IDUG Brazil 2026

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.