Planning your DB2 Migration Strategy? Hear DB2 10 Customer Experiences from Bank Data

Broadcast Date:  26th April 4:00 p.m. UK

Developed for: IT Directors, IT Managers, Enterprise Architects, IT Project Managers, Business Analysts, Database Administrator, Application Database Administrator, Database Manager

Technical Level: Intermediate

This is the first opportunity to hear directly from a DB2 10 Beta customer and ask questions. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity – it will significantly help you plan your migration strategy and save you money by avoiding costly mistakes.

If you are currently on Version 8 or Version 9 upgrading to DB2 10 is inevitable. With end of service announced for Version 8 many customers are planning their migration strategy,. whatever the reason for the migration, users will see significant benefits from DB2 10. Jeff Josten will kick off this webcast with DB2 10 overview. and highlight top features and benefits. Frank Peterson will be follow Jeff.

Bankdata has been testing DB2 10 Beta through most of 2009. Acknowledging DB2 10’s goal of improving performance many of the "new" features in DB2 9 have now been optimized. Bankdata have been working with the new functionalit.;  Hear directly from Frank and learn from his experiences. Frank will recap the key features of DB2 9 for z/OS, and look at improvements as well as new features of DB2 10 seen from the view of developers and administrators.

The following topics will be included:

– Temporal Tables Use
– XML support improvements
– New DB2 Table Access Path (Hash)
– SQL Improvements

Speakers:
Jeff Josten, IBM Corporation, Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect for DB2 for z/OS
Frank Petersen, Bankdata, Database Administrator and System Programmer

Register here – https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/systemz/zswebcas.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=8Z8PU7ZW&locale=en_US&S_TACT=100GV60W