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From assembler to AI: Sheryl Larsen on Optimizing DB2 on the Mainframe
IDUG Db2 Table Talk
IDUG Db2 Table Talk
From assembler to AI: Sheryl Larsen on Optimizing DB2 on the Mainframe
May 17, 2026
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.
