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IBM IMS Technical SymposiumMarch, 17-20,2014
Dorint Pallas Hotel, Wiesbaden, Germany
What’s Inside
Welcome to Wiesbaden 3
Conference at a Glance 8
Sessions 10 - 18
Customer Speakers 25
IBM Speakers 26
Exhibitors and Sponsors, Expo Hours 35
Hotel 41
How to Download 42
Welcome to Wiesbaden!
It is my honor and pleasure to welcome you all to the IBM IMS Technical Symposium in Wiesbaden, Germany. I am very happy not only to join the IMS organization but also to have this opportunity to begin my time as IMS Director meeting with key IMS clients like you.
I have strong roots with IBM System z, and early in my career I did Assembler Language program for IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). Technologically, we speak the same language.
Over the next 4 days, I am looking forward to meeting with you and working with our worldwide IMS team as they bring you the most up-to-date news on IMS Database, IMS Transaction Manager, IMS Tools, our integration successes, our strategic direction, and more. The IMS Ecosystem continues to grow, and at this Symposium we have more to share with you in terms of integration, education, and client presentations. Our agenda this year covers even more territory, and as usual, we are bringing you the best subject matter experts and your favorite IMS speakers.
I will be giving the opening keynote, and like you, I am looking forward to the keynotes to be delivered by Betty Patterson, Chief IMS Architect, Tom Ramey, IMS Tools Director, Nick Griffin, IMS Sales Advisory, and Mark Simmonds, IBM Big Data and System z evangelist. At the Expo, you’ll be able to see the latest solutions for IMS, including demos from our technical experts from IMS Tools, Guardium, Rocket, and Fundi, as well as options for IMS Education.
I thank you all for joining us at this important event and look forward to meeting with you and learning how IMS makes a difference to you and your business. If there is anything I or the worldwide IMS team can do to make this conference more valuable to you, please let any of us know.
When I was named IMS Director just a few weeks ago, I was told that IMS is more than a software product: It’s a Family. I look forward to spending this valuable time with the IMS Family in Germany.
Thank you, and Vielen Dank!
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Conference at a Glance
9:00 to 12:30
Arrivals /Hotel Check-in
11:30Symposium Registration
Lunch
13:30 Introduction and WelcomeThomas Esser, IBM
Henry Kiesslich, KIESSLICH CONSULTINGLondon/Paris
14:00 Keynote 1: IMS Trends and Directions K01 – Barry Baker, IMS Director
London/Paris
14:45 Keynote 2: IMS 45 Years StrongK02 - Betty Patterson, IMS DE, IMS Chief Architect
London/Paris
15:30 BREAK
16:00 A01Improving IMS Performance via Dynamic Tuning of Buffer Pools and Subpools
Janet LeBlanc, IBM
B01Fiducia: Driving Efficiencies with IMS
Pascal Meyer, Fiducia
C01IMS Regions 101 – Part 1
Deepak Kohli, IBM
16:45 BREAK + EXPO OPENS
17:15 –18:45
A02Customer Advisory Council 1IMS Tools ModernizationJanet LeBlanc, IBM
B02Customer Advisory Council 2Mobile + IMS
Kyle Charlet, IBM
C02Customer Advisory Council 3IMS + AnalyticsIDAADeepak Kohli, IBM
18:15 Expo Continuesfollowed by
Buffet Dinner @ EXPO Hall
Axx Sessions – Room: Brussel
Cxx Sessions – Room: ParisBxx Sessions – Room: London
Monday, March 17
9:00 Keynote 3: IMS Tools Trends and Directions K03 – Tom Ramey, IMS Tools Director
Nick Griffin, IMS Sales Advisor London/Paris
9:45 BREAK
10:15 A03Best Practices for Implementing the IMS Catalog
Alison Coughtrie, IBM
B03IMS Regions 101 – Part 2
Deepak Kohli, IBM
C03IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions (Repeats Thurs B15)
Andy Nguyen, IBM
11:00 BREAK
11:30 A04Controlling Access to IMS Databases
Christian Koeppen, PECK Software
B04OTMA for 100K
Jack Yuan, IBM
C04IMS Enterprise Suite A to Z
Evgeni Liakhovich, IBM
12:30 Lunch EXPO
13:30 A05Up and Running on IMS in Record Time
John Butterweck, IBM
B05What’s New with IMS Open Database
Richard Tran, IBM
C05Modernize IMS Apps with Analytics(Repeats Weds C11)
Helene Lyon, IBM
14:15 BREAK
14:45 A06Backup and Recovery Strategies in Today’s World
Ron Bisceglia, Rocket
B06 Isolate Your Distr. Java Appl Testing(Repeats Weds A12)
Isabelle Bruneel, IBMThomas Esser, IBM
C06Reducing Planned Outages(Repeats Weds A13)
Greg Vance, IBM
15:30 BREAK
16:00 A07Are Your Traditional Analysis Tools Overwhelmed Trying to Support Big Data?
Jim Martin, Fundi
B07What’s New with OTMA Clients
Steve Nathan, IBM
C07The zEC12 - An Updated Technical Overview
Walter Klaey, IBM
16:45 BREAK + EXPO OPENS
17:15 A08How a Company in the Healthcare Industry was Able to Improve Access to Data Through Cloning
Ron Bisceglia, Rocket
B08The Momentum Driving the IMS Future
Kyle Charlet, IBM
C08IMS Admin. Console: Simplicity Delivered(Repeats Weds B12)
Chris Holtz, IBM
18:15 EXPO ContinuesLite appetizers and drinks @ Restaurant
Dinner on your own
Tuesday, March 18
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Wednesday, March 19 - Architects Day9:00 Keynote 4: Optimized Strategies for Implementing Big Data
with IMS K04 – Mark Simmonds, IBM and Richard Tran, IBM
London/Paris
9:45 BREAK
10:15 A09Accelerating IMS with DataPower
Shy-Mei Ho, IBM
B09Automated Regression Testing IMS SOA Applications
Joe Owens, Standard Life
C09Standard access to IMS data assets from COBOL using SQL(Repeats Thurs A16)
Haley Fung, IBM
11:00 BREAK
11:30 A10Worlds Together: IMS and .NET
Evgeni Liakhovich, IBM
B10IMS Solutions for the Mobile Revolution
Helene Lyon, IBM
C10JAVA-driven SQL Access To IMSDB – Our Experiences
Robert Recknagel, Master’s Student @ Univ. Leipzig
12:30 Lunch at Hotel RestaurantEXPO
13:30 A11Rational Tooling + IMS: A Powerful IT Combination
Scott Davis, IBMEvg. Liakhovich, IBM
B11IMS Data Security and Protection on System z: Are you ready for the next audit?
Marilene Roder, IBM
C11Modernize IMS Apps with Analytics(Repeats Tues C05)
Helene Lyon, IBM
14:15 BREAK
14:45 A12Isolate Your Distributed Java Application Testing(Repeats Tues B06)
Isabelle Bruneel, IBMThomas Esser, IBM
B12 IMS Administration Console: Simplicity Delivered(Repeats Tues C08)
Chris Holtz, IBM
C12IMS Java Devt on System z Best Practices(Repeats today A14)
Richard Tran, IBM
15:30 BREAK
16:00 A13Reducing Planned Outages(Repeats Tues C06)
Greg Vance, IBM
B13Integration solution: Instant access to Web Services intoIMS applications
Jeff Maury, SYSPERTEC
C13Efficiently Accessing WebSphere MQ Messages from an IMS Application Using the MQ API
Steve Nathan, IBM
16:45 BREAK + EXPO OPENS
17:15 A14IMS Java Devt on System z Best Practices(Repeats today C12)
Richard Tran, IBM
B14Are You Afraid of your IMS Systems?
James Martin, Fundi
C14Integration and Modernization Solutions for IMS
Shyh-Mei Ho, IBM
18:15 EXPO Continues19:00 Dinner and Networking Event
7:00 to 12:00 pm
8:30 CAC Results (start @ 8:30)Coffee
EXPO – Raffle and Prize Giveaway (@ 09:15)
9:45 BREAK
10:15 A15What's New with Tivoli Omegamon for IMS -Have a look into our New OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite !
Klaus Schunk, IBM
B15IMS in a SysplexEnvironment: Challenges and Solutions(Repeats Tues C03)
Andy Nguyen, IMS
C15Migrating to IMS 13? Your Maintenance, Installation & Migration Readiness Check!
John Butterweck, IBM
11:00 BREAK
11:30 A16Standard access to IMS data assets from COBOL using SQL(Repeats Weds C09)
Haley Fung, IBM
B16New Opportunities for IMS Education
Helene Lyon, IBM
C16TCP/IP Network Connectivity for ISC Connections
Jack Yuan, IMS
12:30 Closing SessionLunch
Closing EXPO
13:30
GSE MeetingIMS Systemverwalter
17:00 GSE Meeting
Thursday, March 20
Conference at a Glance
Axx Sessions – Room: Brussel
Cxx Sessions – Room: ParisBxx Sessions – Room: London
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14:00 Keynote IMS: The Original No SQL Big Data Engine Barry Baker, IBM IMS celebrates 45 years of innovation and a new release. IMS 13 achieves unprecedented levels of performance, staking claim as a cornerstone for contemporary IT enterprises worldwide. The new IMS Director Barry Baker will highlight the significance of IMS’s impact on the world of enterprise software, and share his vision for IMS with you: a vision that connects IMS with big data, cloud, analytics, and more.
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14:45 Keynote 45 Years Strong: IMS Introduces Its Most Innovative Release Betty Patterson, IBMWelcome to IMS 13! Betty Patterson, Chief IMS Architect, will walk you through the spectrum of technical enhancements for IMS Database, Transaction Manager, System Services, and Connectivity delivered with IMS 13. Whether your business focus is reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), taking advantage of IMS open access capabilities to support growth, reducing outages, improving connectivity, all of which are made even simpler in this release, you are sure to find a ton of useful information to ignite the spark for your migration plans.
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16:00 Admin Improving IMS Performance via Dynamic Tuning of Buffer Pools and SubpoolsJanet LeBlanc, IBMTuning Buffer pools is done to improve overall system performance. The net result can be dramatic application performance improvements without any IMS application changes. In today's high availability mode, this valuable performance tuning was rarely performed. With IMS 12, users can now dynamically add, change, and delete VSAM and OSAM buffer pool definitions for full-function databases. The challenge is doing it right. You need to know the impact of the changes before you implement them. Accurate buffer pool tuning will assist in reducing IMS real storage and virtual storage usage without fear of impacting IMS performance. You will learn the steps needed to perform this valuable tuning technique.
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16:00 AD/DBA Fiducia: Driving Efficiencies with IMSPascal Meyer, Fiducia, Kyle Charlet, IBMFiducia AG is an IT Service Provider for cooperative banks in Southern Germany. As part of the modernization of their core banking processes, they aim to promote Java and COBOL language interoperability hosted by IMS. Fiducia has succeeded to implement this in production, and now they have embarked on a follow-on project to also include access to DB2 from the Java layer. Lead Enterprise Architect Pascal Meyer will share how Fiducia implemented the IMS interoperability solution in terms of the topology, platform, access, APIs and more. He will share results of their time-to-market, security, performance, scalability, management and more, and what their next steps in the process are.
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16:00 Admin IMS Regions 101 - Part 1Deepak Kohli, IBMIn this primer session, refresh your memory--or learn from scratch!--about each of the IMS regions: what its purpose is, its care and feeding, in which IMS systems each is used (DB/DC, DBCTL, DCCTL, Batch), and much more. IMS expert Deepak Kohli will guide you through the basics of including the CTL region, DBRC, DLISAS, MPRs, BMPs, IFP, JMPs, JBPs and IRLM. There will be Q&A, so bring your questions!
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17:15 CAC Customer Advisory Council Tools Topic Group 1Janet LeBlanc, IBMFor a number of releases, IMS Tools has delivered both Modernization and Autonomics for your DBA work environment. Looking towards the future, we plan to build on and continue this work. This CAC session focuses on three key areas: Modernizing the DBA work environment, modernizing applications, and modernizing the use of IMS. Attend this session to influence the future direction of IMS modernization!
Monday March 17
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17:15 CAC Customer Advisory Council: Mobile - Group 2 Kyle Charlet, Laura Hunsinger, Sofilina Wilhite , IBMIMS is building a robust mobile platform capable of enabling REST/JSON access to both IMS transactions as well as IMS data. The platform includes rich tooling that will discover, model, enable, and deploy services quickly and easily. Attend this session to learn more about it and influence the future direction.
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17:15 CAC Customer Advisory Council IDAA - Group 3Deepak Kohli, Laura Hunsinger, Sofilina Wilhite, IBMThe value of IDAA is clear...and IMS would like to capitalize on the mission to bring analytics to the data instead of bringing the data to the analytics. Attend this session to hear about the various options we have and share your thoughts and opinions.
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9:00 Keynote IMS Tools KeynoteTom Ramey & Nick Griffin, IBMIMS Tools optimize data across your enterprise and deliver the reliability and affordability you need to help increase the value of your IMS environment. This keynote brings together the IMS Tools Director Tom Ramey, and IMS Tools Sales Advisor Nick Griffin, who will pool their expertise to bring you up to date on IMS Tools Trends, Directions, Strategy, and more. This session will cover the latest directions and updates for all of the IBM IMS Tools. You will learn how IBM IMS Tools can help prepare your business for future forces that are required for growth in this global economy.
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10:15 AD/DBA Best Practices for Implementing the IMS CatalogAlison Coughtrie, IBMThe IMS Catalog has been generally available for almost 2 years already, and more features rely on its existence: Database Versioning, IMS Native SQL support for COBOL and. Net access to IMS data to name but a few! This session will provide an overview of the Catalog and things to consider when implementing it, such as whether to register it with DBRC or not, whether to update it in batch or online, how to configure it in a datasharing environment and how to manage it generally. The topic is designed to help you get the Catalog up and running as soon as possible and not get left behind!
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10:15 Admin IMS Regions 101 - Part 2Deepak Kohli, IBMIn Part 2 of this primer session, IMS expert Deepak Kohli will guide you through the basics of the IMS Connect, CQS, IMS CSL address spaces and more. Other topics covered include IMS features such as MSC and ISC. There will be Q&A, so bring your questions!
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10:15 Admin IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions (1/2)Andy Nguyen, IBMIMS coupled with Sysplex technologies can greatly improve IMS's scalability, availability, and performance. However, running IMS in a Sysplex environment brings some configurational and operational challenges. CF structures and SQ monitoring, transaction affinity management, long lock detection, buffer overflow protection, and RM structure management are tasks that IMS administrators have not dealt with before. Come and learn how to effectively cope with these challenges with IMS Sysplex Manager.
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11:30 AD/DBA Controlling Access to IMS DatabasesChristian Koeppen, PECKIMS Data is one of your most valuable assets. As the nature of IT and Enterprise Architecture becomes more 'open' the need to restrict access to specific database records becomes more critical. In this session, Christian Koeppen from PECK Software will show how you can ensure that your database records are secure by permitting only specified users to access them.
Tuesday March 18
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11:30 Admin OTMA for 100K Jack Yuan, IBMOTMA played a key role in the IMS 13 100,000 TPS benchmark. In this session, Jack Yuan will share details about the role of OTMA in the 100K achievement. Jack will also cover additional new OTMA functions for early termination notification, enhanced flood control, improved callable interface, callout, and MQ destination descriptors.
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11:30 AD/DBA IMS Enterprise Suite A to ZEvgeni Liakhovich, IBMThe IMS Enterprise Suite helps IMS clients extend the life of their valuable IMS assets by providing integration solutions, enabling application modernization, and simplifying open access. In this session Evgeni Liakhovich will review all elements of the IMS Enterprise Suite and highlight the new features and functions, including IMS Explorer for Development and IMS Data Provider for .NET.
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13:30 Admin Up and Running on IMS in Record TimeJohn Butterweck, IBMWhen you think about getting up and running on IMS, do you first think of IVP, or the installation verification program? Do you know that there is a whole set of applications that can speed the process of getting your IMS up and running, and that over the last few releases of IMS, they have been significantly simplified? Join John Butterweck, IMS IVP expert as he uses the IVP framework to educate you on the additional TSO applications of Syntax Checker, SPOC (single point of control), and Dynamic Resource Definition UI. Each of these applications will be highlighted, and John will lead a Q&A session to help you plan for your next IMS migration.
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13:30 AD/DBA What's New With IMS Open DatabaseRichard Tran, IBMIMS Open Database gets better with each release. As IMS integration points expand, your business growth capabilities also expand. IMS Open Database allows you to make IMS data available to any platform or application across your enterprise, including providing direct SQL access to your IMS Data. Richard Tran will bring you up-to-date on the lastest enhancements to IMS Open Database, including how it leverages IMS Catalog.
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13:30 ARCH Modernize IMS Apps with Analytics (1/2)Helene Lyon, IBMWhen you turn your IMS applications into a service requester you really open a new universe of possibility for your company businesses. In this session, IBM IMS Distinguished Engineer Helene Lyon will show you the ways in which you can bring business analytics to the System z platform in order to extend value of your IMS critical business applications.
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14:45 Admin Backup and Recovery Strategies in Today’s WorldRon Bisceglia, RocketIt is fortunate that IMS database recovery is not a common occurrence. As a result, recovery procedures are seldom practiced, the need to recover or back out to a specific event is often unique, and the skills to perform complex recoveries are diminishing. Many companies try to overcompensate for this by creating more backups than are needed, which can be a costly practice. In this session you will learn various backup methods, how leveraging new technologies can reduce costs in creating these backups, and how they can reduce the time to recover. You’ll learn how to better manage recovery time objectives (RTO) as well as gain an understanding of how to reduce the costs associated with achieving them.
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14:45 ARCH Isolate Your Distributed Java Application Testing (1/2)Isabelle Bruneel & Thomas Esser, IBMCustomers today often create specific IMS environments in which to test their new distributed Java applications. This allows them to keep their normal online processes undisturbed. Historically, the Batch Terminal Simulator provides the function to create isolated IMS environments, using no online resources. BTS can also be used with distributed Java programs through its Resource Adapter. In this session, Isabelle Bruneel and Thomas Esser share how a specific IMS Customer has successfully leveraged BTS in such a scenario.
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14:45 Admin Reducing Planned Outages (1/2)Greg Vance, IBMPlanned outages, whether at an IMS level or an application level, can impact yourend users, and thus your business. Reducing planned outages increases availability of IMS and customer satisfaction. In this session, IMS STSM Greg Vance describes some of the features and functions of IMS that can reduce or eliminate some of these outages. He will discuss features that have been in the market for some time now, and he will highlight features that are current and perhaps new to you. Greg will also discuss new functions that may help you plan for your own future system enhancements.
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16:00 Admin Are Your Traditional Analysis Tools Overwhelmed Trying to Support Big Data?Jim Martin, FundiMany customers execute over 500 million transactions a day in their enterprise. The instrumentation data created easily qualifies as big data. The log, SMF, trace and other instrumentation needed to analyze modern transactions can overwhelm traditional tools. The session explains an IBM tool that can help reduce processing of instrumentation big data. The exception processing feature crawls the instrumentation data looking for transactions that exceeded exception criteria. Once identified, the tool enables transaction lifecycle analysis using IMS, CICS, DB2, WebSphere MQ, SMF, and Operlog data. Automate data gathering, enhance collaboration, reduce time to fix, and train the next generation of support personnel.
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16:00 Admin What's New With OTMA ClientsSteve Nathan, IBMJack Yuan has brought you up to date with the latest OTMA news. Steve picks up where Jack left off, continuing with detailed information about OTMA Clients with IMS 13: IMS Connect and WebSphere MQ. Steve will cover enhancements to IMS Connect Clients - RYO, IMS TMRA and Datapower.
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16:00 AD/DBA The zEC12 - An Updated Technical OverviewWalter Klaey, IBMIMS is IBM's High End Transaction Manager and Database System. But what is the underlaying CPU technology allowing such high transaction rates? IMS and the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) platform are a perfect pair. Walter Klaey will update you with the features and possibilities of the zEC12 and how your IMS workload can benefit from this System z hardware.
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17:15 Admin How a Company in the Healthcare Industry was Able to Improve Access to Data Through CloningRon Bisceglia, RocketProviding access to data needed by business-critical applications is a problem many businesses are challenged with. This problem is becoming more and more difficult to address with the growth in the amount of data businesses maintain and the underlying need to mine business data better in order to maintain or improve competitiveness. You will hear from a customer whom has made use of cloning technology, available through IBM tooling, that has allowed them to deliver the data to the applications that need it, efficiently, securely, and without sacrificing data availability.
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17:15 The Momentum Driving the IMS Future Kyle Charlet, IBMThe momentum behind the evolution and modernization of IMS continues. The IT horizon is always in focus for IMS, and the targets we set for improving IMS are shaped by our client partners. In this session, you will learn how IMS intends to support, leverage, and exploit several strategic initiatives, including Cloud (BlueMix), Mobile, IBM's Analytics strategies for System z, including IDAA (why bring data to the analytics when you can bring analytics straight to the data?), IMS as a GEN-less system, NoSQL, and much more.
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17:15 IMS Administration Console: Simplicity Delivered (1/2)Christopher Holtz, IBMIMS Administration has changed very little over the past 40 years. The consistent introduction of new tools makes specific tasks easier and faster to perform, but when and how should you use which tool? And how do you consolidate data from multiple tools to get a comprehensive view of the health of your IMS systems? The IMS Administration Console 1.4 is a no-charge web based platform that offers a holistic view of the IMS enterprise. Integration with a growing set of tools as well as the IMS engine allows it to synthesize many sources of distinct information into a unified holistic view of your IMS systems from a standard browser. Join Chris Holtz to get an up-close view of how the IMS Administration Console can bring simplicity to your daily admin tasks.
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9:00 Keynote Optimized Strategies for Implementing Big Data with IMS Mark Simmonds & Richard Tran, IBMWith volumes of data growing exponentially big data remains at the top of the CIO's agenda While 80% of data might be unstructured most enterprises' core business data resides in multi-terabyte databases like DB2 for z/OS and hence System z has become pivotal to the success of big data. Its ability to scale to meet unexpected workloads, protect and govern data like no other platform, record breaking database performance, productive tools, predictive analytics and accelerators make it the logical place to start your successful big data projects. Attend this session learn what industry analysts are saying about how customers are using big data, and how IMS is leveraging and integrating with other big data technologies, helping to further lower risks and costs for businesses.
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10:15 ARCH Accelerating IMS with DataPowerShyh-Mei Ho, IBMDriven by popular demand and client enthusiasm, DataPower opens up new possibilities as the IBM's strategic Integration and Security gateway to your enterprise assets. In this session, IMS On Demand Architect Shyh-Mei Ho will show you how to maximize your IT investment and gain a competitive advantage by implementing DataPower with your proven IMS enterprise assets. This session highlights the robust integration capabilities between IMS and DataPower appliances, including detailed installation, configuration and customization for IMS synchronous callout requests. Learn how you can leverage your IT resources to better respond to emerging strategic initiatives!
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10:15 Cust Automated Regression Testing IMS SOA ApplicationsJoe Owens, Standard LifeJoe will discuss how Standard Life make use of their flash copy mainframe systems to replay their production SOA transaction workload, including functional testing, stress testing and performance comparisons. He will explain how this is done without creation or maintenance of testing scripts or test data cases or even application knowledge, and how this has been integrated into testing of mainframe software updates for z/OS, MQ, DB2 and of course IMS.
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10:15 AD/DBA Standard access to IMS data assets from COBOL using SQL (1/2)Haley Fung, IBMFor clients with a large base of COBOL applications, the need to implement standards-based access is key to a fluid modernization. They have a business need to write or modify IMS COBOL applications to access IMS data using SQL in addition to Java. They are hiring specialists who come to the table with SQL skills without requiring in-depth IMS database knowledge. For these reasons and more, they need a consolidated native SQL engine as the foundation for existing and future client exploitation.
Wednesday March 19
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10:15 AD/DBA Worlds Together: IMS and .NETEvgeni Liakhovich, IBMMost databases on the market can be easily accessed from the popular .NET platform. However, until today, IMS customers who needed to access IMS data from .NET applications were mostly out of luck. In the newest release of IMS Enterprise Suite, we introduce .NET Data Provider for IMS Database. This solution provides standards-based SQL access to IMS data from .NET in a simple, fast, well-proven way. It simplifies development of .NET applications (e.g. C#, Visual Basic) accessing IMS to read/store IMS data, while eliminating the need for intermediate steps and expensive tools for access to IMS databases.
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11:30 ARCH IMS Solutions for the Mobile RevolutionHelene Lyon, IBMThe evolution of IMS throughout its 45 years makes it a perfect partner in the current Mobile Revolution. IMS clients worldwide have had successfully implemented mobile solutions for more than a decade. In leveraging their IMS infrastructure and its integration capabilities, IMS clients extend the business value of their existing IMS apps and databases, have a fast time-to-market, and reduce the TCO for their Mobile infrastructure. Helene Lyon will share real-world solutions from IMS clients.
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11:30 ARCH JAVA driven SQL Access To IMSDB – Our ExperiencesRobert Recknagel, University LeipzigIn this session Robert will present his experience during a project onsite a customer shop. He will tell us, what you should know about JAVA-driven applications accessing and modifying IMS data from distributed RTEs as well as running code in JAVA dependent regions including all necessary steps for SETUP the way down to successful running applications. Furthermore Robert will give an account of pitfalls and obstacles on this way.
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13:30 ARCH Rational Tooling + IMS: A Powerful IT CombinationScott Davis & Evgeni Liakhovich, IBMFor 45 years, IMS has been moving forward to set the standard for DBMS excellence. Similarly, the IBM Rational Portfolio evolves to deliver Application Development tooling for both the System z and IMS environments. Rational's evolving solutions are based on the newest technologies and concepts like Eclipse, Jazz, and Continuous Integration. Rational Developer for the Enterprise and Collaborative Lifecycle Management can provide critical tooling to IMS clients. In this session, Scott Davis presents the newest offerings from the zRational tooling and shows how they can help you get more value from your IMS investment.
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13:30 AD/DBA IMS Data Security and Protection on System z: Are you ready for the next audit? Marilene Roder, IBMAre your compliance and security organizations constantly challenging you with a continuing onslaught of requirements to demonstrate how you protect and monitor your data on z/OS? Are your Database and Systems administrators involved in the auditing reporting process? And are they in essence monitoring themselves? This presentation will discuss how IBM® InfoSphere® Guardium® provides a comprehensive data activity monitoring and compliance solution with solid mainframe support for the IMS environment. You will also learn how to position RACF and Infosphere Guardium in terms of security and regulatory compliance on System z. In this presentation we demonstrate the IMS Explorer for Development and the IBM Tools Base Administration Console for z/OS to generate DLI calls and IMS commands and show how InfoSphere Guardium captures this activity in reports and alerts.
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13:30 AD/DBA Modernize IMS Apps with Analytics (2/2)Helene Lyon, IBMWhen you turn your IMS applications into a service requester you really open a new universe of possibility for your company businesses. In this session, IBM IMS Distinguished Engineer Helene Lyon will show you the ways in which you can bring business analytics to the System z platform in order to extend value of your IMS critical business applications.
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14:45 ARCH Isolate Your Distributed Java Application Testing (2/2)Isabelle Bruneel & Thomas Esser, IBMCustomers today often create specific IMS environments in which to test their new distributed Java applications. This allows them to keep their normal online processes undisturbed. Historically, the Batch Terminal Simulator provides the function to create isolated IMS environments, using no online resources. BTS can also be used with distributed Java programs through its Resource Adapter. In this session, Isabelle Bruneel and Thomas Esser share how a specific IMS Customer has successfully leveraged BTS in such a scenario.
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14:45 Admin IMS Administration Console: Simplicity Delivered (2/2)Christopher Holtz, IBMIMS Administration has changed very little over the past 40 years. The consistent introduction of new tools makes specific tasks easier and faster to perform, but when and how should you use which tool? And how do you consolidate data from multiple tools to get a comprehensive view of the health of your IMS systems? The IMS Administration Console 1.4 is a no-charge web based platform that offers a holistic view of the IMS enterprise. Integration with a growing set of tools as well as the IMS engine allows it to synthesize many sources of distinct information into a unified holistic view of your IMS systems from a standard browser. Join Chris Holtz to get an up-close view of how the IMS Administration Console can bring simplicity to your daily admin tasks.
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14:45 AD/DBA IMS Java Development on System z Best Practices (1/2)Richard Tran, IBMNavigating your way through your enterprise architecture can sometimes feel like orienteering. You have System z, you have distributed; you have apps here, apps there, data here, there and everywhere. Java development skills are strategic to your company. In this session, you will learn how to take advantage of open access capabilities in IBM IMS. Your new Java apps can directly access IMS data with universal drivers saving your company time and money. Not familiar with z/OS? No problem! New open standards including SQL mean youre productive from Day 1. DBAs will get tools and techniques that will keep IMS availability in the 5 9s and performance in the stratosphere (naturally!).
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16:00 Reducing Planned Outages (2/2)Greg Vance, IBM Planned outages, whether at an IMS level or an application level, can impact yourend users, and thus your business. Reducing planned outages increases availability of IMS and customer satisfaction. In this session, IMS STSM Greg Vance describes some of the features and functions of IMS that can reduce or eliminate some of these outages. He will discuss features that have been in the market for some time now, and he will highlight features that are current and perhaps new to you. Greg will also discuss new functions that may help you plan for your own future system enhancements.
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16:00 Admin Integration solution: Instant access to Web Services into IMS applicationsJeff Maury, SYSPERTEC Integrating Web services into your IMS applications has always been a challenge. Several technical challenges must be addressed. Discover how VIRTEL and OMTA play nicely together, address these challenges and allow customers to focus on business. Virtel, a mainframe modernization middleware enables IBM IMS applications to interact more easily with the web. It allows any IMS application to call a remote Web service through a simple ICAL call (IMS standard). The web service call is seen as a simple function call, the data is manipulated in the original language of the IMS application (COBOL, ...), format conversion and management of the protocol is performed by Virtel. All necessary information is generated by Virtel Studio from the Web service description which allows rapid implementation and maintenance.
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16:00 ARCH Efficiently Accessing WebSphere MQ Messages from an IMS Application Using the MQ APISteve Nathan, IBMIMS applications can access WebSphere MQ messages in two ways: using the Websphere MQ API or the MQ IMS Bridge, which is an IMS OTMA interface. In this session, Steve Nathan will share his expertise on the WebSphere MQ API. There is a lot more to this API than has been documented! You will learn the different ways in which the WebSphere MQ API can be used by IMS applications, as well as the performance and integrity implications of each. Steve will also compare this solution to the MQ IMS Bridge.
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17:15 AD/DBA IMS Java Development on System z Best Practices (2/2)Richard Tran, IBMNavigating your way through your enterprise architecture can sometimes feel like orienteering. You have System z, you have distributed; you have apps here, apps there, data here, there and everywhere. Java development skills are strategic to your company. In this session, you will learn how to take advantage of open access capabilities in IBM IMS. Your new Java apps can directly access IMS data with universal drivers saving your company time and money. Not familiar with z/OS? No problem! New open standards including SQL mean youre productive from Day 1. DBAs will get tools and techniques that will keep IMS availability in the 5 9s and performance in the stratosphere (naturally!).
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17:15 Admin Are You Afraid of your IMS Systems? James Martin, FundiWith so many things controlling your IMS systems, it can be frightening to make changes to parameter members, resource definitions, and more. The IMS Configuration Manager can remove much of the risk associated with making these changes. You can easily manage your IMS systems, including IMS Connect and all supporting IMS regions, across multiple IMSPLEXes. With ICM, you can add new features, change existing ones, or understand the options that are available for your current systems. See how the Auto Discovery feature and SYSPLEX-wide compare capabilities ensure that your changes have the highest potential for success. Simplify your approach to managing IMS Resource definitions and easily deploy changes with IMS Configuration Manager!
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17:15 AD/DBA Integration and Modernization Solutions for IMSShyh-Mei Ho, IBMIn this session, IMS On Demand Architect Shyh-Mei Ho shows how IMS is key to the integration of your enterprise architecture; how it supports open integration technologies both within and beyond enterprise boundaries. This session brings you up to speed on the robust integration capabilities with IBM's strategic solutions, plus cross-brand initiatives, including Clouds, and Mobile. You will learn how you can leverage your IT resources to better respond to emerging strategic initiatives!
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10:15 Admin What's New with Tivoli Omegamon for IMS - Have a look into our New OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite !Klaus Schunk, IBMIMS clients rely on IBM Tivoli Omegamon for IMS to proactively monitor the performance and availability of their mission-critical IMS databases. In this session you will learn about recent enhancements to Omegamon that provide clients with single point of control in Parallel Sysplex environments, enhanced monitoring of IMS Connect TCP/IP transaction requests, HALDB databases, real-time DBCTL thread activity and about the new OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite.
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10:15 Admin IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions (2)Andy Nguyen, IBMIMS coupled with Sysplex technologies can greatly improve IMS's scalability, availability, and performance. However, running IMS in a Sysplex environment brings some configurational and operational challenges. CF structures and SQ monitoring, transaction affinity management, long lock detection, buffer overflow protection, and RM structure management are tasks that IMS administrators have not dealt with before. Come and learn how to effectively cope with these challenges with IMS Sysplex Manager.
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10:15 Admin Migrating to IMS 13? This is your Maintenance, Installation and Migration Readiness Check! John Butterweck, IBMAre you in a position to accommodate change to your IMS environment? Has your enterprise architect recently come to you and ask whether IMS catalog was implemented? If you are an IMS system programmer, this important session will help you proactively avoid known problems, quickly resolve any problems you might encounter and get you prepared for a smooth migration to IMS 13. This session will also highlight installation and packaging changes for both IMS 12 and IMS 13, new considerations for DBRC users, and lots of tips and hints to make your migration as seamless and worry-free as possible.
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11:30 AD/DBA Standard access to IMS data assets from COBOL using SQL (2)Haley Fung, IBMFor clients with a large base of COBOL applications, the need to implement standards-based access is key to a fluid modernization. They have a business need to write or modify IMS COBOL applications to access IMS data using SQL in addition to Java. They are hiring specialists who come to the table with SQL skills without requiring in-depth IMS database knowledge. For these reasons and more, they need a consolidated native SQL engine as the foundation for existing and future client exploitation.
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11:30 Admin New Opportunities for IMS EducationARROW ECS / Interskill / Helene Lyon / KCLike the IMS product itself, the model for IMS education evolves. You may have heard of the changes IBM made recently with regard to product education. Who are the new providers? What opportunities are there to build IMS technical skills? In this moderated panel discussion, Helene Lyon will welcome several new IMS education providers, who will share with you their plans for keeping worldwide IMS technical skills razor sharp.
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11:30 Admin TCP/IP Network Connectivity for ISC ConnectionsJack Yuan, IBMCome to learn how IMS 13 enhancements support Intersystem Communication using TCP/IP protocols for both statically and dynamically terminals (ETO). We will also share how ISC uses the Structure Call Interface (SCI) of the Common Service Layer (CSL) between IMS and IMS Connect in order to leverage the existing IMS Connect TCP/IP support.
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IBM IMS100,000 reasons to move to IMS 13
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In a technological era in which the critical nature of Enterprise IT is sometimes overlooked due to the hyperbole around social messaging volumes, this mile-stone reminds us that our clients’ data, and everything it represents, is the infrastructure upon which your business is built.
A History of Leadership
April 23, 1987. IBM Santa Teresa Lab, San Jose, California. A single IMS system is benchmarked at 1012 TPS. The project, code named ONEKAY, was known only to the IMS Performance team at the lab and a few engineers across IBM who made improvements to their products so this mainframe milestone could be achieved. Why a secret? It was not supposed to happen. IMS was a 20-year old product intending to reclaim its greatness at a time when the industry was becoming enamored with enterprise relational database systems (RDBMS), this despite the fact that the benchmark for an SQL database in 1987 topped out at 208 TPS, roughly one-fifth of the IMS benchmark ...
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IMS Certification
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Thank you to Our Customer Speakers
Robert Recknagel - Master student at the University of Leipzig
Robert is a computer science student and just in the last year of his studies at the University of Leipzig. His first boundary point with the Mainframe was already five years ago in a lecture of professor Wilhelm G. Spruth. Since that Robert has visited amongst others the IBM zSummer University at the German research & development lab in Böblingen and took successfully part in the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest. With his bachelor thesis he started working on IMS. After that he has deepened his IMS skills in an internship at Schwäbisch Hall Kreditservice AG in 2013. From this time the modern ways accessing and programming IMS have become his special point of interest.
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Pascal Meyer - Application Development and Technical Architecture, Fiducia IT AG
Pascal Meyer has worked at Fiducia IT AG since 1998. His primary responsibility is infrastructure architecture. Before joining Fiducia he spent several years as a consultant for systems and network infrastructure in the banking and telecommunications sector.
Joe Owens - Senior Technician, Standard Life
Joe Owens is a senior technician at Standard Life Employee Services. His role mainly involves systems and database administration. As an old school IMS system programmer he is responsible for technical solutions like PSE for HALDB and customizing specific front end solution for CBLTDLI. Areas of technical expertise are into middleware technologies such as Websphere MQ, IMS Connect, ODBA based solutions and other IMS related things.
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IBM Speakers
Haley Fung – Senior Software Engineer, IMS SOA Technical Lead
Haley is a Senior Software Engineer. She is currently the SOA technical and development lead in IMS with over 13 years of solid experience in developing solutions for SOA, modernization, enterprise application integration and connectivity for IMS. Haley is a frequent presenter at global technical conferences. Her deep technical expertise and her passion and dedication for customer have helped many IMS customers to modernize and enhance their application infrastructures.
Shyh-Mei Ho – IBM Distinguished Engineer, IMS On Demand SOA Chief Architect
Shyh-Mei defines the strategy and architectural design, and provides IMS SOA solutions in mul-ti-component enterprise environments that span both host and distributed platforms. She initiated the creation of an industry standard which placed IBM as the first company to solve the important and difficult problem for data exchange between existing and newly-written applications in enter-prise environments. She is an IBM master inventor and has earned 40 invention achievement awards and 34 worldwide patents. Shyh-Mei has also received several IBM outstanding technical achieve-ment and corporate awards, and was honored with a 2010 YWCA of Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award (TWIN).
Deepak Kohli – Senior Software Engineer, IMS Modernization and SOA Enablement
Deepak is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley lab. Currently, he is part of the IMS Product management team helping customers modernize & SOA enable their IMS systems. Deepak also provides IMS Level 2 technical support specializing in IMS On-Demand and TM areas. He has a Masters in Computer Science from NYU. In the area of IMS, Deepak’s experience ranges in applica-tions, DBA, Systems, performance tuning and problem determination. He has taught various IMS & DB2 courses. His presentations have won him rave reviews at conferences world wide.
Evgeni Liakhovich – IMS Software Support Engineer
Evgeni Liakhovich received his Masters Degree in Computer Science at Ohio University in 2000 and started working for IBM the same year. In 2006 he joined the IMS team as a support engineer for eBusiness onDemand products. He always had great interest in IMS modernization and so in 2008 he joined IMS SOA team. He builds IMS educational material and presents at customer seminars and road shows. He is also a part-time developer, leading one of the next-gen modernization projects for IMS.
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IBM Speakers
John Butterweck - IMS Senior Software Engineer
John is a Senior IMS Software Engineer. He is currently the project leader of the team responsible for the product packaging of IMS and the IMS Enterprise Suite. He is also a developer and presenter of the IMS Installation Workshop. Prior to joining IBM worked for San Bernardino County as a Comput-er Operator, IMS application programmer, IMS DBA and System Programmer.
Kyle Charlet - IMS STSM
Kyle is a Senior Technical Staff Member who has been with IBM for over 14 years. His focus is on application and database modernization, enablement of new IMS workload using new technologies, and IMS integration. Some of the key technology areas Kyle has worked on are Open Database, the IMS catalog, JDBC, SQL, SOA, JavaEE, and Java support in IMS.
Alison Coughtrie – IT Specialist, European IMS Architecture Team
Alison, Certified IT Specialist is a member of the newly formed European IMS Architecture Team. Alison has specialized in IMS over the past 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM. She is a regular presenter at IMS conferences, GSE and seminars particularly focusing on new IMS features and their implementation.
Marilene Roder - Client Technical Advocate, InfoSphere Guardium
Marilene Roder is a Client Technical Advocate for InfoSphere Guardium where she works with key clients and Business Partners, addressing their technical challenges and questions, and helping grow Guardium business. Prior to that, Marilene spent several years in IMS, where she worked on the development and pro-ject management of the graphical IMS Explorer tools for Eclipse and Web. She also led the IMS User Group in Latin America. She started in IBM in 2000, working as a software developer in the Content Management family of products.
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Helene Lyon – IBM Distinguished Engineer, EIAT Team Leader
Helene is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Technical Executive of the European IMS Architecture team whose focus is to develop database and transaction management solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT systems in order to perform a business function. Her focus is the “right fit” positioning of the IMS database manager and transaction manager capabilities within those systems.
IBM Speakers
Scott Davis – Leading Technical Sales and Solutions Professional
Scott joined IBM’s Program Product Development Center, what today is the German Application Development Lab as a COBOL CICS developer. After several years Scott moved to the Bridge Develop-ment in IBM Information Systems. For over 8 years he developed IMS PLI applications for IBM EMEA before moving to SWG. Since then he has been responsible for System z tooling ranging through the areas of Application Integration Middleware through Websphere and lastly present in z Rational.
Sofilina Wilhite – IMS Product and Business Manager
Sofilina Wilhite (Sofi) is IMS Product/Business Manager. Sofi has over 10 years of experience in mainframe business and software development, ranging from DB2 for z/OS, DB2 and IMS Tools, InfoSphere Classic and Change Data Capture. Prior to joining IBM Software Group, Sofi started her career in IBM as a business management consultant for IBM Global Business Services.
Walter Klaey – Senior IT Specialist - European IMS Architecture Team
Walter, Senior IT Specialist, is a member of the European IMS Architecture Team. He has 24 years system programming experience in IMS and z/OS on the System z platform for various customers and within IBM. He currently working for the zStack in Alps (Austria & Switzerland) focusing on new features and workloads on System z as well as on IMS.
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Richard Tran – IMS Senior Software Engineer
Richard Tran is an advisory software engineer working as the IMS Open Database team lead. He is involved in integrating IMS with other business solutions such as Business Analytics and Reporting, Content Discovery and Web Enablement.
Greg Vance – IMS Senior Software Engineer
Greg is a Senior Software Engineer in the IMS development organization. He has worked for 24 years in the IMS organization in the database and Remote Site Recovery and DBRC areas. Most recently he was the lead architect for Infosphere IMS Replication for z/OS.
Isabelle Bruneel - Technical Sales and Solutions IMS and IMS Tools
Isabelle Bruneel is a System z middleware techsales in France focused on IMS. Her expertise is recog-nized by the IMS European eco-system around IMS Tools and IMS system. She is also managing the IMS demo center hosted in IBM Montpellier.
IBM Speakers
Nick Griffin – IBM
Nick Griffin has over 38 years of mainframe experience in Development, Systems and Database Administration for IMS, MVS, CICS/VSAM and VTAM applications. Nick has been a developer for IMS Monitoring code and managed a development group for a competitive software vendor. Nick man-aged large, complex, mission critical IMS database applications for a variety of Fortune 500 compa-nies. Most recently spent 11 years as IMS Product Manager for a large tools vendor. Nick is currently Sales Advisor for z Information Management IMS and IMS/Tools .
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Steve Nathan – IMS Senior Software Support
Steve has 39 years experience using and supporting IMS. For the first 30 years he was a customer: application programmer, application analyst, systems programmer, DBA and performance specialist. For the last 8 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.
Betty Patterson – IBM Distinguished Engineer, IMS Chief Architect
Betty Patterson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and IMS Chief Architect and is responsible for IMS architecture and design. She joined IBM as a programmer working on the development of IMS after earning her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from California State University Sacramento. Betty was named an IBM Master Inventor in 2007 and elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2009. She has a long history of leadership and innovation in driving the transformation of IMS’s capabilities, especially in the areas of system management, automation, operations, parallel sysplex and shared message queues. She led the design and development for new components and interfaces to allow multiple IMS systems running in a parallel sysplex to be managed from a single point of control.
Sandy Sherrill – IMS Worldwide Market Manager
Sandy Sherrill is the IMS Worldwide Market Manager at IBM Silicon Valley Lab. She has spent most of her IBM 25-year career in and around IMS, as an information developer, manager, release coordina-tor, Business Value Assessment Program Manager, and more. She loves to meet customers and hear their stories, find new and innovative ways to share those stories with even more people, and act as an all-around IMS Ambassador whenever she can.
IBM Speakers
Jack Yuan – IMS TM Development
Jack is a Senior Engineer who has been with IBM for over 27 years. His focus is on IMS TM, OTMA, and IMS Connect. Some of the key technology areas Jack has worked on are OTMA/APPC shared queues enablement, callable interface for IMS Connect and OTMA, IMS Connect super member support, synchronous callout, MQ bridge/OTMA connection, synchronous program switch, and IMS 100K TPS.
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Chris Holtz – IMS Tools Senior Software Engineer
Chris is a Software Engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. Chris joined IBM after receiving his MSE in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2000. After spending 8 years in IMS development, Chris currently works in IMS Tools, and is in charge of the IMS Tools GUI Modernization and Application Development Strategy.
IBM Speakers
Tom Ramey – Director, DB2 and IMS Tools
Tom is located at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory, he is responsible for the development, support, marketing and service of tools for IMS, DB2 for z/OS, and DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. Tom and his team are responsible for more than 90 tools for IMS and DB2. As the leader of this organiza-tion, he works closely with customers and business partners to provide solutions that improve their time to value with new DB2 and IMS releases, helps them manage increasingly complex environ-ments, and lowers their total cost of ownership.
Mark Simmonds – Senior Product Marketing Manager, System z Software
Mark is a senior product marketing manager within the IBM Software Group Information Manage-ment division focused on Data Governance, Master Data Management and SOA for the System z portfolio. He has 16 years IBM service having previously spent 10 years in WebSphere Product Mar-keting and 3 years as an IBM systems architect responsible for infrastructure design and corporate technical architecture with large financial institutions.
Barry Baker - Director IMS
Barry Baker was named IMS Director in February 2014. Barry started his career with IBM as an As-sembler Programmer working on TPF in Poughkeepsie. He stayed with TPF for 8 years as a software engineer, development manager, test and service manager, and product manager. He was part of the Pure Systems team in a Marketing role, and prior to his appointment as IMS Director, he was the Technical Assistant to Beth Smith, former IMS Director and now General Manager of Information Management for IBM.
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Klaus Schunk – Technical Sales Professional - IBM Tivoli
Klaus is a German Advisory Technical Sales Professional from Dusseldorf who has 30 years of expe-rience with the IBM System z at customers, ISVs and IBM. He has worked in system programming, administration, automation, monitoring and capacity planning on z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE. For over 18 years his focus has been on IBM System z System Automation and IBM System z monitoring software called IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON.
Jeff Maury - SYSPERTEC
Jeff Maury is leading the VIRTEL Studio product for SYSPERTEC. He has been working in the main-frame integration domain for 15 years.
Andy Nguyen – Advisory Software Engineer
Andy Nguyen is an advisory software engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. With 12 years of experience on the z/OS platform, Andy is the lead developer responsible for planning, designing, and developing the IMS Sysplex Manager, IMS Generic Exits, and IMS Tools Online System Inter-face. Besides owning those core components, Andy has also developed the Auto Discovery feature of Autonomics Director and contributed to the IMS Admin Console tool. Prior to joining IBM’s IMS Tools, Andy was a Level2 support specialist for the z/OS DFSMS component with a primary focus on supporting VSAM Record Level Sharing and Transactional VSAM products.
IBM Speakers
Janet LeBlanc – IMS Tools Strategist and Architect
Janet is the IMS Tools Architect/Strategist for the IMS Tools team at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. Janet is responsible for the Technical IMS Tools training, competitive analysis, and customer techni-cal sessions at conferences, road shows and on teleconferences. Janet has worked with IBM’s IMS Tools since 1999 in technical sales and development sales support. Prior to joining IBM, Janet has worked with DB Tools as a vendor and a customer, and a DBA in the defense industries. Janet has been involved on the mainframe for over 35 years and with IMS and IMS Tools for over 25 years as a customer, vendor and IBMer.
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Ron Biceglia – Lead Software Developer, Rocket Software
Ron Bisceglia is a lead software developer for Rocket Software and is based in Houston, TX, USA. He has worked with IMS for over 24 years and for the past 20 years has been involved in the design, development, and support of a range of IMS tools. He has been involved in the development of database reorganization utilities, data propagation tools, database monitoring and analysis solutions, data replication and backup and recovery products.
Jim Martin – US Representative, Fundi Software
Jim Martin is the Unites States representative for Fundi Software Ltd of Perth, Australia and the Chief Architect for IMS Connect Extensions. Jim has been working with IMS since approximately 1971. He started his career with IBM in 1967 and worked as a Program Support Representative, Systems Engineer and member of the IMS Critical situation team at the systems center in Dallas, Texas. He left IBM to join BMC Software of Houston, Texas as a product author and was later promoted to the role of Corporate Product Architect. Jim worked at BMC Software for 10 years and was responsible for several products designed to provide IMS customer’s enhanced IMS solutions. He is the holder of 12 US Patents on IMS and database related techniques and has had several articles published in industry magazines, Enterprise System Journal, Technical Support and DM Review.
IBM Partner Speakers
James Martin – US Representative, Fundi Software
James has been working for FUNDI Software, an IBM Preferred Development Business Partner, for 8 years. James is an ASTQB Certified Tester, and has held various testing roles for FUNDI including a 2 year stint as the Test Lead for IMS Problem Investigator product. In his current role as a United States Representative, James travels to various conferences and customers in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia for speaking engagements and Product Technical Support. James is also one of the IMS Project Managers for the SHARE Technology Conference.
Christian Koeppen - PECK Software
Christian started in IT in 1968 as systems programmer (OS MFT, OS MVT) and is working with IMS since 1975 (IMS 360) as systems programmer and DBA.He is writing IMS related software since 1985, was employed at Schumann Consulting (Cologne), coding products like DBC and Fast IC.Since 1992 he was working for BMC Software writing several utilities.Since 2001 he is running his own business labeled under PECK Software.Some products from PECK Software were marketed by IBM.
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Margaret Wilson –IMS Tools Market Manager
Margaret Wilson now retired from IBM is working as a supplemental IBM employee. She has spent more than 20 years of her IBM career working with IMS and IMS Tools. She has worked testing IMS software, teaching IMS basics, and marketing IMS Tools. Margaret is currently the IMS Tools Marketing Manager.
Sandy Flippen – IBM IMS and DB2 Tools Program Manager
Sandy Flippen is a member of the IBM IMS and DB2 Tools groups. Sandy has been involved in the analysis, verification, and balancing of business controls within the groups. Sandy has over 20 years experience with financial management activities. Sandy is currently the Information Management Royalty Process Owner.
IBM IMS Symposium ORG TEAM
Thomas Esser – Senior Technical Sales Professional, EIAT Member
Thomas Esser is a Senior IT Specialist in the European IMS Architecture team. He has specialized in IMS and IMS Tools over the past 25 years, both as an IMS customer and within IBM and other vendors. Thomas is a regular presenter at GSE and University/High-schools, particularly focusing on new IMS and IMS Tools features and their implementation.
Sandy Sherrill – IMS Worldwide Market Manager
Sandy Sherrill is the IMS Worldwide Market Manager at IBM Silicon Valley Lab. She has spent most of her IBM 25-year career in and around IMS, as an information developer, manager, release coordinator, Business Value Assess-ment Program Manager, and more. She loves to meet customers and hear their stories, find new and innovative ways to share those stories with even more people, and act as an all-around IMS Ambassador whenever she can.
Laure Hunsinger – IMS Program Manager
Laura Hunsinger is an IMS program manager. Primarily responsible for managing the IMS Customer Advisory Council and serving as the IMS Project Lead for IMS offerings. Laura has worked for IBM for the past 17 years and previously held IT-centric positions with several Fortune 500 companies.
Henry Kiesslich – IT Specialist, KIESSLICH CONSULTING
Recognized as a key IMS Technical Support Specialist in Germany and Europe, Henry was part of the IBM IMS team for 14 years. As an IBM employee he spent most of his time working on-site with customers. Typical projects he was involved have been modernize their mainframe data centers, provide high availability services for key business applications and set up their environments to exploit Parallel Sysplex® features. Since 2013 he runs his own business providing IMS services and trainings.
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Be sure to visit our Exhibitors andSponsors in the Expo!
Expo HoursLocation: Exhibition Area
Monday (12:30 - ) 15:30 - 22:00
Tuesday 09:45 - 13:30 & 16:45 - 20:00
Wednesday 09:45 - 13:30 & 16:45 - 20:00
Thursday 09:45 - 12:30
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Fundi Software develops system software for IBM z/OS, specializing in tools for CICS and IMS. Software developed by Fundi is distributed by IBM and used by many Global 2000 enterprises. IBM products developed by Fundi include the industry benchmark CICS Performance Analyzer and IMS Performance Analyzer.
Established in 1982, Fundi is an Australian company with headquarters in Perth (Western Australia) and development teams distributed between Australia and the United States.
For additional information visit:
www.fundi.com
SysperTec is an international software publisher with over 20 years experience of on-the-fly protocol conversion between mainframe and heterogeneous servers and terminals. The company helps perpetuate the life and value of legacy enterprise applications by integrating new technologies (TCP/IP, HTML, XML...) that raise productivity, modernize ergonomics and simplify the integration of enterprise applications and networks. These solutions, based on VIRTEL software, facilitate interactive communication from/to mainframe applications and data. VIRTEL is a comprehensive web-enablement middleware that serves legacy host applications such as IMS, CICS, Natural or TSO as web pages or web services over TCP/IP connections. Web-enabling extends the relevance and investment of critical legacy systems. It is simpler, faster, and more cost effective than redeveloping, replacing or rehosting. SysperTec’s objective is to provide customized solutions that allow the seamless evolution of enterprise information systems including cost reduction, user comfort, high performance and simplicity of implementation. SysperTec has licensed over 300 products world-wide in banking, service, insurance, government, manufacturing and distribution.
www.syspertec.com
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Arrow ECS is an authorized IBM Global Training Provider and IBM Premier Business Partner. Since 1982, Arrow has become one of the top IBM Business Partners and a global leader in IBM training, systems and software. A worldwide leader in IT and IT Education – our Experts provide you the skills and experiences to enhance your job performance and get ready for IBM Certification examinations. In courses, led by more than 800 industry experts, using real-world scenarios, learn to work with IBM systems and software. Arrow IBM classes are available as instructor lead training, online or onsite, as well as self-paced virtual classes. You choose what’s best!
edu.arrowecs.eu
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CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at
www.ca.com
Interskill is the worldwide leader in the provision of technology-based training solutions for the IBM Mainframe Computing industry. Interskill’s mainframe e-learning is currently the ONLY up-to-date, comprehensive e-learning curriculum available to the mainframe computing industry! Our learning designs are informed by contemporary learning theory and are interactive, contextualized and responsive to diverse learning styles. We believe in immersing learners in relevant authentic activities designed to motivate, engage and produce quantifiable change.Since 1993, across a global client base of over 1,500 companies, we have proven our expertise at developing and delivering training solutions that form the backbone of our clients’ employee training on these mission critical systems.
www.interskill.com
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Rocket Software is a global software development firm that builds enterprise products and delivers enterprise solutions in the following segments: Business Intelligence and Analytics, Storage, Networks, and Compliance, Application Development, Integration, and Modernization, and Database Servers and Tools.Rocket is engaged in business and technology partnerships with IBM, EMC, RSA (the security division of EMC), Fujitsu, HP Enterprise Services, Avaya, Motorola, Datatel and many others. The company is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.For additional information visit
www.rocketsoftware.com
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Don’t miss the WED EVENT!
Dear guests,
you’re happily invited to our wednesday dinner night!Join us to celebrate our IMS Symposium 2014 at the Restaurant Dorint Pallas Wiesbaden and enjoy delicious food, drinks, live music and all our company within the IMS family.
Fine dining starts at 8:00 pm.
“Early birds” get the best seats
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IBM IMS Symposium at Dorint Pallas, Wiesbaden
Veranstaltungs-büro
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Bxx Sessions
Keynotes
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Dear attendee, many thanks for joining us to celebrate 45 years IMS and to get all the News and the highest valuable input from IBM IMS and IMS Tools Lab.
We, the ORG Team, will work hard for your convenience and make every effort to meet our goal - to let this IMS Symposium become a great success for you. It‘s our pleasure to welcome you and we hope you will enjoy this outstanding week with us.
IBM is cooperating with KIESSLICH CONSULTING to run our IMS Symposium 2014 event. KIESSLICH CONSULTING continues to offer IMS events and trainings in cooperation with partners like ARROW ECS (GTP) and others.
Check for the schedule of IMS education classes here:
www.kieco.de/en/events/
How to Download Presentationsafter the IMS Symposium
Go to the websites www.kieco.deor www.ibm.com/events/imssymposium and follow the instruction to download the presentations.
www.kieco.de requires your login with UserID and Password you got during the enrollment process. After login you have access to the datastore containing the presentation files.
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