Having graduated in Computer Science at Aberystwyth in 1990, Marcus has worked with mainframes ever since, as a programmer, systems programmer, consultant, database administrator, production support hero, production support villain and management piñata for various companies. He is now a Lead Product Developer for BMC Software. He holds an MBCS, CEng, CITP, and more often than not, a glass of wine. He is an IBM Champion, an IBM Z and LinuxONE Influencer, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador, Joint Chairman of the UK Db2 User Group, a member of the IDUG Content Committee and the GSE UK Conference Planning Committee. In his spare time, he is a STEM Ambassador, leads a Code Club in a Welsh-medium junior school, and helps translate Raspberry Pi Foundation resources into Welsh. He blogs and casts pods, too
This intermediate level presentation quickly covers the history of compression in Db2 for z/OS, from V3.1 to Db2 12. We will review the original tablespace row compression, index compression, LOB compression, and Huffman compression, with a glance at some application performance considerations.
The role of the DBA has evolved over the years. As businesses across the globe embrace digital transformation, and customer expectations increase, the traditional rules of engagement must be reconsidered, and the DBA remains a key lynch-pin in the Agile journey to DevOps. This presentation will review the old rules of engagement, and express the importance of communication, trust, embracing change, and automation tools in modern software development.
How I accessed Db2 via RESTful services, the Java CLP, the Zowe CLI and Python and got away with it. This presentation will introduce the latest trendy methods of getting at Db2 and its data. It will contain a few pre-recorded video demos of each method.
SQL Adria is the independent, non-profit organization that gathers relational database users for Croatia and Slovenia. It was founded 1994. and in the same year it has become the regional user group.
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