In this session the Steering Committees will bid you welcome to Reykjavík and to the GSE Nordic Region Conference.

Michael Erichsen is chairman of the GSE Nordic Region CICS Working Group.

This Presentation will give you a first-hand view on the challenges that an IT Company is facing today. It will present the visions in JN Data, where standardization, consolidation and virtualization are major drivers. Focus is now on Capacity, Optimization and Automation. An IT Company has to be a value added asset and not only a cost center with "green" thoughts and a proactive and agile approach to the business needs.

Erling Jensen has been CEO of JN Data A/S since 2005. He is a member of the Jyske Bank Group Executive Committee and a member of the Nykredit management team. He is on the board of Silkeborg Data A/S. Previously, Erling Jensen held various executive positions, e.g. with IBM and Nordea. Erling Jensen holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Organisation)

Today's mainframe, the IBM System z10, is one of the most advanced computers available and is unique in its ability to serve the requirements of enterprise computing. This introductory session will discuss the requirements modern enterprises have for high-end servers, and show how the modern mainframe provides superior answers to these requirements. We will consider new trends of cloud computing and virtualization as well as the traditional workloads that remain the bread-and-butter of enterprise computing. Objectives: Introduce to the non-mainframe audience (e.g. university students) the latest technology embodied in System z10 hardware and software, discuss why an understanding of the platform is as essential as ever and what workloads are still better suited to deployment on the mainframe.

David Rhoderick is a Mainframe Evangelist in the IBM Software Group zSeries Competitive Project Office. He is focused on application deployment and the financial aspects of mainframe operation. In his 32 years at IBM (in the UK and the US), Dave has worked in many different fields including software pricing, CICS marketing, ISV recruitment, consulting, sales, systems engineering, management, development and systems programming. As well as extensive mainframe experience, he was involved in the development of the OS/2 operating system for PCs, and in porting a large DEC-VAX application to the AIX environment for a media company. Dave graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Computer and Natural Sciences and is currently studying for a Masters in Musicology at the UK's Open University.

This session will include the latest results from new customer studies conducted over the last 12 months. These are joint studies that typically compare the cost of mainframes vs. distributed alternatives. This talk will include some of the surprising results and insights gained from these studies. Offloading, new deployment, and consolidation scenarios will be discussed and you will learn how to convince your colleagues that the mainframe has the lowest TCO.

The presentation aims at shattering the myth that the mainframe is expensive for new workload such as web services. Data from actual customer situations and benchmark experiments will be provided that supports the economic argument for a modern, centralized mainframe-based SOA infrastructure.

David Rhoderick is a Mainframe Evangelist in the IBM Software Group zSeries Competitive Project Office. He is focused on application deployment and the financial aspects of mainframe operation. In his 32 years at IBM (in the UK and the US), Dave has worked in many different fields including software pricing, CICS marketing, ISV recruitment, consulting, sales, systems engineering, management, development and systems programming. As well as extensive mainframe experience, he was involved in the development of the OS/2 operating system for PCs, and in porting a large DEC-VAX application to the AIX environment for a media company. Dave graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Computer and Natural Sciences and is currently studying for a Masters in Musicology at the UK's Open University.

Last year, I presented how the world of the Mainframe was changing. New opportunities and new chances. And I discussed our role as mainframers to be in the driver seat. Little did I know that the world was changing even faster than I predicted.

Green IT is now so embedded in the minds of our companies that it has turned into official policies. Virtualization- and consolidation efforts now also take the Mainframe into consideration and more and more, IT Management accepts that the Mainframe deserves a prominent place in the IT infrastructure. But the human factor is now becoming an issue. What are ISV?s doing to help us mainframes to cope with the additional workload? What can YOU do to make your lives easier? Is Mainframe 2.0 a threat of an opportunity? This and more about the role of a Mainframer in 2009 will be covered in this presentation.

In addition to this, the results of an extensive CA survey of mainframe users in EMEA will be discussed. Some of the findings will surprise you, some will teach you about your peers and others will help you to make better decisions for the future of the Mainframe.

Marcel den Hartog is CA's Mainframe Marketing Principal in EMEA. Marcel has 28 years of experience with IBM Mainframes and has presented at many GSE and other external events (both CA and other) on Mainframe Strategy, Solutions and lately about the new rise of the Mainframe in these times of virtualization & consolidation efforts.

Globe Tracker China is a startup company the speaker has been working on with his friend and partner Jim Davis, who spent 25 years with IBM.

Globe Tracker, leveraging its unique and proprietary "technology agnostic" service architecture and exploiting the evolving wide-spread adoption of Radio Frequency label technologies, delivers a transparent non-disruptive Inventory Resource Management Service to otherwise non-interoperable supply chain partners. Globe Tracker China Global Tracking and Monitoring Data Exchange Network provides its users the ability to collect tracking and monitoring data from any enabled Server in the world, in the same building or across the globe. In the same manner GTI?s Global Tracking and Monitoring Data Exchange Network allows its business clients the ability to share their tracking and monitoring data across the planet or just with selected supply chain partners.

The speaker thinks that the Open Platform has the potential to change the world by delivering on the long awaited promises of RFID and its supply chain management benefits, no mistakes, nothing lost, nothing damaged, just-in-time inventories. The Open Platform will break the current ?log jam? constructed by the many special interest groups and companies around the world trying to tie their specific technologies to the wide spread deployment of RFID.

Jóhann P. Malmquist has a BS in Mathematics and Physics and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Professor Malmquist worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York on the team responsible for the "Query-By-Example" database management system. He worked for the Ministry of Finance in Iceland for 5 years and was in charge of computerizing the government. He advocated the government use of networked PCs back in 1982. In 1985, he was awarded a full professorship at the University of Iceland. He has served as the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and the Dean of the Faculty of Science. Professor Malmquist served as a consultant for several international companies, including Apple Computer and Software AG. He has been a partner with Key West Technologies, an international high-tech consultancy, since 2004. Professor Malmquist has co-founded 11 companies, including GoPro (gopro.net), a worldwide provider of document management services.

After several years of Y2K challenges, the onslaught of the internet & Java technologies and the backlash of the dot coms, I'm just getting to the point where I'm able to raise my head. Why do I need to learn this thing called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Haven't I gone through enough architectures in my career? Is this just another hype? What's so special about SOA? What's this thing they call services? What's an ESB? What's loose coupling? Is SOA something you build or implement or is it something you buy? Does SOA apply to all systems (is it a silver bullet)? What's Open SOA (OSOA)? What's SOA Appliances? If these questions are keeping you up at night (or even if they aren't), come to this session and learn why SOA is crucial for your career and why SOA is the biggest mandate facing businesses today.

Deepak is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley lab. Currently, he is part of the IMS SOA core team helping customers 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 applications, 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.

SOA 2.0 was a term championed by Gartner and Oracle. Other vendors use the term "Advanced SOA" or next-generation SOA. Both SOA 2.0 or "Advanced SOA" refer to the combination of Service Oriented Architecture and Event Driven Architecture (EDA). In September 9, 2008, IBM announced the industry's most comprehensive Event processing portfolio. Back in June, 2006, Oracle announced the industry's first integrated, standards based product called Oracle Event-Driven Architecture Suite (EDA Suite) which also enables customers to monitor, analyze and respond to business events real time. Clearly, Event processing is big business in today's rapidly changing business world. This session looks at Event Driven Architecture (EDA) in more detail to understand how it complements the service interaction model of SOA.

Deepak is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley lab. Currently, he is part of the IMS SOA core team helping customers 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 applications, 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.

There are many presentations on recovering computer systems from disasters and the need for planning BUT what exactly ARE these disasters? This presentation will give you the opportunity to learn from other people?s misfortunes that NOTHING is impossible, and even the most improbable events can (and will) happen to someone. Whilst the presentation doesn't give any guidelines on how to plan for a disaster, you will certainly leave knowing that you must plan for the worst possible scenario and take nothing for granted. It also underscores the necessity for regular disaster recovery tests.

Phil has over 20 years experience of DB2, starting work in 1987 with DB2 Version 1.2. Since then he has worked with all versions, including DB2 9. Beginning as a DBA for one of the largest users of DB2 in the UK, Phil is now Senior Principal Product Manager for CAs line of DB2 solutions. Phil has always been a keen supporter of user groups and is a regular speaker at events, as well as being the CA representative on the European IDUG Planning Committee. In addition, Phil is a regular contributor to the IDUG sponsored DB2-L discussion list

Most of us use maps to figure out where we are and how to get to where we?re going. Over the last ten years, this has really taken off on the web (sometimes called ?the MapQuest effect?). Maps are only the beginning. They are to geographic information what your business intelligence reports and corporate dashboards are to traditional, numbers-based business information. Almost all business processes can be enhanced, with or without maps, by taking advantage of location information that already exist.

Maryela Weihrauch is a Distinguished Engineer with DB2 z/OS development. She has been working with customers around the world to design their DB2 systems and applications for optimum performance and availability. Currently, she drives DB2's technology in support of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), leads the DB2 z/OS Solution performance efforts in SVL and is involved in many customer projects with special focus on-demand and SOA transformation. Maryela is frequently sharing her experience at conferences.

A provocative and new thinking solution to all the problems we normally see when we design, code and normally test our new or redeveloped applications.

How standards became the solution and not the problem. Naming standards, automization, TestWareHouse and coordination in the real world.

Come hear how Nykredit made it easy to administer +20 test environments in several platforms for many years and how it is possibly to test new and old applications in several environments like in production.

Kim Broberg and Jørgen Møller Larsen have been members of the Standard and Infrastructure team at Nykredit for 20 - 25 years and have both extensive knowledge in building and maintaining test-systems.

A round table discussion and Q&A session.

In this session the speaker will tell the story of some of the 11 start-ups he has participated in. Learning from failures and not repeating them again next time around.

How to be successful and avoid failures.

Jóhann P. Malmquist has a BS in Mathematics and Physics and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Professor Malmquist worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York on the team responsible for the "Query-By-Example" database management system. He worked for the Ministry of Finance in Iceland for 5 years and was in charge of computerizing the government. He advocated the government use of networked PCs back in 1982. In 1985, he was awarded a full professorship at the University of Iceland. He has served as the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and the Dean of the Faculty of Science. Professor Malmquist served as a consultant for several international companies, including Apple Computer and Software AG. He has been a partner with Key West Technologies, an international high-tech consultancy, since 2004. Professor Malmquist has co-founded 11 companies, including GoPro (gopro.net), a worldwide provider of document management services.

In this session every attendee is urged to offer criticism and suggestions for areas to be covered in future conferences by using the Feedback Form to the GSE Nordic Steering Committees. It will be used by the Steering Committees as input for planning the next conference.

Each GSE Working Group Chairman is elected for a two-year term and this year the IMS and DB2 chairmen will be elected during this session.

Svenn-Aage Sønderskov is the chairman of the GSE Nordic DB2 Working Group.

Rational Developer for z is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) that is focused on developing applications on and for z/OS. The speaker will give a description of the main capabilities of RDz as well as a description of the new features found in RDz V7.5. Due to the familiarity of the Eclipse paradigm, RDz is used in the Academic Initiative to teach neophytes the basics of z/OS. RDz can be used for application development in COBOL, but it goes beyond a 'COBOL IDE' to support numerous languages and target runtimes on z/OS. This session is intended to be an interactive session soliciting input from the audience on key items needed in a z/OS targeted IDE.

Laurence (Larry) England is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. He has architectural responsibilities for application development tools on System z.

Software is best developed by a team of people working together, reacting and responding to each other in order to achieve the best outcome. Jazz is an IBM initiative to help make software delivery teams more effective. Inspired by the artists who transformed musical expression, Jazz is an initiative to transform software delivery making it more collaborative, productive and transparent. Rational Team Concert is based upon the Jazz technology. It consists of both a client and a server piece. Recently, the server-side of RTC has been ported and shipped on z/OS. Looking to expand its capabilities to application development for the mainstay applications of z/OS, RTC will support applications built using HLLs such as COBOL, PLI and HLASM. This session will describe the activites surrounding the RTC on the z platform.

Laurence (Larry) England is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. He has architectural responsibilities for application development tools on System z.

Overview of the IBM suite for workstation based application development on the zServer.

During the last years several of the traditional IBM zServer based products have had new workstation based user interface. It all integrates and extends the overall IBM Software Delivery platform, but what do they deliver for the zServer tools, like CICS, Fault Analyzer, ISPF, SCLM, etc. and is amongst other focused on bringing Enterprise Modernization by re-vitalizing the existing assets, applications and services delivered by z.

Nordic Tech. Lead, Rational for z, the speaker have worked with all the aspects of mainframe development during the last 20 years

Web 2.0 is a huge buzzword in the industry that encompasses a lot of different standards and technologies. At its core are a number of protocols and standards, such as AJAX on the client, XML/JSON/ATOM in the middle, and REST or Web Services and SOAP on the backend. This talk will cover each of these and cover the kind of application development tools and languages used to create a typical Web application, as well as demonstrate these can be used to create software such as mashups, feed readers, and modern responsive web pages. At each stage the talk will cover the traditional way in which the same kind of application could be buit prior to Web 2.0 technologies, and then show how Web 2.0 improves on the solution both for the user and technically, so that the relevance and need for a new way of programming is clearly demonstrated with before and after illustrations. By the end of the talk atendees should have a greater understanding of Web 2.0 and what areas it is relevent for, as well as what kind of development tools are required to exploit Web 2.0 and enable it in their software projects.

Joe Winchester is a software developer for IBM working on the CICS Explorer, the "New Face of CICS". Prior to working on the CICS Explorer Joe worked in GUI software development, and remains the team lead of the Eclipse Visual Editor project and also the editor-in-chief of the Java Developer's Journal. One of his goals with the CICS Explorer is to make the operation and use of CICS and CICS tools as intuitive and usable as any other piece of desktop software, so CICS can be expanded into new application domains and usability scenarios.

The Eclipse Foundation is a hugely successful open source community focused on building an extensible development platform. It is possibly best known for its industry leading Java Development Tooling, however the Eclipse frameworks have been extended and used for projects ranging from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory software for tracking planetary rover images, by the European Union to help police fisheries, as well as by IBM for its CICS Explorer product. This talk will cover the history of Eclipse from its beginnings to its current form, as well as show examples of different usages of Eclipse and the extension mechanism of the Eclipse framework can be put to use by building a small Eclipse application. By the end of the talk attendees should have a greater understanding of the Eclipse project, where to find out more information from forums, books, and other community resources, as well as a good knowledge of how to use Eclipse to extend Eclipse to write a simple application.

Joe Winchester is a software developer for IBM working on the CICS Explorer, the "New Face of CICS". Prior to working on the CICS Explorer Joe worked in GUI software development, and remains the team lead of the Eclipse Visual Editor project and also the editor-in-chief of the Java Developer's Journal. One of his goals with the CICS Explorer is to make the operation and use of CICS and CICS tools as intuitive and usable as any other piece of desktop software, so CICS can be expanded into new application domains and usability scenarios.

More and more customers recognize the potential of implementing a Service Oriented Architecture to their business. DB2 is well positioned to serve as an enterprise data server in an flexible, growing SOA environment. With the DB2 pureXML? feature and Data Web Services support, DB2 opens new opportunities for an innovative SOA architecture. This session will give an overview over pureXML and explains how to leverage Data Web Service. The main focus is to discuss business scenarios and use cases that illustrate the potential of pureXML and Data Web Services in an SOA. 

Maryela Weihrauch is a Distinguished Engineer with DB2 z/OS development. She has been working with customers around the world to design their DB2 systems and applications for optimum performance and availability. Currently, she drives DB2's technology in support of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), leads the DB2 z/OS Solution performance efforts in SVL and is involved in many customer projects with special focus on-demand and SOA transformation. Maryela is frequently sharing her experience at conferences.

• Bankdata's SOAP project, why and how
• What to look out for
• How we use ECLIPSE to test
• Improvement from CICS 3.1 to 3.2, and what is still missing
• Performance and statistics

Charles Vindum has more than 20 years experience as a systems programmer. He is responsible for CICS, MQ, ASF, MANTIS, System Automation and SWIFT products at Bankdata.

Web 2.0 is a huge phenomenon that is transforming the way client server computing is done. It encompasses a huge range of solutions, which at the core of each is the premise of delivering a better user experience and one that supports more end points to reach a wider audience. Many of the protocols of Web 2.0 are hugely relevant to CICS, allowing data and services to be exposed to a new set of client applications. This talk covers the background behind Web 2.0 and what is behind the buzzword, as well as the background and reasons behind each of the protocols or standards. The talk then focuses on three pieces of Web 2.0 - AJAX, XML/JSON/ATOM, REST and explains them with detailed examples. The third section of the talk will focus on how to enable REST support for CICS and covers a sample application that exploits a REST API on top of a TDQ to show how a Web mashup can be built.

Joe Winchester is a software developer for IBM working on the CICS Explorer, the "New Face of CICS". Prior to working on the CICS Explorer Joe worked in GUI software development, and remains the team lead of the Eclipse Visual Editor project and also the editor-in-chief of the Java Developer's Journal. One of his goals with the CICS Explorer is to make the operation and use of CICS and CICS tools as intuitive and usable as any other piece of desktop software, so CICS can be expanded into new application domains and usability scenarios.

A significant new capability provided in Version 4.1 of CICS TS is the ability to quickly and easily define significant events that can be emitted from your existing CICS applications. This can be done without having to change the source code of the application, test any existing business logic behaviour, and the resulting new behaviour may be instantly turned on and off according to business and operational demands. These events can then be turned into significant business values by, for example, utilising WebSphere Business Monitor or WebSphere Business Events. Come along to this session where Ian Mitchell, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Product Architect, will introduce this new technology.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent nearly 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS TS for z/OS. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GSE Conferences.

The IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 provides extensive capabilities to allow you to simply and easily integrate your CICS assets into a SOA environment. This session will look at how these and other capabilities can be used to extend the value of the SOA model into your internal CICS applications. We will look at various types of service definition and invocation, as well as how CICS can provide optimized and flexible bindings between applications. We will also address deployment models and life-cycle.

Fraser is a senior software engineer working on CICS Transaction Server for over 12 years. Over the last 3 releases, he has been the technical lead for Web Services in CICS team. He is currently providing strategic direction for Web Services and related technologies in CICS TS.

This session is geared toward application programmers, and systems programmers who read application programmers' dumps for them. We will walk through several dumps, and along the way see how to find the important areas in a transaction dump, including transaction storage, COBOL working storage, and COBOL BLL cell storage; how to identify the failing COBOL statement and the value of its operands; and how to identify the last CICS command issued, its response code, and the COBOL source statement it came from.

Russ is an independent technical consultant based in the US. He has spent over 25 years working with CICS, both as a Systems Programmer and as an assembler language developer on programmer productivity tools. He is a member of the CICS project for SHARE in the US as well as a presenter.

Rdz offers most of the tooling needed for host developers for accessing and manipulating host datasets. Nevertheless, most customers have the need for customizing the basic workbench to their very own requirements, e. g. for integrating SCM-Systems like CHANGEMAN or ENDEVOR, or for providing some additional tools making the developer's work even more productive. Based on the Eclipse-framework, RDz is fully extensible using Eclipse's plugin-mechanisms. Therefore, almost everything programmable in Java might be added.

Our presentation intends to give an overview of Q Group enhancements to the RDz-Workbench and provides demos from real customer-projects to give an idea, what's possible.

Dr. Markus Bon is a Technical Consultant at Q Group Consulting Services GmbH in Heidelberg. Involved in several Customer solutions based on WSED / WDz / RDz. Since 2007 Chairman of the GSE Working Group "Enterprise Modernisation"

In this session Ian Mitchell, the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Product Architect, will be providing a technical overview of the new and enhanced features IBM is providing in Version 4.1 of CICS TS. There are a wide variety of capabilities to support business flexibility to compete more effectively, to comply with ever increasing governance requirements, and to simplify your management and control tasks related to CICS.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent nearly 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS TS for z/OS. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GSE Conferences.

The CICS Explorer project was created to address three goals; to provide a modern and intuitive look and feel to the CICS platform and ease the learning curve for its adoption by new users, to allow skilled and experienced CICS users to benefit from having an integrated view of their systems that combines the function of CEDA, CEMT and the CPSM WUI in a single graphical tool, and lastly to provide an integration framework that can be extended by anyone wishing to exploit the underlying capabilities of the CICS Explorer. This talk will cover the background behind the Explorer and show how it can be used to connect to CICS systems and be used to perform tasks such as create, update and install definitions, as well as inquire on active installed resources and perform operational tasks. The CICS Explorer is "the new face of CICS", and the talk will show how it can be be used to host tools that extend the existing capabilities of the platform, but add value in areas specific to each particular tool. The three tools shown are Configuration Manager which adds governance and migration capabilities between CSDs or BAS, Interdependency Analyzer which tracks runtime dependencies between CICS resources, and Performance Analyzer which uses SMF data to provide detailed statistical and transactional historic performance data.

Joe Winchester is a software developer for IBM working on the CICS Explorer, the "New Face of CICS". Prior to working on the CICS Explorer Joe worked in GUI software development, and remains the team lead of the Eclipse Visual Editor project and also the editor-in-chief of the Java Developer's Journal. One of his goals with the CICS Explorer is to make the operation and use of CICS and CICS tools as intuitive and usable as any other piece of desktop software, so CICS can be expanded into new application domains and usability scenarios.

The IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3.1 includes support for the Web Services Security specification, and CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3.2 introduced support for the Web Services Trust specification. This session provides an overview of these specifications with particular reference to how they are implemented in CICS. Possible deployment topologies are discussed, as well as configuration and set up processes. Other security mechanisms will also be highlighted, such as using transport level security features like SSL to provides secure access and use of Web Services in CICS and the use of WSRR.

Fraser is a senior software engineer working on CICS Transaction Server for over 12 years. Over the last 3 releases, he has been the technical lead for Web Services in CICS team. He is currently providing strategic direction for Web Services and related technologies in CICS TS.

CICS continues to expand and optimise its support for TCP/IP protocols, providing robust, scalable, and high performance connectivity. This session details new features in CICS TS V4.1 which provide the facility to choose TCP/IP for key base intercommunications functions, including 3270 based transaction routing, and START and CANCEL commands. This is in addition to Distributed Program Link (DPL) introduced in CICS TS V3.2 that also provides for Java client requests via the CICS Transaction Gateway to invoke CICS programs using the Channels and Containers programming model and the ECI interface. This session will provide guidance on how to configure both your CICS and CICS Transaction Gateway systems to fully exploit the new IP interconnectivity (IPIC) support, and provides details on how the qualities of security, transactionality and connection management are best managed in CICS and the CICS Transaction Gateway.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent nearly 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS TS for z/OS. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GSE Conferences.

Even the most well behaved region fails from time to time! This session cover basic dump reading strategies for CICS system dumps, using IBM's fabled IPCS. While a brief overview of IPCS commands will be included, the majority of this session will be devoted to the dump review process.

Russ is an independent technical consultant based in the US. He has spent over 25 years working with CICS, both as a Systems Programmer and as an assembler language developer on programmer productivity tools. He is a member of the CICS project for SHARE in the US as well as a presenter.

There's never been a better time to take advantage of Java technology in CICS. Learn about the latest and greatest Java features being incorporated into CICS, including Java 6, multi-threaded JVMs, and usability enhancements to help provide a smoother Java experience. Discover how to configure CICS Java support and debug your live Java programs running in CICS TS using the Rational Developer for System z (RDz).

Scott Clee is the CICS Test Architect for IBM in the UK Hursley laboratory. Over the last 7 years Scott has specialized in the areas of Java and Web services in CICS. As an evangelist for the sharing of knowledge, Scott has written various IBM developerWorks articles, and co-authored three CICS Red Books including the recent "Java Application Development for CICS" update.

CICSPlex System Manager technology has advanced to the point where it is considered a core part of CICS technology. With this the new CICS Explorer tooling provides an seamless experience with CICSPlex System manager. This presentation gives an overview to CICSPlex SM and details the features introduced in the latest CICS TS releases. It demonstrates the various interfaces that CICSPlex SM provides and highlights the benefits of using CICSPlex SM with the CICS Explorer.

Scott Clee is the CICS Test Architect for IBM in the UK Hursley laboratory. Over the last 7 years Scott has specialized in the areas of Java and Web services in CICS. As an evangelist for the sharing of knowledge, Scott has written various IBM developerWorks articles, and co-authored three CICS Red Books including the recent "Java Application Development for CICS" update.

IBM delivered the capability to achieve significant CPU reduction for CICS/DB2 transactions with CICS 2.2 and later releases for applications are coded to 'threadsafe' standards. With CICS 3.1 and the Open API, CICS programs can now invoke z/OS services directly, provided the programs are threadsafe. This session will cover the mechanics of how to convert non-threadsafe code to be threadsafe, along with a brief review of what 'threadsafe' is, and how to identify potentially non-threadsafe programs.

Russ is an independent technical consultant based in the US. He has spent over 25 years working with CICS, both as a Systems Programmer and as an assembler language developer on programmer productivity tools. He is a member of the CICS project for SHARE in the US as well as a presenter.

CICS, MQ, and DB2 have always benefitted from good integration The CICS-MQ adapter, the CICS-MQ Trigger Monitor and the CICS-MQ Bridge are now included in CICS Transaction Server V3.2, following the approach for inclusion of the CICS/DB2 adapter in CICS Transaction Server V1. This session will look at the changed capabilities to the CICS-MQ functions now that they are included in CICS, give an insight into further updates and requirement areas and provide an update and comparison to the CICS-DB2 adapter.

Fraser is a senior software engineer working on CICS Transaction Server for over 12 years. Over the last 3 releases, he has been the technical lead for Web Services in CICS team. He is currently providing strategic direction for Web Services and related technologies in CICS TS.

This session will describe future trends and directions for the DB2 for z/OS and DB2 LUW products. This will include new SQL functionality, improvements in encryption, data warehousing, system management, and monitoring.

Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow and chief technology officer for the IBM database servers. He has technical and management oversight for the application development and administration tools used with DB2 and IDS.

The biggest challenge for managaing an application is NOT ONLY adhere to delivery schedules BUT ALSO to ensure that application performs well. Thus making Tuning of an application an important checkpoint. In general, when we talk about performance of an application the focus revolves around analysing SQLs and ensure that these are executed in most optimized way. Moreover the performance analysis/solution involves mostly DBAs. Alongwith DB2 codes (mostly SQLs), the NON-DB2 (JCLs, Programs) codes equally contributes to performance. In this session, we will share some real life examples where we would like to present How as a Developer one can ensure that both DB2 and NON-DB2 codes are optimized and contribute in making of a High Performing Application.

Rajesh Kumar Khare, is a Senior Conultant in DnBNOR (Den Norske Bank). Worked on development and maintenance of several business applications on distributed platform. Since last 10 years involved in develeopment, maintenance and performance tuning of Batch Applications in z/OS and DB2.

This updated presentation will cover deprecated/removed function, new post GA function to be delivered, planned stability, planning for rebind and access path change, VSCR, CPU improvement/regression, LRSN spin, improvements to COPY and RECOVER, object level recovery from system level backup, reordered row format, etc. In addition, the presentation will share early customer migration experience. Share lessons learned, surprises, pitfalls. Will provide hints and tips, address some myths, provide additional planning information and information on new enhancements

John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer reporting to the Director for z/OS Development at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. He has extensive experience of DB2 in terms of systems, database and applications design. He specialises in design for high performance and data sharing. He is one of IBM's foremost authorities for implementing high end database / transaction processing applications.

In this presentation we will dive into the information that DB2 for z/OS can provide you with in order to get hold of locking conflicts. Various system parameters controlling the behaviour of DB2 with regard to locking are described. Messages and trace records showing deadlocks, timeouts, and long running transactions will be looked at in detail. Our ideas on a home grown poor man's locking conflict monitor will be presented. A requirement to amend the existing messages and trace records with more exact references to the actual involved SQL statements will be discussed.

Lennart Henang has been working with DB2 since 1983. Both on z/OS and on other platforms. He is currently employed at Svenska Handelsbanken AB in Stockholm, Sweden where his role is to be a System z IT Architect.

Triggers have been around for some time now (in fact a SURPRISING length of time!). This, and the fact that they are vefry easy to write does mean that they have been used more than other new Version 6 features. HOWEVER, this familiarity and ease of use does mean that less care is sometimes taken to consider just whether a Trigger is the most appropriate solution. Not only that, the performance implications are often not well understood either. This presentation starts with an overview and history of the DB2 Trigger before looking at some of the Pitfalls, some of the Performance issues and finally reviews some of the changes introduced in DB2 9 enabling Procedural SQL to be used in the trigger body text.

Phil has over 20 years experience of DB2, starting work in 1987 with DB2 Version 1.2. Since then he has worked with all versions, including DB2 9. Beginning as a DBA for one of the largest users of DB2 in the UK, Phil is now Senior Principal Product Manager for CAs line of DB2 solutions. Phil has always been a keen supporter of user groups and is a regular speaker at events, as well as being the CA representative on the European IDUG Planning Committee. In addition, Phil is a regular contributor to the IDUG sponsored DB2-L discussion list

Have you ever thought about what it takes to do Utility-work properly?

When you Recover to point in time objects are put in all kind of pending states, LOB's and sequences does not behave as you thought and you see utilities run for a long time, when you thought they would be run fast.

You use all your daytime to run utilities and have no fun of getting to know DB2 Better.

Come and hear what we did in JN Data to overcome these challenges and what you can do yourself to ease the pain and get time for more fun with DB2.

This presentation will also do a quick Introduction to Real Time Statistics as a cookery book recipe, which have now been running at JN Data for about 2 years.

Svenn-Aage is member of the DB2 team of JN Data and has been working with DB2 professionally since 1986 both as Systemsprogrammer, DBA and Manager. Svenn-Aage has been presenting at GSE, IDUG, Information On Demand and DB2 Swapshops over the last many years. Svenn-Aage has been a developer in the Financial sector for 5 years starting i 1976 and has extensive experience in both development, systems programming, DBA and support, including development of IT Infrastructure for all included. Svenn-Aage is Chairman of the GSE Nordic DB2 Working Group and is Technical Coordinator in GSE Nordic.

This session will describe the latest improvements to Data Studio and pureQuery that allow customers to produce WebSphere database applications that perform better and are easier to manage. The session will describe how pureQuery is expanding the capabilities to allow Hibernate customers to gain significant benefit. The session will also show the latest application development tools for Java that allow enterprise Java developers to produce applications that are much more "enterprise ready" when they leave the developer's desktop.

Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow and chief technology officer for the IBM database servers. He has technical and management oversight for the application development and administration tools used with DB2 and IDS.

This session will discuss the performance pains for insert intensive workloads, the areas for tuning insert intensive workloads, how design for high performance, and how to use the new features of DB2 9 for z/OS to benefit insert intensive workloads, and specific considerations for data sharing. The typical performance bottlenecks and tuning will be introduced and discussed: read and write I/O for index and data, active log write, CPU time, lock/latch contention and service task waits,use of multi row insert, use of INSERT vs. LOAD utility. The following enhancements of DB2 9 for z/OS will be introduced and discussed: reduced LRSN Spin and log latch contention, increased index look aside, asymmetric index leaf page split, randomized index key. table APPEND option.

John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer reporting to the Director for z/OS Development at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. He has extensive experience of DB2 in terms of systems, database and applications design. He specialises in design for high performance and data sharing. He is one of IBM's foremost authorities for implementing high end database / transaction processing applications.

DB2 z/OS V8 and 9 have introduced us to many new EXPLAIN tables. This session will introduce users some of the new EXPLAIN tables to be used for advanced query analysis, and demonstrate how SQL queries can be used to gather and analyze the this information. The session will also include information about using the DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE to perform analysis on the dynamic SQL cache.

Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a background in system and database administration. She currently works with several large clients to help development, implement and tune some of the world's largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications.

Data availability does not just mean that the subsystem is up and running. The actual data needs to be available when the user needs it AND it needs to be uncorrupted. This session will look at various aspects involved in data availability. The first part will focus on how we create and maintain our objects (table, tablespaces and indexes) for availability and some of the challenges we face there, such as maintenance. We will look some designs that have been implemented to achieve the appearance of total availability for both the physical objects and the applications. We will look at some new features of V9 that will help our designs become more highly available. The second part will look at recovery planning and system availability. We will be addressing the question of ?Are we truly ready for a day that we hope will never come?? Often companies think they are prepared, but in fact are missing key components of their recovery strategy and often this leads to trouble

Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a background in system and database administration. She currently works with several large clients to help development, implement and tune some of the world's largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications.

Performance of a query portfolio is critical to database applications. Periodic maintenance, such as collecting relevant statistics and reoptimizing (for example, rebinding), is key to a well-tuned portfolio. Query reoptimization usually provides instant benefits due to improved access paths. However, it also exposes the application to performance regressions. This session examines best practices for achieving optimal access paths and recovering from regressions. It covers solutions available to DBAs in DB2 V8, critical technology in DB2 9 (undoing rebinds), and future initiatives aimed at providing an unprecedented level of access path stability.

Adarsh Pannu is a Senior Software Engineer working on IBM's DB2 for z/OS. He has over 18 years of experience developing database management systems, primarily focussing on query processing. His areas of expertise include optimization and execution of complex queries.

This session starts off by providing an overview of the many SQL enhancements in DB2 9 for z/OS. It subsequently focusses on a few key areas including: Seamless integration of XML and SQL data using pureXML; Native SQL Stored Procedures; Advanced performance-centric enhancements (such as indexes on expressions, histogram statistics and REOPT AUTO); and solutions to manage and analyze spatial information.

Adarsh Pannu is a Senior Software Engineer working on IBM's DB2 for z/OS. He has over 18 years of experience developing database management systems, primarily focussing on query processing. His areas of expertise include optimization and execution of complex queries

IBM continues its investment in IMS with Version 11, providing leadership in performance, reliability and security to help you keep pace with the evolving IT industry. Three key areas are addressed in this release to help lower your IT costs: business flexibility, simplified administration and growth. IMS 11 provides an integrated distributed database access solution, improves connectivity and ease of use, increases system availability, and offers an architectural road map that supports future growth. This session takes a high-level view of the various new features that enable these benefits. Key features include: 1. Open distributed IMS database access support, extended Web services and connectivity for SOA. 2. Enhanced commands and user exits that simplify installation and system management. 3. Fast Path 64-bit buffer management, expanded storage, and security enhancements that increase performance, scalability and reliability as well as improve security.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist, from IBM Software Group BetaWorks, Hursley, UK, is responsible for the IMS Quality Partnership Programs (QPPs) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During the QPP a small set of Customers implement future releases of IMS to validate the quality of the code prior to it being made generally available to the broader community. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 20 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

IMS 11 provides DBRC enhancements in the areas of serviceability and manageability. With IMS 11 you can choose to run DBRC regions on the IMS Base Primitive Environment (BPE) base, extending BPE's suite of system services (storage management, tracing and dispatching) to DBRC, simplifying the management and operations of DBRC. Users of DBRC can now specify a maximum retention period for recovery information using a simple command, which reduces the amount and size of retained RECON information and simplifies the clean up of expired data sets. Finally, security is simplified with the removal of a security check bypass, eliminating unnecessary security checks in test and debugging environments.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist, from IBM Software Group BetaWorks, Hursley, UK, is responsible for the IMS Quality Partnership Programs (QPPs) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During the QPP a small set of Customers implement future releases of IMS to validate the quality of the code prior to it being made generally available to the broader community. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 20 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

Enterprise transformation is key to protecting customer investments. This session provides an overview of how IMS has been transformed into an SOA on demand business. It describes IMS approaches and strategy, with a particular focus on the choices available and merits of one choice over another. This strategy extends IMS applications and data out to a distributed system and into the world of Java, EJBs, XML, SOAP and Web Services. This session discusses IMS SOA (service oriented architecture) offerings using IMS Connect, WebSphere and IMS SOAP gateway. It also covers access to IMS databases, XML in IMS databases, and future directions of IMS in integrating into the SOA environment.

Barbara Klein is the IMS Product Manager at IBMs Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. Involved with IMS, DB2, and CICS for more than 30 years, she has held a variety of positions in Planning, Design, Development, Assurance, Systems Engineering, Industry Marketing, and Management. She is currently responsible for the IMS strategic planning and introduction of new IMS versions and functions.

Web 2.0 brings about a new dimension of imagination and innovation for organizations to use information as a strategic business asset to gain a competitive advantage. This session begins by reviewing the basics of Web 2.0 (mashups, feeds, widgets, etc), and briefly considers the business benefits of Web 2.0 solutions. The main topic shows how, using simple tooling, you can unleash your IMS transaction assets into the Web 2.0 community with very little technical knowledge.

Alan Cooper is an IMS Consultant in the IBM Software Business, and is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has worked with IMS for over 35 years, and has specialised in a broad range of aspects of IMS, including Performance, Fast Path, DBRC, Parallel Sysplex, IMS in a Service Oriented Architecture, and the new range of IBM's IMS Tools. Alan teaches IMS courses throughout Europe, and has written and contributed to several IMS Red Books. He features on the agenda of many IBM and GSE IMS-related technical conferences in Europe, assists with the IMS Early Support Programme, and travels widely to help customers working on the leading edge of IMS technology. His other technical interests include programming languages, and he is an enthusiastic champion of java.

The IBM IMS hierarchical database has served as the backbone for industry-leading companies demanding the highest performance, stability and reliability for 40 years now. Although the heart of this industry-proven data store has changed little, IMS continues to make great strides in new application development, connectivity, and data representation and its strategic role in an SOA environment. Come hear about these latest advances to IMS DB and catch a glimpse of where it is going.

Deepak is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley lab. Currently, he is part of the IMS SOA core team helping customers 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 applications, 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.

IMS TM has been evolving to provide its customers the ability to quickly and safely extend their long standing investments in existing applications and data. With today's focus being on web services and integrating information for SOA, IMS TM continues to serve as a strong base. This session reviews the IMS TM enhancements that will be delivered as part of IMS 11, and which include transaction time-out, more type-2 commands including for OTMA, enhanced OTMA flood control, dynamic updating of OTMA routing descriptors, and a range of IMS Connect facilities including an input/output exit and a client API.

Alan Cooper is an IMS Consultant in the IBM Software Business, and is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has worked with IMS for over 35 years, and has specialised in a broad range of aspects of IMS, including Performance, Fast Path, DBRC, Parallel Sysplex, IMS in a Service Oriented Architecture, and the new range of IBM's IMS Tools. Alan teaches IMS courses throughout Europe, and has written and contributed to several IMS Red Books. He features on the agenda of many IBM and GSE IMS-related technical conferences in Europe, assists with the IMS Early Support Programme, and travels widely to help customers working on the leading edge of IMS technology. His other technical interests include programming languages, and he is an enthusiastic champion of java.

This session will outline the many considerations and parameters necessary to successfully implement IMS Connect in your environment. It includes new enhancements for IMS V10 and IMS V11.

Mr. Nathan has 35 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 5 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

Implementing an IMS Connect Client is not an easy task. There are many considerations if you write your own client. There are also several tools which can help you to implement these clients. This presentation will cover all of these items in detail.

Mr. Nathan has 35 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 5 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

The IMS SOAP Gateway allows you to expose your IMS transactions as SOA Services with no application program changes, no requirement for a JEE environment, and no requirement to write your own XML translator. This session will show you how all of the magic is performed.

Mr. Nathan has 35 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 5 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

How do you virtualize IMS? The answer is that you have multiple copies of IMS working in a single IMSplex. Then you need plex-wide commands to manage the IMSplex, and a single Point of control (SPOC) to issue the commands and process the responses. This session will discuss the IMS SPOC and how to use it to manage your IMSplex.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist, from IBM Software Group BetaWorks, Hursley, UK, is responsible for the IMS Quality Partnership Programs (QPPs) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During the QPP a small set of Customers implement future releases of IMS to validate the quality of the code prior to it being made generally available to the broader community. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 20 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

Over the past few years, the IMS developers in the Silicon Valley Lab have produced a steady number of enhancements and new functions that were not announced as part of a new IMS release, but which have been made available as PTFs. Consequently, they have slipped quietly into the product, and may have escaped your notice. They cover a broad range of IMS components - DL/1, HALDB, Fastpath, DBRC, data sharing, CSL, and so on. Some enhancements look very useful, others are more esoteric. IMS 10 in particular has had significant new function added by PTF, and there is more still to come. This presentation reviews the most significant functional enhancements that have been delivered through the service process for IMS 9 and 10, and summarises what is still planned for IMS 10.

Alan Cooper is an IMS Consultant in the IBM Software Business, and is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has worked with IMS for over 35 years, and has specialised in a broad range of aspects of IMS, including Performance, Fast Path, DBRC, Parallel Sysplex, IMS in a Service Oriented Architecture, and the new range of IBM's IMS Tools. Alan teaches IMS courses throughout Europe, and has written and contributed to several IMS Red Books. He features on the agenda of many IBM and GSE IMS-related technical conferences in Europe, assists with the IMS Early Support Programme, and travels widely to help customers working on the leading edge of IMS technology. His other technical interests include programming languages, and he is an enthusiastic champion of java.

In addition to being a much faster processor than its predecessor, the IBM System z10 processor adds significant additional value in other dimensions. The latest releases of z/OS unlock much of this value. In this session, the speaker covers several of the new capabilities delivered by the z10 which are enabled by z/OS releases 10 and 11. These include: Automatic StandAlone Dump and re-IPL, Hiperdispatch, Large Page Support, Data Prefetch, and Hardware Instrumentation.

Bob Rogers is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, working on System z software system design. He joined IBM in 1969 in Poughkeepsie as a computer operator. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Marist College in 1971 and subsequently became a computer programmer at the Poughkeepsie Programming Center, where he worked on the OS/360 operating system. Bob Rogers has been working on mainframe operating systems at IBM for over 35 years, including the transitions to both XA-370 and ESA/370, and was lead software designer for the transition to the 64-bit z/Architecture. As part of z/Architecture development, he contributed to the definition of the architecture and created the overall design of the software support. He implemented the support for single z/OS images with more than 16 CPUs. More recently, he was a lead designer of the z/OS support for the zSeries Application Assist Processors (zAAPs) and the System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). He is a member of the IBM System z Software Design Council and holds a number a patents. Bob is a frequent and popular speaker at technical conferences in the US and worldwide and occasionally teaches classes on the latest technologies to Software Vendors.

In this session, the speaker will overview some of the 'little goodies' that have been included in the BCP and related elements of z/OS in the most recent release. Larger items are merely overviewed and may be covered more fully in other presentations but many items too small for a full presentation are also touched upon. The presentation covers items in z/OS 1.10 and an introduction to z/OS 1.11. Topics will include:

• Automatic StandAlone Dump and re-IPL
• Allocation enhancements for large environments
• Large Page Support - Hiperdispatch
• Extended Address Volumes
• Other important 1.10 items
• Select 1.11 items that are not yet announced

Bob Rogers is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, working on System z software system design. He joined IBM in 1969 in Poughkeepsie as a computer operator. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Marist College in 1971 and subsequently became a computer programmer at the Poughkeepsie Programming Center, where he worked on the OS/360 operating system. Bob Rogers has been working on mainframe operating systems at IBM for over 35 years, including the transitions to both XA-370 and ESA/370, and was lead software designer for the transition to the 64-bit z/Architecture. As part of z/Architecture development, he contributed to the definition of the architecture and created the overall design of the software support. He implemented the support for single z/OS images with more than 16 CPUs. More recently, he was a lead designer of the z/OS support for the zSeries Application Assist Processors (zAAPs) and the System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). He is a member of the IBM System z Software Design Council and holds a number a patents. Bob is a frequent and popular speaker at technical conferences in the US and worldwide and occasionally teaches classes on the latest technologies to Software Vendors.

Java on the mainframe has reached a level of maturity. Big mainframe players support it and its popularity has radically increased due skills availability and competitive pricing models on the z platform. Having answered the question "Can we run it?". Many people are now asking "How can we run it well?". This informative presentation brings together Java tuning information from a collection of CICS, IMS and DB2 experts.

Scott Clee is the CICS Test Architect for IBM in the UK Hursley laboratory. Over the last 7 years Scott has specialized in the areas of Java and Web services in CICS. As an evangelist for the sharing of knowledge, Scott has written various IBM developerWorks articles, and co-authored three CICS Red Books including the recent "Java Application Development for CICS" update.

Come to this session to hear all about the new release of WebSphere MQ. Learn about new functions and interfaces. Some other sessions in this conference have more details of enhanced capabilities; this session gives an overview of all the new features.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 10 years developing and servicing the MQSeries and WebSphere MQ products on OS/390 and z/OS. Her main areas of expertise are in the channels and communications area, with recently her work on Secure Sockets Layer in the MQ channels allowing her to branch out into a new area - Security. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is now the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

WebSphere MQ V7 extends the MQ API (Application Programming Interface) in a number of ways. In this presentation we will cover the new API changes, excluding Publish/Subscribe:- Asynchronous Consumption of messages Asynchronous Put Response Read-ahead of messages Connection changes Message Properties + Selectors Simplified Browse + Co-operative Browse

Morag has worked in IBM for over 10 years developing and servicing the MQSeries and WebSphere MQ products on OS/390 and z/OS. Her main areas of expertise are in the channels and communications area, with recently her work on Secure Sockets Layer in the MQ channels allowing her to branch out into a new area - Security. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is now the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

Organizations are frequently integrating file-based systems into an enterprise service bus (ESB) as critical integration technologies. For some time WebSphere® Message Broker has provided file processing capabilities through the Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) and Queued Sequential Access Method (QSAM) nodes and WebSphere Transformation Extender. These existing facilities are now complimented with the new file processing nodes which appear in WebSphere® Message Broker Version 6.1. What are they, what do they do, how can you use them in your processing? These questions and more will be answered in this session.

Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development.

This presentation introduces WebSphere MQ Clients - what a client is and how it works. It also covers the different APIs available and the facilities available to client applications including some enhancements in WebSphere MQ version 7.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 10 years developing and servicing the MQSeries and WebSphere MQ products on OS/390 and z/OS. Her main areas of expertise are in the channels and communications area, with recently her work on Secure Sockets Layer in the MQ channels allowing her to branch out into a new area - Security. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is now the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

For both new and experienced users of application messaging and IBM WebSphere® MQ (WMQ) transports, this session demonstrates how to connect all enterprise applications together in innovative ways that provide enhanced, dynamic functions. The session will illustrate how the powerful WebSphere Message Broker provides a flexible, transport-independent messaging backbone. By extending message distribution capabilities, message brokers allow for more complex integration, including message transformation using ESQL, Java, graphical mapping and XSLT, and message enrichment using external data sources such as relational databases. This session will demonstrate how Eclipse tools allow users to graphically construct application connectivity requirements with IBM, user-supplied, or third-party components.

Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development.

Many installations have failed in their proof of concept because of simple errors in the configuration. Linux on System z is NOT Linux on Intel. The requirements are different. But on System z, we have technologies that other platforms can only dream of - and utilizing those technologies often means the difference between success and failure. This presentation provides configuration guidelines on how to configure Linux for performance and success.

Barton Robinson is CEO and Chief Architect of Velocity Software Inc, and now Velocity Software GmbH. Barton is a regular speaker on VM and Linux performance topis at SHARE, CMG, IBM Conferences and other user groups. With 30 years of experience with VM and more than 25 with VM performance, Barton is heavily involved in performance research to understand how to make Linux run most effectively on z/VM. This research also includes being a participant in many of IBM's Linux on VM Redbook residencies, as well as working with hundreds of installations on their performance problems. Barton is the architect of ESALPS, Velocity Software's product suite for z/VM and Linux performance measurement and capacity planning. ESALPS includes ESATCP for network and Linux measurements, and ESAWEB, a VERY fast web server for VM.

IBM WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition V7 enables organizations to modernize their file transfer and achieve economies of scale by also using a WMQ infrastructure for both messages and Secure Managed File Transfer. This session provides an introduction to file transfer using WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Version 7.0, covering product features and capabilities. It's easy to get going with WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition V7 and we'll show you how.

Ian is a software engineer based at the IBM UK Hursley Laboratory. Having spent 8 years working in various roles in the WebSphere MQ development team, he recently moved to the SWG Federated Integration Test team, where he focuses on customer-like scenario testing. Ian regularly presents at conferences, his name can be found in various articles, and he recently co-authored the Redbook 'The Mixed Platform Stack Project: Deploying a Secure SOA Solution into z/OS and Mixed z/OS and AIX Environments'.

System z is the strategic core of business world wide. Come to this session and see how the IBM SOA portfolio can be deployed on z/OS in partnership with AIX. The session is based on the experiences of two teams which architected and deployed a secure SOA environment, based on a realistic customer scenario, involving WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, CICS, DB2, several security products, and more. Come along to see an end to end solution and hear about our project goals, SOA environment architecture, and details of specific hot topic product integration points.

Ian is a software engineer based at the IBM UK Hursley Laboratory. Having spent 8 years working in various roles in the WebSphere MQ development team, he recently moved to the SWG Federated Integration Test team, where he focuses on customer-like scenario testing. Ian regularly presents at conferences, his name can be found in various articles, and he recently co-authored the Redbook 'The Mixed Platform Stack Project: Deploying a Secure SOA Solution into z/OS and Mixed z/OS and AIX Environments'.