IDUG 2025 North America Db2 Tech Conference

Meet us at our booth and join our presentations:

• Isn’t she aDORAble? A DBAs guide to DORA, PCI DSS V4.0.1 and how to survive an audit!
• RUNSTATS Master – reloaded
• Understand, manage and love certificates in z/OS and USS

Session abstracts:
The Digital Operational Resilience Act came into force on the 17^th January 2025. It forces any FINTECH firm that does any business with EU customers to do various audits and check various things. This act has not only an EU but also a world wide impact. The requirements of DORA involve testing, securing, maintaining and performance tuning your Db2 systems on host and all your other IT systems. It has a huge impact on all vendors as well. Further, the PSS DCI update 4.0.1 in March 2025 echoed a lot of the DORA content. This presentation will go through what you need to know and need to do to get DORA compliant as quickly as possible.

Waaaaay back in 2006 I first held a RUNSTATS Master class where everything that RUNSTATS does to help, and hinder(!), us was fully explained. After 18 years it has now become an adult and has been updated right up until the last RUNSTATS change in Db2 13 FL500 with all the changes that have happened since 2006.

This session will show you how RUNSTATS works, when to, and not to, use it and how to use it as good as you can. 

Understand, manage and love certificates in z/OS and USS, will address distributed Db2 access. You can communicate with z/OS, USS, Db2, or any other server or service via “postcards”, or “sealed envelopes”. Even within a trusted network, unencrypted postcard communication isn’t state of the art and may compromise information you don’t intend to share.

Web-based solutions, like ZOWE, UMS, ADF,… require secure connections, but the setup can be frustrating. Setting up and using encrypted channels isn’t rocket science, but they’re all based on certificates that some people find difficult to manage.
This session sheds light on secure communication and their implementation in z/OS and USS services. I’ll explain how secure communication is set up, established and managed, as well as understanding difficulties that may arise.

Speaker bios:
Roy Boxwell is an IBM Champion with more than 38 years of experience in MVS, OS/390, and z/OS environments – 37 of those in Db2. He specializes in installation, migration, and performance monitoring and tuning. Roy leads the SEG development team responsible for the real-time database maintenance solutions (RTDX). He is also an active participant, speaker and contributor on the IDUG Db2 Listserv and sends out a monthly Db2 z/OS Newsletter and APAR Updates blog.

Ulf Heinrich specialized in Db2 recovery and operations, managing cost reduction and 24×7 operations. As a consultant at large customer sites, he has implemented database maintenance procedures and recovery strategies, and also experienced the pitfalls of recovery scenarios under real-world recovery pressure. Ulf contributes to the ZOWE community since day one and helps customers implementing, customizing and managing modern zOS/USS solutions. His activities cover EMEA, as well as North America through SE’s U.S. subsidiary, SEGUS Inc. As a member of SE’s Request Board, he’s working closely with customers and the development labs. As a member of the TRIDEX.org Board of Directors he’s proud to support the Db2 community in the greater NY area.