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Kamal Ali, Consultant & Data Mining Analyst
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 1:30-2:20 pm
An exciting new tool is being placed in the analysis toolbox. Attendees hear what effect this tool will have on the way data is warehoused. This session addresses the technologies, strategies, and tradeoffs in using information discovery technologies. Learn how to use this new analysis tool and benefit from hearing what some customers have already learned.
Michael M. Dediu, Year 2000 Group Consultant
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 2:30-3:20 pm
This session addresses the Year 2000 problems in areas like the Internet, Electronic Commerce, Security, Toolsets, Relational Databases, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Transaction Systems. Attendees learn the impact of the Year 2000 problem, how to assess specific issues and plan for their solutions, how to implement a reliable strategy, and how to complete the project.
Barbara Klein, Senior Planner and Brand Manager
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 3:30-4:20 pm
This session introduces the Internet, its related technologies, the requirements needing to be addressed, the IMS solutions and available products to address these requirements, and those enhancements being developed to support this evolving technology. It describes the role of the IMS applications and data in providing critical information across the Internet and in assisting companies in maintaining competitive advantage through the tools of the Internet.
Barbara Klein, Senior Planner and Brand Manager
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 3:30-4:20 pm
The IMS World Wide Web Connection is a major step for IMS customers wanting to provide commercial services over the Internet. The IMS World Wide Web Connection provides connectivity from Web browsers into IMS/ESA. Sample programs and tools which can help customers communicate with IMS are discussed in this session.
John Hurley, IBM Cryptolope Development Manager
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 3:30-4:20 pm
IBM's DataBolt components are the newest generation of information technology. Taking advantage of standard component interfaces, such as ActiveX and Java Beans, DataBolt components will facilitate a new generation of applications and support the migration of legacy systems to the new Web-centric world. This session describes how, using DataBolt components, the user's thin WebTop can provide an easily-managed, well-integrated information application suite.
Tack Tong, Architect
IBM Corporation
Wednesday 8:30-9:20 pm
Data Access Builder and its associated classes is a component in the VisualAge for Java and C++ integrated development environments. This session covers how to map relational schema to class definition and generate a set of data access classes. Attendees learn how user applications use those classes for database access, in particular with the Visual Builder.
John Kellerman
IBM Corporation
Wednesday 9:30-10:20 am
Smalltalk is a very powerful language for building servers and it integrates well with existing systems. IBM has taken the popular VisualAge for Smalltalk technology and added server support for MVS, AIX, Windows NT, and OS/2. Attendees benefit from hearing descriptions of customer experiences on several of these platforms.
Wayne Perry, VP, Marketing
IBM Corporation
Wednesday 3:00-3:50 am
This overview of DB2 focuses on its scalability and extensibility. Attendees learn about how DB2 is fully Web-enabled and capable of supporting applications for both business intelligence and high transaction processing.
Glen Sheffield, Product Manager, DB2 Parallel Edition
IBM Corporation
Thursday 8:30-9:20 am
This session addresses the various ways in which DB2 utilizes parallel processing in the engine to achieve best-of-breed performance and unparalleled scalability. Topics covered include parallel query, SMP support, shared nothing support, multiple buffer pools, 64-bit exploitation and more.
Glen Sheffield, Product Manager, DB2 Parallel Edition
IBM Corporation
Thursday 1:00-1:50 pm
DB2 Universal Database was designed to support large databases with high availability. Attendees learn about the features of DB2 which enable this support. These include supporting a large buffer pool, harsh partitioning, point-in-time tablespace recovery, redistribute utility, and parallel load capability.
Jan Hedges
IBM Corporation
Thursday 2:00-2:50 pm
This session teaches attendees how to tune DB2 applications, which could be as simple as running the Explain tool or asking the performance monitor "What's happening?" Tuning of these applications can also be done by following some design principles and correctly setting the configuration parameters.
Richard Dow
IBM Corporation
Thursday 4:30-5:20 pm
Let customers see what you have to offer at a glance. Add voice recordings to insurance claims so that you could hear eyewitness accounts an accident. Keep documents in a medical research database. This session explains how DB2 Extenders can take database applications beyond traditional numeric and character data to images, video, voice, and complex documents — even fingerprints! Also addressed is how these types of data can be brought together in one SQL query.