IDUG Brazil 2026

IBM System Z and Db2 for z/OS applications are essential to the successful operations and business workflows for major companies. Join our discussion on OpenTelemetry and its powerful impact on observability across your entire business environment. Whether you're a System Reliability Engineer or an Application Developer, this session is for you! Here's what you'll learn:

1. An overview of the OpenTelemetry observability framework and how it helps generate, process, and distribute telemetry data
2. How Db2 for z/OS supports OpenTelemetry and how you can leverage it for your applications
3. How OpenTelemetry support aligns with the broader platform, i.e. IBM System Z and Db2 for z/OS, to enhance your operations.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your understanding and implementation of OpenTelemetry within Db2 for z/OS and its futures.

This presentation explains how Db2 profile tables are used to route queries to the Analytics Accelerator. It includes student labs to demonstrate query acceleration, discusses the impact of relevant zPARMs, and covers tracing techniques, catalog queries, and Db2 commands used to monitor and troubleshoot accelerated workloads.

Customers are constantly striving to perform essential DBA related tasks being drivin by application improvements and evolutions. Non-Disruptive schema changes have been a major objective for the Db2 for z/OS ecosystem. This session will go through the evolution of Universal Table Space from the beginning up to current Db2 for z/OS Function Levels, showing the innovative functionality that can be exploited to achieve the highest level of availability.

Experience the new features of SQL Data Insights Pro, including unstructured text support, model training offloading to IDAA, and incremental retraining. SQL Data Insights Pro combines unsupervised deep learning with traditional SQL queries, allowing you to run similarity, dissimilarity, clustering, analogy, and commonality AI queries on your Db2 for z/OS data.

In this hands-on lab, learn how to train models using both structured and unstructured data to gain deeper insights from your enterprise data. With the new option to run model training on IDAA, you gain greater flexibility while saving valuable system resources. You will also learn how incremental retraining can save time and resources when updating models with new data.

With these capabilities, you can uncover hidden relationships across tables and views in your Db2 data, quickly gain actionable insights to address business problems as they arise, and confidently make better business decisions. In this lab, you will see how AI SQL queries can be applied to industry-specific domains to identify similarities, segment customers, and detect outliers within relational data.

Please bring your laptop and have your IBM ID ready to access the hands-on lab.

Experience the new features of SQL Data Insights Pro, including unstructured text support, model training offloading to IDAA, and incremental retraining. SQL Data Insights Pro combines unsupervised deep learning with traditional SQL queries, allowing you to run similarity, dissimilarity, clustering, analogy, and commonality AI queries on your Db2 for z/OS data.

In this hands-on lab, learn how to train models using both structured and unstructured data to gain deeper insights from your enterprise data. With the new option to run model training on IDAA, you gain greater flexibility while saving valuable system resources. You will also learn how incremental retraining can save time and resources when updating models with new data.

With these capabilities, you can uncover hidden relationships across tables and views in your Db2 data, quickly gain actionable insights to address business problems as they arise, and confidently make better business decisions. In this lab, you will see how AI SQL queries can be applied to industry-specific domains to identify similarities, segment customers, and detect outliers within relational data.

Please bring your laptop and have your IBM ID ready to access the hands-on lab.

Experience the new features of SQL Data Insights Pro, including unstructured text support, model training offloading to IDAA, and incremental retraining. SQL Data Insights Pro combines unsupervised deep learning with traditional SQL queries, allowing you to run similarity, dissimilarity, clustering, analogy, and commonality AI queries on your Db2 for z/OS data.

In this hands-on lab, learn how to train models using both structured and unstructured data to gain deeper insights from your enterprise data. With the new option to run model training on IDAA, you gain greater flexibility while saving valuable system resources. You will also learn how incremental retraining can save time and resources when updating models with new data.

With these capabilities, you can uncover hidden relationships across tables and views in your Db2 data, quickly gain actionable insights to address business problems as they arise, and confidently make better business decisions. In this lab, you will see how AI SQL queries can be applied to industry-specific domains to identify similarities, segment customers, and detect outliers within relational data.

Please bring your laptop and have your IBM ID ready to access the hands-on lab.