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2. Information Management Software Chicago IBM Information Management Technical Team DB2 for z/OS Paul Bartak314-252-5826 paul.bartak@us.ibm.com Paul Murphy314-252-4233paul.murphy@us.ibm.com DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Jim Waddell414-223-6567jim.waddell@us.ibm.com Jim Strand847-805-2509jdstrand@us.ibm.com DB2 for z/OS, Linux, UNIX and Windows Data Warehousing Gary Crupi414-223-6279gary.crupi@us.ibm.com Information Integration and Business Intelligence Jason Arnold312-529-1919jaarnold@us.ibm.com Shantan Kethireddy224-465-1875 shantank@us.ibm.com DB2 Tools Greg Kline630-568-1026gwkline@us.ibm.com

3. Information Management Software Chicago IBM Information Management Sales Team DB2 for z/OS Software Sales Matt Russo630-568-1860russo2@us.ibm.com DB2 for z/OS Tools Nate Goodman414-223-6748nathang@us.ibm.com Information Management Software Sales Lee Gallerano630-717-9683lgallerano@us.ibm.com Information Management Software Sales Alex Olin312-455-0599aolin@us.ibm.com

4. Information Management Software IDUG 2009 Conference Schedules http://conferences.idug.org/na/GeneralInformation/tabid/337/Default.aspx

5. Information Management Software 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.

6. Information Management Software End of Log RBA Range Estimation If you are concerned about your RBA usage rate… Talk to your DB2 Advisor or me (jaarnold@us.ibm.com) Send DSNJU004 output

7. Information Management Software 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/

8. Information Management Software 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

9. Information Management Software 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/datastudio team?entry=need_your_input_data_toolshttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/datastudio team?entry=need_your_input_data_tools

10. Information Management Software 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 BeyondDB2 9 for z/OS Stored Procedures: Through the CALL and Beyond Tutorial on how to develop DB2 z/OS stored procedures with Data Studio DeveloperTutorial on how to develop DB2 z/OS stored procedures with Data Studio Developer Data Studio Information Center