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Publish Date
13 December 2007
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Author(s)
- Paolo Bruni
- Terry Berman
- John Iczkovits
- Basuki Soetarman
- Bart Steegmans
- Mike Turner
Paolo Bruni is a DB2 Information Management Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center, California. In this capacity, he has authored several IBM Redbooks publications on DB2 for z/OS and Data Management tools, and has conducted workshops and seminars worldwide. During Paolo's many years with IBM, in development and in the field, his work has been mostly related to database systems. Before joining the ITSO in 1998, Paolo was a Certified Consultant IT Architect with IBM Italy.
Terry Berman is a Database Manager at DST Systems, Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. He is in charge of Level 2 concentration on DB2/ISV support issues, such as performance, availability, security, recovery, and software feature deployment. Over a period of 13 years in his group, Database Engineering, he has built up an extensive performance repository, providing comprehensive measurement-based reporting ("database intelligence"). Operating as an internal software vendor, his group supports a wide range of internal tools and automations that benefit DBAs (access path statistics management, for example), programmers (catalog visibility), and sysprogs (an alert monitor). He has presented several times at IDUG, most recently on query optimization topics.
John Iczkovits is a Consulting IT Specialist with IBM Advanced Technical Support Americas, Dallas Systems Center, Texas. He provides DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 technical support and consulting services. His areas of expertise include DB2 data sharing, performance, availability, and DB2 synergy with disk and tape. His work in IBM includes experience supporting DB2 as a Systems Engineer, Database Administrator, IT Specialist, Consultant, and project lead. He has an operations background and more than 25 years of IT experience, ranging from database products, such as DB2 and IMS to MVS systems support, including storage management. He has also co-authored IBM Redbooks publications, Redpapers, white papers, and presented at SHARE, the DB2 Tech Conference, the Information On Demand Conference, the zEXPO Conference, and at local DB2 users groups.
Basuki Soetarman is a Senior Software Engineer in DB2 for z/OS product development in Silicon Valley Laboratory, San Jose, California. He has been with IBM for 17 years with experience in various projects, such as Prolog compiler and interpreter development; data access class library development for DB2; inventor, developer, team lead, and architect for Content Management and Federated Content Management; member of an international expert group on XQuery API for Java (XQJ). His recent activities are in the development of DB2 for z/OS Query Optimization tools for both the client and server components.
Bart Steegmans is a Senior DB2 Product Support Specialist from IBM Belgium, currently working remotely for the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, providing technical support for DB2 for z/OS performance problems. Previously, Bart was on assignment as a Data Management for z/OS project leader at the ITSO, San Jose Center, from 2001 to 2004. He has over 19 years of experience in DB2. Before joining IBM in 1997, Bart worked as a DB2 system administrator at a banking and insurance group. His areas of expertise include DB2 performance, database administration, and backup and recovery.
Mike Turner is an independent consultant based in the United Kingdom. He has over 35 years of experience in the mainframe database management field. His areas of expertise include DB2 performance, recovery, and data sharing. He has taught extensively on these topics and co-authored DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 Version 7 Performance Topics, SG24-6129.
ISBN
0738488615
IBM Form Number
SG24-7421-00