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Midwest DB2 Users’ Group

March 4, 2009

Information Management Software

Chicago IBM Information ManagementTechnical Team• DB2 for z/OS

• Paul Bartak 314-252-5826 [email protected]

• Paul Murphy 314-252-4233 [email protected]

• DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows• Jim Waddell 414-223-6567 [email protected]

• Jim Strand 847-805-2509 [email protected]

• DB2 for z/OS, Linux, UNIX and Windows Data Warehousing• Gary Crupi 414-223-6279 [email protected]

• Information Integration and Business Intelligence• Jason Arnold 312-529-1919 [email protected]

• Shantan Kethireddy 224-465-1875 [email protected]

• DB2 Tools• Greg Kline 630-568-1026 [email protected]


Chicago IBM Information ManagementSales Team• DB2 for z/OS Software Sales

• Matt Russo 630-568-1860 [email protected]

• DB2 for z/OS Tools

• Nate Goodman [email protected]

• Information Management Software Sales

• Lee Gallerano 630-717-9683 [email protected]

• Information Management Software Sales

• Alex Olin 312-455-0599 [email protected]


IDUG 2009Conference Schedules

http://conferences.idug.org/na/GeneralInformation/tabid/337/Default.aspx


End of Log RBA Range• What happens when your DB2 RBA hits FFFFFFFFFFFF?

• Did you think you’d be retired before then???

• Review your Print Log Map (DSNJU004) and logging rate.

• See PK27611

• DB2 will issue a new DSNJ032I warning message if the current log RBA value exceeds F80000000000

• DB2 will continue to run until the current log RBA value exceeds FFFF00000000 • DB2 will issue the DSNJ032I message indicating the situation is now

CRITICAL and will terminate with RC00D10251.


End of Log RBA Range Estimation• If you are concerned about your RBA usage rate…

• Talk to your DB2 Advisor or me ([email protected])

• Send DSNJU004 output


pureXML Teleconference - April 21st• Title: Accelerate Application Development, Achieve greater

business agility and improve business insights with DB2 9 for z/OS pureXML

• Speaker: Guogen Zhang, IBM, Senior Technical Staff Member

• Broadcast Date: April 21, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time

• This teleconference offers an overview of pureXML™ technology in DB2 9 for z/OS, its business values and technical feature details.

• More info:

• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/telecon/apr21/


50 TB Data Warehouse Benchmark on IBM System z

• New draft IBM Redbook

• The objective of our 50TB study was to test System z scalability in a business intelligence environment and to develop the best practices of managing large data warehouses

• Some of the topics covered…

• Leveraging Materialized Query Tables

• Reporting and analysis with Cognos

• Workload management

• More info:

• Link to the draft redbook


Bryan Smith Wants Feedback • We are investigating implementing some server-side functions

in our data tools that would run in a Java runtime on z/OS, and I would appreciate getting your feedback to help us with this planning work. –Bryan Smith

• Are you using java stored procedures?• Are you using zAAPs• Any comments on our using java on z/OS?

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/datastudioteam?entry=need_your_input_data_tools


Miscellaneous Announcements• DB2 z/OS V8

• EOM Announced: 09/08/09

• See Announcement 908-280

• Data Studio V2.1 is now available

• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/studio/

• Data Studio Resources

• DB2 9 for z/OS Stored Procedures: Through the CALL and Beyond

• Tutorial on how to develop DB2 z/OS stored procedures with Data Studio Developer

• Data Studio Information Center

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