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Agenda for 3rd Quarter Meeting - September 13, 2018

	Db2 FOR z/OS TRACK
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration – Coffee, juice, soda, and cofee cake
09:00am - 09:15am	Welcome and IBM Announcements
09:15am - 10:30am	What's New in Db2 12...or How Do I Keep Up with All This Stuff? Michael Cotignola, BMC With Db2 12 being GA for well over a year now… time for a refresh. We’ll take a cursory look at some of the major new features and enhancements to IBM’s Db2 12, including the new branding! Technically, this release delivers enhancements in all the usual categories, and introduces us to the Continuous Delivery Model. We’ll conclude by taking a closer look at LOB compression, a much anticipated feature with lots of promise.
10:30am - 10:45am	Break
10:45am - 12:00pm	Using New Technologies on System Z to Drive Business Analytics Jim Knisley, zAnalytics Architect, IBM Corporation Organizations today have multiple types of data dispersed on multiple platforms. Bringing this data together with a single interface that can satisfy the needs of data scientists, data engineers, business analysts, and application developers has been nearly impossible…until now. This presentation provides an in-depth look at Machine Learning, IBM Open Data Analytics, IBM Db2 12 features that support analytics, IBM Data Virtualization Manager and the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator and how you can help solve this data dilemma on the modern mainframe.
12:00pm - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:15pm - 2:30pm	Db2 for z/OS Gets Agile: Data-as-a-Service and Database-as-a-Service Robert Catterall, IBM Corporation This session describes recent Db2 for z/OS enhancements that allow developers to respond to an organization's application requirements with greater speed and agility. Db2 capabilities related to both data-as-a-service (Db2's native REST interface, and its relation to z/OS Connect) and database-as-a-service (automated provisioning, automated deployment, strategic direction, and what it all means for developers and DBAs) are covered.
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm	The Learning Optimizer: an Overview of IBM Db2 AI for z/OS Robert Catterall, IBM Corporation Choosing the optimal access path for a query, and doing that in a few milliseconds or less, is no easy task. Even with the most sophisticated query optimizer on the market (IBM invented cost-based SQL optimization), Db2 for z/OS doesn't always choose the best-performing access path for a query. Why? Largely because Db2 has had to act without information - specific to YOUR environment - that is critically important with regard to effective access path selection. Up until now, that is. The brand-new IBM Db2 AI for z/OS is going to fundamentally change the access path selection story in a positive way. This session will provide an overview of what IBM Db2 AI for z/OS is, how it does what it does, and its potential to substantially improve query execution performance in diverse Db2 for z/OS environments.