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Speaker: Doug Mack, Analytics Consultant, Db2 for i, IBM Systems Lab Services
Every BI/Analytics vendor shows you fancy visualization screens (including IBM) but not talk about where the real work is in making a BI/Analytics project successful. Most BI pundits say up to 70% of the work is in wrangling the data. Get that right, and the reporting/analytics becomes much simpler and efficient. Db2 Web Query contains multiple ways to wrangle your data while leveraging what you already have with RPG, SQL, or even Query/400. In this session we delve into use of Synonyms to describe your data, leveraging SQL when appropriate, and facilities to create data flows or ETL processes to cobble data together for your analytics projects. Many how-to demos will be included.
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Speaker: Jaqui Lynch, Information Architect, AIX & Linux® Performance Consultant, IBM Power Champion
VIO servers are the most critical part of your system setup. If they are not happy, then no client LPAR is happy. This session provides tips on setting up and maintaining VIO servers including upgrades and patching. Backup and recovery are also covered.
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Speaker: Dawn May, IBM i Consultant, and Technical Expert
Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. We all want to find ways to make our jobs easier, and unexpected surprises are not fun. The relentless push to do “more with less” is going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping. Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale.IBM i offers a free product that helps ascertain application and infrastructure health. The IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE) can be used to define attributes of a healthy environment and use those defined attributes to validate that the environment is as expected. This session covers everything you need to know about ARE, including examples such as:
Ensure a test environment is the same as production for software installed and object levels
Identify what changed to cause an unexpected application failure
Validate multiple partitions are consistent in their configurations
Verify user profiles are consistent across all partitions
Check that PTF levels are the same across all partitions for a particular release
Create custom plug-ins to extend the base ARE functionality
