Alabama DB2 Users Group

Fall 2006 Meeting Has Been Scheduled

The Fall 2006 meeting of the Alabama DB2 Users Group (ADUG) has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 27th, at the Bruno Conference Center in Birmingham, AL.

We are proud to announce that our main speaker will be IBM'er Willie Favero, a Senior Certified IT Specialist and DB2 Certified Solutions Expert. (Speaker Biography)

Meeting Details
Doors open at 8:15 AM. The meeting starts at 9:00 and ends at 4:00 PM. Continental breakfast, breaks and lunch will be served. You must to attend and you must be a member of ADUG.

This Meeting's Topics
"The Best Defense is a Good Offense: DB2 V8 Upgrade"
"The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly - DSNZPARM"
"zIIP, zAAP, and IFL: the Special in Specialty Engines"

Topic Synopses

The Best Defense is a Good Offense: DB2 V8 Upgrade

The best way to protect your DB2 for z/OS investment is to aggressively prepare for the next release. Just because migrating to DB2 for z/OS Version 8 may only be a dream today, that is no reason to put off the planning and preparation for the almost guaranteed move to you will have to make to Version 8 tomorrow. This presentation will review and discuss the things you can do while on Version 7 (or before) so you are in the right shape to do a Version 8 migration.

The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly - DSNZPARM

Yes, that's right, another discussion on DSNZPARM. This presentation will examine the hidden, not so hidden (opaque), and visible ZPARMs. It will discuss parms that might affect your V8 and V9 migration, or are new to V9. If you give this presentation a listen, you will leave with the ability to separate the facts from the fiction the next time someone speaks ZPARM to you. Some of this presentation will not be available until DB2 9 goes GA.

zIIP, zAAP, and IFL: the Special in Specialty Engines

Yup, hardware. And although not as cool as SQL, still the essential component to the success of running DB2 in your environment. And the latest cool hardware we keep hearing about is zIIPs and specialty engines. So this presentation will do a deep dive into the zIIP specialty engine, but not before a complete specialty engine history lesson and a look at all of the specialty engines that arrived before zIIP. Did you know that DB2, in some way, can use them all?

Speaker Biography
Willie Favero is a Senior Certified IT Specialist with IBM's Sales and Distribution group and an IBM Certified Solutions Expert for DB2 with over 30 years of experience working with databases. He has spent his last 22 years working with DB2. His responsibilities include consulting to IBM's customers on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390, DB2 tools, and PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, and WebSphere from DB2's perspective.

Willie Favero is recognized worldwide as a DB2 expert, and is a highly sought-after speaker on a variety of DB2 for z/OS, Client/Server, and Object Technology topics. He presents at numerous conferences including the North American, European, and Asia-Pacific IDUG conferences.

In addition, Willie has published over a dozen articles on DB2 and client/server in numerous magazines and authored the TidBit and Face Off columns in the IDUG Solutions Journal. He served on the North American IDUG Conference Planning Committee (CPC) for three years, and is currently the IBM liaison to the IDUG Solutions Journal and IDUG DB2-L list owner and administrator.

In the spring of 2004, Willie was inducted into the IDUG "Volunteer Hall of Fame".