This document announces a special event hosted by Tridex featuring John Campbell, an IBM Distinguished Engineer for DB2. The event will include three presentations by John Campbell on October 6th at IBM's New York City office: a technical overview of DB2 12, best practices and war stories, and an in-depth session on bufferpool tuning. Pre-registration is required by email for the free event due to security requirements at the building.

1. Dear Tridex Members,
Don't miss thisJohn Campbellspecial event.
TRIDEXDB2 for z/OS
Featured Speakers:
John Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer, DB2 for
z/OS Development
Second Quarterly User Group Meeting DON’T JUST KEEP UP - STAY AHEAD!
All Meetings are FREE. You must Pre-register to Attend. Walk-in registration will not be accepted. A
photo ID is required for building access.
Fourth Quarter Meeting Thursday October 6th, 2016
LOCATION: IBM Corporation 590 Madison Ave (between 56th
& 57th
)
Room 1219, 12th
Floor
TRIDEX AGENDA
8:30 -- 9:00 Coffee (Provided by IBM)
9:00 – 11:00 John Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer
V12 Technical Overview
11:00 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 12:10 John Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer
JC Greatest Hits, War Stories, Best Practices
12:10 – 12:40 Lunch (Provided by IBM)
12:40 – 1:40 John Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer .
JC Greatest Hits, War Stories, Best Practices (continued)
1:40 – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 3:45 John Campbell, IBM Distinguished Engineer
In depth bufferpool tuning
Please distribute the fliers to others in your organization who may wish to attend. Pre-registration is required
for security reasons. Email :tridex@comcast.net.
Sincerely Tridex BOD,

2. Nate Murphy, Joel Goldstein, Roger Hecq, Chuck Hacker, Celia Gahagan, Angela Arettines, Chris Tsounis
Abstracts
Title: V12 Technical Overview
Abstract: In this presentation John will provide a technical overview of DB2 12 for z/OS which will cover the
goals and highlights, performance enhancements for traditional workloads, performance enhancements for
modern workloads, application enablement enhancements, reliability, availability, scalability, security, and
migration.
Title: JC Greatest Hits, War Stories, Best Practices
Abstract: In this presentation John will introduce and discuss some customer war stories, greatest hits in terms
of positive and negative experience, and share recommended best practice on a number of hot topics.
This will include discussion about DEL_CFSTRUCTS_ON_RESTART zparm for deleting the structures,
implications of stretching sysplex from a performance perspective (value of SMD and duplexing over distance),
housekeeping (why reorg index, index reorg and runstats, runstats, value of rebind), Alter bufferpool, insert
space search (short) and UTS PBG, IRLM CPU spikes in data sharing, converting over to table controlled with
leading keys, customer performance experience with UTS and changing limit keys.
Title: In depth bufferpool tuning
Abstract: In this presentation John will provide detailed guidance on bufferpool setup, customisation,
monitoring and tuning. It will cover the following topics: page selection criteria, multiple bufferpools, tuning
bufferpool size, benefit of larger bufferpools, bufferpool simulation, use of IFCID 199, deferred write and
castout processing. It will also provide a set of general recommendations that will apply to all customers.
Biography
John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer reporting to the Director for z/OS Development at the IBM Silicon
Valley Lab. He has extensive experience of DB2 in terms of systems, database and applications design. He
specializes in design for high performance and data sharing. He is one of IBM's foremost authorities for
implementing high-end database / transaction processing applications.
TRIDEX z/OS REGISTRATION FORM Thursday October 6th, 2016
Complete the registration form below and Email it to: tridex@comcast.net. For questions
call 856-234-2353.
Register early because of the limited space.
Registration: DB2 for z/OS Users Group 10/6/16 meeting
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