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Db2 for z/OS EXPLAIN is one of the core database capabilities to ensure quality of developed SQL statements. In this session we will refresh the EXPLAIN basics, get familiar with best practices for analyzing SQL access path and dive into recent Db2 changes.

Java is not a new technology; Java has been introduced in late 90’s, Java Stored Procedures are available in Db2 for z/OS since version 7. With the recent hardware improvements and the business demands the use of this technology on mainframe is extending. This presentation will briefly review the Java programming concepts and will aim on its specifics concerning Db2 for z/OS. 

In the life of an application developer, there are many lessons learned how to best interact with Db2 for z/OS. This sessions looks at an exemplary set of lessons that were either learned the hard way by breaking existing applications or the easy way by improving existing applications without causing too much collateral damage. Note that this session focuses on traditional application development for mainframe applications using programming languages such as COBOL.

Detecting fraud within payment systems is one of the top challenges for many IT organizations. Integrating fraud detection applications with payment systems can be complex. IBM and TAS/Mantica have just simplified this effort. IBM has partnered with TAS/Mantica to bring together the power of their Adaptive Intelligence Platform and Fraud Protection Solution with IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS. This helps organizations monitor and detect payment fraud in real-time, before a transaction completes, with rel-time scoring via Watson ML for z/OS. This presentation describes how to apply this ML use case for real-time scoring to your payment process. 

Since Db2 10 for z/OS functionalities like system time, business time and transparent archiving are implemented in Db2 natively. This session demonstrates by examples how to use these functionalities and how they assist application programmers in building such applications. Also the latest Db2 12 for z/OS enhancements for these functionalities are presented and demonstrated.

Businesses must embrace digital transformation to remain competitive due to fundamental changes in how businesses operate and deliver value in increasingly digital world. Data is fuel of digital transformation, and Artificial intelligence (AI) with Cloud Computing are the key engines. However, there is no AI without IA (Information Architecture). The data must be simple to access, secured, governed and easily consumable in order to build a reliable analytics foundation, generate actionable insight, scale it on demand by using cloud delivery, private and public, hybrid and multi-cloud, and eventually infuse trusted AI everywhere.

While IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a core z/OS component since version 2.1, still not everybody is familiar what it is and how it would help with system and database management. In this session we will focus on how Db2 users could use z/OSMF workflows to simplify and automate some of common Db2 tasks. We will also cover what Zowe (mainframe open source project) has to offer for working with z/OSMF workflows.