Our mission is to improve member's effectiveness with a focus on DB2 on all platforms and all aspects of its interactions with the Enterprise Information Environment. We:
- Sponsor sessions presented by members, IBM personnel, and industry experts
- Sponsor working committees
- Foster a strong working relationship with the IBM development teams which ensures their participation in SHARE
- Coordinate session content with other projects so that members maximize their SHARE visit
- Gather and prioritize member requirements against our products and forward these requirements to IBM
- Increase the ability of members to effectively use DB2 on all supported platforms
- Provide members insight into strategic industry concerns and approaches to meeting them
- Communicate member's tactical and strategic concerns to SHARE and IBM
- Assist IBM in improving future products and refining current products
Project News
SHARE Tampa, February 11 - 16, 2007
There was a great collection of sessions concentrating on DB2 Version 8 and introducing DB2 9. All of these sessions were well received and had excellent technical content. There were sessions on planning for migration to Version 8, Stored Procedures, Point-In-Time Recovery, synergy with WLM, as well as several introductory sessions. We were deligated to have Bonnie Baker present two sessions for us.
There were many excellent speakers present including:
Roger Miller, IBM
Willie Favero, IBM
Craig Mullins, NEON Enterprise Software
Bonnie Baker, Bonnie Baker Corp
Peggy Zagelow, IBM
Danny Arnold, IBM
DB2 Project Web Links
These are selected sites on the World Wide Web that we believe will be of interest to those interested in DB2:
DB2 Family
DB2 UDB for z/OS
Redbooks
Project Officers
The following volunteers are responsible for coordinating the activities of the DB2 Project. If you wish to contact any of these individuals click on the mailto link in the list below and you will be presented with a web page on which you can compose a short e-mail note.
| Richard Marquis |
Project Manager |
University of Florida |
| Lou Lane |
Deputy Project Manager |
Hewitt Associates, LLC |
| Lisa Bates |
Project Officer |
Rocket Software, Inc. |
| Marv Freeling |
Project Officer |
County of Alameda, California |
| Willie Favero |
IBM Representative |
IBM |
| Catherine Cox |
IBM Representative |
IBM |
| John Kelley |
IBM Representative |
IBM |
| Lee Siegmund |
IBM Representative |
IBM |