IMS Regional User Group Host Presentation - IMS UG July 2013 NYC

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IMS Regional User GroupsNew York City, July 18, 2013

Sandy SherrillIMS RUG Advocate for New York City and Toronto

IBM Silicon Valley Lab


Today’s Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions, Sandy Sherrill

• Calling out from IMS Applications: Methods and Best Practices,

Jack Yuan

• IMS User Interface Updated, Kyle Charlet

• Lunch

• What’s new in OTMA

for your IMS Connect

and Websphere MQ

Applications, Jack Yuan

• Your Big Data Solution

is not Complete

Without IMS on

System z, Kyle Charlet


Notice to Employees and Representatives from GOE Entities

• At this IBM function, IBM is providing breakfast and lunch meals and/or

promotional items and considers this a normal business courtesy. U.S.

Federal government regulations and some state or local government

agencies do not permit their employees to accept food or refreshments

from contractors doing business with them.

• IBM provides this notice to assist you in ensuring that your acceptance

of the amenities is in compliance with your employer’s internal policies.

If your receipt of the amenities during your attendance and participation

in the event presents an issue, please advise IBM, and plan for

alternate meal options.

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Upcoming Conferences featuring IMS

IBM Information on Demand November 3 – November 8Las Vegas, NV

Konigstein, GermanyOctober 23, 24

IBM Enterprise SystemsOctober 21 - 15Orlando, FL


IMS Sessions @ IOD 2013

• IMS Disaster Recovery Overview

• Improving IMS Performance via Dynamic

Tuning of Buffer Pools and Subpools

• IMS as a Viable Cloud Platform? An Evaluation

of the Challenges and Opportunities

• Your Big Data solution is not complete without

IMS on System z

• Orienteering through your Multi-Platform

Enterprise: Java Development on System z

Best Practices

• 45 Years Strong: IMS Introduces Its Most

Innovative Release

• Does your Big Data need maintenance?

Automatic Database Reorganizations and

Performance Tuning is Here

• Worlds Together: IMS and .NET

• IMS: The Original No SQL Big Data Engine

• IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and

Solutions

• Managing Databases more effectively using

IMS Database Solution Pack

• IMS 13 Transaction Manager: Simpler Operations in

an Open Environment

• IMS 13 System: Easier Management with Increased

Reliability

• IMS 13 DB and DBRC: Greater Resiliency for your

Data

• Up and Running on IMS in Record Time!

• Increase ROI by Expanding the Life of your IMS

applications for Another 45 years!

• Standard access to IMS data assets from COBOL

using SQL

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Customer Advisory Council Meeting

Customer Appreciation Dinner

Certification Exams – the first is free!


IMS Customer Sessions @ IOD 2013

• Transamerica: Dynamic Change Management in IMS, Simplified to Deliver

Higher Availability

• State of Arizona: Upgrading to IMS 12 from IMS 10: Lessons learned

• State of Arizona: IMS has a catalog: Did you get the memo?

• China Construction Bank: Achieving Consistent Microsecond Response Time

in High Volume, High Growth Enterprise Databases

• IMS 13 QPP Experience at Volvo IT

• Wellpoint: Using IMS to Drive Innovation around our Key Business Initiatives

• SunLife Financial: Doing Mobile before Mobile was Mobile

• Wellpoint: How a Company in the Healthcare Industry was able to Improve

Access to Data through Cloning

• Scotiabank Leverages DataPower to Expand IMS Callout Capabilities

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Introducing: IMS Database 12 Value Unit Edition

• The same high-speed, highly available IMS data server at a one-time charge price

• Provides competitive advantage to IMS 12 data sharing clients requiring additional cost-effective access to IMS data for net new workload.

• Expressly for net new applications or workloads in Java or SQL only, through IMS Open Database, from applications on WebSphere Application Server on z/OS

• Adds new customized capabilities addressing business growth based on key business initiatives including services-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise and mobile access strategy, and operational business intelligence (BI).

• Leverages the unique industry-leading performance and workload management capabilities of IMS.

• ibm.com/software/data/ims/imsdbvue/index.htmlValue

Unit

Edition

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IMS Business Value Assessment Roadmap

Help clients identify ways to get more out of their IMS investment.

• A proactive assessment

• Provides tactical and strategic

recommendations to:

– Increase benefits

– Lower costs

– Improve processing

efficiencies for IMS

applicationsIBM or BP Services for

Deployment

Supported by

Subject Matter

Experts from

Development

Lab

Joint Proof Of Concept Client Implementation

IMS Value Assessment?

Project Kickoff Call

Data Consolidation and Technical Assessment

Generate Recommendations anddevelop workshop materials

Deliver Recommendations Proposal for next steps.

IBM Client team follow-up

Discovery Workshop

Contact Laura Hunsinger, [email protected], for details


IMS Customer Internship Program - 2013

� Nominations are now being accepted

� Opportunity to work side-by-side with the IMS development team

� 2-6 week sessions are available at SVL lab throughout the year

� Contact Tori Gonzalez for more information: [email protected]

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“…every subject was successfully covered by the

most appropriate expert. While I was there at SVL,

the program was flexible enough so we could

address certain topics which I personally identified,

that would benefit me at my home location...”

“…a unique experience, where I

was given the opportunity to

meet with the IMS developers

and testers at the IBM Lab, and

work side by side with them…

It's incredible to meet people

whose work is known

worldwide.”


IMS ISV Community


IMS Social Community!

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IMS 12 - Extras


IMS Enterprise Suite 2.2

• IMS ES SOAP Gateway

• IMS ES Connect APIs for Java and C

• IMS ES Explorer for Development

• IMS ES DLIModel Utility plug-in

• IMS TM Resource Adapter

• IMS Web 2.0 solutions

• Installable Information Center NEW!


Are you getting the most from your IMS investment?

IMS is the GOLD Standard

for:

Availability

Performance

Dependability IMS makes modernizing

easy and affordable

Support for IMS 10 ended

on November 12, 2012

We Can Help!•Version-to-Version Migrations

•Health Checks

•SOA Pilots

•Capacity Planning

•Shared Queues, Data Sharing, Sysplex

•….and much more!

Contact

[email protected]

Visit us @

ibm.co/QQn7WW


Download these IMS White Papers

Download it today at ibm.com/ims

Download it today at ibm.co/PQ5Hdo


Introducing……

• Suzanna Khatchatrian

• IMS Development

Manager, IMS Open

Access Development

• Taking over as Advocate

for NYC RUG in

September 2013

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Questions?

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IMS Regional User Group Host Presentation - IMS UG July 2013 NYC