Agenda for 2nd Quarter Meeting - June 7, 2012

	DB2 FOR z/OS TRACK	DB2 FOR LUW Track
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration	Registration
09:00am - 09:15am	Welcome and IBM Announcements	Welcome and IBM Announcements James Strand, IBM
09:15am - 10:30am	TBD	DB2 10 LUW Galileo Upgrade Best Practices Melanie Stopfer, IBM Are you responsible for upgrading your database to DB2 LUW database to the newest version code named Galielo? Attend this presentation to learn about often overlooked but very important tips and tricks to understand before upgrading. Are you looking for details about what will change when you upgrade? Do you know what will not change? What new features will be implemented when you create a new database versus upgrade your existing database. Planning your upgrade is much easier if you know these best practices.
10:30am - 10:45am	Break	Break
10:45am - 12:00pm	TBD	DB2 10 LUW Galileo Upgrade Best Practices Melanie Stopfer, IBM Upgrading to newest DB2 LUW code named Galielo? Learn about often overlooked but important tips and tricks to understand before upgrading. Details about what will change during upgrade, new features to implement, and best practices planning your upgrade. Objectives: Describe changes to Galileo’s packaging and software and operating system requirements Understand Galileo's changes to DDL, utilities, tools and monitoring Configure a database and instance to implement Galileo's new features Analyze Galileo's changes that affect applications and database runtime behavior Develop a Galileo upgrade strategy
12:00pm - 01:15pm	Lunch	Lunch
01:15pm - 02:15pm	TBD	The Business of Database Availability Dale McInnis, IBM Dale will outline the numerous elements that make up database availability to help you on your want to being a more effective advocate for the right level of availability for your business. Understanding all the elements that make up availability, such as planned vs unplanned outages, seamless scalability, availability during upgrades and much more. Each level of availability comes with a cost tradeoff. Dale will help you understand how to position the many types of availability to your business.
02:15pm - 02:30pm	Break	Break
02:30pm - 03:45pm	TBD	Practical Options and Trade-offs for Database Availability Dale McInnis, IBM Dale will review the practical options to enable your availability plan including the new options provided by DB2 10 LUW. Whether it is simply making sure your system will recover from a software restart or achieving continuous availability there is an strategy for DB2 that is the right match between your business goals and the right technology. Dale will also outline options for moving up from simple and quick availability options to comprehensive solutions over time.

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