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Isn’t that the mantra of organizations wanting answers and insights?  IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator gives you the answers you need 2000 times faster. As part of your analytics infrastructure Accelerator helps transform your computing platform into a uber-efficient hybrid transactional and analytics processing solution. Simply plug it into your infrastructure and without any user intervention or changes to your existing systems, answers to the most complex queries are slashed from hours to just seconds.

Join us for this exciting webcast to learn about the trends and directions of this game changing solution with Dr. Daniel Martin, DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Architect, IBM.

Register now  for  this new webcast “IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator : Trends and directions”  Dec 9 2014 11:00am ET. 

This is just a quick "blog" to let you all know that we now have enabled the "On line Chat" in the World of DB2 for z/OS

This is a great feature and now that we have also enabled "The World of DB2 for z/OS" community for mobile devices so you can chat "anytime" "any place" with your fellow DB2 members

I was logged in to the community and I saw Bart Steegmans  who was surprised when I started chatting with him- see the conversation below of our live chat below . 

For those of you who are considering if you should begin weaving business analytics more tightly into the fabric of your call center operations read my blog: Business Analytics in the Call Center, an interesting opportunity!
 https://ibm.biz/BdRAsX  #callcenter #analytics #systemz

Let me put this the number of 2000 in perspective. Imagine arriving at your destination 2000 times faster.  Think how that might revolutionize your daily life

Business agility has never been so crucial to winning in the market place. Organizations are on a quest for more insight fast than ever before - to help detect and prevent fraud in near real time – to identify and make an offer to a customer while they’re in a store based on previous browsing history and geographic location.

IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS gives you that capability today. As part of your analytics infrastructure Accelerator helps transform your mainframe into a uber-efficient hybrid transactional and analytics processing solution. Simply plug it into your infrastructure and without any user intervention or changes to your existing systems, answers to the most complex queries are slashed from hours to just seconds.

Join us for this exciting webcast to learn about the trends and directions of this game changing solution with Dr. Daniel Martin, DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Architect,

Register here bit.ly/IBMAccelerator-LI for IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS – trends and directions webcasts. Dec 9 2014 11:00am ET.

#Analytics #bigdata #System z #DB2forZOs #CICS # Accelerator # IMS

What business applications are deployed on your #System z? Complete this 5 min survey. https://ibm.biz/BdRgT2

Are you asking yourself things like,

• How is my infrastructure performing? 
• Am I meeting my SLAs? 
• What’s driving increases in workload, increases in capacity? 
• How are the new applications performing? 
• Are they performing against how I thought they would perform? 
• Are they pushing the boundaries of my overall capacity, will we suffer service degradation on other applications if I haven’t forecast them in the correct way? 
• What about anomaly detection?  How long does it take to figure out the cause?
• How is that going to impact other applications? 
• How is that going to impact my service delivery? 
• How can I feed that back to the test teams and the performance teams to make them smarter? 
• Do I have enough capacity to bring on a new workload? 
• How will you handle the latest mergers and acquisitions, government regulations, economic or market shifts, not only from a company perspective, but from an IT perspective?

If you want to learn how IBM can help IT answer these questions and more with our new cost effective Capacity Management Analytics solution, register now for this informative webcast - http://bit.ly/1fkCnLr 

IBM Capacity Management Analytics for zEnterprise: A cost-effective solution for optimal performance - April 22, 2014, 11:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. GMT / 4:00 p.m. BST

Thinking of attending IBM Information On Demand 2012 Global Conference in Las Vegas ?  There are many reasons why you can't afford to miss this Global Conference if you are in the Information Management business.  Here are some of the reasons you may attend:-

• Participate in the PREMIER discussion on the future of Information Management
• Over 80 DB2 for z/OS sessions including Business Analytics and Data Warehousing
• Hands On Labs
• Learn best practices in your industry
• Complimentary IBM certification testing
• Extensive opportunities for networking with both your peers and industry experts
  
  
  To add to the list of reasons IBM will be launching  their NEW DB2 for z/OS book in recognition of our 30th Anniversary.  Not only have we managed to get top IBM technical experts like John Campbell & Terry Purcell contribute to this book (anyone that knows John Campbell will know how difficult it is to find time on John's busy calendar), we also managed to have Don Haderle - "The FATHER of DB2" contribute to our book.  This book is not only full of RICH, TECHNICAL content but is will also be a "keepsake" for DB2 fans for years.  This is a limited edition book and limited copies will be printed so don't miss the book signing event on Monday 12:30 – 1:30 at bookstore.
  
  
  

  Book Abstract & Introduction
  

  IBM DB2: The Past, Present and Future

  The launch of DB2 on June 7, 1983, marked the birth of relational database as a cornerstone for the enterprise; 30 years later DB2 for z/OS is still the undisputed leader in the RDBMS market and the envy of its competitors when it comes to total system availability, scalability, security, reliability and cost effectiveness. A majority of Fortune 500 companies, including the world’s top banks, retailers and insurance providers, store mission critical operational data in IBM® System z® and DB2® for z/OS®.

  Why? It seems everyone offers a marketing bundle “just like the mainframe,” and while some of these solutions have some basic capabilities, DB2 for z/OS and System z continue to lead the way with fresh capabilities to handle rapidly changing, diverse and unpredictable workloads while maximizing resource utilization and investment.

  During 2013 IBM will celebrate the 30^th anniversary of DB2 with customers, business partners, users, employees and DB2 fans all around the world.This book is packed with rich information to help you manage your business systems. Don Haderle the father of DB2 shares with us the history and growth of DB2; this is followed by detailed overview on the planning stage of migrating to IBM DB2 10 and technical overview of DB2 Optimiser.

   

  We hope you enjoy this new book. Find out why DB2 is still growing after 30 year and how it is helping our customers to reduce costs and grow. 

  Surekha Parekh

  WW DB2 for z/OS Marketing Program Director

I know many of you have been waiting for DB2 10 Customer Case Studies - today we have an customer case study that we can share externally,  this will help other customers planning the upgrade to DB2 10 and also see the business benefits customers are reaping  . Primercia's overall impression is that they have already seen a roughly 6 percent performance increase by taking advantage of support for large [1 MB] pages in DB2 and project CPU savings of as much as 10 percent for some applications..

Read Full Case study today  Learn how Primerica upgraded to DB2 10 and improves efficiency,  gains more flexibility and reduced costs Click Here 

“DB2 provides us with a foundation such that two and three years down the road, we know we won’t be impeded in developing new applications with our partners or in rolling out new smartphone apps to our agents.”—Bill Raser, senior vice president of data administration and mainframe systems support, Primerica

This is the 16th year of SQLAdria’s existence. It was founded in 1994 as a local DB2 User Group and it has become the regional user group of IDUG the same year. The number of attendees at the conferences has been growing every year. SQLAdria Conference in Dubrovnik has already become the real international event.

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 of IDUG. The members of SQL Adria are companies, e.g. users of relational databases (mainly DB2) on the one hand, and vendors on the other. The members of SQL Adria are well known and distinctive companies from Croatia and Slovenia (banks, health and pension insurance institutes, finance agency, IS and IT support agency, company for electricity distribution,…).

As vendor members, CA, IBM, BMC, Compuware,… have been supporting our activities throughout past years. The main body of SQL Adria is the presidency, elected on annually basis. The presidency proposes and delivers the plan and the programme for every year, trying to address today’s challenges and interest of the members. It also confirms the terms of realization, and it manages incomes and expenses.

SQL Adria were awarded the "Best Managed DB2 for z/OS User Group " for 2011 - if you missed the conference this year check out here are some of the photos from the conference

DB2 for z/OS Facebook Fan page

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