You're invited to join us for light continental breakfast and lunch as we learn about DB2 -zOS and DB2-LUW features and tools
Agenda – San Antonio, Texas . Thursday, December 12, 2019
08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast & Social
09:00 - 10:15 Dale McGinnis (LUW) : HA Best Practices - What we have learned from actual customer deployments
10:15 - 10:30 BREAK {15 minutes}
10:30 - 11:45 Hendrik "Hennie” Mynhardt (zOS) : Using RTS History To Put Your Utilities on Auto Pilot
11:45 - 1:00 LUNCH {75 minutes} - Catered Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 "What topics would you like next time" Adjourn
Note: We will try to follow this agenda, but please be patient as the schedule may slide a little.
These sessions by Dale McGinnis and Hendrik "Hennie” Mynhardt are just too good to keep to ourselves!!
Session Title : HA Best Practices - What we have learned from actual customer deployments
Bio: Dale McInnis is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at the IBM Toronto Canada lab. He has a B.Sc.(CS) from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters of Engineering(M.Eng) from the University of Toronto. Dale joined IBM in 1988, and worked in the DB2 development team from 1992 - 2014. Dale's area of expertise includes DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Kernel development, where he led teams that designed the current backup and recovery architecture and other key high availability and disaster recovery technologies. Dale is a popular speaker at the International DB2 Users Groups (IDUG) conferences worldwide, as well as DB2 Regional users groups and IBM's Information On Demand (IOD) conference. His expertise in the area DB2 availability area is well known in the information technology industry. Dale spent 10 months as the IBM Cloud Data Services Chief Availability Architect, and now Dale is now on the North American Data Server Technical Sales team
Session Title : Using RTS History To Put Your Utilities on Auto Pilot
Bio: Hendrik "Hennie" Mynhardt is an Executive IT Specialist in IBM's Data and AI division. He is a leader and has worked on various technical projects for database customers in the USA and overseas. His special interests are Db2 z/OS systems performance tuning and backup/recovery. He currently provides technical consulting, pre-sales support, and post-sales support for Db2 and related tooling for the z Analytics space. Hennie is also a Platinum IBM Redbook Author