Join us for a collaborative session of the Db2 for z/OS Virtual User Group—an open forum for practitioners, architects, and DBAs to share knowledge, explore new features, and discuss best practices for managing Db2 in modern mainframe environments. Whether you're optimizing performance, planning migrations, or exploring the latest capabilities in Db2 12 or 13, this […]

Presenter: Saurabh Pandey, Lead Product Manager, BMC Indexes are the heart of efficient SQL and access path in Db2 for z/OS. But when they become bloated due to page splits, they can quietly eat away at your performance, escalate CPU usage, and increase locking contention. If your insert-heavy application is facing throughput drops, it’s time […]

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting - Deal with growing cybersecurity risks and do Real-time and after-the-event IMS analytics, all at the same time Presented by Sahil Gupta and Santosh Belgaonkar, BMC In this session, the speakers will discuss how IMS organizations worldwide can address the growing risks posed by cybersecurity issues by enhancing their cross-platform […]

Claims, Drains and Automobiles Picture a bustling metropolis: thousands of people crossing streets, driving cars, and getting to work. It would be chaos without traffic lights, police officers, or laws. In Db2 for z/OS, that metropolis is data, transactions, utilities, queries, Units of Work. Claims, Drains, Locks, and Latches are the silent traffic controllers keeping […]

Ansible Automation Platform in Action: Provisioning z/OS Middleware with the Latest CICS TS Collection Drew Hughes, Developer - CICS Modernization Team at IBM Andrew Twydell, Software Engineer at IBM Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceqvqzopGNcoTN-0YcOCo1HXLjE6tZBq  

The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations Horror is not constrained to the movies, but happens every day in your CICS environment! We will share common examples of poor and horrific examples of CICS integration which drives up MIPS and degrades response times. Just when we thought the insanity of screen scraping was over, along […]

Understanding What IMS Applications Can Do and How You Can Benefit From REST APIS IMS clients worldwide have a wealth of assets in the form of IMS applications. These business-critical apps have been running your business for decades, at performance levels hard to rival. Their durability, reliability, and scalability are legendary. IMS continues to add […]

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With a nod to Dr. Suess, this presentation discusses a few Db2 best practices based on experiences I've encountered during my consulting career. It takes a look at actual scenarios (without naming names) to explore situations that can arise in any organization. Some of the things covered include RUNSTATS, RID failures, lock escalation, and more. […]

Many organizations already leverage automated DevOps practices for distributed applications, and now many are looking to include z applications in the pipeline.  For CICS, developers manage source code and the executable modules, but the systems programmers typically manage the related CICS resource definitions.  This separation between the code and resource definitions creates issues when incorporating […]