Central Canada DB2 Users Group
Winter Meeting 2000

A G E N D A
Monday January 31, 2000

Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto (Essex Ballroom)

08:15 - 09:00
REGISTRATION / CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
09:00 - 09:10
OPENING REMARKS - Chairperson
09:10 - 10:30

DATA WAREHOUSING & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AT THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
Sherry Smeaton - Royal Bank
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 12:00

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DB2 CONNECT
BUT DID NOT KNOW WHO TO ASK
Leon Katsnelson - IBM Toronto Lab.
12:00 - 01:15 LUNCH
01:15 - 02:30

DB2 FOR OS/390 V6/V5 PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS, RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS
Hari Shanmugadhasan - IBM Canada Ltd.
02:30 - 02:45 COFFEE BREAK
02:45 - 04:00

DB2 FOR OS/390 V6/V5 PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS, RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS (Continued)
Hari Shanmugadhasan - IBM Canada Ltd.


ABSTRACTS

DATA WAREHOUSING & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AT THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
This presentation will provide an overview of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence environment at Royal Bank of Canada. Sherry will discuss the challenges of implementing, maintaining and growing such an environment. She will also describe how this environment fits in the Customer Relationship Management processes. Finally, the presentation will also discuss what the future holds for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at the Bank.
Sherry is Manager, Business Intelligence at the Royal Bank. She has previously given this presentation at an IBM executive briefing at the IBM Santa Theresa Lab.


EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DB2 CONNECT
BUT DID NOT KNOW WHO TO ASK

This presentation will deal with various application design and deployment strategies for DB2 for OS/390 as the database server using DB2 Connect. It will deal with traditional client-server, multi-tier applications, web applications, and Java development and deployment. It will explain new features of the DB2 Connect and DB2 for OS/390 products, and will offer a view of what is about to ship in the upcoming version of the DB2 Connect product.
Leon Katsnelson is Manager, DB Connect Development. He is a regular IDUG presenter, and was voted amongst the top 10 speakers at the IDUG North American Conference in May, 1999.


DB2 FOR OS/390 V6/V5 PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS, RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS
Hari will present an expanded and updated version of his 1999 IDUG Technical Symposium presentation on V6. With twice the time, he will cover more enhancements in greater detail, while highlighting those that are available in V5 via APARS and along the way mention some other V6/V5 enhancements.
Topic areas will include enhancements relating to:

  • ERP applications
  • Java/Web/e-business applications - ODBC, CLI, JDBC, SQLJ, DDF Connection Pooling
  • Optimizer choices and access paths
  • Query and parallelism
  • Utilities - faster, more parallel, inline
Hari will discuss the meaning and implications of several performance tests.


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