IDUG Db2 Latest News & Updates April 2021!

Issue IV

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IDUG Db2 North America Virtual Tech Conference

June 7–16, 2021

This June we will be hosting an incredible two-week virtual event featuring over 100 technical session across three tracks—Db2 for z/OS, Db2 LUW, and Developers. Register by April 16 to add an educational seminar to your registration at no additional cost. That's up to a $100 value!

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Continuous Diagnostic Data Collection and Archival

By Joe Geller

When a problem arises in your Db2 stack, the availability of diagnostic information before, during, and after the timeframe of the problematic event is often paramount to successful diagnosis. The new Db2 Historical Monitoring (db2histmon) scripts are a successor to the older Db2 Persistent Diagnostic Data Collection scripts, and similarly collect a broad range of Db2 and Operating System diagnostic data, and retain this data for some period of time, allowing for the initial triage of many types of issues.

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Featured Presentation

Make a Statement with Attention to Detail: Cached SQL Performance Statistics

by Mike Behne

Make a Statement with Attention to Detail: Cached SQL Performance Statistics

Db2 provides a detailed picture of real-time SQL statement performance statistics in dynamic statement cache and the EDM pool. How can you get it, and what does it cost? Once you have it, what is it good for? This presentation answers these questions, and steps through scenarios of problem SQL statements that can be identified, diagnosed, and corrected using these statistics. We'll also discuss situations where more information is needed.

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Introducing the IDUG Speaker Mentor Program

Bringing together seasoned experts and up-and-coming data professionals is a big part of the IDUG mission. This year, to support new speakers stepping into the spotlight, we're introducing speaker mentoring at the IDUG EMEA Db2 Tech Conference. This program pairs new speakers with seasoned IDUG members to help plan a session, create an agenda, and practice for an audience. We'll be integrating this into more future events, so if you interested in presenting for the first time or becoming a mentor, stay tuned.