Acceleration"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Peter insight into the many new features of the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. Watch the replay...

It's the International DB2 Olympics!

Today's Finalist Winners: Cristian, Leila, Akshat, & Rajesh

100% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were again very good considering that we had contestants from Austria, Iran, and India! It fascinates me that we can gather around our computers and learn from industry peers all over the world. You will learn about inline UDFs in DB2 V10/V11, Performance Optimization on SAP/DB2, Solving DBM1 high CPU usage, and lessons learned while upgrading DB2 LUW with avoiding pitfalls. This show contains another buffet of useful tips and advice! Enjoy!