by Carsten Andersen, Jyske Bank (DK)

Audience: Systems Programmer, Level: Advanced

Link to presentation S521. Mainframer's Transition

Increased efficiencies achieved through a GUI interface and product integration let us devote the saved resources to new and existing projects that have meaningful business impact. Our job is to help the business unit achieve the goals of the company. Improved efficiencies help us do that through realized cost savings and productivity increases, resulting in greater responsiveness to the business's needs.

A little about Carsten: 30 years in the business, working in Jyske Bank A/S Denmark (Mainframe Development Support). Steering Committee member of Guide Share Europe Nordic Region, and Chairman of Application Development. Member of RDZ user group Europe. Member of ITSO (International Technical Support Organization) Redbooks.

by Morag Hughson, IBM (UK)

Audience: Architect, Developer, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S522. 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.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 14 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 now the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

by Jamie Squibb, IBM (UK)

Audience: Architect, Developer, Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S523. WebSphere MQ Shared queues

Time is Money! Use WebSphere MQ Shared Queues to Reduce Outages Not being able to access your messages can cost your business money. Come and hear how WebSphere MQ for z/OS exploits the unique features available to z/OS - sysplex and coupling facility - to provide you with the highest level of availability for your messages.

Jamie Squibb is one of the main WebSphere MQ for z/OS developers. Prior to this he worked in a team developing cross-platform test automation infrastructure for WebSphere Message Broker, specialising on z/OS and Linux.

by Jonathan Woodford, IBM (UK

Audience: Architect, Developer, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S524. Why use WebSphere Message Broker

Why should I use WebSphere Message Broker. WebSphere Message Broker plays a critical role in Service Oriented Architecture, by allowing you to connect applications together in a simple, structured, maintainable way. There are a number of common usage patterns of the Broker, ranging from service virtualization - exposing new interfaces on existing applications, to providing aspect-oriented function such as security, auditing, logging and error handling. By describing established use-cases and using real-world examples, this session will reveal the most common usage patterns of the Broker and the main concepts behind its design. The session will also include a look at some of the latest features in the product that make it easier than ever to implement your SOA.

Jonathan has been working in IBM for over 11 years. For the past 9 years he has been working as a developer on the WebSphere Message Broker product, focussing on a variety areas, including Publish Subscribe and WebServices.

by Dana Boudreau, IBM (US)

Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S525. RDz UT

RDz UT, based on the IBM z Personal Development Tool (zPDT) provides a small-scale, personal test environment for developers that can run z/OS® and z/OS middleware from IBM, but on an Intel® or Intel-compatible (x86) personal computer (PC), eliminating the cost differentials that exist between distributed and existing mainframe development environments. Running a personal System z development environment on a PC allows a more portable, flexible, and lower-cost environment for individual developers.  

Dana Boudreau is an IBM program director with development responsibility for System z tools including Rational Developer for zSeries (RDz), Code Analysis Tools, RTC z/p, SCLM, and TPNS Tools. In his over 25 years of experience, he has lead many development projects across a range of technologies. Today, he is fortunate to lead an aggressive and brilliant team of programmers to deliver state-of-the-art tooling technology.

by Morag Hughson, IBM (UK) and Charles Vindum, BankData (DK)

Audience: Architect, Developer, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S526. Using WebSphere MQ Publish_Subscribe in COBOL

Using WebSphere MQ Publish/Subscribe in COBOL In this session we will introduce WebSphere MQ's support for Publish/Subscribe and Message Properties, and then go on to show you a real example in use at BankData which shows you how to use publish and subscribe in z/OS Cobol. We will provide the definitions you need for using selectors and the Cobol code that we used.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 14 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 now the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.

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.

by Rajesh Kumar Khare, DnB NOR (NO)

Audience: Application Developer, Level: Intermediate

Link to presenttion S531. Utilities for High Performance

As a developer in Mainframe Application it is often required to perform various management reporting based on some input data file(s). Generally such reporting involves sorting, merging, filtering and reformatting existing data file to make new data file for reporting. The IBM utility DFSORT and ICETOOL offers wide varity of control and reporting statements that just make such task easier, simpler and effective. In this session, we will share some real life examples where we would like to present How as a Developer one can use these utilities and ensure easier, simpler and effective reporting.

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 12 years involved in develeopment, maintenance and performance tuning of Batch Applications in z/OS and DB2.

by Jamie Squibb, IBM (UK)

Audience: Developer, Systemprogrammer, Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Link to presentation S532. WebSphere MQ for zOS - Restart and (Disaster) Recovery

WebSphere MQ for z/OS - Restart and (Disaster) Recovery This presentation gives an overview of the Restart and Recovery features of WebSphere MQ in the z/OS environment. It level sets on terminology before discussing queue manager specifics and potential customer restart issues.

Jamie Squibb is one of the main WebSphere MQ for z/OS developers. Prior to this he worked in a team developing cross-platform test automation infrastructure for WebSphere Message Broker, specialising on z/OS and Linux.

by Jonathan Woodford, IBM (UK)

Audience: Systems Programmer, Developer, Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Link to presentation S533. What's New in WebSphere Message Broker

What's New in WebSphere Message Broker Come and find out about WebSphere® Message Broker V7! WMB plays a critical role in service oriented architecture, and this session details the latest announcements, including details on what's new in V7.0.0.1 and V7.0.0.2. There are a number of common usage patterns of the Broker, ranging from service virtualisation - exposing new interfaces on existing applications, to providing aspect-oriented function. By describing established use-cases, this session will conclude by covering the most common usage patterns of the Broker.

Jonathan has been working in IBM for over 11 years. For the past 9 years he has been working as a developer on the WebSphere Message Broker product, focussing on a variety areas, including Publish Subscribe and WebServices.

by Adarsh Pannu, IBM (US)

Audience: Application developer, DB2 DBA, Level: Basic, Intermediate

Link to presentation S534. DB2 developers guide to optimum Performance

The performance of business-critical applications often depends on SQL queries in the workload. Given the declarative nature of SQL, there is usually more than one way to obtain the same information from DB2. Some of these query variants can be dramatically more (or less) efficient than others. As you develop new applications, it is important to be aware of efficient SQL programming techniques to ensure optimum performance. This session outlines some of thesetechniques and also lists potential pitfalls to avoid.

Adarsh Pannu is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the DB2 for z/OS development team. He has over two decades of experience developing database management systems, primarily focusing on query optimization and execution.