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10:20am EDT

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials

Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:20am - 5:30pm EDT

Magnificent 2C

Speakers

Les King

Owner, Professor, Les King Learning, Seneca College

Les King is a part-time professor at multiple Ontario Colleges, offering courses in Mathematics, Programming and Data Management. Les has also been an instructor at the University of Toronto in the Mathematics department. Les effectively draws a connection between what the marketplace... Read More →

Sponsors

LearnQuest

Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:20am - 5:30pm EDT
Magnificent 2C

Essentials, Essentials

Audience Beginner
Subject LUW

10:20am EDT

IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials

Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:20am - 5:30pm EDT

Magnificent 2A

Speakers

Luis Antonio Alguera

Db2 for z/OS Essentials Instructor, LearnQuest

Luis Alguera, MSBA, is an IBM instructor, technology consultant, and data science professional with more than 15 years of experience delivering IBM training and consulting services. He has extensive experience with Db2 database administration across distributed and mainframe environments... Read More →

Sponsors

LearnQuest

Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:20am - 5:30pm EDT
Magnificent 2A

Essentials, Essentials

Audience Beginner
Subject z/OS

11:30am EDT

E11 | Navigating Digital Certificates: Unlocking a Seamless Experience

Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Magnificent 6

Generating digital certificates while installing a product like DB2 and related products on z/OS frequently involves intricate hurdles, where minor errors lead to postponed rollouts, service interruptions, and heavy manual workloads. This session breaks down the core principles of certificates while offering actionable techniques and proven methods to refine your workflow. Furthermore, we will debut an innovative utility engineered to simplify the baseline certificate configuration during mainframe software deployment, minimizing technical friction and fast-tracking your path to production.

Speakers

Jan Prihoda

Product Owner, Broadcom Mainframe Software

Jan is an experienced Product Owner at Broadcom responsible for making the Broadcom products configuration process smoother. He has long experience in software development in the telecommunication industry and now he is trying to combine his experience and mainframe complexity to... Read More →

Denis Tronin

Product Manager, Broadcom

Denis Tronin is a seasoned Product Manager in Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division, bringing years of experience in product management and software development. His work focuses on mainframe technologies, specifically in Data Management and DevOps domains. He plays a key role... Read More →

Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Magnificent 6

Track E, Technical Session

Audience Beginner
Subject z/OS
Area Best Practices, Security and Compliance

4:30pm EDT

F13 | Under the Hood: A DB2 Survivor’s Logbook (2026)

Wednesday October 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Magnificent 7

introduce knowledge learned in 2026 such as data wrapping, pacemaker, etc. Test and emphasis some experiece about old topics such as db2 auto start, db2 log path, application status with different type of interruptions,

Speakers

Kevin Hong

Senior Principle Database Architect, Global Payments

Kevin has 32 years Db2 experience, holding lot of IBM certificates for Db2 including Db2 LUW and DB2 Z/OS. Kevin has presented in IDUG many times with experiences, problems learned from day to day work.

Wednesday October 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Magnificent 7

Track F, Technical Session

Audience Beginner
Subject LUW
Area Best Practices

10:20am EDT

10:20am EDT

11:30am EDT

4:30pm EDT

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