8:00  to  09:00               Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:00  to  09:15               Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

09:15 to 12:00               Judy Ruby-Brown (IBM): DB2 for z/OS Disaster Recovery:

A smorgasbord of solutions

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                        (there will be a break midway thru Judy's presentation)

 

12:00  to  13:00             Gourmet Lunch

 

13:00  to  14:15             Charlie Perkins (Fidelity): Evolution: Distributed DB2 HA/DR Options

 

14:15  to  14:30             Break

 

14:30  to  15:45             Bill Gallagher (Phoenix Life Insurance): Disaster Recovery and DB2/AIX:

A User Experience (this is a preview of the presentation Bill will be giving at IDUG in May)
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15:45  to  16:00             Closing Remarks; Give away of our fabulous door prizes

 

SPEAKER INFO:

 

Judy Ruby-Brown:

 

Judy Ruby-Brown has 17 years of experience in DB2 technical support. She is currently a technical leader in IBM’s Advanced Technical Sales Support at the Dallas Systems Center.  Her expertise includes S/390 Parallel Sysplex, DB2 data sharing, recovery, high availability and off-site disaster recovery. She is a Consulting I/T Specialist with twenty plus years experience with IBM. She has achieved IBM Senior Certification.  She has spoken at user groups including the International DB2 User Group (North American, European, and Asia-Pacific Conferences), IBM DB2 Technical Conferences, and SHARE, as well as individual user groups.

 

Charlie Perkins:

 

Charlie has been involved in DP/IT for 32 years. He has been active in data management since 1977 when he learned IMS.  He has worked on mainframe DBMS (IMS, IDMS, DB2 versions 2 through 6) and distributed DBMS (mostly as a manager) including Sybase, Oracle and DB2 (from the fledgling Database Manager days on OS/2 to DB2 Version 8.2 ESE). He can say a lot about DBMS; some of it may even be reliable.  He was chairman of this group for more than 6 years up thru June, 2004.

 

Bill Gallagher:

 

Bill Gallagher is a senior Database Administrator for Phoenix Life Insurance Company in Hartford, CT. Bill has over 22 years experience in the Information Technology field, the last 16 as a Database Administrator supporting IDMS, MS SQL Server and DB2 UDB for both the OS/390 and AIX platforms.