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Welcome to The AI Era Conference 2026: Shaping Tomorrow’s Intelligence Today!

Join us as we navigate the transformative landscape of AI, forge connections, and unlock the potential of tomorrow’s possibilities. Let’s embark on a journey towards a more intelligent future together!
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Sunday, October 26
 

9:00am WIB

B201 | Performing AI queries with Db2 13 for z/OS using SQL Data Insights
Sunday October 26, 2025 9:00am - 1:00pm WIB
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See how IBM SQL Data Insights combines unsupervised deep learning with traditional SQL queries, enabling you to run similarity, dissimilarity, clustering, and analogy queries on your Db2 data. Easily uncover hidden relationships across tables and views, quickly gain actionable insights to address business challenges as they arise and confidently make better business decisions.
In this workshop, we examine a food nutrition table containing detailed numerical and categorical information on a wide range of common grocery items from around the world. Using AI-powered SQL queries, you will identify which food products are most similar or dissimilar across brands and countries, helping to generate recommendations. Analogy queries will answer questions such as: “If my customer likes this product from this brand, what product would they like from another brand?” Additional industry use cases will also be explored.
The lab also includes the latest enhancements that allow users to run SQL Data Insights tasks through shell commands and REST APIs. Learn how to use these new interfaces to operate SQL DI tasks such as creating AI objects, enabling AI queries, and retraining object models. Note: Please bring your own laptop.
Speaker
JL
Sunday October 26, 2025 9:00am - 1:00pm WIB
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2:00pm WIB

B202 | Simplifying Workload Migration with IBM Db2 Bridge
Sunday October 26, 2025 2:00pm - 6:00pm WIB
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Explore IBM Db2 Bridge, a comprehensive toolkit designed to help you assess, plan, and migrate complex data workloads with confidence. Get practical experience with its powerful features and services that support seamless migration from various source systems to Db2. From workload assessment and compatibility analysis to guided migration and validation, we'll walk you through real-world use cases where Db2 Bridge accelerates and simplifies the modernization journey. Ideal for teams managing large-scale migrations or looking to adopt Db2 with minimal disruption
Speaker
VK
Sunday October 26, 2025 2:00pm - 6:00pm WIB
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Monday, October 27
 

11:30am WIB

B2 | RUNSTATS Master - reloaded
Monday October 27, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
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Waaaaay back in 2006 I first held a RUNSTATS Master class where everything that RUNSTATS does to help, and hinder(!), us was fully explained. After 18 years it has now become an adult and has been updated right up until the last RUNSTATS change in Db2 13 FL500 with all the changes that have happened since 2006.
This session will show you how RUNSTATS works, when to, and not to, use it and how to use it as good as you can.
Speaker
RB
Monday October 27, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
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2:00pm WIB

B3 | Key Performance Updates, zSynergy and Best Practices for Db2 for z/OS
Monday October 27, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
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Db2 for z/OS continues to evolve, delivering enhancements in performance optimization and monitoring. This session will provide a deep dive into:

The latest performance improvements in Db2 13 for z/OS including its synergy with the newest IBM Z technologies.
Practical performance tuning guidance, derived from real-world customer experiences, to address challenges and maximize efficiency.

Attendees will gain insights into key updates, best practices, and expert recommendations to optimize Db2 performance and monitoring in their environments.
Speaker
AH
Monday October 27, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
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  Track B

3:20pm WIB

B4 | Taming Page Splits: Reduced Stress for DBAs in Db2 13
Monday October 27, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
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Index page splitting in Db2 for z/OS has long been a source of performance stress for DBAs, particularly in high-volume insert environments. Prior to Db2 13, identifying and resolving these issues was a frustrating process. This session delves into the enhancements introduced in Db2 13 that simplify the management of index page splits. We will explore new capabilities and enhanced real-time statistics provide DBAs with actionable intelligence, enabling them to quickly pinpoint and address problematic page splitting activity. Discover how Db2 13 reduces the stress associated with index performance tuning, offering practical strategies to minimize page splitting and optimize Db2 performance.
This abstract was submitted in GSE Virtual 2025 as well.
Speaker
SP
Monday October 27, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
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  Track B

4:30pm WIB

B5 | Build a lightweight monitor to identify SQL workload tuning potential
Monday October 27, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
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In this session, you will learn how to capture SQL statistics from Db2’s dynamic statement cache and how to combine them with the information from your EXPLAIN tables. The code that we use will be available for download after the session. Discover how to identify the queries that will benefit most from tuning, allowing you to focus your valuable time on those that matter. We start with simple metrics like RID list errors and work our way up to other performance metrics like top consumers, I/O statistics, lock contention, and more. You will learn how to track the performance and resource consumption of a given SQL statement over time, which makes it possible to spot trends. Finally, we will show how to detect access path changes in dynamic SQL workload. This is a common problem in environments with heavy dynamic workload. Something as simple as a single RUNSTATS execution on one of the involved tables can cause unexpected changes to the access path that Db2 chooses. Using historic explain information, these changes become visible, and you can take immediate action.
Speaker
KS
Monday October 27, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
Socrates
  Track B
 
Tuesday, October 28
 

10:20am WIB

B6 | Db2 under siege: real-world exploits and defence strategies
Tuesday October 28, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
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"Db2 Under Siege: Real-World Exploits and Defence Strategies" examines the evolving threats to IBM’s Db2 database, including SQL injection, privilege escalation, and misconfigurations. The paper highlights real-world attacks and offers practical defense strategies like patch management, encryption, and role-based access controls. It aims to equip IT professionals with the tools to safeguard Db2 environments from emerging cyber threats.
Speaker
DL
Tuesday October 28, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
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  Track B

11:30am WIB

B7 | Mastering Access Path Management in Db2 for z/OS: Simplify, Optimize, Succeed
Tuesday October 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
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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.
Speaker
DT
Tuesday October 28, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
Socrates
  Track B

2:00pm WIB

B8 | "Run-It-Back" - Db2 for z/OS Development all new "2025 SWAT Tales"
Tuesday October 28, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
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The session will concentrate on new SWAT team experiences. Various unexpected outcomes and behaviors will be discussed as well has hot technical items customers are exploiting as well as technologies that have been challenging for customers. The complete session will be focused on customer experiences and sharing real life outcomes.
2025 will have topics such as REBIND best practices and lessons learned and various options and what they mean, what zHyperlink, Middleware recovery boosts, asynchronous LOCK1 duplexing
Speaker
AC
Tuesday October 28, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
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  Track B

3:20pm WIB

PSP2 | Amplify Db2 Developers Experience and Boost Efficiency with Broadcom's New VS Code Extension
Tuesday October 28, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
Socrates
Explore Broadcom's innovative VS Code extension designed to transform the way application developers interact with Db2 for z/OS objects. Discover how this powerful extension complements existing CLI support and integrates seamlessly with Code4z, empowering developers to provision, modify, and propagate within their IDE. Learn how this extension allows developers to elevate their coding experience and the business to manage both application and Db2 changes as code.
Speaker
JE
DT
Tuesday October 28, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
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  PSP

4:30pm WIB

B9 | Protecting your Db2 for z/OS environment from cyber attacks
Tuesday October 28, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
Socrates
Successful cyber-attacks - ransomware attacks in particular - can have a devastating impact to your business. Depending on the individual attack scenario, existing processes to maintain business continuity such as the implementation of GDPS using multiple physical sites may not be able to protect you from these attacks. In this session, we look at options to reduce a potential data loss and the downtime to restore your Db2 for z/OS production environment in the most efficient way to optimize both your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) after a cyber attack.
Speaker
PB
Tuesday October 28, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
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  Track C
 
Wednesday, October 29
 

10:20am WIB

B10 | Db2 for z/OS Tablespace Update
Wednesday October 29, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
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Tablespace design is a critical part of a DBAs role in building the physical model for busy database systems. Db2 has gone through some major changes in the last decade that give us more flexibility, availability and capacity. This session will cover the latest features as well as provide some ideas for moving legacy structures into the 21st century.
Speaker
DS
Wednesday October 29, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
Socrates
  Track B

11:30am WIB

B11 | Personal Experience: 40 Years of Battle Scars from Managing Db2 for z/OS
Wednesday October 29, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
Socrates
Having been a DBA from 1985 to 1995, followed by working in the field with Db2 customers around the world for 30 years, I have come face-to-face with many trials and tribulations. Join this session to experience some of the most interesting battles and learn how partner solutions can augment and complement native Db2 features. You will leave inspired with new ideas to apply in your environment.
Speaker
SR
Wednesday October 29, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
Socrates
  Track B

2:00pm WIB

B12 | in memory table : what did you expect ?
Wednesday October 29, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
Socrates
Reducing CPU Cost is a never ending work. Once your applications, system and bufferpools are well tuned, you need to find new quick wins.
Are « in-memory table » one of them ?
In this presentation we will explore how, in a bank OLTP environment, we tested and implemented « in-memory table » : pros and cons, which tables are eligible, what precautions to take and what results we achieved.
Speaker
LK
Wednesday October 29, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm WIB
Socrates
  Track B

3:20pm WIB

PSP8 | Db2 Unplugged: CenterStageTM Brings Rock & Roll Revolution to Database Management
Wednesday October 29, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
Socrates
Introducing CenterStageTM, Broadcom's innovative web user interface designed to transform how administrators interact with Db2 for z/OS. See firsthand how this solution simplifies managing your Db2 catalog, enabling you to run SQL queries, generate DDLs and HDDLs, and more! We'll share our exciting vision, including performance monitoring, analytics and AI. Come engage with us and share your feedback to help shape our future strategy.
Speaker
SB
CH
Wednesday October 29, 2025 3:20pm - 4:20pm WIB
Socrates
  PSP

4:30pm WIB

B13 | Db2 Basics: An introduction to External Tables including remote storage 💾
Wednesday October 29, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
Socrates
Learn about External Tables in Db2 and how to use them to load and unload data. By utilizing the remote storage option, External Tables (and Db2!) can be a building data lake and lakehouse architectures.
Speaker
HL
Wednesday October 29, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm WIB
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  Track B

5:40pm WIB

B14 | Fun with SQL (IDUG Content Committee)
Wednesday October 29, 2025 5:40pm - 6:40pm WIB
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Speaker
JC
Wednesday October 29, 2025 5:40pm - 6:40pm WIB
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  Track B
 
Thursday, October 30
 

9:00am WIB

B15 | Who’s in Your DB2? Auditing z/OS Like a Mainframe Maestro
Thursday October 30, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am WIB
Socrates
This presentation explores the critical process of auditing IBM DB2 for z/OS database access, focusing on the tools and techniques essential for ensuring security, compliance, and operational integrity. We will examine the role of DB2 audit traces in capturing detailed access and activity data, the implementation of audit policies to enforce organizational standards, and the utilization of System Management Facility (SMF) records—such as SMF Type 102 —for comprehensive monitoring and analysis. Attendees will gain insights into configuring these components effectively, interpreting audit data, and addressing common challenges in mainframe database auditing. Practical examples and best practices will be shared to demonstrate how these mechanisms support regulatory compliance and safeguard sensitive data in a z/OS environment.
Speaker
JT
Thursday October 30, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am WIB
Socrates
  Track B

10:20am WIB

B16 | ISBANK'S Journey to implement CDC IIDR Remote Capture with a Resilient Architecture
Thursday October 30, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
Socrates
In this session you will find how ISBANK has implemented CDC IIDR Remote Capture with a resilient architecture. You will find different use cases and how we manage different types of replications, their resource consumptions, and the methods used to optimze those. Finally, we'll show you the dashboard created in Graphana to easily monitor latencies and downtime.
Speaker
OC
Thursday October 30, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am WIB
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  Track B

11:30am WIB

B17 | Automating Excellence: Real-world z/OSMF Workflows for Efficient Provisioning and Maintenance (a Db2 Use Case)
Thursday October 30, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
Socrates
Discover how z/OSMF workflows are transforming installations and configurations into faster, more cost-effective, and error-free processes. This session highlights the benefits of automation for provisioning, configuration, and maintenance, while addressing common challenges. Learn how to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and improve reliability with real-world insights and examples.
Speaker
JR
Thursday October 30, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm WIB
Socrates
  Track B

2:00pm WIB

B203 | Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop
Thursday October 30, 2025 2:00pm - 6:30pm WIB
Socrates
This workshop will give you the education and information you need to use existing and new features of Amazon RDS for Db2. Some of the topics covered during this workshop will include provisioning, scaling, backup, monitoring, migration and beyond. Each module will be introduced and presented and then participants will be provided an environment they can use and go through a series of instructor led exercises to practice what they have learned and explore. This will be a joint workship between the IBM and AWS RDS teams.
Speaker
AH
Thursday October 30, 2025 2:00pm - 6:30pm WIB
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