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CDUG hosts a day with John Campbell covering DB2 Performance,
Migration and Futures!
The Colorado DB2 User Group for z/OS is hosting their winter meeting in Colorado Springs at the
FedEx Rocky Mountain Technology Center on Thursday, December 11, 2008. We have a full
day of technical DB2 presentations lined up.
Optimizing System Performance Using DB2 Statistics Trace [part I & II] - John Campbell
This presentation introduces and discusses DB2 for z/OS V8 system performance monitoring and
tuning issues and recommendations. It will focus on key areas of bufferpool, group bufferpool,
lock/latch contention, system address space CPU and EDM Pool Tuning; identify the key
performance indicators to be monitored; provide rules-of-thumb to be applied, provide tuning
advice for common problems.
Click here for a copy of this presentation.
DB2 technical update and recent technical announcements – Kevin Harrison
DB2 9 for z/OS Migration Planning and Experiences [part I & II] – John Campbell
This presentation will cover deprecated/removed function, new post GA function to be delivered,
planned stability, planning for rebind and access path change, VSCR,
CPU improvement/regression, LRSN spin, improvements to COPY and RECOVER, object level
recovery from system level backup, reordered row format, etc. In addition, the presentation will
share early customer migration experience. Share lessons learned, surprises, pitfalls. Will provide
hints and tips, address some myths, provide additional planning information and information on
new enhancements.
Click here for a copy of this presentation.
DB2 Trends & Directions – John Campbell
This presentation will talk about technology trends and tracks for DB2 for z/OS. It will represent
DB2 for z/OS Development’s current thinking on some of the functions and features that are
candidates for the next major release. It is still early in the development process, so the details
will change. The intention is to give you some information on DB2’s future technical directions.
Click here for a copy of this presentation.
Speaker Bio’s
John J. Campbell
Distinguished Engineer
DB2 for z/OS Development
IBM Software Group - Information Management
John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and one of
the senior technical leaders inside DB2 for z/OS Development. He provides leadership to world
wide customers in high-end database, transaction, and application systems - consultancy, design,
performance and benchmarking.
Kevin Harrison
Senior Software Engineer
DB2 for z/OS Development - IBM Silicon Valley Lab
IBM Certified Senior IT Architect, Open Group Master IT Architect, zChampions Team
IBM Certified DB2 for z/OS DBA / Application Developer / Solution Designer(BI)
Kevin Harrison holds an IBM professional certification as a Certified Senior I/T Architect with
broad experience in application development, database management systems, architecture development,
technical infrastructures, and system integration. He is a Senior Software Engineer with DB2 for
z/OS Development at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab and a team member of a worldwide DB2 SWAT team for DB2
on z/OS. Kevin draws on a wide range of experience from 28 years of involvement with DB2 on large systems,
with 19 of those years at IBM as a DB2 technical specialist. Kevin has served as a DB2 educator, DB2 user
group liaison, led many DB2 design/implementation reviews, and DB2/zSeries performance and tuning engagements.
Kevin is certified in several disciplines for DB2 on z/OS and currently is a member of the IBM North American I/T
Architect Certification board, and Open Group Master IT Architects. Kevin most recently, is one of the authors of
the IBM ITSO Redbook “DB2 9 for z/OS Performance Topics”.
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