I am pre-announcing (if that’s a word) our upcoming free, hands-on IDAA training class scheduled for June 19th and 20th at the Radisson Cross Keys in Baltimore. This class is being updated to support the IDAA V7.1 (“Sailfish”) and will contain content covering the new architecture, sizing considerations for the new generation of IDAA appliances, and recommendations for organization upgrading from the Mako model IDAA’s to Sailfish.
The fine print: attendees must be IBM customers considering an IDAA purchase in 2018. While class is free (and we will treat attendees to breakfast and lunch both days), attendees are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses.
We have 20 available class seats, available on a first-come-first-served basis. Frank and I will be at IDUG next week promoting the class – if you have any questions and would like to discuss the class content, your IDAA challenges, or anything else IDAA-ish – let us know if you will be there and we will try to meet.
The registration link is here. My email is kim.may@thefillmoregroup.com – email me with any questions.
IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Training
Dates (2 days): Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19 and 20, 2018
Class Times: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Cost: Class is *free* to pre-registered attendees
Instructor: Frank Fillmore
Join us for this refreshed class that includes material specific to the latest IDAA “Sailfish” releases, including V7.1, and the M4002, aka “Maverick”. Attendees will learn how and why an IDAA can extend your System z’s processing capabilities to enable Hybrid Transaction/Analytic Processing (HTAP).
Topics:
- An introduction to the new V7.1 architecture and IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS).
- The heterogeneous accelerator environment: what works well today.
- Assessment tools to support acquisition: Workload Assessment, CVE, PoC.
- Positioning IDAA within your organization with the most valuable use case.
- Migrating from the Netezza-based IDAA to V7.1.
Lab 1: Basic IDAA Activities
– Data Studio / IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Studio GUI
– Table acceleration
– Query processing and analysis
Enhancing Value to the IDAA with the IBM Tools Ecosystem
– Assessment: What is the workload that would benefit from being accelerated?
– Optimization: How do I monitor and optimize a workload to take advantage of the Accelerator?
– Administration: Can I manage the Accelerator more effectively?
Lab 2: Advanced IDAA Exploitation
– Incremental Update: keeping accelerated data in sync with DB2 for z/OS OLTP
– Accelerator-only Tables (AoTs): intermediate tables and ETL processing
