Tuesday, April 13 Power and DB2 for i Technical Sessions

Still undecided about going to the POWER and DB2 for i Symposium in Dallas, April 13-15?  Use the 10% tuition code "A2N" when registering at: http://bit.ly/biZq3t.  Here is a sneak peek at the topics... and this is only the TUESDAY listings!

Tuesday, April 13 Power and DB2 for i Technical Sessions

• AIX What’s New
  Jay Kruemcke 
• Understanding Processor Virtualization for POWER6 and POWER7
  Fant Steele   
• IBM i7.1 Update
  Fred Robinson  
• Best Practices for POWER Systems including VIOS, I/O and firmware/microcode currency
  Bob Foster
• POWER7 systems—A technical view
  Mark Olson 
• Analyzing and Resolving CPU Based (AIX) Performance Issues
  Scott Nance
• Virtualization Enhancements for IBM i
  Fant Steele
• Performance Tuning in SAP and AIX Environment (ABAP Stack)
  Damir Rubic
• POWER7 processors—the beat goes on
  Joel Tendler
• Analyzing and Resolving Memory Based (AIX) Performance Issues
  Scott Nance
• Utilizing IBM Systems Director with IBM i
  Fred Robinson
• Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition
  Shawn Bodily
• Migrating to POWER7 Hardware
  Mark Olson
• IBM’s Investment in RPG IV—Past, Present and Future
  Alison Butterill
• Performance and Capacity Planning
  Sue Baker
• AME on Power7 Demo
  Janel Barfield
• Rational Developer for Power Systems Software (RDPower)
  Alison Butterill
• Introduction to IBM i and DB2 for the DBA
  Mike Cain
• PowerHA 6.1 Oracle Fallover Demo
  Michael Herrera
• DB2 for i Overview and Update
  Kent Milligan
• PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i product offering and strategy
  Steve Finnes
• Introduction to SQL Query Optimization
  Dan Cruikshank
• DW and BI Architecture, Design and Implementation
  Mike Cain
• POWER - Open Lab
  Ted Sulivan
• SQL Procedures, Functions and Triggers
  Kent Milligan
• Getting Started with DB2 Web Query
  Tyler Even

Have you missed us? POWER7 and more!

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Read a little about how the team assisted a System z client with SAP. Are you next?


New SAP on System z
A new SAP on System z client from the public sector needed IBM Systems Lab Services and Training to build and test a DB2 infrastructure.  Activities included:

• Configuration and build of ten new standalone DB2 subsystems
• Collaboration on the z/OS constructs required to support a DB2/SAP on System z environment
• SMS and ACS routines for proper data set placement
• ICF Catalog definitions
• Storage groups for flash targets
• Copy pool definitions
• Standard System z subsystem definitions
• Testing and use of FlashCopy with and without the DB2 Backup System utility
• Setup and testing of the Workload Manager (WLM) Stored Procedures environment

IBM Systems Lab Services and Training is in a unique position to provide assistance for clients that build such DB2 SAP environments but do not have such skills in-house. Knowledge of the key components that support the SAP on DB2 for System z solution are vital to the success of this solution, and we were able to provide this to the client.

All of the requisite subsystems were built and delivered ahead of the project schedule.  The initial DB2/SAP environment landscape has been built, and future opportunities lie in the adoption of an high availability (HA) environment, the introduction of DB2 data sharing, and performance and tuning of the overall environment.

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