IDUG Brazil 2026: Full Schedule

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8:30am ADT

Registration

Tuesday August 18, 2026 8:30am - 4:30pm ADT

Registration

Tuesday August 18, 2026 8:30am - 4:30pm ADT
Registration

Registration

9:30am ADT

A07 | Z Data Strategy & Integration Update

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT

Auditorium

This session is about deep dive technical details of how Z data is integrated with other platforms and solutions. This is an architectural, use case and product level technical session. There will be latest news from zSW Development and Product Management in the context of Data Management, focused on Db2 for z/OS. The goal of this session is
• What are data modernization challenges – Past, Present, Future
• IBM Z Data and AI Enterprise Architecture
• Architectural alternatives to provide Db2 for z/OS data into other platforms for data modernization story
• Core Products, Virtualization, Data Integration and AI Techniques
• Replicate, Direct Access, Virtualization – Pros & Cons
• Technical and Business Use Cases with Capabilities
• Roadmaps and Future direction of IBM

Speakers

Cüneyt Göksu

Executive IT Specialist, 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 Computer Science. He has been working with Db2 for z/OS and IBM Z... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, English

9:30am ADT

B07 | Db2 HADR Performance Tuning – What Does it Require?

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT

Americas

This presentation will examine several key methods to configure Db2 HADR for optimal performance. We will look at the most important configuration / registry settings and discuss how they impact performance. We will also examine how to determine where the performance bottlenecks exists.

Speakers

Dale McInnis

STSM, Db2 Client Adoption Engineering, IBM

Dale McInnis is an STSM in Db2 development from the IBM Toronto Canada Lab. He has a B.Sc.(CS) from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters ofEngineering(M.Eng) from the University of Toronto and is currently pursuing his PhD in computer science. Dale joined IBM in 1988 and... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

9:30am ADT

C07 | Hard Lessons Learned Using High Performance DBATs with Db2 for z/OS

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT

Asia

High Performance DBATs (HP DBATS) is a very important performance feature of Db2 10 for DDF workloads. If applied and used intelligently this feature can generate significant savings in CPU resource consumption. This session will cover the following topics: what is a connection?; What is a DBAT (THREAD)?; thread (DBAT) pooling and DRDA inactive connections; what are High Performance DBATs; good candidate application workloads for High Performance DBATs; gerneral guidance for configuring High Performance DBATs; performance metrics and monitoring; WLM and High Performance DBATs; Issues, Summary.

Speakers

John Campbell

Distinguished Technical Consultant, Broadcom

John is an IBM Alumni, a retired IBM Distinguished Engineer, and now works as a Distinguished Technical Consultant for Broadcom Inc. He has worked with Db2 for z/OS for over 40 years and has extensive experience with Db2 in terms of systems, database and application design. He specialises... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, English

10:30am ADT

Morning Coffee

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:30am - 10:50am ADT

Café Watson

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:30am - 10:50am ADT
Café Watson

Meal or Break

10:50am ADT

A08 | Db2 for z/OS – Know your Limits!

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT

Auditorium

This session will show and explain how to reliably monitor and manage critical limits within Db2 on z/OS along with real world examples from Banco Itaú. Starting with relatively basic simple things like DSSIZE or PIECESIZE. Moving on to Linear Dataset limits (32 for segmented spaces, 254 for LOB). We then will have a quick look at how the COPYPOOL is looking before diving off to the world of PBGs, where you must be aware of MAXPARTITONS among other things. Then we will review SEQUENCES and Numeric Primary Key usage before finally delving into the abstract limit of Db2 within the Db2 engine including DBATs etc.
Objectives:
1. DSSIZE or PIECESIZE among other basic simple things
2. Linear Dataset limits (32 for segmented spaces, 254 for LOB)
3. COPYPOOL
4. PBGs & MAXPARTITIONS
5. SEQUENCES and Numeric Primary Key usage
6. Abstract limit of Db2 (DBATs etc.)

Speakers

Daniel Eli Abreu Torres

Senior IT Platform Engineer, Itaú Unibanco

Daniel Eli Abreu Torres is a Senior IT Platform Engineer at Itaú Unibanco, specializing in Db2 z/OS environments that support large‑scale, mission‑critical workloads. He serves as a technical focal point for production stability, incident management, monitoring, and complex Db2... Read More →

Ulf Heinrich

Director, Solution Delivery, SE

Ulf Heinrich specializes in Db2 recovery and operations, managing cost reduction, and 24×7 operations. As a consultant at large customer sites, he has implemented database maintenance procedures and recovery strategies, and also experienced the pitfalls of recovery scenarios under... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, Portuguese/English

10:50am ADT

B08 | Introducing Db2 Serverless - Databases for the AI Era

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT

Americas

In this session we will show you how application and database building with IBM Project Alpha gives you superpowers! Built for the AI Era, IBM Project Alpha will help you develop and run workloads of the future and push you beyond 10X Engineering. We will show you how to develop database applications from prompt to production and demonstrate how to tackle AI and Machine driven workloads all while reducing cost and effort. Join us for this groundbreaking session and experience the future!

Speakers

Andrew Hilden

Chief Architect Db2 SaaS, IBM

Andrew Hilden is the Chief Architect of Db2 SaaS. He is involved extensively in the development and architecture of several data-oriented cloud services in IBM including Db2 SaaS on IBM Cloud, AWS RDS for Db2 and more. He has also worked in development, architectural and leadership... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

10:50am ADT

C08 | Debugging SQL PL - Without a Debugger

Tuesday August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT

Asia

Db2 enables developers to write Procedures, Functions, and Triggers using SQL PL (SQL Procedure Language). While IBM does provide a debugger that can be used to debug SQL PL, users may not want to run a debugger in production. This session will explore alternatives to using the Unified Debugger. At the end of this session, you should be able to use the techniques discussed in this presentation to Debug an SQL PL application (Procedure, Function, or Trigger).

Speakers

Chris Crone

Distinguished Engineer - Database Technologies, 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 August 18, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, English

11:50am ADT

Break

Tuesday August 18, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm ADT

TBA

Tuesday August 18, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm ADT
TBA

Meal or Break

12:00pm ADT

A09 | Performance, Availability, and Resilience Enhancements in Db2 13

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT

Auditorium

There are significant performance, availability and resilience enhancements in Db2 13 for z/OS. This session will introduce and discuss the major enhancements, and provide insight on the use case and design point for each enhancement. This session will cover the following topics:
• Online removal of active log dataset
• Online migration from PBG UTS to PBR UTS table spaces
• ALTER TABLE DATA CAPTURE concurrency enhancement
• User controls to improve the ability for SQL DDL operations to succeed and/or reduce application service
• RUNSTATS and Page-level Sampling
• Enhancements to Fast Traversal Block (FTB) feature
• Virtual and real memory contraction
• More open datasets
• Reduce number and frequency of DBAT terminations

Speakers

John Campbell

Distinguished Technical Consultant, Broadcom

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, English

12:00pm ADT

B09 | Db2 Resiliency – What Can I Really Do?

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT

Americas

In this presentation we will discuss how to design a Db2 LUW environment that runs continuously. We will discuss the current HA and DR features of Db2 LUW as well as how technologies can be combined to provide even higher resiliency. Several customer deployments will be examined to see how and why they made the choices they made.

Speakers

Dale McInnis

STSM, Db2 Client Adoption Engineering, IBM

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

12:00pm ADT

C09 | Improve Db2 for z/OS Observability and Operations with Modern Dashboards

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT

Asia

The mainframe, it’s just different…scalable, reliable, securable. But many in IT leadership roles think that “difference” is a barrier to success. It doesn’t have to be. The mainframe software has been evolving for years to be more and more manageable via user interfaces and commands that are similar or familiar to people using non-mainframe systems. The barrier to entry has been greatly reduced to enable simplified mainframe operation, monitoring, and performance management. In this session, we show how IBM Db2 Tools can help to visualize Db2 for z/OS metrics, log information, real time statistics, and more in modern dashboards such as Grafana, IBM Instana or Elastic. This enables Db2 administrators and SMEs to detect anomalies, performance trends, and dependencies without need to navigate between multiple traditional user interfaces. Get to know new insights into your Db2 for z/OS systems with modern, state-of-the-art, and customizable user interfaces.

Speakers

Wiliam T Kanegae

Principal Solutions Advisor, Rocket Software

Wiliam Kanegae is a seasoned mainframe expert with over four decades of experience in enterprise technology. Since 2018, he has served as a Solutions Advisor at Rocket Software, specializing in Db2 for z/OS Tools and supporting Latin American customers with the OMEGAMON suite. His... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese/English

1:00pm ADT

Lunch

Tuesday August 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm ADT

Café Watson

Tuesday August 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm ADT
Café Watson

Meal or Break

2:00pm ADT

A10 | Challenges for the Successful Db2 13 Lock Structure Async Duplex Implementation at Itaú Unibanco

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT

Auditorium

Ensuring high availability and resilience is a core requirement for modern enterprise data platforms. In Db2 Data Sharing environments, lock structures are a fundamental component for maintaining system stability and consistent performance under continuous, mission-critical workloads.

At Itaú Unibanco S.A., Db2 for z/OS supports essential banking applications operating 24x7, across transactional and batch workloads in a large-scale production environment. As part of its ongoing resilience and architecture evolution strategy, Itaú adopted the Db2 Lock Structure Asynchronous Duplex capability. This implementation strengthened the platform’s resilience posture by increasing fault tolerance, enhancing operational continuity during infrastructure maintenance, and reinforcing overall system stability.

In this presentation, specialists from Itaú and IBM share practical insights from the initiative, including architectural motivations, implementation considerations, testing approaches, and results achieved. The discussion highlights how close collaboration between client and vendor supported the successful adoption of advanced Db2 z/OS capabilities in a complex enterprise environment.

Speakers

Paulo Rogério Petrachini

Db2 z/OS Systems Programmer & IT Platform Engineering Specialist, Banco Itaú Unibanco S.A.

Paulo Rogerio Petrachini has worked with Db2 z/OS for over 30 years, acting both as a Systems Programmer and DBA in large private banks in Brazil, which have complex and heavy Db2 mission-critical workloads processing in data-sharing groups.

José Eduardo Pol

IBM Certified Expert Technical Specialist & IBM Premium Support, IBM Brasil

José Eduardo Pol, is a consulting IT specialist certificated, with over 30 years of experience working at IBM Brazil supporting clients in a variety of subject in Db2 for z/OS area. Currently works as Db2 for z/OS IBM Premium Support for a large Bank in Brazil acting as focal point... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, Portuguese

2:00pm ADT

B10 | Db2 Genius Hub: Introducing the New Agentic AI Powered Database Experience

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT

Americas

This session highlights new Db2 Genius Hub capabilities that improve performance insight, diagnostics, security, and overall usability. You’ll see how the platform identifies performance impacts before you apply query recommendations, giving you clearer expectations for workload behavior. You’ll also learn how automated anomaly detection surfaces issues across key Db2 metrics and how enhanced monitoring now provides direct visibility into the health of the repository database so you can take timely action.

Speakers

Bryan Tang

Program Director for IBM Databases, IBM

Bryan Tang leads the product management team for the IBM Db2 LUW portfolio, with responsibility across OLTP, OLAP, tooling, and fully managed cloud services.

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

2:00pm ADT

C10 | Applying AI/ML to Proactively Minimize Business Impact on Db2 Applications

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT

Asia

The AI-driven economy requires quicker responses to market changes, especially for high-demand mainframe Db2 applications, which are seeing increased usage to meet key business needs. To ensure smooth operations of critical workloads, businesses are turning to AI/ML to tackle Db2 performance issues. This enables System Db2 DBAs to predict bottlenecks and minimize business impact.

Speakers

Antonio Couto

Sr. Technical Consultant, Broadcom

Over more than 27 years as an IBM Mainframe Solutions Expert, I have assessed, designed, presented, and delivered technical proposals and solution implementations for DB2, CICS/Batch, AIOps, AI/ML, and DevOps on z/OS. My experience spans both systems programming and application development.Complementing... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese

3:00pm ADT

Break

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm ADT

TBA

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm ADT
TBA

Meal or Break

3:10pm ADT

A11 | Db2 Analytics Accelerator: V8, Migration Experiences, Future, and Customer Updates

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT

Auditorium

This session is deep dive technical details about Db2 Analytics Accelerator on IBM Z with latest V8 product updates, new capabilities, with migration details. There will be z17 and LinuxONE 5 Migration Experiences with V7 and V8, platform specific details, migration planning and deployment details.

Session will contain IBM Z platform specific details z17 and LinuxONE 5, in the context of Accelerator such as machine configuration, CBU and Flex Capacity usage, different architecture alternatives for different business needs including GDPS usage with 2-, 3-, 4- site GDPS alternatives.

There will be Lessons Learned from PoCs, current implementations, architecture discussions and health checks.
- V8 Migration experiences and latest status
- Latest POC, Deployment, Installation experiences. What were the issues and how they’re resolved
- V8 Update
- Planned items for the future

Speakers

Cüneyt Göksu

Executive IT Specialist, IBM

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, English

3:10pm ADT

B11 | Db2 is Your AI Platform: Proven AI Use Cases to Build Right Now

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT

Americas

Db2 now has a complete AI application stack: Vector Storage, Vector Similarity Search, Vector Index, and LLM Integration. Once you know what this stack can do, the natural next question is: what can you build with it? That is exactly what this session addresses. Drawing on industry research and global enterprise adoption data, we examine AI use cases that organizations have already deployed at scale and validated in production. For each, we explain the business problem it solves, how Db2's AI stack maps to the solution, and what implementation looks like, using data most Db2 customers already have. Business leaders will leave with a clear, evidence-backed starting point for AI investment. Developers and architects will leave with a concrete path from proven use case to working implementation. The stack is ready. The use cases are proven. Come find out which ones to build next.

Speakers

Shaikh Quader

AI Architect, IBM Db2, IBM

Shaikh Quader has spent over two decades at IBM in software development, with the last ten years focused on AI. Now serving as AI Architect and Master Inventor on IBM Db2, he works on building intelligent, high-performance data platforms — including capabilities such as vector search... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

3:10pm ADT

C11 | LinuxONE Data Infrastructure

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT

Asia

Discover how LinuxONE redefines the modern data platform. We explore how its architecture consolidates massive databases with minimal latency, extreme security, and high availability. Learn about vertical scalability, drastic software licensing savings, and how LinuxONE’s sustainability drives ROI, transforming your data center into an agile, resilient innovation engine designed for mission-critical workloads.

Speakers

Hulk

IBM LinuxONE Specialist, IBM

IBM LinuxONE Specialist

Tuesday August 18, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese

4:10pm ADT

Afternoon Coffee

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:30pm ADT

Café Watson

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:30pm ADT
Café Watson

Meal or Break

4:30pm ADT

A12 | From Business Requirements to Db2 Function Levels: Banco do Brasil’s Experience with Db2 13 FL506 through FL509 in a Mission-Critical Banking Environment

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT

Auditorium

In this session we will share our experiences with the latest features introduced with Function Levels M506, M507, M508, and M509. Many of their functionalities were requested and awaited by Banco do Brasil.

Speakers

Eduardo Pingarilho Mendizabal

Eduardo Pingarilho Mendizabal is a Database Manager at Banco do Brasil, specializing in IBM Db2 for z/OS in large-scale, mission-critical environments. With extensive experience in data sharing architectures, performance tuning, and high-availability systems, he has been actively... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT
Auditorium

A | z/OS, Portuguese/English

4:30pm ADT

B12 | Db2 Backup and Recovery – Back to the Basics

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT

Americas

In this presentation we will examine in detail the backup and recovery options available to DBAs for their Db2 environments. How to tune these utilities will be discussed and results will be reviewed from numerous tests. We will see what is the “art of the possible” from using local files, COS, Storage based copies, etc. We will take a close look at the new version enhancements and how they can improve your backup and recovery experience.

Speakers

Dale McInnis

STSM, Db2 Client Adoption Engineering, IBM

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT
Americas

B | LUW, English

4:30pm ADT

C12 | Uncovering the Unknowns of DDF Workload

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT

Asia

The main objective of the session is go to show all the available technical items and metrics that are being captured by relatively newer SMF 102 IFCID 365 records. The supplies a great deal of information and that can be drivers for monitoring, exceptions, alerts, trend analysis and much more. The IFCID 365 records are statistics records, and the session will show how you can join the data with Db2 accounting data to driver even more insight and knowledge. Also in the session it will be discussed how best to identify out of support drivers, where they are being initiated from and who the user of the driver is to be able to quickly know who to contact to address the out of support driver. Lastly, distributed workload transaction annotation will be discussed on the great value and the many ways the information can be exploited.

Speakers

Anthony Ciabattoni

IBM Db2 for z/OS SWAT Team Leader, IBM

Anthony Ciabattoni is an IBM Certified Executive IT Specialist and the current leader of the Db2 for z/OS SWAT Team, based out of the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. With over 30 years of hands-on experience working with Db2 for z/OS, Anthony brings deep technical expertise and a strong customer-focused... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ADT
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C | Cross Platform/App Dev, English

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