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

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

The following subjects will be discussed: Cybercrime, Attackers and Defenders - Crime is the Problem, not Hacking, Cybercrime is the Fastest Growing Segment of the IT Industry, Information Warfare: Threats and Strategy, Strategic Information Warfare, The Next Wave: Cyberwar against Estonia and Georgia, Russia and Cybercrime, Cyber Jihad, Critical Infrastructure Security, Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), CERT-EE, Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO), Future Trends.

From 1971 to 1997 the speaker was in Tallinn University of Technology, from 1992 to 1997 he worked there as the professor on systems programming. From 1997 till now the speaker is working in Eesti Ühispank / SEB (Estonia) as CTO and CISO. The speaker got his PhD from Tallinn Institute of Cybernetics in 1983.

By distributed testing we mean the generation and execution of tests that consist of several automated test parts and are executed on separate machines. The term ?distributed? means not only a simultaneous run of automated tests on a number of machines, it also suggests that automated test parts interact with each other during a test run.

Distributed testing is normally needed for web or intranet sites, client-server and other multi-tier applications where a server application interacts with more than one client. This talk focuses on a novel model-based test generation concept where the test generation product is a distributed test configuration that can adapt to the system changes during the test run, autonomous test components are able to perform runtime planning and decentralized coordination. We discuss the relevance of the concept for testing partially defined and/or non-deterministic distributed systems.

Professor Jüri Vain is Director of the Department of Computer Science at Tallinn University of Technology. He holds a Ph.d from 1987 from the Tallinn Institue of Cybernetics. His main fields of research are Natural Sciences and Engineering, Computer Sciences (Formal specification and verification of hybrid dynamic systems. Modeling and analysis of embedded and distributed systems).

From its inception, the mainframe (currently known as System z) has had a distinctive centralized design. This session will explore the salient feature of its design with respect to software and hardware functionality, and compare and contrast with "distributed" non-mainframe servers. There will be a discussion of the concept of "fit for purpose" -- that should be useful for anyone who is exploring how best to combine different systems to provide new business capabilities.

David Rhoderick is Manager of IBM's Software Group Competitive Project Office. He has extensive expertise in application deployment and the financial aspects of mainframe operation. In his 30+ years at IBM, working in both the U.S. and the U.K., he has worked in many different fields including software pricing, marketing, ISV recruitment, consulting, sales, systems engineering, development and systems programming. His previous experience at IBM includes the development of the OS/2 operating system for PCs and porting a large DEC-VAX application to the AIX environment for a media company. David started his IBM career in Hursley, UK, -- the home of CICS, MQSeries and many other successful IBM products. He was a systems programmer for the Hursley Data Center for 7 years being responsible for CICS, ATMS, JES2 and the base MVS system. He then moved to development where he was involved with DISOSS, GDDM, 3270-PC, OS/2 and CICS software. Mr. Rhoderick holds a Masters degree in Computer and Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and is currently studying for a Masters in Musicology at the UK?s Open University. He has received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for the Competitive Analysis of Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership. Outside of IBM, David is currently President of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society

System z continues to evolve as new requirements for mission critical computing emerge. This non-confidential session will discuss trends and directions of high-end servers, and will then overview the requirements that are being studied and evaluated for new mainframe functionality in terms of hardware, software, and usage patterns.

David Rhoderick is Manager of IBM's Software Group Competitive Project Office. He has extensive expertise in application deployment and the financial aspects of mainframe operation. In his 30+ years at IBM, working in both the U.S. and the U.K., he has worked in many different fields including software pricing, marketing, ISV recruitment, consulting, sales, systems engineering, development and systems programming. His previous experience at IBM includes the development of the OS/2 operating system for PCs and porting a large DEC-VAX application to the AIX environment for a media company. David started his IBM career in Hursley, UK, -- the home of CICS, MQSeries and many other successful IBM products. He was a systems programmer for the Hursley Data Center for 7 years being responsible for CICS, ATMS, JES2 and the base MVS system. He then moved to development where he was involved with DISOSS, GDDM, 3270-PC, OS/2 and CICS software. Mr. Rhoderick holds a Masters degree in Computer and Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and is currently studying for a Masters in Musicology at the UK?s Open University. He has received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for the Competitive Analysis of Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership. Outside of IBM, David is currently President of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society

Our jobs have changed. Where we comfortably managed the IBM Mainframe 5 years ago with many colleagues in neatly defined silo?s of Storage-, Security-, CICS-, MQ-Series-, DB2-, etc specialists, we now often manage many of these tasks. This happened slowly, and without people realizing it. We now probably use double the amount of solutions we did a few years ago and our jobs are more complex than ever. This already poses a problem for experienced mainframe staff, let alone to the new people who we are now hiring to manage the mainframe. Our functional work has changed into a role-based, business driven job where we have to combine different solutions in order to support business processes. How can we support this with the variety of products we currently use? Join us for a session on how CA uses the latest technology that includes Social Networking features as well as a complete new way of componentization of functions to support role-based management of the IBM Mainframe.

Marcel den Hartog is CA's Mainframe Marketing Principal in EMEA. Marcel has 29 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.

This session is about the audit process for mainframe systems. It is specifically addressed to CICS systems programmers and security administrators. The purposes of external audit will be discussed together what the auditor look for and especially why. We will look at four layers: z/OS, network, subsystems and security administration level and discuss security issues and risks at those layers. And lastly: What can you do to help the auditors and in the end yourselves?

Jacqueline Johnson is manager of the mainframe compliance center in KPMG Europe. She has experiences in CICS, RACF and network auditing and has worked extensively with ITIL, ISO 27001 and other governance standards as well as consulting international companies in implementing change management and risk management. Her background is a master degree in law, political science and a bachelor in informatics.

No doubt everyone has heard the term "Web 2.0", but what does it mean to a business, what styles of solution move your business in the right direction, and what technologies can you use? In this session Ian Mitchell, IBM Distinguished Engineer from the Hursley Lab, will introduce the concepts at the heart of Web 2.0, and using examples explain what you need to be considering to respond to this opportunity to modernise your application assets.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent over 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS Product Portfolio. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GUIDEs. Ian works with many of IBM's largest customers ensuring that CICS continues to provide the world leading capabilities and qualities of service it has been renowned for over 40 years.

This session will introduce the concepts of Event Processing, and give an overview of the IBM's business event products across the brands. With WebSphere Business Events at the heart of an event processing system, the session will cover products that act as sources of business events, the role of WebSphere Business Events, and those products which consume and act on business events.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has over 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences.

Abstract: DB2 for z/OS has a long history of exploiting z/OS and System z enhancements. Examples of these include ESA and 64 bit Architectures, and Parallel Sysplex (DB2 Datasharing). That's the past - this session focuses on the present and the future. In this session, we will discuss how DB2 is taking advantage of the latest changes in System z HW and SW to bring you a more robust, scalable, and affordable computing platform today, and in the future.

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 z/OS has become a strong force on z/OS. This talk will survey a number of aspects of Java running on z/OS. See how to write and debug a simple Java application, use JzOS capabilities to access z/OS resources, write a JDBC application to access DB2 for z/OS and run it on Windows and z/OS, and show how to call Java from a compiled language such as COBOL or PL/I. Java is a supported language in CICS and IMS, and I will provide information sources for these runtimes.

Larry is an architect in the Rational Brand focused on application development tools for z/OS and he has a solid z/OS background. He is a member of the Rational Development Council, the z/OS Software Design Council, and an IBM Master Inventor. As part of the IBM Academy of Technology affiliate program, Larry leads the Silicon Valley Technical Vitality Council. Prior roles within IBM have included the development of VM, DB2 Text Extender, Language Environment, OS PL/I Runtime Environment, C/C++ Runtime environment, Distributed Database administration utilities, DB2 LUW Control Center, and various Rational products. When not working, you may find Larry running in the California hills or helping to organize a long distance run (called an UltraRun).

zFS is now replacing HFS as the "right way" to store data in the USS environment. An ISPF utility is available for conversion of old HFS datasets to zFS. zFS in the SYSPLEX environment - improvements in z/OS 1.11. Guidelines for maintenance of systems that stores data in zFS. TFS - Advantages of using the temporary file system

Until recently, social media has been adopted by business enterprises mainly for marketing purposes. Yet, the innovation potential of blogs, social networking environments and other Web 2.0 tools can be significantly larger also in the context of knowledge building and competency management in business organisations. This presentation introduces an innovative approach to learning and knowledge building in network enterprise focusing on the virtual communities. The potential of the most popular social software tools, related good practices and current bottlenecks related to community based learning are discussed. The second part of the presentation is devoted to the latest developments and future trends in the field. The presentation will be illustrated with a number of concrete examples of uses of social media in learning and knowledge building in the enterprise environment.

Professor Peeter Normak is the head of the Institute of Informatics at Tallinn University. His is the principal investigator of the targeted research project "Distributed learning environments, their interoperability and models of application" of Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.

This session will examine activities related to the WebSphere platform and cloud computing. IBM's view of cloud computing will be reviewed followed by a detailed survey of key products and initiatives enabling WebSphere applications on both public and private cloud environments. Products to be discussed include WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere on Amazon EC2, and WebSphere on the IBM Cloud. Emerging products and initiatives will be reviewed as well.

Mr. McGee is a Distinguished Engineer (DE) and Chief Architect for WebSphere Cloud Platforms and Runtimes. Jason is currently responsible for defining technologies and products related to running middleware on cloud infrastructures. Previously Jason has served as Chief Architect of WebSphere Extended Deployment (comprised of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere Compute Grid), WebSphere sMash, and WebSphere Application Server on distributed platforms. He is a Senior Architect on the WebSphere Foundation Architecture Board. Jason serves as the Director of WebSphere Advanced Technologies, responsible for productization of new technologies into the WebSphere platform. Jason joined IBM in 1997 and has been a member of the WebSphere Server team since its inception. Jason graduated with a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995.

We will briefly introduce the notion of "composite applications" and describe challenges that exist in developing and maintaining composite Services-based Enterprise applications. Specifically we will focus on debugging as an integral process of application development and maintenance.

We will use HTML/Java/Web Service/CICS composite application as an example and show the importance of single context and singe user interface for efficiency and effectiveness of debugging.

Gary Mazo has over 20 years of software development experience. Since joining IBM in 1987, he worked on projects ranging from writing parts of Fortran compiler to development of a graphics library for COBOL, to writing an MS Windows plugin for accessing remote file systems on MVS. Currently, Gary is part of a global team in charge of Enterprise modernization strategy, and its development and implementation in Rational Developer for System z.

Detailed information is required to understand, maintain and extend existing software assets, through impact analysis and application understanding. Relevant information can only be obtained by in depth analysis of massive amounts of data, existing artifacts. IBM's strategy of obtaining this knowledge and analyzing application assets and their relationships is captured in the form of a program product. Analyze the effect of a proposed software change in your Enterprise Information System. Inventory and scan traditional S/390® artifacts and new technologies related assets that make up core business applications. Store this knowledge in the database and use simple WEB browser and programmatic interface to make it available to anyone that needs it. Or use Eclipse based interface to bring this knowledge, including impact results directly into the developers working environment.

Team lead for Rational Asset Analyzer and WebSphere Studio Analyzer Silicon Valley Laboratory, CA. Joined IBM after many years of consulting for computer hardware and software industry and many application programming projects for various manufacturers around the world. His clients included, truck manufacturer, government organizations, shoe factory as well as technical leaders like IBM, Microsoft, HP and Lexmark. Currently the leader of the team responsible for Rational Asset Analyzer and WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer. Holds masters degree in Computer Science from AGH university in Cracow Poland and Masters Certificate in ProjectManagement from George Washington University.

Yes, another new COBOL compiler for z/OS! Come and hear about what is new in Enterprise COBOL V4.2:

XML PARSE enhancements, including: ? Support for validation against SCHEMA (VALIDATING phrase) ? Performance of nonvalidating parsing is improved Customizable severity of compiler messages: ? RC=0 even with Optimizer messages! ? RC=12 if you want to restrict language usage! BLOCK0 compiler option to change default to: ? BLOCK CONTAINS 0 ? Exploit system determined blocksize! Underscore in user-defined words and program names: ? Generate XML documents with underscore without post processing ? Use the same variable names across multiple languages! CICS options in COBOL compiler listing with integrated CICS translator More releases of Java supported for Java interoperability ? Java 5 and Java 6

Tom Ross is a senior software engineer in COBOL development.

Tom has spent his entire 27 year IBM career in COBOL development, working on the compiler and run-time libraries for every release of VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390 & VM, and IBM COBOL on AIX, Windows, and OS/2. He is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for MVS and VM, and in many issues facing IBM mainframe customers. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and is the IBM representative for COBOL to SHARE.

Tom grew up in Los Gatos (a suburb of San Jose) California and earned a Bachelor Degree in Computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. He started his love affair with IBM on Valentine's Day, 1983.

You can use COBOL to parse and generate XML documents, but you can also use DB2 and Pure XML to do some of the same things. You want to process XML documents, but you don't know if you should use DB2 or COBOL...or both! IBM documentation does not compare the two products in this area, but this presentation does. Come and see examples of using XML features in COBOL and DB2, with comparison and advantages and disadvantages of each, and of how to use them together!

Tom Ross is a senior software engineer in COBOL development.

Tom has spent his entire 27 year IBM career in COBOL development, working on the compiler and run-time libraries for every release of VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390 & VM, and IBM COBOL on AIX, Windows, and OS/2. He is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for MVS and VM, and in many issues facing IBM mainframe customers. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and is the IBM representative for COBOL to SHARE.

Tom grew up in Los Gatos (a suburb of San Jose) California and earned a Bachelor Degree in Computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. He started his love affair with IBM on Valentine's Day, 1983.

The presentation shall cover followings: ? Accessing Environment variables ? BIT manipulation in COBOL ? Executing ?C? rutines via COBOL ? Handling XMLs ? SYSTEM info using COBOL ? Dynamic file allocation in COBOL ? Handling POINTERS ? COBOL classes and objects ? Embedded SQL (Static and Dynamic) 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.

Have you ever thought that a disaster would hit you on your 60 TB database and you have to restore it all before you can use it for customer access. Come and hear a solution that helps you handle this problem.

Existence checking on a very large tables can be expensive and cost a lot of time when you are using singleton select. Do it another way, using the parallel mechanisms and not often used parameter in the DB2 bind.

Using LIKE in SQL all know can be expensive but sometimes it is not possible commercially to avoid it. Through new facilities in DB2 9 can LIKE be coded differently and significantly faster and sometimes cheaper.

Per Wøldike has worked as programmer, analyst, designer for more than 23 years and in recent years in exploring new opportunities in DB2 and performance tuning for large amounts of data.

His work at Jyske Bank, Denmark has in recent years been the accounting area where tha majority of data is stored. Batch execution optimization is one of the most important area and to ensure that data is available on time and for 24 by 7 and this has been Per's major area of focus in recent years.

Rational, ISPF, Jazz, Eclipse, COBOL, PL/I, EGL, XML, Agile... we have all heard the words - but what does it really mean when IBM combines it all in one Workplace for the developer. Rational Developer for system z is the premier developer tool for mainframe development, but there is much more than just writing code to do mainframe development. This presentation will try to illustrate the possibilities for collaborating across your teams and focus on the various surrounding features like SQL access, CICS exploration, Fault Analyses, File Management, Application Management and Asset Analysis.

Rational Team Concert for System z (RTCz) brings the value of collaborative development to your mainframe developers, and provides a true cross system development environment for your organization. With RTCz you have one solution for project planning, collaboration, and reporting across your organization.

Guy currently has the role of Chief Programmer for the Rational Team Concert for System z product. He held this role during the 2.0.0.1 release and continues in it for the next release. Guy has a 23 year carrier in the IT industry. Starting out at Air New Zealand working in a CSP/PLI/DB2 mainframe environment then moving over to England where he spent 5 years freelance contracting for numerous mainframe based customers using CSP/COBOL/PLI/DB2 ranging from a main street retailer to a water company and large insurance companies. For the last 14 years he has been living in the U.S working for IBM. During this time he has been a developer on the VisualAge Generator product, the Rational Application Developer product, and the Rational Business Developer product before moving to his current role a little over a year ago.

This session will give you an update on what's new for the CICS products, covering the latest improvements to the CICS product family and the related ecosystem of products. The session will include new on CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1, updated functionality for V4.1, CICS Transaction Gateway, and the CICS Tools products.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has over 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences.

This session will give an overview of some of the features that enable CICS to provide a highly available environment for running CICS applications. The session will look at high availability through the use of a CICSplex, and will also look at how to provide high availability to remote clients connecting into CICS. This will include TCP/IP based clients such as those using http, Web services, WebSphere MQ and CICS Transaction Gateway.

Grant Shayler is a member of the CICS Strategy team based in Hursley UK. His primary role is to ensure that the CICS tools are an integral part of the CICS Explorer 'new face of CICS' experience. Grant has worked with CICS for the past 22 years, with particular focus on CICS Systems Management including CICSPlex SM and RACF.

This session will start with an overview of the CICS Explorer, and its role as an intuitive Eclipse-based environment for viewing and managing CICS systems. We will then look at CICS Explorer as an integration platform, and show how it integrates with some of the CICS tools and other products. The session will also cover the extensibility provided by the CICS Explorer Software Development Kit.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has over 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences.

This session aims to get you up and running with your first CICS application. After introducing some terminology we will review a core set of things you need to know about the CICS environment, services, and programming model, and examples of using APIs. We will then look at the CICS provided example catalog manager to see how to pull these things together into an application.

Mark Cocker is a CICS TS consultant working for IBM Software Group at the Hursley Laboratory. Since joining in 1992, Mark has worked in various roles in CICS Development, the Change Team, the Beta program, the IBM Design Center for e-Business on Demand, and now in CICS Technical Strategy and Planning. Mark's responsibilities have included developing code, problem diagnosis and resolution, customer programmes, consulting on best practices and proof of concepts, and most recently defining elements of future product releases. Mark regularly presents the latest CICS TS capabilities and product strategy

New capability in CICS TS V4.1 enables CICS applications to be a source of business events. This session will explain how you can gain business insight and value by emitting events from your CICS applications, without requiring any application changes. Potential consumers of events from CICS will be discussed, including IBM WebSphere Business Events and IBM WebSphere Business Monitor, along with how to specify events that they will consume.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has over 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences.

In this session Ian Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer from IBM Hursley, will describe the exciting features in CICS Transaction Server V4.1 that enable your applications to provide data and services using the style and principle of Web 2.0. He will discuss how these lighter-weight technologies can satisfy the simpler range of business and architectural requirements, and how they complement the more comprehensive and formal Web Services capabilities provided by CICS.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent over 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS Product Portfolio. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GUIDEs. Ian works with many of IBM's largest customers ensuring that CICS continues to provide the world leading capabilities and qualities of service it has been renowned for over 40 years.

In this session Ian Mitchell, IBM Distinguished Engineer from the Hursley Lab, will introduce you to an exciting new way to create business applications on CICS using one of the hottest dynamic technologies on the Web. WebSphere sMash is a comprehensive environment for development of scripted applications using many of the principles of Web 2.0 to allow easy incorporation into mash-ups and rich internet applications. With Supportpac CA1S CICS can host applications written in PHP which use the same engine as sMash but with the added capability of all your existing CICS assets being only a LINK away. This technology utilises the JVM inside CICS and Ian will also describe the JVMServer technology introduced in CICS TS V4.1.

Ian Mitchell is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the Hursley Development Lab. He's spent over 20 years working on CICS and is currently the Architect for CICS Product Portfolio. He regularly presents sessions at SHARE, the Transaction and Messaging Conferences and for regional GUIDEs. Ian works with many of IBM's largest customers ensuring that CICS continues to provide the world leading capabilities and qualities of service it has been renowned for over 40 years.

This session outlines the main planning considerations to help you to choose between different options available for securing Web services, in particular integration between IBM WebSphere® Application Server and CICS. Common security scenarios are then presented, including SSL client authentication, signed SOAP message, identity assertion, interoperability with WebSphere DataPower® and using Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager as a Security Token Service. The scenarios are taken from the recently published Redbook, ?Securing CICS Web Services,? as well as customer projects.

Mark Cocker is a CICS TS consultant working for IBM Software Group at the Hursley Laboratory. Since joining in 1992, Mark has worked in various roles in CICS Development, the Change Team, the Beta program, the IBM Design Center for e-Business on Demand, and now in CICS Technical Strategy and Planning. Mark's responsibilities have included developing code, problem diagnosis and resolution, customer programmes, consulting on best practices and proof of concepts, and most recently defining elements of future product releases. Mark regularly presents the latest CICS TS capabilities and product strategy

Performance and Tuning of a CICS environment can seem a daunting task. Where do you start? What will give you the best returns?

This session is not about telling you which levers that you can pull that may affect CICS performance, but it will all discuss how to approach CICS performance problems in general and some of the tools you may use to get your CICS running optimally.

Grant Shayler is a member of the CICS Strategy team based in Hursley UK. His primary role is to ensure that the CICS tools are an integral part of the CICS Explorer 'new face of CICS' experience. Grant has worked with CICS for the past 22 years, with particular focus on CICS Systems Management including CICSPlex SM and RACF.

This session starts by outlining the goals and advantages of XML, its usage today in CICS, and why CICS is using it for more and more of its configuration. We then take a detailed look at what tools are available for authoring XML, processing it with native language features, and how to let CICS do some of the hard work for you with APIs and tooling.

Mark Cocker is a CICS TS consultant working for IBM Software Group at the Hursley Laboratory. Since joining in 1992, Mark has worked in various roles in CICS Development, the Change Team, the Beta program, the IBM Design Center for e-Business on Demand, and now in CICS Technical Strategy and Planning. Mark's responsibilities have included developing code, problem diagnosis and resolution, customer programmes, consulting on best practices and proof of concepts, and most recently defining elements of future product releases. Mark regularly presents the latest CICS TS capabilities and product strategy

Thinking about upgrading to CICS TS 4.1? This session will give an overview of the CICS externals and configuration changes that you may need to investigate when you are upgrading to CICS TS 4.1. The session will highlight changes to Resource Definitions and Programming Interfaces as well as discussing pre-requisites and environmental considerations.

Grant Shayler is a member of the CICS Strategy team based in Hursley UK. His primary role is to ensure that the CICS tools are an integral part of the CICS Explorer 'new face of CICS' experience. Grant has worked with CICS for the past 22 years, with particular focus on CICS Systems Management including CICSPlex SM and RACF.

In the prevalent economic climate, there is pressure on organizations of all sizes to make savings on IT costs. Getting more from limited funds involves a balance between risk, cost and quality. Making cutbacks can have a damaging effect, including increases in the risk of productivity and efficiency, as well as security vulnerabilities for the entire organization. Being able to continually manage their way successfully through the downturn will place organizations in excellent position to grow more quickly as the economy recovers. Tactical cost savings and efficiency must be balanced with proper vision in making the right longer-term choices. I'll be discussing the advantages of DB2 9 and X, and how they can address these common business issues and bring direct business value to your organization.

Rick Bowers is the new Director of DB2 for z/OS. He started in IBM as a developer, and has managed both development and test organizations in STG and SWG. He has also managed key partner strategic alliances and business partner relationships in the Information Management group, and was Director of the New Zealand software lab, In addition, he was the Technical Account Executive at Wal-Mart, and the Director of IBM?s QSE Software Engineering Group.

He resides in San Jose, California, USA with his wife and daughter.

This session will introduce a number of concepts related to Copy Services (Metro Mirror-PPRC, Global Mirror-XRC, FlashCopy) on IBM Enterprise disk subsystems and see how they can provide for point-in-time copy, as well as remote mirroring, of DB2 for z/OS data. We will discuss in some detail the concepts of data consistency and the different functions used to obtain it at the disk subsystem level and at the DB2 for z/OS level. Furthermore, we will talk about DB2 crash restart recovery, discuss the need for -SET LOG SUSPEND and see how the new volume-based DB2 utilities can be used in local or remote recovery scenarios.

Florence Dubois is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist and a member of the SWAT team, formed and directed by DB2 for z/OS Development. In this role, she consults for worldwide customers on a variety of technical topics, including implementation and migration, design for high performance and availability, performance and tuning, system health checks, disaster recovery.

This presentation looks at all the aspects of DB2 for z/OS performance considering how both applications and systems

We'll start with Access Paths and head through an alohabetical journey to Zparms

Along the way we will discover that performance tuning is actually a lot simpler than most people imagine. It's really just about stopping DB2 wasting time doing thnings it doesn't need to do so that the resources can be focussed on those things that are important

Phil has over 20 years experience of DB2, starting work all those years ago in 1987 with DB2 Version 1.2. Since then he has worked with all versions, including DB2 9. From his beginnings as a DB2 DBA for one of the largest users of DB2 at that time in the UK, through his time at PLATINUM technology and including almost 10 years as 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 both CA sponsored and independent events, as well as being the CA representative on the European IDUG Planning Committee.

Phils focus as Senior Principal Product Manager for DB2 tools at CA was with an international view as to the usage of DB2 as well as helping to guide the development of CAs extensive range of DB2 tools.

Currently Phil is running Grainger Database Solutions and working as an independent consultant in the DB2 for z/OS world

In addition, Phil is a regular contributor to the IDUG sponsored DB2-L discussion list

This session will provide an overview of the Data Studio and Optim tools solutions that help customers develop and manage database systems and database applications. The session will give a brief overview of these tools, and will provide detailed updates on the latest improvements and new offerings. Particular focus will be placed on the latest improvements in database performance monitoring and tuning. Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow and Vice President. Curt is the chief technology officer for the DB2 family and Informix IDS database servers, and has both management and technology oversight responsibility for all the client software offerings used with DB2 and IDS. This includes the client runtime APIs (JDBC, .NET, CLI, pureQuery, etc.) and the application development and administration tools offerings (Data Studio and Optim tool portfolio).

We'll start with an overview of what a cloned table is, how you create one and how they are managed. Then the presentation will move on to consider some ways they may be used - after all, the first question many people have once they understand the concept is "Why??". Hopefully you will see why.

Of course, the reason you cannot see why cloned tables might be useful might just be because you or your company really doesn't have the need.

Phil has over 20 years experience of DB2, starting work all those years ago in 1987 with DB2 Version 1.2. Since then he has worked with all versions, including DB2 9. From his beginnings as a DB2 DBA for one of the largest users of DB2 at that time in the UK, through his time at PLATINUM technology and including almost 10 years as 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 both CA sponsored and independent events, as well as being the CA representative on the European IDUG Planning Committee.

Phils focus as Senior Principal Product Manager for DB2 tools at CA was with an international view as to the usage of DB2 as well as helping to guide the development of CAs extensive range of DB2 tools.

Currently Phil is running Grainger Database Solutions and working as an independent consultant in the DB2 for z/OS world

In addition, Phil is a regular contributor to the IDUG sponsored DB2-L discussion list

This session will describe the technical challenges that customers face when trying to create production-like workloads in test environments. The session will describe why it is important to be able to do this, and will also cite examples where failure to do this will create availability and reliability exposures in the production system. The session will then outline IBM's future technology strategy to help address these problems. Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow and Vice President. Curt is the chief technology officer for the DB2 family and Informix IDS database servers, and has both management and technology oversight responsibility for all the client software offerings used with DB2 and IDS. This includes the client runtime APIs (JDBC, .NET, CLI, pureQuery, etc.) and the application development and administration tools offerings (Data Studio and Optim tool portfolio).

For high performance DB2 applications it is not only important we understand how DB2 is optimizing its access to the data, but also how much data is being processes and retrieved at each stage of the SQL statement. Filtering as much as possible, as soon as possible is key to achieving high performance in our applications. This presentation will cover index design issues and query performance topics such as best use of index matching predicates, and index screening. Index access path issues will also be discussed. We will then turn our attention to join performance and index influence to avoid such problems as Death by Random I/O. A quick look at some Explain examples shows how important knowledge of our data and processes can be to understanding how important it is that we understand the decisions made by the optimizer. We will also look at how to promote predicates to have the best access path possible.

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.

This presentation will show how the steps performed to diagnose a couple of query performance problems. The presenter will show how the query is prepared for analysis, what information is collected, and walk through the steps required to understand the query, optimization challenges, and what actions were taken to improve the performance of two sample queries. The intent is to introduce a step by step approach to understanding and tuning queries and introduce users to tools which can assist with the task.

Patrick Bossman started working with DB2 in 1993. Patrick has worked as a customer with Db2 as an applications programmer, database designer and administrator, and complex query performance tuner. Patrick joined IBM in 1999 as a DB2 Advocate where he assisted customer with query performance tuning. Patrick joined the DB2 for z/OS Query Optimization team in 2000 working on query performance service. Patrick is now a technical lead within DB2 for z/OS Query Optimization responsible for service as well as identifying areas of improvement in query optimization and query tuning tools. Patrick holds numerous patents in the area of query optimization and query tuning tools.

This presentation will introduce users to the statistics the optimizer uses to estimate the costs of the different access paths. What statistics should be collected in particular circumstances and how the optimizer uses those statistics to more accurately estimate the candidate access paths. Ultimately, attendees will be more aware of how they can use statistics to help optimizer choose the best access path.

Patrick Bossman started working with DB2 in 1993. Patrick has worked as a customer with Db2 as an applications programmer, database designer and administrator, and complex query performance tuner. Patrick joined IBM in 1999 as a DB2 Advocate where he assisted customer with query performance tuning. Patrick joined the DB2 for z/OS Query Optimization team in 2000 working on query performance service. Patrick is now a technical lead within DB2 for z/OS Query Optimization responsible for service as well as identifying areas of improvement in query optimization and query tuning tools. Patrick holds numerous patents in the area of query optimization and query tuning tools.

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.

This session will introduce and discuss the major performance factors influencing DB2 application performance and will provide general guidelines for good DB2 performance. The topivs covered will include physical database design and aplication design.

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.

Audience: Application Developers, Architects, IMS, DBA, Sys Prog, Level: Basic.

This presentation will give you the information you need to get started with HALDB. Topics include: HALDB Databases, Partition Selection Exits, Partitions, Database Data Sets, Naming Conventions, DBRC, Partition Initialization, Initial Load, Migration from non-HALDB, Increased Database Size with HALDB, and HALDB Maintenance. See Session S66, HALDB for the DBA, for information on administering HALDB databases after they have been created.

Steve Nathan has 37 years of experience in IMS, including 30 years as a customer implementing IMS applications and databases (HALDB included).

This topic discusses the installation and packaging changes for IMS Version 11. It provides hints, and tips to aid with a smooth transition from IMS 9 or IMS 10 to IMS 11. Issues our early support customers have faced during the installation and migration process to IMS 11 will be covered. IMS 11 provides enhanced capabilities to the Installation Verification Program (IVP) and in the Syntax Checker. These ease the migration process. Migration information including prerequisite software, coexistence with previous releases, and migration tasks are described, equipping the attendee with appropriate information to plan for a successful migration to IMS 11.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist, from IBM Software Group BetaWorks, Hursley, UK, is responsible for the IMS Quality Partnership Programs (QPPs) for Europe. 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 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

Audience: Application Developers, Architects, IMS, DBA, Sys Prog., Level: Intermediate.

This presentation will give you the information you need to administer you HALDB databases. Session S64, HALDB Implementation, is a good pre-requisite for this session. Topics include: Backup and Recovery, Self-Healing Pointers, Reorganization, Adding - deleting - modifying partitions, Test databases, Secondary indexes, and Performance.

Steve Nathan has 37 years of experience in IMS, including 30 years as a customer implementing IMS applications and databases (HALDB included).

A service oriented approach to application architecture has been widely adopted to a greater or lesser degree by most IMS customers. A fundamental aspect of this is to reuse existing assets wherever possible, and IMS transactions are typically eminently suitable for this. Most service oriented customers also exploit one or more Enterprise Service Buses. This session reviews the basics of using IMS with ESBs in service oriented solutions, and includes details of a number of relevant customer implementations.

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 36 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 wide 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.

IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway, is a Web service solution that integrates IMS assets in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment. The Gateway enables IMS applications to interoperate outside of the IMS environment through SOAP to provide and request services independent of platform, environment, application language, or programming model. It assists you to enable your IMS application as a Web service provider as well as a consumer. Different types of client applications, such as Microsoft .NET, Java, and third-party applications, can submit SOAP requests into IMS to drive the business logic of the COBOL applications. An overview of this lightweight, XML-based solution will be provided enabling you to get started with it in your environment!

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist, from IBM Software Group BetaWorks, Hursley, UK, is responsible for the IMS Quality Partnership Programs (QPPs) for Europe. 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 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

Barbara Klein is the IMS Product Manager at the IBM 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 IMS strategic planning and introduction of new IMS versions and functions.

This session provides an overview of the many new features in IMS 11 that relate to database and DBRC. Top of the list is the new Database Quiesce facility that makes it very easy to create a recovery point across multiple databases with minimal disruption to IMS service availability. Fastpath also sees a major new (optional) global buffer pool manager which supports multiple CI sizes, and autonomically allocates and manages the buffers, including exploitation of 64 bit memory above the bar. DBRC offers the option to run the online DBRC region as a BPE-based address space, and the benefits of this will be reviewed. DBRC also provides a new way of tidying-up the RECONs, and RECON security is enhanced by allowing control of who can read and who can update the RECONs. The range of other DB and DBRC enhancements will also be covered, together with the facility for dynamically changing IRLM LOCKTIME.

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 36 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 wide 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

All About WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Does your business use files? Need to move them around? If so WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition is for you. Come and learn about this managed file transfer solution, based around the industry leading WebSphere MQ. Come along and discover what managed file transfer is and why it could be useful to you. Find out about the key components of WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, and how it can be used in your WebSphere MQ infrastructure. Learn all about the capabilities of this product, and the new features included in WebSphere MQ FTE 7.0.1.

Richard Cumbers grew up in Essex, did the usual school, college and University stints, albeit with an amazing years internship working for Sun Microsystems in California. Have been working for IBM since 2005, predominantly on WebSphereMQ, but with some side projects.

Introduction to WebSphere Message Broker - Your Universal ESB WebSphere Message Broker is your swiss army knife for application integration, providing any-to-any connectivity. Have you got thousands of integration programs you are tired of supporting? Do you need to build an SOA? You need to know about WebSphere Message Broker. If you want to learn the basics about the Universal ESB, this session is for you. Whether you're new to application messaging, or already an experienced user of WebSphere MQ transports, you'll want to know how to connect together all the applications in your enterprise in innovative ways to provide enhanced functionality. Come and find out how the powerful components of WebSphere Message Broker provide a flexible, transport independent messaging backbone.

Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development.

Introduction to WebSphere MQ WebSphere MQ is the world's leading messaging system used by most of the top fortune 500 companies. Millions of messages and trillions of dollars flow though MQ every day. If you want to learn the basics of this world leading product, this session is for you. This session is designed to introduce WebSphere MQ to the attendees. It provides an introduction for the attendee who has no prior knowledge of WebSphere MQ. Businesses today are entering a new era where information exchange between workgroups, business partners and the global enterprise is critical to business success. This places new and exacting demands on the underlying communication systems: the technology infrastructure is a mission critical business service. Increasingly businesses are looking at messaging based technologies to support their communication requirements. WebSphere MQ is a reliable, industrial strength messaging infrastructure which is implemented across major IBM and non-IBM platforms. WebSphere MQ provides an open and customizable framework that supports a choice of messaging components based on industry standards, and a wide range of business solutions. The information from this session will set a foundation for the other sessions on WebSphere MQ by discussing components and architectures at a high-level.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 13 years designing, developing and servicing the WebSphere MQ product (formerly MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is also the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

What's New in WebSphere Message Broker WebSphere Message Broker is your swiss army knife for application integration, providing any-to-any connectivity. In response to customer requirements the product has been enhanced in a number of ways. From SOAP and Web Services to Batch processing and EIS connectivity, we've got something new for you. WebSphere Message Broker V7 delivers the connectivity and transformation functions that are core to an Enterprise Service Bus. Come to this session to hear all about the ease-of-use improvements, enhanced support for SOA, Extended connectivity, Improved administration and system management facilities and Extended platform support.

Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development.

Web 2.0 and WebSphere MQ This session describes the latest interfaces and technologies being explored to enhance IBM WebSphere® MQ (WMQ) Version 7 Web services support, as well as how to make WMQ more accessible from the Web. This session will also review several WebSphere MQ Web services features. The HTTP-to-WMQ feature of WMQ Version 7 enables direct access to WMQ from Web browsers and HTTP clients. Simple Asynchronous Messaging (SAM) for WMQ is an API for the PHP scripting language. Updates reviewed in this session include the latest updates to Simple Object Access Protocol/Java? Message Service (SOAP/JMS) and the WMQ Transport for SOAP support.

Simon has worked in IBM for 9 years testing and servicing the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker products. His roles in the test team included the testing of the first release of the XMS messaging client, as well as visiting clients and building test scenarios based on client systems. He now works for the WebSphere MQ Java/JMS Level 3 support team, responsible for assisting customers with their use of the JMS client, as well as analysing and resolving client issues.

Securing Your MQ Based Environment (includes WMB and FTE) If you haven't already been asked about the security of your WebSphere MQ infrastructure it is only a matter of time. More than ever before, security issues are on the top of everyone's list. Find out about the approach taken by WebSphere MQ products for controlling user access to queues and how security is extended for messaging between different systems. Then discover how File Transfer Edition (FTE) and WebSphere Message Broker make use of MQ's provided security services and learn about the additional security services provided for tasks specific to those products.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 13 years designing, developing and servicing the WebSphere MQ product (formerly MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is also the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms. Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development. Richard Cumbers.

Application Development Efficiency for WebSphere MQ Do you want to write an MQ applications that utilises the resources of the machine it is running on, and the queue manager it is connected to, in the most efficient manner? This session will provide good advice for efficient MQ applications, including introducing some of the new features available in WebSphere MQ V7 which make writing efficient applications even easier.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 13 years designing, developing and servicing the WebSphere MQ product (formerly MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is also the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

Keeping Channels Up and Running Keeping your channels alive and well is a key part of maintaining a healthy MQ system. This session tells you what you need to know to ensure those messages keep flowing between you and the outside world. We will discuss concepts such as Heartbeats, KeepAlive, AdoptMCA, Retry and Triggering in our quest for the well behaved channel.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 13 years designing, developing and servicing the WebSphere MQ product (formerly MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is also the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

Introduction to JMS and XMS Application Programming This session introduces the Java Message Service as an API for performing messaging using WebSphere MQ or another messaging provider from Java. It provides guidance on writing JMS applications, for both point/point and publish/subscribe messaging. Differences between MQI application programming and JMS are pointed out; however, a detailed knowledge of WebSphere MQ or the MQI is not required. A basic understanding of Java application development is assumed. This session will also introduce IBM's non-JAVA version of JMS known as the IBM Message Service (XMS) client.

Simon has worked in IBM for 9 years testing and servicing the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker products. His roles in the test team included the testing of the first release of the XMS messaging client, as well as visiting clients and building test scenarios based on client systems. He now works for the WebSphere MQ Java/JMS Level 3 support team, responsible for assisting customers with their use of the JMS client, as well as analysing and resolving client issues.

Auditing Your MQ Based Environment (includes WMB and FTE) If you haven't already been through an audit of your WebSphere MQ infrastructure it is only a matter of time. Audits are becoming a way of life. Find out about the approach taken by WebSphere MQ products for auditing the system. Then discover how File Transfer Edition (FTE) and WebSphere Message Broker make use of MQ's provided services and learn about the additional auditing services provided for tasks specific to those products.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 13 years designing, developing and servicing the WebSphere MQ product (formerly MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is also the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms. Jonathan Woodford works at IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development. Richard Cumbers

JMS Administration for the MQ Guy WebSphere MQ is a premier JMS provider and an increasing number of people are writing JMS applications to run over MQ. WebSphere MQ administrators are often asked to set up the objects required for JMS applications to run. Come along to this session and learn about what administration needs to be done to get WMQ JMS applications to work, and see a demo of the new tooling used to set these things up.

Simon has worked in IBM for 9 years testing and servicing the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker products. His roles in the test team included the testing of the first release of the XMS messaging client, as well as visiting clients and building test scenarios based on client systems. He now works for the WebSphere MQ Java/JMS Level 3 support team, responsible for assisting customers with their use of the JMS client, as well as analysing and resolving client issues.