By  Jonathan Woodford (IBM, UK)

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) is the market-leading messaging product that enables anywhere-to-anywhere integration, from the simplest pair of applications or devices requiring basic connectivity and data exchange, to the most complex business process management environments using a wide variety of endpoints. WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) aims to provide a universal connectivity solution with its ability to route and transform messages FROM anywhere TO anywhere, and is often referred to as an "Advanced Enterprise Service Bus". This session gives a high-level, technical overview of both products. Come to this session learn about the rationale behind messaging and connectivity and the business problems they solve.

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  Zheng Miao, Liu Ya (CHN)

Q Replication is a high performance log capture/ transaction-replay replication technology that uses IBM WebSphere® MQ message queues to transmit and stage data between source and target databases subsystems (e.g. DB2 for z/OS).
They are the major components in IBM GDPS Active-Active Solution to provide business continuous availability and its performance is key to achieve the RTO/RPO when disaster happens.
This presentation describes Q Replication and MQ concepts, operation and how it is integrated in GDPS to provide Active-Active solution to the customers.

Miao Zheng is the architect of IBM China Development Lab (CDL) zAIM Solution Center. Miao joined IBM in 2003 and worked in DB2 for z/OS, DB2 Tools, CICS and MQ product teams. Miao has rich experience in DB2 performance tuning, Q Replication performance in GDPS Active-Active solution and is currently the lead of a solution team for developing end2end solutions based on CICS, MQ, WebSphere on z/OS, and WODM.

Ya Liu is a software engineer working in IBM China Development Laboratory. He has more than 6 years working experience on Q Replication, a DB2 replication technology with log-based change capture and MQ-based data transportation, which is widely used to support business continuity and other solutions. Now he works in Center of Competency of IBM InfoSphere Data Replication product, focusing on promoting Q Replication and other database replication technologies to the market.

By  Jonathan Woodford (IBM, UK)

WebSphere® Message Broker is delivering further enhancements to productivity and ease in developing and managing enterprise service bus (ESB) deployments, complementing its industry-leading performance and scalability. Come to this session and get right up to date with this key connectivity product.

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 Matthias Korn, IBM Germany

In 2013 not just a new release of the z/OS operating system will be available, but the version changes too. In autumn z/OS V2R1 will be generally available (aka GA). 

As the interval - when new releases are introduced - now changed from 6 month via 1 year to meanwhile 2 years, tremendous changes can be expected that become available along with z/OS V2R1.
This session will be more specific to the news along with z/OS V2R1 in the area of Unix System Services, zSeries File System (zFS) and selected components. Without too much technical details and internals this session will give an overview about the new features in these areas.

Matthias is a zSeries Software Support Specialist focused on z/OS base components and primarily working on defects in the area of the z/OS kernel as well as Unix System Services for the IBM zSeries system support in Germany. Matthias is working now since 17 years in the area of z/OS SCP (system control program) defect support and since 14 years supporting Unix System Services. He is a member of the european virtual frontend and the Global Competency Center (GCC for Unix System Services and other base components providing worldwide L2 support frontended to component specific change teams (L3) in the US. A former project has been the development of the 'ITSO OMVS Training Camp' course material for example. He frequently presents USS problem debug information at the z/OS Guide GSE conference in Lahnstein, Germany. He was a speaker at the 2010 and 2011 GSE Nordics Conference as well and acts as a teacher in Europe for z/OS debugging.

By  Jamie Squibb (IBM, UK)

WebSphere MQ lets you put and get messages on queues right? True, but that's not all. MQ does so many more things. In this session we'll give you an overview of all the other things that WebSphere MQ can do. If you haven't looked at MQ for a few years, this session will bring you right up to date. We will tell you about Publish/Subscribe; Managed File Transfer; connection of mobile applications

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  Morag Hughson (IBM, UK)

WebSphere MQ V7.1 introduced a new feature for securing channels, known as Channel Authentication Records, or CHLAUTH for short. This new feature allows you to set rules to indicate which inbound connections are allowed to use your queue manager and which are banned. This session will take you through the concepts behind this new feature, how to create these rules and how to monitor and manage their use.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 15 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  Morag Hughson (IBM, UK) w. Jørgen Malmstrøm(EVRY)

In this session we will introduce WebSphere MQ's support for Publish/Subscribe and show how you can use it in new applications by writing code, or with existing applications by making no code changes at all. We will then present an example from EVRY using Pub/Sub administrative commands to duplicate messages to test a new version of a solution. By changing the target on an alias-queue to a topic we are able to send messages to the production solution and to the new version to be tested without making any changes to our applications.  

Morag has worked in IBM for over 15 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)

Do you want to write an MQ application 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.

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  Yi Jin, E Feng Lu

IBM GDPS Active/Active continuous availability (GDPS/AA) is a fundamental paradigm shift from a failover model to a near continuous availability model. It allows for unlimited distance replication with only seconds of user impact if there is a site disaster. The speakers will firstly introduce the concept and capability of GDPS/AA including its positioning, architecture, key component functionality, high-level process for sample scenarios, and the comparison with the other GDPS solutions. Then as one key component in GDPS/AA, the speakers further introduce the product IBM Multi-site Workload Lifeline with more details and explain how it is utilized to load balance TCP/IP workload requests across two sites at unlimited distances when both sites run the same server applications and have the same data sources.

Yi Jin. PhD. He joined IBM in 2009. He is now working in the role of technical and technology enablement in the system z brand team for GMU in China.Now his enablement focus is GDPS/AA.

E Feng Lu. He joined IBM in 2006 and has 7 years of experience on mainframe. He worked on CICS for 4 years and currently is the technical lead of CDL z/OS Communications Server development team.  He also involved in many China customer related projects including GDPS/AA during the past years.

By  Morag Hughson (IBM, UK)

This presentation will explain some of the internal workings of the second address space, the CHINIT address space, used in the running of your WebSphere MQ subsystem on z/OS.
An assumption is made that you have a working knowledge of z/OS and WebSphere MQ on z/OS for this presentation.
We will first introduce you to the various tasks (TCBs) that run in this address space, then we will take a look at some of the system queues that are required for the CHINIT to run and then we will step through the life of a channel as it runs through these various tasks.
The aim of this session is to give you enough understanding of the internals of the address space to help you look after your CHINIT address space and keep it running smoothly.

Morag has worked in IBM for over 15 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.