8th csDUG Conference: A great success!

 The 8th csDUG Conference happened yesterday 11th October 2022 in Prague.

Some 40 Db2 and/or IMS users, mainly from Czech Republic and Slovakia, joined the csDUG conference this year. The event was sponsored by Broadcom and DatAvail, and held in the Broadcom R&Ds lab in Prague. Thanks to all the speakers who made the trip to share their expertise and give presentations about Db2 for z/OS and IMS.

The details agenda, including Speakers' bio and sessions' abstract is available here.

A few pictures from the event!

Toine Michielse discusses Db2 DevOps

Emil Kotrc is paging through SQL pagination

Denis speaks about Db2z REST services

Sharing is caring at csDUG !

Javier receives a present from DatAvail as Best User Speaker!

Vaclav Koudelka : Best Speaker in the IMS Track

csDUG 2022 - Group Picture

Best presenter of each Track:

Db2 DBA Track: Toine Michielse 

Db2 App/Dev Track: Emil Kotrc

IMS Track: Vaclav Koudelka

Best User Speaker: Javier Estrada Benavides (Kyndryl)

Presentations are available for Download!

Presentations available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJMi1ZGJGLttVbHPvwrwbaBF6eBH0nmz?usp=sharing

Your feedback is welcome

If you attended the Conference, feel free to leave additional comments below, for example, to praise one of the presenters!

Register for the upcoming csDUG Conference on October 11

 The Czech Republic and Slovakia Db2 Users Group (csDUG) is a Regional User Group (RUG) that was created 9 years ago.

Are you a qualified Db2 or IMS specialist? Do you want to discover what Db2 or IMS is or what it can do for you? Are you an experienced DBA in environments other databases and need support in Db2 or IMS for a new project? Are you interested in what role it can play a Db2 or IMS architecture of your business?
     --> Join the next csDUG conference to listen to industry experts and network with other people interested in Db2!

On 11 October 2022, we will be hosting the 8th csDUG event, with 3 tracks!
This year's event is sponsored by Broadcom.

This is a full day FREE conference with top industry speakers - a great opportunity for DB2 and IMS users to meet industry experts !

Agenda of the conference (Final)

Location

Broadcom, 3rd floor
V Parku 8,
148 00 Prague 4, Chodov
Czech Republic


Registration

To register for the FREE technical conference, simply fill in the form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOxp_ibdV02XHhHf-C6dHBV5uLnyUaZcrfuwd6vjYGkoD-YQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Please note that all people attending the conference venue need to register. The information you provide will help us to identify you.

csDUG 2022 - The call for presentations is now opened !

 

The COVID pandemic imposed a (long) break in our series of in-person events. We are glad to announce that, following our successful events in the pre-COVID years, we are now planning the next csDUG conference!

This year, the conference will take place on 11^th October 2022 (Tuesday) in The Park, Building 8, Prague 4 - Chodov.

We are opening the call for presentations on this event. Contact me to sign up (by direct email, using twitter @Db2forZ, or by leaving a comment to this page), it is enough to state the title of your presentation and also short description of the main objectives. The presentation should not be longer than 55 minutes, including Q&A.

This year, we are welcoming topics for Database Administrators and Db2 Application Developers, on Db2 for z/OS and IMS for z/OS.

The call for presentations will be opened until 30^th September 2022.

The whole csDUG team is looking forward to our mutual cooperation!

The csDUG team

csDUG2019

csDUG 2018

csDUG 2017

csDUG 2016

csDUG 2015

7th csDUG Conference: A great success!

The 7th csDUG Conference happened a few days ago (10/10/2019) in Prague.

Last year, we added a third track for IMS for z/OS users. This track was full this year! The traditional 2 Db2 tracks (Database Administrators and Database Developers) were also well attended. Some 60 Db2 and/or IMS users, mainly from Czech Republic and Slovakia, joined the conference this year. The event was sponsored by Broadcom, and held in the Broadcom R&Ds lab in Prague. Thanks to all the speakers who made the trip to share their expertise and give presentations about Db2 for z/OS and IMS.

A few pictures from the event!

Steve Thomas and #Db2z Transparent Encryption

Emil Kotrc and the MERGE statement

Milo Pekar discusses #zowe and z/OSMF in the #IMS Track

The Perfect Trio by Cüneyt Goksu

#IMS logical relationship in HALDBs by Alexej Danilkin

Group picture at csDUG (7^th event)

Users’ feedback: Top presenters

Best presenter of each Track:

• Db2 DBA Track: Steve Thomas - Using Transparent Data Encryption in Db2z
• Db2 DEV Track: Cüneyt Goksu - Perfect Trio: Temporal Tables, Transparent Archiving and IDAA
• IMS Track:     Jirka Vandas - What you can encrypt in IMS with IBMz

Wanna see more pics of the event?
Additional pictures of the event can be found at https://twitter.com/search?q=csDUG

Where are the presentations?

Presentations available here at https://ent.box.com/s/fwfe7450dl2d7xhz84stmrtnbqxsum5x

Your feedback is welcome

If you attended the Conference, feel free to leave additional comments below, for example, to praise one of the presenters!

Zowe: Making the Mainframe easy to work with, just like any other platform

The IBM System Z server (Mainframe) is the system of record for most Fortune 1000 companies, housing critical business data as well as PII data from customers that must be available at all times but cannot be compromised. The Mainframe platform is behind just about every critical user experience in business today. For this reason, every company shares common concerns about the security of their customer data and the compatibility and performance of the applications that drive their business.

What is Zowe?
Zowe is an open source project for the Mainframe. Alike Mac OS or Windows, Zowe comes with a set of APIs and OS capabilities that application developers can leverage. Zowe also includes some application samples and applications out of the box.

To learn more about Zowe, check out this 5 minutes YouTube Video:

And Zowe is evolving at a fast pace! Check out the online Release Notes: https://docs.zowe.org/stable/getting-started/summaryofchanges.html. Since its initial release in February 2019, there has been new updates every month.

Zowe main components

Zowe Application Framework: A web user interface (UI) that provides a virtual desktop containing a number of apps allowing access to z/OS function. Base Zowe includes apps for traditional access such as a 3270 terminal and a VT Terminal, as well as an editor and explorers for working with JES, MVS Data Sets and Unix System Services.

API Mediation Layer: Provides a gateway that acts as a reverse proxy for z/OS services, together with a catalog of REST APIs and a dynamic discovery capability. Base Zowe provides core services for working with MVS Data Sets, JES, as well as working with z/OSMF REST APIs. The API Mediation Layer also provides a framework for Single Sign On (SSO).

Zowe CLI: Provides a command-line interface that lets you interact with the mainframe remotely and use common tools such as Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), shell commands, bash scripts, and build tools for mainframe development. It provides a set of utilities and services for application developers that want to become efficient in supporting and building z/OS applications quickly. The CLI provides a core set of commands for working with data sets, USS, JES, as well as issuing TSO and console commands.

Where to start?

The installation of Zowe™ consists of two independent processes:

1. installing Zowe runtime on z/OS 
• Install the Zowe Application Framework, the API Mediation Layer, and a number of micro services that provide capability to both.
• Install the Zowe Cross Memory Server. This is an authorized server application that provides privileged services to Zowe in a secure manner.
2. installing Zowe CLI on your computer (The Zowe CLI is not installed on z/OS and runs on a personal computer)

Installation Guide: https://docs.zowe.org/stable/user-guide/installandconfig.html

Upcoming Db2 and IMS conference in Prague - csDUG 2019

As what has become a tradition: we have started preparing this year's csDUG and we are very excited about our upcoming free-of-charge conference. Currently, we are in "call for papers" mode but it does not mean we are only waiting. csDUG 2019 will be divided into 3 tracks as it was last year: Db2 administration, Db2 AppDev and IMS track.

The conference will take place 10th October in Broadcom's R&D lab. Although precise agenda is work in progress, you can rest assured that the topics will be interesting and delivered by database professionals.

csDUG 2019 - The call for presentations is now opened !

Following our successful events in the past years, we are now planning the next csDUG conference!

This year, the conference will take place on 10^th October 2019 (Thursday) in The Park, Building 8, Prague 4 - Chodov.

We are opening the call for presentations on this event. Contact me to sign up (by direct email, using twitter @Db2forZ, or by leaving a comment to this page), it is enough to state the title of your presentation and also short description of the main objectives. The presentation should not be longer than 55 minutes, including Q&A.

This year, we are welcoming topics for Db2 Database Administrators and Db2 Application Developers, and IMS for z/OS

The call for presentations will be opened until 30^th August 2019.

The whole csDUG team is looking forward to our mutual cooperation!

The csDUG team

csDUG 2018

csDUG 2017

csDUG 2016

csDUG 2015