Title: How Progressive protects its Db2 for z/OS data
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Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
Progressive Insurance is one of the largest worldwide insurance providers and have a very large Db2 environment to manage and protect. Progressive wanted to replace their home-grown recovery system with a more comprehensive and reliable strategy for recovering from any potential Db2 outages and data corruption situations. We will spend some time looking at their different use cases, including a critical recovery use case, mass recovery of their main production application data sharing group. They tested approximately eighty percent of their production data and successfully recovered all of the tested data. You will be able to learn from their use cases and apply best practices in your environment.
Join Bob Vargo and Dustin Ratliff, as they share their Progressive story with their IBM technical specialist, Baha Majid and Bob Bersano, Rocket Software subject matter expert. They will engage in a discussion of Progressive's challenges, results achieved, and how IBM and Rocket teamed up in those efforts.
Bob Vargo
Senior Systems Programmer
Progressive Insurance
Bob Vargo has worked with every Db2 version since 1.3 as a DBA and Systems Programmer with experience in consulting, transportation and financial services. He is currently the Db2 Systems SME at Progressive Insurance. He served as the chairman of the IDUG North American Conference in 2014 and was IDUG President in 2020 and 2021. In addition he is President of the Northeast Ohio Db2 User group (NEODBUG).
Dustin Ratliff
Systems Programmer
Progressive Insurance
Dustin Ratliff is a Db2 for z/OS systems programmer for Progressive Insurance. He has been working with Db2 for z/OS, as well as being responsible for Progressives Db2 driver environment for 9 years now. Dustin is also an IBM Champion, the past chair for the conference planning committee for the North American IDUG, and on the board of directors with the Northeast Ohio Db2 Users Group. Dustin is also on the board of directors for IDUG.
Baha Majid
Executive IT Specialist
IBM
Baha Majid is an Executive IT Specialist at IBM with over 30 years of IT experience. In his role as a Senior Technical Specialist, Baha works with IBM clients in defining z analytics solutions for z systems within the areas of Db2 tools, Db2 Analytics Accelerator, Data Replication and Data Governance. Baha graduated from CUNY with an M.S. in Computer Science.
Bob Bersano
Sr. Solutions Advisor
Rocket Software
Bob Bersano began his career as a mainframe software developer back in 1986 and has worked with IBM Db2 since version 2.1. Bob has designed and developed many different enterprise Db2 tools handling data migration, log analysis, security and backup and recovery. Bob joined Rocket Software in 1995 as a Senior Software developer to design and code a new database backup and recovery product that would exploit fast replication technology. Bob is currently a Senior Solutions Advisor, working with Db2 customers worldwide. He is based in Chicago and is a graduate of the University of St. Francis with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science
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Karen Wilkins
Client Technical Professional
IBM UK Ltd
Bristol
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