I am an IBM Champion with more than 39 years of experience in MVS, OS/390, and z/OS environments – 37 of those in Db2. I specialize in installation, migration, and SQL performance monitoring and tuning. I lead the SEG development team responsible for the real-time database maintenance solution (RTDX). I am also an active IDUG speaker and I write two monthly blogs one is a Db2 z/OS Newsletter and the other is an APAR Update list.