IDUG Brazil 2026: Full Schedule

12:00pm ADT

C03 | Mastering Access Path Management in Db2 for z/OS: Simplify, Optimize, Succeed

Monday August 17, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT

The access path chosen by Db2 has a major impact on SQL performance and overall application efficiency. This session offers a quick refresher on access path fundamentals and focuses on best practices for managing access paths across the application lifecycle to ensure stable workload performance. Discover key strategies to keep your applications running smoothly and efficiently.

Speakers

Michal Bialecki

Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom

Michal Bialecki is a Db2 Technical Consultant at Broadcom, bringing over 20 years of experience to the role. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2025, he spent two decades working remotely for IBM Silicon Valley Lab, where he served as a member of Db2 z/OS Development SWAT team with John... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, English

2:00pm ADT

C04 | From SQL Data Insights to SQL Data Insights Pro: A Deep Dive into New Capabilities

Monday August 17, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT

Asia

Introducing SQL Data Insights Pro, generally available since March 2026. This session begins with an introduction to SQL Data Insights, first delivered with Db2 for z/OS 13, followed by an overview of subsequent enhancements that have expanded its capabilities. The session then explores the latest advancements in SQL Data Insights Pro, including support for unstructured data stored in character columns and incremental training to improve model efficiency and scalability. Each feature will be demonstrated using sample data and AI queries, helping attendees understand how these capabilities work in practice. Attendees will gain practical insights into these new capabilities and learn how to leverage them to extract greater value from their Db2 data.

Speakers

Sueli Almeida

IBM Certified Thought Leader, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Sueli Almeida is an IBM Certified Thought Leader and member of Db2 for z/OS development located at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. She has extensive experience with DB2, including database administration and systems programming. She has worked on DB2 for z/OS advanced... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese/English

3:10pm ADT

C05 | Optimized Db2 Business Applications... What's WLM Got to Do With It?

Monday August 17, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT

Asia

Overall system performance, efficiency, and capacity are foundational for large customers striving for the highest levels of availability and efficiency. WLM is one of the most critical components in a highly available, efficient system and application environment, including Db2 for z/OS.

This session provides a clear, consumable view of WLM through the lens of Db2: what a Db2 system programmer and DBA need to understand, what matters less, and—most importantly—real‑world customer experiences that illustrate these concepts in practice.

Speakers

Anthony Ciabattoni

Executive IT Specialist - 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 32 years of hands-on experience working with Db2 for z/OS, Anthony brings deep technical expertise and a strong customer-focused... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2026 3:10pm - 4:10pm ADT
Asia

C | Cross Platform/App Dev

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

Customer Success Engineer - Data Strategic, 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

10:50am 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, 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

12:00pm ADT

C09 | LinuxONE Data Infrastructure

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

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese

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

3:10pm ADT

C11 | Improve Db2 for z/OS Observability and Operations with Modern Dashboards

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

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, Portuguese/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

Executive IT Specialist - Db2 for z/OS SWAT Team Leader, IBM

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

C | Cross Platform/App Dev, English

9:30am ADT

A13 | Empowering Db2 for z/OS Applications with OpenTelemetry

Wednesday August 19, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT

Asia

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:

An overview of the OpenTelemetry observability framework and how it helps generate, process, and distribute telemetry data
How Db2 for z/OS supports OpenTelemetry and how you can leverage it for your applications
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.

Speakers

Sueli Almeida

IBM Certified Thought Leader, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Wednesday August 19, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am ADT
Asia

A | z/OS, Portuguese/English

10:50am ADT

A14 | Common and Advanced Use Cases for Db2 Analytics Accelerator on z/OS

Wednesday August 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT

Asia

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.

Speakers

Vivekanandan Kannan Ilangovan

Expert Mainframe System Programmer, Ensono Technologies LLP

I am a seasoned DB2 System Programmer for z/OS with close to 20 years of experience supporting mission‑critical mainframe environments. I began my career working with DB2 Version 7 and have evolved alongside the platform, currently supporting multiple clients running DB2 Version... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2026 10:50am - 11:50am ADT
Asia

A | z/OS, English

12:00pm ADT

A15 | Improved Availability Through the Evolution of Universal Table Spaces (UTS)

Wednesday August 19, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT

Asia

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.

Speakers

Anthony Ciabattoni

Executive IT Specialist - Db2 for z/OS SWAT Team Leader, IBM

Wednesday August 19, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm ADT
Asia

A | z/OS, English

2:00pm ADT

WK03 | Hands-on Lab (BYOD): Part 1 - Performing AI Queries with SQL Data Insights Pro

Wednesday August 19, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm ADT

Asia

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.

Speakers