By Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni, IBM US

In this session, the speaker will cover tools and techniques to improve code quality control for enterprise applications. Code Reviews, Code Rules, Code Coverage and other code analysis tools will be covered.

Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni is the Chief Architect and Development Manager for IBM Ratinal Developer for system z (RDz). Vankat joined IBM in 2000 and was involved with the RDz devopment from Day 1. Current responsibilities include defining the RDz technical roadmap and architecture including the integration with other tools and runtimes.

By Tom Ross, IBM US

Now that you know there might be big performance gains in moving to COBOL V5, how do you get to take advantage of it?  Find out what applications will need to be changed, how to change them, and what applications can be recompiled right away with Enterprise COBOL.  You will learn what your shop should start doing now to prepare for taking advantage of COBOL V5, and what IBM is providing to help you get there.

Tom Ross is a senior software engineer in IBM COBOL development. Tom has been developing COBOL product for 27 years, including compiler and run-time libraries for every release of VS COBOL II thru IBM COBOL on AIX AND Windows. Tom is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for z/OS, and in many issues facing IBM mainframe customers.

By Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni, IBM US

If you ever heard of jUnit and unit testing, come to this session to learn about the new zUnit framework that Rational Development for system z (RDz) introduced in 2012.  This framework uses the techniques and fundamental principles collectively described as "xUnit" and which were pioneered by Kent Beck and other software development visionaries.  zUnit provides COBOL and PL/I with tools and an environment to apply unit testing principles to improve quality.

Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni is the Chief Architect and Development Manager for IBM Ratinal Developer for system z (RDz). Vankat joined IBM in 2000 and was involved with the RDz devopment from Day 1. Current responsibilities include defining the RDz technical roadmap and architecture including the integration with other tools and runtimes.

By Maryela Weihrauch, IBM US

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, Data Web Services support and integration with Datapower, DB2 opens new opportunities for an innovative SOA architecture.
This session will give an overview over pureXML Datapower and explains how to leverage Data Web Service. The main focus is to discuss business scenarios that illustrate the potential usage of those technologies.

Maryela Weihrauch is a Distinguish 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) and real time Business Analytics. Maryela is frequently sharing her experience at conferences.

By Gary Mazo, IBM US

Over several years REST and RESTful interfaces have become quite popular and many presentations have gone over high level overviews of what REST and RESTful is. After giving a *very* brief overview of technologies that revolve around REST, we will take a deep dive through working application samples that involve RESTful client-side technologies, the JAX-RS frameworks, and RESTful techniques for accessing COBOL and PL/I-based Enterprise applications.

Gary Mazo is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM Rational Developer for System z (RDz). Gary joined IBM in 1987, and currently is in charge of architecture and tools for Services development.  He holds 3 software  patents and has authored articles and blogs on topics of software development and Enterprise modernization.

By Wilfried van Hecke, IBM DE

Since many years, IBM has a range of Problem Determination Tools for application programmers, like Debug Tool for source level debugging, Fault Analyser for easier analysis of dumps, Application Performance Analyser for performance analysis, File Manager to manage and create several type of data among them DB2, IMS MQ, VSAM data.
Did you know that you can easily plug them into an eclipse environment to drive these tools with just a few mouse clicks? Join this discussion and live demonstration to witness how productivity of application developers in IMS (and other environments and middleware) may increase by using graphical Windows or Linux user interfaces.

Wilfried Van Hecke is a certified client technical professional from Ehningen, Germany. He has over 30 years of experience in debugging including dump analysis on application programming , CICS, compilers and their run-time environments. He has worked at IBM for exactly 40 years, the last 10 years as technical presales. Since 2012 he is the Europe PanIMT PD Tools Community Leader. His areas of expertise include Language Environment, COBOL, PL/I, IMS, CICS, Debug Tool and other IBM problem determination tools. He has worked on several projects on migration to Language Environment and IBM Problem Determination Tools.

By Gary Mazo, IBM US

Come to this session to learn about how to save MIPS by offloading the XML transformation (which is required when you mix Web services and traditional COBOL and PL/I application development). The speaker will present a complete end-to-end Enterprise service scenario that will show how to offload XML transformation to an external XML appliance.  Several tools like WebSphere Transformation Extender, Rational Developer for system z, and two runtime environments, CICS and WebSphere DataPower will be used to illustrate the topic.

Gary Mazo is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM Rational Developer for System z (RDz). Gary joined IBM in 1987, and currently is in charge of architecture and tools for Services development.  He holds 3 software  patents and has authored articles and blogs on topics of software development and Enterprise modernization.

By Michael Erichsen, Xact Consulting DK

This session will discuss Source Control Management (SCM) systems in relation to Rational Developer for z series (RDz).
Why do you need an SCM? What is the difference between library management, source control management and application lifecycle management? What does SCM do for you, and what does that spell in ITIL-terms? A few words on some of the mainframe products: Librarian, Panvalet, Clearcase, Endevor, Changeman, ISPW, and Rational Team Concert.
Why do you need RDz? And how does RDz complicate your life in a source control world? How do you integrate RDz to an SCM? There is a Rational-provided "CARMA"-interface and specific SCM-vendor-supplied interfaces.
The session will conclude with some experiences from installation and integration and other challenges. 

Michael Erichsen is an Enterprise Modernization Specialist at Xact Consulting in Copenhagen. He has a broad experience as a systems programmer and an IT architect.

By Gary Mazo, IBM US

This session will cover most popular approaches and patterns to Enterprise Service Development. If you ever wondered what "bottom-up", "meet-in-middle", "top-down", patterns are and how do they apply to COBOL and PL/I applications, come to this session to learn more.  The speaker will present several samples and tools for developing Enterprise service applications and will talk about recent improvements in the tools to support these scenarios.

Gary Mazo is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM Rational Developer for System z (RDz). Gary joined IBM in 1987, and currently is in charge of architecture and tools for Services development.  He holds 3 software  patents and has authored articles and blogs on topics of software development and Enterprise modernization.

By Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni, IBM US

Application development using a cloud configuration - this will talk about IDE (development environments) in the cloud, as well as development testing including RD&T ( the new name for RDz UT).

Venkatuday M. Balabhadrapatruni is the Chief Architect and Development Manager for IBM Ratinal Developer for system z (RDz). Vankat joined IBM in 2000 and was involved with the RDz devopment from Day 1. Current responsibilities include defining the RDz technical roadmap and architecture including the integration with other tools and runtimes.