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Welcome to the 2025 IDUG AU Db2 Tech Conference! Enjoy two days full of technical sessions in both Sydney and Canberra as well as complimentary workshops in Sydney that are available to all attendees between the two cities. 
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Monday, March 17
 

8:30am AEDT

S01 | Trends and Directions from the Lab
Monday March 17, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Haakon Roberts

Haakon Roberts

IBM
Haakon Roberts is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is the Director of the Db2 for z/OS and Tools organization and CTO of IBM z Data & AI. He holds several patents and is a leading expert in database management, data integrity... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

A01 | Banking on the API economy
Monday March 17, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
In this presentation I will discuss the value of REST API and open source to operational scenario’s. I will give concrete, working examples of how the exploitation of available REST API can optimize efficiency and productivity of your operations staff and subject matter experts.
Speakers
avatar for Toine Michielse

Toine Michielse

Broadcom
I have been working with Db2 for z/OS ever since V1. In my career I have worked as COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, IMS/DB2 DBA and DB2 system engineer. I have worked a number of years as a Db2 Lab advocate, supporting IBM customers worldwide.  Before joining Broadcom I worked at SwissRe... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

A02 | Learning and Best Practices for Db2 Data Recovery
Monday March 17, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Kavitha Murthy

Kavitha Murthy

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
 Hi, I am Kavitha Murthy, a Mainframe Db2 DBA for 20 years now. My work experience has mostly been in Banks and Financial Services. Primarily a Db2 DBA with occasional stints as IMS and Datacom DBA. Worked in India, Singapore and now in Australia from past 5 years.
Monday March 17, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

11:25am AEDT

A03 | A Day in the life of a Db2 schema
Monday March 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
There is a lot of talk about DevOps and agile development and with good reason. But what does this mean for a Db2 for Z/OS database administrator? In this presentation I will provide an overview of how the process of schema management can be organized with well accepted processes and tools. This will help to optimize the time of scarce DBA resources while safeguarding or even improving the quality of deliverables.
Speakers
avatar for Toine Michielse

Toine Michielse

Broadcom
I have been working with Db2 for z/OS ever since V1. In my career I have worked as COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, IMS/DB2 DBA and DB2 system engineer. I have worked a number of years as a Db2 Lab advocate, supporting IBM customers worldwide.  Before joining Broadcom I worked at SwissRe... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

A04 | Db2 for z/OS Performance and Monitoring Updates
Monday March 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Db2 for z/OS continues to improve the performance and enhance performance monitoring. This session discusses the latest major performance updates, recommendation as well as key monitoring updates on Db2 13. It will also include the recommended set of data collections on the various situations.
Speakers
avatar for Akiko Hoshikawa

Akiko Hoshikawa

IBM
Akiko Hoshikawa is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose. As a Db2 for z/OS architect she has overall responsibility for overall performance,  product simplification, and strategic integration of AI capability within IBM Db2 for z/OS, including the... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

A05 | Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats: Your Strategic Game Plan!
Monday March 17, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Devanand Karunakaran

Devanand Karunakaran

BMC
Devanand Karunakaran, Senior Solution Engineer at BMC Software. In this role, he helps customers maximize the value of BMC AMI Data Solutions. Dev has previous experience as a Database Administrator, managing Db2 and IMS databases for telecommunications and retail customers. He specializes... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

A06 | Db2 Analytics Accelerator: product updates, VNext, and customer experiences from the field
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
CG
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

A07 | Taking SQL Functions to the Next Level
Monday March 17, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
SQL Functions enable customers to improved productivity, performance, enable cross platform porting, and encapsulate application logic in the database. Db2 for z/OS supports Built in Functions that Aggregate data, operate on scalar data, as well as materialize data as a table. Db2 also enables customers to create functions to in Host languages (such as COBOL or C/C++) or in SQL PL (The ANSI compatible SQL Procedures Language). Finally, Db2 13 also introduced SQL Data Insights which allows easy, function based AI, to be applied to customer data. This session will cover the basics, as well as dig deeper into how to exploit all the Function(al) capabilities of Db2 to take your SQL queries to new levels.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Crone

Chris Crone

Broadcom
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session
 
Tuesday, March 18
 

8:30am AEDT

S03 | Db2 for z/OS Utilities Update
Tuesday March 18, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Haakon Roberts

Haakon Roberts

IBM
Haakon Roberts is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is the Director of the Db2 for z/OS and Tools organization and CTO of IBM z Data & AI. He holds several patents and is a leading expert in database management, data integrity... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

A08 | Playing (with) FETCH
Tuesday March 18, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
This session will delve into the many ways to get data out of Db2. These vary from SELECT INTO; to SELECT FROM FINAL TABLE; to FETCH FOR :N ROWS; to RESULT SETS. Db2 has evolved over the years and there are many ways to get data from Db2 - this session will be both a primer and a review.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Crone

Chris Crone

Broadcom
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

A09 | Configuring Db2 on Z for SMF collection on very large systems
Tuesday March 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
Working with some of the worlds largest banks I have come across unique issues which require a combination of ZPARM changes and software configuration. In this session I will give background on some of the issues I have experiences, and how these were solved.
Speakers
avatar for Pete Meers

Pete Meers

21CS
Pete Meers has over 2 decades of experience with Db2 on IBM Z systems as a DBA, software designer, programmer. He has recently been working as Mainframe Data Scientist on IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics, where he creates algorithms to analyse SMF records for performance tuning... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

11:25am AEDT

A10 | z/OS Expert Panel
Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Speakers
T
Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

A11 | Unlocking the Power of AI with Db2 for z/OS
Tuesday March 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Akiko Hoshikawa

Akiko Hoshikawa

IBM
Akiko Hoshikawa is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose. As a Db2 for z/OS architect she has overall responsibility for overall performance,  product simplification, and strategic integration of AI capability within IBM Db2 for z/OS, including the... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

A12 | Back to Basics Triggers and Advanced Triggers
Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Speakers
avatar for Frank Rhodes

Frank Rhodes

BMC
Frank RhodesSenior Product Development Architect, DB2 Administration ProductsFrank Rhodes started with BMC Software in 1995. In his current role he works to promote cross product coordination between the Database Administration products and the other BMC DB2 products. The products... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

A13 | How to access Db2 for z/OS (and other Z oriented) data in the cloud
Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Cüneyt Göksu

Cüneyt Göksu

IBM
Cüneyt Göksu is an Executive IT Specialist for IBM® Z solutions in the context of Data and AI in IBM Germany Development Lab as a member of Center of Excellence team. He holds MBA, Bachelor’s degree and PhD in ComputerScience. He has been working with Db2 for z/OS and IBM Z Platform... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

A14 | Partitioning Advances: PBR and PBR RPN
Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Frank Rhodes

Frank Rhodes

BMC
Frank RhodesSenior Product Development Architect, DB2 Administration ProductsFrank Rhodes started with BMC Software in 1995. In his current role he works to promote cross product coordination between the Database Administration products and the other BMC DB2 products. The products... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session
 
Wednesday, March 19
 

8:30am AEDT

W01 | Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS - Technical Deep Dive
Wednesday March 19, 2025 8:30am - 12:20pm AEDT
Sydney
TBD
Wednesday March 19, 2025 8:30am - 12:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Workshop
 
Thursday, March 20
 

8:30am AEDT

S05 | Trends and Directions from the Lab
Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Haakon Roberts

Haakon Roberts

IBM
Haakon Roberts is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is the Director of the Db2 for z/OS and Tools organization and CTO of IBM z Data & AI. He holds several patents and is a leading expert in database management, data integrity... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

A15 | Banking on the API economy
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Canberra
In this presentation I will discuss the value of REST API and open source to operational scenario’s. I will give concrete, working examples of how the exploitation of available REST API can optimize efficiency and productivity of your operations staff and subject matter experts.
Speakers
avatar for Toine Michielse

Toine Michielse

Broadcom
I have been working with Db2 for z/OS ever since V1. In my career I have worked as COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, IMS/DB2 DBA and DB2 system engineer. I have worked a number of years as a Db2 Lab advocate, supporting IBM customers worldwide.  Before joining Broadcom I worked at SwissRe... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

A16 | Title TBD
Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Kavitha Murthy

Kavitha Murthy

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
 Hi, I am Kavitha Murthy, a Mainframe Db2 DBA for 20 years now. My work experience has mostly been in Banks and Financial Services. Primarily a Db2 DBA with occasional stints as IMS and Datacom DBA. Worked in India, Singapore and now in Australia from past 5 years.
Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

11:25am AEDT

A17 | A Day in the life of a Db2 schema
Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Canberra
There is a lot of talk about DevOps and agile development and with good reason. But what does this mean for a Db2 for Z/OS database administrator? In this presentation I will provide an overview of how the process of schema management can be organized with well accepted processes and tools. This will help to optimize the time of scarce DBA resources while safeguarding or even improving the quality of deliverables.
Speakers
avatar for Toine Michielse

Toine Michielse

Broadcom
I have been working with Db2 for z/OS ever since V1. In my career I have worked as COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, IMS/DB2 DBA and DB2 system engineer. I have worked a number of years as a Db2 Lab advocate, supporting IBM customers worldwide.  Before joining Broadcom I worked at SwissRe... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

A18 | Db2 for z/OS Performance and Monitoring Updates
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra
Db2 for z/OS continues to improve the performance and enhance performance monitoring. This session discusses the latest major performance updates, recommendation as well as key monitoring updates on Db2 13. It will also include the recommended set of data collections on the various situations.
Speakers
avatar for Akiko Hoshikawa

Akiko Hoshikawa

IBM
Akiko Hoshikawa is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose. As a Db2 for z/OS architect she has overall responsibility for overall performance,  product simplification, and strategic integration of AI capability within IBM Db2 for z/OS, including the... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

A19 | Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats: Your Strategic Game Plan!
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Devanand Karunakaran

Devanand Karunakaran

BMC
Devanand Karunakaran, Senior Solution Engineer at BMC Software. In this role, he helps customers maximize the value of BMC AMI Data Solutions. Dev has previous experience as a Database Administrator, managing Db2 and IMS databases for telecommunications and retail customers. He specializes... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

A20 | Db2 Analytics Accelerator: product updates, VNext, and customer experiences from the field
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
CG
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

A21 | Taking SQL Functions to the Next Level
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra
SQL Functions enable customers to improved productivity, performance, enable cross platform porting, and encapsulate application logic in the database. Db2 for z/OS supports Built in Functions that Aggregate data, operate on scalar data, as well as materialize data as a table. Db2 also enables customers to create functions to in Host languages (such as COBOL or C/C++) or in SQL PL (The ANSI compatible SQL Procedures Language). Finally, Db2 13 also introduced SQL Data Insights which allows easy, function based AI, to be applied to customer data. This session will cover the basics, as well as dig deeper into how to exploit all the Function(al) capabilities of Db2 to take your SQL queries to new levels.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Crone

Chris Crone

Broadcom
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session
 
Friday, March 21
 

8:30am AEDT

S07 | Db2 for z/OS Utilities Update
Friday March 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
TBD
Speakers
avatar for Haakon Roberts

Haakon Roberts

IBM
Haakon Roberts is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is the Director of the Db2 for z/OS and Tools organization and CTO of IBM z Data & AI. He holds several patents and is a leading expert in database management, data integrity... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

A22 | Playing (with) FETCH
Friday March 21, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Canberra
This session will delve into the many ways to get data out of Db2. These vary from SELECT INTO; to SELECT FROM FINAL TABLE; to FETCH FOR :N ROWS; to RESULT SETS. Db2 has evolved over the years and there are many ways to get data from Db2 - this session will be both a primer and a review.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Crone

Chris Crone

Broadcom
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

A23 | Configuring Db2 on Z for SMF collection on very large systems
Friday March 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra
Working with some of the worlds largest banks I have come across unique issues which require a combination of ZPARM changes and software configuration. In this session I will give background on some of the issues I have experiences, and how these were solved.
Speakers
avatar for Pete Meers

Pete Meers

21CS
Pete Meers has over 2 decades of experience with Db2 on IBM Z systems as a DBA, software designer, programmer. He has recently been working as Mainframe Data Scientist on IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics, where he creates algorithms to analyse SMF records for performance tuning... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

A25 | Unlocking the Power of AI with Db2 for z/OS
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Akiko Hoshikawa

Akiko Hoshikawa

IBM
Akiko Hoshikawa is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose. As a Db2 for z/OS architect she has overall responsibility for overall performance,  product simplification, and strategic integration of AI capability within IBM Db2 for z/OS, including the... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

A26 | Back to Basics Triggers and Advanced Triggers
Friday March 21, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Frank Rhodes

Frank Rhodes

BMC
Frank RhodesSenior Product Development Architect, DB2 Administration ProductsFrank Rhodes started with BMC Software in 1995. In his current role he works to promote cross product coordination between the Database Administration products and the other BMC DB2 products. The products... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

A27 | How to access Db2 for z/OS (and other Z oriented) data in the cloud
Friday March 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Cüneyt Göksu

Cüneyt Göksu

IBM
Cüneyt Göksu is an Executive IT Specialist for IBM® Z solutions in the context of Data and AI in IBM Germany Development Lab as a member of Center of Excellence team. He holds MBA, Bachelor’s degree and PhD in ComputerScience. He has been working with Db2 for z/OS and IBM Z Platform... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

A28 | Partitioning Advances: PBR and PBR RPN
Friday March 21, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
avatar for Frank Rhodes

Frank Rhodes

BMC
Frank RhodesSenior Product Development Architect, DB2 Administration ProductsFrank Rhodes started with BMC Software in 1995. In his current role he works to promote cross product coordination between the Database Administration products and the other BMC DB2 products. The products... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session
 
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