ROLLING OUT A DISTRIBUTED DATA WAREHOUSE ARCHITECTURE
Xerox's Global Data Warehouse(GDW) establishes an integrated environment in support of enterprisewide business process reengineering, decision support, application development, and legacy retirement. It consists of centralized warehouse hub, with data marts in a client-server and OLAP environment, serving Xerox's DSS and operational data store needs. Now Xerox is taking the next step toward a global, multi-tier distributed architecture. This presentation will discuss Xerox's evolving data warehouse architecture, with a focus on the challenges involved in administration, data quality, data stewardship, and information access.

DB2/MVS VERSION 4 - A SHARED EXPERIENCE
The Toronto Dominion Bank has recently rolled out DB2/MVS Version 4 into a parallel sysplex data sharing environment on their production system. This presentation will cover the Bank's exploitation of DB2 Version 4 and will include benchmark results for some of the new features. Also covered will be some of the How-To's and Gotcha's of DB2 Version 4 Data Sharing.

BACKUP AND RECOVERY IN DB2 COMMON SERVER V2
The ability to recover an organization's data in the event of a disaster is a key consideration of an operational system. This presentation will cover the planning and execution of a backup and recovery strategy for DB2 Common Server Version 2. It will include performance considerations and examples of backup and recovery scenarios.

DB2 COMMON SERVER EXTENDERS
DB2 Common Server provides support for data extensibililty via SQL3 functionality such as triggers, large object support, user defined datatypes and user defined functions. This presentation will explain these concepts, and will expand on how the relational extenders provide seamless extensions to the SQL language, enabling users to incorporate non-traditional data with their relational data stores. It will also include examples, and customer experiences in the use of these extenders.