IDUG Brazil 2026

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.