From assembler to AI: Sheryl Larsen on Optimizing DB2 on the Mainframe

from IDUG Db2 Table Talk · host Julia Carter & Marcus Davage for IDUG

Sheryl Larsen, IBM Gold Consultant and Hall of Fame speaker, shares how she was “forced” from robotics and assembler into DB2 and turned it into a lifelong passion for optimizers and performance tuning. Sheryl also discusses the surprising growth of mainframe MIPS in the AI era, security driven hybrid cloud realities, and war stories from rescuing real world workloads under extreme pressure.Learn more about IDUG, the International Db2 User Group, at www.idug.org.

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