Link to the presentation S111. Opening Session

by Svenn-Aage Sønderskov, JN Data (DK)

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

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

by Anjul Bhambhri, IBM (US)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Basic

Link to the presentation S112A. Smarter Analytics for Big Data

The explosion of data in the enterprise from new sources such as sensors, smart phones, web logs, blogs, and social media has the potential to unlock new insights that are valuable for businesses. More than ever before, enterprise can find new ways to improve their customer satisfaction and operational efficiency from historical and real-time analytics on data at rest and data in motion. From ultra-low latency information-in-motion analytics capabilities offered via InfoSphere Streams, analytics oriented data warehouse solutions, to our innovative InfoSphere BigInsights, IBM has an unique breadth of Big Data capabilities with a holistic approach. InfoSphere BigInsights is an analytics platform that delivers Software capabilities on top of Apache Hadoop framework enabling new solutions on a business-ready platform. IBM has a holistic approach, expanding analytics to encompass Big Data, information streams, and structured data in Data Warehouses.

In this keynote, Anjul Bhambhri, IBM Vice President of Big Data, will introduce IBM's solutions together with customer scenarios on how to turn big data challenges into competitive advantages in diverse fields such as healthcare, astronomy, manufacturing, telco and financial trading etc.

Anjul Bhambhri is the Vice President of Big Data Products. She was previously the Director of IBM Optim application and data life cycle management tools. She is a seasoned professional with over twenty-two years in the database industry. Over this time, Anjul has held various engineering and management positions at IBM, Informix and Sybase. Prior to her assignment in tools, Anjul spearheaded the development of XML capabilities in IBM's DB2 database server. She is a recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley's ?Tribute to Women in Technology? award for 2009. Anjul holds a degree in Electrical Engineering. You may contact her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

S112B. The Future Runs on zEnterprise - A peek at whats to come!

by Jose Castano, IBM (US)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Basic, Intermediate

In July of 2010 IBM announced a new dimension in computing, the zEnterprise System. This announcement was met with overwhelming excitement around the world, especially around the new hybrid capabilities introduced in the new zEnterprise Blade Extension (zBX) and Unified Resource Manager (zManager). So, what is next? Come to this session to hear how IBM will continue to expand the zEnterprise platform to meet customers needs into the future

Jose is the Director for the System z Technology and Strategy organization in STG. He has over 20 years of experience within IBM and has held multiple key positions in System z during this tenure. As the Director for System z Technology and Strategy, Jose sets the technical and business strategy and direction for the System z platform working with the System z ecosystem from marketing, sales, business partners, consultants, and most importantly customers; leading the platform through an evolution that maintains leadership and meets customer and industry requirements. Jose has teams comprised of strategists who focus on business trends, market requirements and pressures, and technologists (architects) who are responsible for mapping the requirements to technologies necessary to satisfy them. Together, these teams have responsibility for researching, designing, building and maintaining the brand strategy and platform roadmap for IBM System z, driving the plans for the next 3-5 years. He is also the lead technologist and strategist for the System z eBusiness Leadership Council (zBLC), which is comprised of 43 of System z?s top customers. This technical council is used to preview technology and strategy to our most advanced customers and to fine tune or potentially direct dramatic changes to the course of direction of our platform strategy and offerings. Previously, Jose worked in the field as technical support for System z, focusing on Parallel Sysplex. He?s implemented Parallel Sysplex around the world and has consulted with customers on best practice configurations. Prior to this position, Jose was a z/OS (MVS) developer working on a variety of components deep in the operating system.

by Gene Fuh, IBM(US) Ning Wang, IBM (China

Audience: DB2 DBA,Architect, Level: IntermediateBasic

Link to the presentation S113. Best Practices for the Implementation of Multi-Tenant Databases with DB2 for zOS

With the increasing business challenges and controlled IT budget, IT organizations are expected to maximize the value of enterprise data to enhance business processes and decisions with more affordable cost. Cloud Computing is expected to be able to help reduce CAPEX and OPEX, gain business agility & maturity, and keep enterprises competitive while demanding more IT support and driving the IT cost down. Provisioning database instances to support large number of tenants which share the same application infrastructure becomes a common task in hosting database applications in the context of a cloud environment. In this presentation, the speaker will cover the best practices that they've identified and validated in the past two years while developing a framework for the deployment of IBM database servers as a service (DBaaS) and enablement of DB2 applications for multi-tenant support.

Gene Fuh, Ph.D.

IM CTO, IBM China Development Lab. (On assignment) Distinguished Engineer, Data Servers CTO Office, IBM Silicon Valley Lab.

Ning Wang,

Techical Lead, DBaaS & Massive Multi-Tenancy Emerging Technology Institute, IBM China Development Lab.

by Curt Cotner, IBM (US)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to the presentation S121. Latest Improvements for Java Applications Using DB2

This session will describe the technical challenges that customers face when trying to manage large scale Java workloads. We'll discuss our latest Java development tools for Java, which are now free for DB2 LUW and DB2 Connect customers. We'll also look at some of the latest tooling improvements that allow developers and DBAs to see all the key SQL performance metrics directly in the development tools, allowing the developers to instantly see areas in the application the present potential performance problems in production.

We'll also see the latest improvements in database application monitoring for DB2 LUW and DB2 for z/OS, which allow you to view Java workloads in very fine-grained detail.

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).

by Adarsh Pannu, IBM (US)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Application Developer, Level: Basic /Intermediate

Link to the presentation S122. The anatomy of well performing SQL

In this session, we examine how the DB2 optimizer constructs an access path.

We start with a high-level discussion of building blocks such as predicate types, access methods, and join types. We subsequently describe how the optimizer uses statistics to estimate the cost of access paths and how a winner is determined. The ultimate goal of the presentation is provide a basic understanding of how the optimizer "thinks" and how this knowledge can be used in real-world problem diagnosis and query tuning.

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.

by Curt Cotner, IBM (US)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to the presentation S123. Optim Tools Strategy and Recent Improvements

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 backup/recovery, configuration management, database performance tuning, and test automation of production workloads. This session will describe the technical challenges that customers face when trying to create production-like workloads in test environments. The session will also describe why it is important to be able to do this, and will 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).

by John Campbell, IBM (UK

Audience: DB2 DBA, Level: Intermediate

Linkt to the presentation S124. DB2 10 for zOS Migration Planning and Early Experiences - Part 1

This two part presentation will: Provide additional planning information; Share surprises, pitfalls and lessons learned; Provide hints and tips; enable fast start; introduce and discuss some further enhancements; Latest news.

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.

by Phil Grainger, COGITO/GdbS (UK)

Audience: DB2DBA, Application Development, Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation S126. Automating index optimisation is it even possible

One of the key performance tuning "knobs" for a DB2 application is the provision of adequate indexes - or better still, provision of exactly the RIGHT indexes.

The snag is, as DB2 evolves and as the optimiser gets smarter, that set of "right" indexes may change over time. In addition, workload and usage changes of the application itself may also change what is the right indexing strategy.

Of course, it has always been possible to manually determine which indexes are needed (and perhaps which ones are now not helping as much as they should) this approach has the twin disadvantages of requiring highly skilled people to do the analysis and taking an excessive amount of time to do correctly.

This is why there has been a search amongst software vendors for the "holy grail" of an automated index determination solution.

But is this even possible, and if it is, does the resulting answer actually "do the job" or does it just take too long to come to a determination.

So is automatic index evaluation even possible? This presentation looks at the possibilities

Phil has over 20 years experience of DB2, working with almost all versions, including DB2 10 In 2009 and 2010, Phil was honoured by IBM as an Information Champion Currently Phil is running Grainger Database Solutions and working with Cogito, providing DB2 consultancy and product design & development services in support of Cogito?s EZ-DB2 family of SQL and Index performance analysis tools

by John Campbell, IBM (UK)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation  S126. DB2 10 for zOS Migration Planning and Early Experiences - Part 2

This two part presentation will: Provide additional planning information; Share surprises, pitfalls and lessons learned; Provide hints and tips; enable fast start; introduce and discuss some further enhancements; Latest news.

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.

by Adarsh Pannu, IBM (US)

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

Link to the presentation S131. 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.

by Susan Lawson, YLA (US)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Application Developer, Level: Intermedia

Link to the presentation  S132. Table and Index Design Strategies in DB2 9 and 10 part 1

This presentation takes a look at table and index design strategies we have practiced over the years and see how they are impacted by DB2 9 and 10. We also look at how we can move forward with current designs and also be able to take advantage of the advanced features of DB2 9 and 10. Key Points:

- Discuss overall objectives of DB2 9 and 10 table and index features

- Discuss current design limitations and issues

Look at the pros and cons of utilizing the new features in 9 and 10

- Discuss how we will move forward with current designs

- Discuss what we still need to consider for optimal designs strategies

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 develop, implement and tune some of the worlds? largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications. She also performs Performance and Availability Audits for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning and to help ensure availability.

by Susan Lawson, YLA (US)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Application Developer, Level: Intermedia

Link to the presentation  S132. Table and Index Design Strategies in DB2 9 and 10 part 2

This presentation takes a look at table and index design strategies we have practiced over the years and see how they are impacted by DB2 9 and 10. We also look at how we can move forward with current designs and also be able to take advantage of the advanced features of DB2 9 and 10. Key Points:

- Discuss overall objectives of DB2 9 and 10 table and index features

- Discuss current design limitations and issues

Look at the pros and cons of utilizing the new features in 9 and 10

- Discuss how we will move forward with current designs

- Discuss what we still need to consider for optimal designs strategies

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 develop, implement and tune some of the worlds? largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications. She also performs Performance and Availability Audits for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning and to help ensure availability.

Audience: DB2 DBA, Level: Intermediate/Advanced 

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Link to the presentation S134. Recommended Best Practices from Customer DB2 Health Check Studies Part 1

This two part presentation will introduce and discuss the major lessons to be learned from recent customer DB2 Health Check Studies carried out by DB2 for z/OS Development. The objectives are to: introduce and discuss the most common issues, share the experience gained from customer helath check studies, share the experience from live customer production incidents, provide proven recommended best practice, and to encourage proactive behavior. The following topics will be covered: WLM Policy Setup, Balanced Design across CICS and DB2 Disaster Recovery, Continuous Availability vs. Fast Failover, Preventative Software Maintenance, Multiple Data Sharing Groups., Running Multiple DB2 Subsystems on same LPAR, Normal DB2 Warm Restart vs. Restart Light, Storage Tuning.

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.

by John Campbell, IBM(UK)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Level: Intermediate/Advanced 

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Link to the presentation S134. Recommended Best Practices from Customer DB2 Health Check Studies Part 2

This two part presentation will introduce and discuss the major lessons to be learned from recent customer DB2 Health Check Studies carried out by DB2 for z/OS Development. The objectives are to: introduce and discuss the most common issues, share the experience gained from customer helath check studies, share the experience from live customer production incidents, provide proven recommended best practice, and to encourage proactive behavior. The following topics will be covered: WLM Policy Setup, Balanced Design across CICS and DB2 Disaster Recovery, Continuous Availability vs. Fast Failover, Preventative Software Maintenance, Multiple Data Sharing Groups., Running Multiple DB2 Subsystems on same LPAR, Normal DB2 Warm Restart vs. Restart Light, Storage Tuning.

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.

by Fraser Bohm IBM (UK)

Audience: System Programmer, Application developer, Architect Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S213 - CICS Overview

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1 will deliver new business event capabilities, Web 2.0 programming support, and new operational tooling that will enable enterprise agility when responding to business opportunity and risk in rapidly changing markets. Its traditional qualities of security, reliability, availability, scalability, data-integrity, and application responsiveness make CICS TS the perfect transaction-server partner for Web application servers. CICS TS V4.1 will build on the solid foundations, mature service oriented architecture (SOA) support, and open connectivity of previous CICS versions, bringing new levels of ease-of-use and flexibility to meet the needs of the next generation of business users. Come to this session to see how CICS can help you in:

• Competing for new opportunities by gaining insight into business processes and responding by modifying key business applications quickly and with confidence
• Complying with corporate, industry and government policies to manage business risk of critical business applications
• Controlling costs by simplifying IT infrastructure and improving development and operations productivity through easier-to-use interfaces and functions

Fraser is the Development Lead for CICS Transaction Server, having worked on the CICS TS product for over 14 years. Prior to becoming the Development Lead he was the technical lead for Web Services and SOA Technologies in the CICS team.

by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation Is not available

Got CICS? Are you using CICS Explorer? Want to know how to work with CICS operational resources and definitions without using cryptic transaction codes? How about working with CICS related z/OS artifacts like datasets, zFS, JCL, spool files etc without using a 3270 Emulator? Then come along to this session and see how using CICS Explorer can make your (CICS) life better. The session will cover what you need to run CICS Explorer, how to set it up and introduce you to basic functions of both the System Management (SM) and z/OS perspectives.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer.

by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S222 - CICS Explorer Plug-ins

If you are running CICS Explorer, or have learnt the basics of CICS Explorer from Session S221, then this session will show you how to exploit the plug in capabilities of CICS Explorer and IBM tools, so that you can get the most out of CICS. This session will show you where to get CICS Explorer plug-ins, how to install them, and provide an introduction to selected CICS Explorer plugins.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer.

by Catherine Moxey IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S223 - CICS and Scalability

This session covers aspects of CICS functionality that provide scalability within and across CICS systems. These include multi-processor exploitation using the open transaction environment and CICS threadsafety, and functions for capacity and performance.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Strategy and Planning, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has more than 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, and an active member of the Event Processing Technical Society. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences

by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation Is not Available

CICS Deployment Assistant (CICS DA) is the newest member of the CICS Tools portfolio. This session will provide you with an overview of the capabilities of CICS Deployment Assistant and show you how you can quickly and easily discover your CICS assets and how to use CICS DA to create a new CICS.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer. Grant has rather bad habit of providing information to Nick at the last minute. However this helps to keep Nick on his toes, and Grant is sure that the added stress ultimately helps Nick to write song lyrics with deeper meanings..

Audience: ?? Level: Basic CICS Deployment Assistant (CICS DA) is the newest member of the CICS Tools portfolio. This session will provide you with an overview of the capabilities of CICS Deployment Assistant and show you how you can quickly and easily discover your CICS assets and how to use CICS DA to create a new CICS. Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer. Grant has rather bad habit of providing information to Nick at the last minute. However this helps to keep Nick on his toes, and Grant is sure that the added stress ultimately helps Nick to write song lyrics with deeper meanings...

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S225 - CICS High Availability and Workload Management

This talk takes a fresh look at the Workload management facilities provided by CICSPlex Systems Manager and explains how they can be integrated with the TCP/IP load balancing technology provided by Communications Server for z/OS to create a highly available CICSPlex configuration. The talk will discuss how to exploit the TCP/IP Port Sharing, VIPA, and Sysplex Distributor functions of Communications Server, together with the CICSPlex SM, and will include the latest information on CICSPlex SM WLM support for even distribution of work between LPARs and simplified workload management of DPL requests preventing deadlock situations,

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S226 - CICS IP Interconnectivity

As part of the multi-release IP interconnectivity (IPIC) initiative, CICS TS V4.x now provides the facility to use TCP/IP instead of SNA for CICS intercommunication functions. This session will provide in-depth guidance on how to configure CICS to fully exploit the new IP interconnectivity (IPIC) support, and provides details on how the qualities of security, transactionality and connection management are best managed along with a summary of the performance benefits possible when moving from SNA to IP.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Fraser Bohm IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S231 - How to debug web services on CICS

This session briefly reviews Web services processing and configuration requirements, before discussing detailed diagnostic techniques and approaches to identifying problems. The session also discusses the type of documentation that is useful for observing Web services processing errors. We will follow a detailed example of debugging an issue to provide context and setting. The session will also explore additional tools and techniques beyond the standard CICS toolset which are specifically useful for Web Services issues including those available in Eclipse and RD/z.

Fraser is the Development Lead for CICS Transaction Server, having worked on the CICS TS product for over 14 years. Prior to becoming the Development Lead he was the technical lead for Web Services and SOA Technologies in the CICS team.

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S232 - SOA enablement with CICS

CICS has a long history as an on-line transaction processor, this presentation reviews the different CICS runtimes available from procedural COBOL to object orientated Java and dynamic scripting and summarises how they can be used to exploit existing CICS business logic with an SOA. It then provides an overview of how different customers are integrating CICS applications with new WebSphere applications and using CICS in different ways with other key IBM middleware products.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Catherine Moxey IBM (UK)

Audioence: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S233 - CICS support for Event Processing

This session takes a fresh look at support in CICS for events and event processing. The session will explain how you can gain business insight and value by emitting events from CICS, including how events are specified and deployed to CICS, options for emitting the events, the possible consumers of events from CICS, and scenarios in which events can be used.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Strategy and Planning, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has more than 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, and an active member of the Event Processing Technical Society. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to the presentation S234 - Java and CICS JVM Servers

This session takes a tour of the new multi-threaded JVM server environment in CICS TS V4.x and the facilities available for developing and deploying CICS Java applications. Information is provided on the systems management facilities and tuning tools available for exploitation of the latest IBM Java 6 Runtime Environment, along with a discussion of how to exploit the latest Eclipse development tooling together with the CICS Java environment.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks

by Alison Coughtrie IBM (UK)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S313. IMS 12 Overview

IMS 12 was announced on 5th October 2010. This presentation will give an overview of the many new enhancements including the ability to dynamically change buffer pool allocations for Full Function databases, the provision of a shareable centralised IMS Repository to support Dynamic Resource Definitions (DRD) in an IMSplex, improvements to the DRD IMPORT command which allows you to update resources, Logger enhancements allowing the use of striped extended format data sets with the OLDS, potentially improving logging bandwidth performance, the ability to use TCP/IP connections with MSC and/or OTMA, Type-2 command support for IMS Connect easing its operation, the use of XCF rather than RRS for OTMA and APPC synchronous transactions in a Shared Queues environment, many usability enhancements to DBRC and Extended Address Volume (EAV) support for non-VSAM data sets - to name but a few!

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist is a member of the newly formed European IMS Architecture Team, focussed on helping Customers to maximize their IMS investment to best meet their business needs. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM. She is a regular presenter at IMS conferences, GSE and seminars particularly focussing on new IMS features and their implementation

by Alison Coughtrie IBM (UK)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S321. IMS & COGNOS: A perfect fit.

Attention customers with critical core business processes running in IMS! Would you like to quickly and easily enhance and extend your operational reporting and business intelligence capabilities? Would you like to react faster to business needs and anticipate business problems before they become major issues? Would you like to have more detailed and timely access to IMS operational data? Would you like a single, standard reporting tool across all of your critical data stores for operational, tactical and strategic BI? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then come to this sessions and learn how Cognos and IMS when run together allow customers to quickly, easily and cost-effectively enhance their enterprise reporting and analysis of operational data. With IMS V11's Universal JDBC drivers, you can now query and perform Business Intelligence on IMS data real time. We will also do a demo of querying and report generation of IMS data (which resides on the mainframe) from a windows platform using COGNOS.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist is a member of the newly formed European IMS Architecture Team, focussed on helping Customers to maximize their IMS investment to best meet their business needs. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM. She is a regular presenter at IMS conferences, GSE and seminars particularly focussing on new IMS features and their implementation.

by Steve Nathan IBM (US)

Audience: Application developers/IMS/System Programmers.

Level: Technical

Link to presentation S322. IMS OTMA and Connect Update

There were many new features for OTMA and IMS Connect in IMS 11. Many of those were also added to IMS V10 via Small Programming Enhancements. This session will show you all of the new features and how you can use them to enhance your IMS environment. This session will also give you a preview of what to expect in IMS 12.

Mr. Nathan has 38 years experience using and supporting IMS. For the first 30 years he was a customer: application programmer, application analyst, systems programmer, DBA and performance specialist. For the last 8 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

by Alison Coughtrie IBM (UK

Audience: IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S323. IMS 12 DRD Repository

The Dynamic Resource Definition (DRD) capability is further enhanced in IMS 12 with the ability to store DRD definitions in a shareable Repository. This presentation will give an overview of the repository, highlight differences between RDDS and respository usage and show examples of repository usage within a single or multi-IMS IMSplex.

Alison Coughtrie, Certified IT Specialist is a member of the newly formed European IMS Architecture Team, focussed on helping Customers to maximize their IMS investment to best meet their business needs. Alison has specialised in IMS over the past 25 years both as an IMS customer as well as within IBM.

by Denis Gaebler IBM (DE)

Audience: IMS.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S324.COBOL/Java Interoperability Customer Case

Based on a real customer case, latest enhancements and more test cases, this session covers possibilities and restrictions for COBOL/Java Interoperability within IMS in more detail. Cobol calls Java plus Java calls COBOL will be covered including concurrent Database Access to IMS and DB2 from both languages.

Denis Gäbler is a Technical Sales Specialist at IBM in Germany. He holds a degree in business with a specialization in computer science from Staatliche Studienakademie Dresden. He has been working in the areas of IMS and IMS Web enablement since 1997. His areas of expertise include WebSphere on z/OS, IMS DB and TM, Service Oriented Architectures and Enterprise Application Integration. Lately he is working extensively with IMS Java, IMS connectivity solutions, COBOL and Java Integration, Application servers, and Eclipse-based application development tools.

by Steve Nathan IBM (US)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S325. Implementing IMS Open Database (note this would include diagnosing Open DB issues)

IMS V11's Open Database feature is a JDBC solution that provides direct access to IMS data from various platforms (without invoking an IMS transaction). But what's involved in implementing IMS Open database? Are there any Gotchas? Does IMS Open Database have an prereqs? For answers to these and other pressing questions, like when will outsourcing of jobs stop, come to this session.

Mr. Nathan has 38 years experience using and supporting IMS. For the first 30 years he was a customer: application programmer, application analyst, systems programmer, DBA and performance specialist. For the last 8 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

by Denis Gaebler IBM (DE)

Audience: IMS.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S326. Hibernate with the IMS Universal JDBC Driver

This session descibes how the IMS Universal JDBC Driver can be used to interoperate with Hibernate. This allows to map existing IMS Databases against an object hierarchy. A demo of using Hibernate with an IMS Database will be shown.

Denis Gäbler is a Technical Sales Specialist at IBM in Germany. He holds a degree in business with a specialization in computer science from Staatliche Studienakademie Dresden. He has been working in the areas of IMS and IMS Web enablement since 1997. His areas of expertise include WebSphere on z/OS, IMS DB and TM, Service Oriented Architectures and Enterprise Application Integration. Lately he is working extensively with IMS Java, IMS connectivity solutions, COBOL and Java Integration, Application servers, and Eclipse-based application development tools.

by Helene Lyon IBM (FR)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Introductory/basic

Link to presentation S331. IMS Application Modernization, including the new IMS Explorer

IMS has supported critical business applications for over 40 years. This session discusses how IMS applications can be rejuvenated and extended to answer today's needs. It will cover modern development capabilities as well as new technologies to simplify IMS usage by developers. It will also present a way to modernize applications using business rules.

Helene Lyon is the technical leader of the European IMS Architect team whose focus is to develop database and transaction management solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT.systems in order to perform a business function. Her focus is the ?right fit? positioning of the IMS database manager and transaction manager capabilities within those systems. She is recognized worldwide as a Technical Leader for mainframe middleware and is called up to work with clients in all geographies around application modernization for Enterprise Information Systems (e.g. IMS, CICS, DB2, WAS and SOA).

by Nick Griffin BMC

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S332. IMS Database Performance ? Could Have, Should Have, Would Have

As a DBA, you know there are metrics that should be gathered, reviewed and analyzed to ensure database performance. Database performance monitoring is a critical DBA responsibility which is often overlooked and handled only when problems are reported. A pro-active approach would be taken if time was allowed and expertise was available. This session will contrast the manual efforts to review statistics and reports necessary to monitor database performance with what could be done in todays world of higher technology.

Nick Griffin, IMS Product Manager at BMC Softwar

by Steve Nathan IBM (US)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/DBA/IMS/System Programmers.

Link to presentation S333. IMS HALDB application design

Level: Technical

There have been many presentations about HALDB from a Systems or DBA point of view - but there are also important considerations for application architects and application programmers. This session will cover these considerations. Topics include: - Partitioning Retrieval Implications - Initial Loads - Processing Partitions in Parallel - Handling Unavailable Partitions - Processing Secondary Indexes as Databases - Converting from User Partitioning

Mr. Nathan has 38 years experience using and supporting IMS. For the first 30 years he was a customer: application programmer, application analyst, systems programmer, DBA and performance specialist. For the last 8 years he has worked for IBM in IMS Level 2 support.

by Helene Lyon IBM (FR)

Audience: Application developers/Architects/IMS/DBA/System Programmers.

Link to presentation S334. IMS Enterprise Modernization using Mashups and Business Events

Level: Introductory/basic

Over time IMS has been enhanced to provide numerous "call in" and "callout" capabilities allowing easy SOA integration. This session will focus on the latest capabilities that extend the reach of IMS to Web 2.0 and business events.

Helene Lyon is the technical leader of the European IMS Architect team whose focus is to develop database and transaction management solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT.systems in order to perform a business function. Her focus is the ?right fit? positioning of the IMS database manager and transaction manager capabilities within those systems. She is recognized worldwide as a Technical Leader for mainframe middleware and is called up to work with clients in all geographies around application modernization for Enterprise Information Systems (e.g. IMS, CICS, DB2, WAS and SOA)

by Richard Stone Compuware (US)

Level: General Interest/Intermediate

Link to the presentation S413. Performance in the Cloud

Despite the compelling business benefits of cloud computing, companies are becoming increasingly concerned about application performance in the cloud, and the dramatic impact that this can have in terms of lost revenue and lack of user adoption. In this session, Richard Stone will outline the key industry trends and discuss the issues that need to be addressed in managing the performance of these ?borderless? applications. He will also present a new APM approach that mitigates the performance risks without jeopardizing the business benefits of cloud computing.

Richard Stone is Senior Solution Manager at Compuware, responsible for Cloud-based Application Performance Management solutions. Prior to joining Compuware, Richard has held senior marketing and product management positions at Hewlett Packard, Compaq, plus a number of other US and European IT companies. He has extensive experience in cloud-based solutions and technologies, and has brought a number of cloud-based solutions to market: These include cross-industry solutions such as E-Mail, Web Conferencing, and Sales Force Automation; and vertical market solutions in industries such as Insurance, Retail Banking, and Telecommunications. His domain expertise also includes mobile computing, security, compliance, and high-availability solutions for all market segments (SMB, Enterprise, and key verticals such as Finance, Government, Healthcare, and Retail.

Link to the presentation S421. RTC v3.0 focus on zOS support

by Guy Slade IBM (US)

Level: General Interest/Intermediate

Rational Team Concert integrates work item tracking, source control management, continuous builds, iteration planning, and highly configurable process support to adapt to the way you want to work, enabling developers, architects, project managers, and project owners to work together effectively. This presentation will be delivered primarily through demonstration. It will walk through a typical defect ==> fix ==> build ==> promote scenario for a zOS shop showing how the Rational Team Concert product can provide valuable productivity enhancements through its rich feature set. The demonstration will show features such as planning, tracking, Souce Control Managament, zOS build capability, and promotion.

by Marcel den Hartog CA (NL)

Audience: All, Level: Basic, Intermediat

Link to the presentation  S422. Shifts in Security Management caused by Virtualization & Cloud

Security is more important than ever. Today?s systems have hundreds of entry points, varying from HTML pages to 3270 screens, from WEB Services to JDBC calls, through operators and appliances. The past decades have already been a struggle to keep things safe. The introduction of virtualization changed the rules and the rise of Cloud computing has completely altered the game. Where does this leave us? We went from a Mainframe platform that was controllable, to an increasingly complex IT Infrastructure where everything is connected, but nothing under control. What are YOU expected to do for your companies and what should YOU expect from the companies who provide the various Cloud services? New games, new rules, new tools. This presentation will give you an overview of the various challenges we are facing and how the industry is responding to them.

Marcel den Hartog is CA's Mainframe Marketing Principal in EMEA. Marcel has 30 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

by Dusty Rivers, GT Software, (US)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation S423. Drive Value and Cut Costs with Mainframe Web Services

We will discuss how mainframe integration and Web services using your existing mainframe resources (IMS,CICS,etc.) can drive maximum value from your existing mainframe investments, while cutting costs. Many think this problem is completely 'solved' with current tools , free utilities, or out of date approaches. This session will challenge those beliefs and empower you to drive maximum value from the mainframe while lowering costs.

by Brian Wildt and Charlotte Heilmann BankData (DK)

Audiencel: Mainframe infra structures and Cobol developers

Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation S425. Efficient Workbench - when ISPF is all you got

In this session we will show you around in the Bankdata Cobol workbench. The goals we had was to make it as efficient and productive as possible. The workbench is currently used by 350 developers in Bankdata in Denmark. Last year we changed the settings on TSO/ISPF for all our 350 developer. They all got the same functions keys and setup. The feedback has been very positive and the developers feel much more efficient now. So far we have not found any tools, windows- or eclipse-based that proves to be more productive. And yes ? we do have young programmers too.

Brian Wildt and Charlotte Heilmann are responsible for mainframe developing at Bankdata Denmark. They have many years experiences in all the products around Cobol developing on mainframe. They teach new employees in mainframe developing and optimize old employees

by Leif Pedersen IBM(DK)

Audience: DB2 DBA, Application Development, Architects, DD2 System Programmers, Level: Basic, Intermediate

Link to the presentation S426. Pure Query at Nets

This presentation will show you how Nets have implemented NemID by using pureQeury techonolegy to lock access paths in DB2 by converting JDBC calls to static SQL calls and also improved applcation performace. As benefit it is now easier to identify a problem SQL statement and trace it back to the Java code.

Leif Pedersen is a member of the Optim Enablement Team located at the SVL lab, in San Jose. Leif, is located in Denmark and is help customer using the Optim products e.g. Qeury Workload Tuner, pure Qeury, Optim Performance Manager.

by Qiang Song IBM China and Leif Pedersen, IBM (DK)

Audience:DB2 DBA, Application Developer Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation S431. Workload Tuning

In this session, the speakers will introduce a complete methodology for SQL performance tuning. The session will be presented as two parts. In the first part, the speakers will introduce some background for SQL tuning, then an example will be presented to introduce single query tuning by first understanding the problem query with formatting, annotation and access plan graph, then analyze and tune the problem query from statistics, predicate and index perspective. In the second part, the speakers will introduce why workload tuning is needed and the challenge for workload tuning, then another example will be presented to introduce the workload tuning in detail. The session will be ended with a summary of the best practices for SQL performance tuning.

Qiang Song is the technical lead of the IBM Optim Query Tuner and Optim Query Workload Tuner products, working in IBM China development lab since 2005. Qiang works closely with the customers who are using these products and has rich experience in SQL performance tuning and eclipse development. Leif Pedersen is a member of the Optim Enablement Team located at the SVL lab, in San Jose. Leif, is located in Denmark and is help customer using the Optim products e.g. Qeury Workload Tuner, pure Qeury, Optim Performance Manager.

by Lars Rönbäck, Stockholm University

Audience: Architects, DBA's and Application Developers.   Level: Intermediate

Link to the presentation S432. New Trends in Datamodelling

We need to rethink the concept of a data model. We live in a world where the available information changes more rapidly for every day that passes.

This is true both for the content and structure of the information.

On top of that, search requirements are also becoming inherently harder to predict.

In such a turbulent environment, current data models do not stand the test of time. At some point it is simpler to build a new model than to modify the existing one.

We must make it easier to reflect external changes in the model. The model must be flexible and adaptable. Furthermore, when information change we should handle the legacy data without causing any downtime.

Many of these problems are particularly obvious in the field of data warehousing. Some of the effects are:

- Current data warehouses are money sinks, as changes get more and more expensive to implement during its lifetime

- Current data warehouses do not give the desired return of investment, with maintenance constituting most of the total cost of ownership

- Current data warehouses cannot answer the really interesting questions, as they are modeled to answer a predefined set of queries and not ad-hoc searches

- Current data warehouses degenerate and become haphazard collections of tables, due to divergence from the initial modeling methodology

If we are to rethink database modeling, let us also try to do away with some other obstacles. Why is there a non-intuitive step in transforming a conceptual model to a physical one? Why is it difficult to make a generalized object-relational mapping?

In Anchor Modeling, a recent modeling technique, all this has been taken into consideration. Nevertheless, breaking into a scene ruled by old paradigms take time. To speed things up we realized that you need a tool, a free tool, and some new thinking on how you interact with your model. One in which a model is not built to last, but built to change. Only then can it truly last in an ever changing environment.

Lars Rönnbäck is a consultant at Resight, with a degree in mathematics from Uppsala University, who is specializing in customer intelligence. He has been working with some of the largest companies in the Swedish insurance and retail businesses, with ten years experience from the field of Business Intelligence and five years with Anchor Modeling. More precisely, he has been building data warehouses, designing SQL-driven ETL frameworks, and lately worked with customer analysis and data mining

by Mathias Korn IBM (DE)

Level: Intermediate Audience: General Interest

Link to the presentation S433. Unix System Services Update

The most powerful document to analyze a problem in a z/OS environment is a dump. Each component running under z/OS provides their own recovery environment and schedules a dump in case of a problem. There are different ways how to capture one. They are taken on demand via command, using the slip command processor or will be taken automatically by the recovery routines. But once captured - what now? What kind of dumps exist and what are the first steps for System Programmers to get a feeling what was the dump written for? This session will show a general overview and seperates dumps into different categories. It will introduce IPCS as a powerful tool to analyze unformatted dumps and will show at different examples, how fast the root of a problem can be determined in the area of Unix System Services using a dump.

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 Systemsupport in Germany. Matthias is working now since 15 years in the area of z/OS SCP (system control program) defect support and since 12 years supporting Unix System Services. He is a member of the european virtual frontend providing L2 support frontended to component specific change teams 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 GSE Nordics Conference as well.

by Mathias Korn IBM (DE)

Level: Intermediate Audience: General Interest

Link to the presentation S434. z/OS Dump handling - Overview and a bit more

The most powerful document to analyze a problem in a z/OS environment is a dump. Each component running under z/OS provides their own recovery environment and schedules a dump in case of a problem. There are different ways how to capture one. They are taken on demand via command, using the slip command processor or will be taken automatically by the recovery routines. But once captured - what now? What kind of dumps exist and what are the first steps for System Programmers to get a feeling what was the dump written for? This session will show a general overview and seperates dumps into different categories. It will introduce IPCS as a powerful tool to analyze unformatted dumps and will show at different examples, how fast the root of a problem can be determined in the area of Unix System Services using a dump.

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 Systemsupport in Germany. Matthias is working now since 15 years in the area of z/OS SCP (system control program) defect support and since 12 years supporting Unix System Services. He is a member of the european virtual frontend providing L2 support frontended to component specific change teams 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 GSE Nordics Conference as well.

by Catherine Moxey, IBM(UK) and Nick Garrod, IBM (UK)

Audience: Architect, Developer, Level: Basic/Intermediate

Link to presentation S513. Agile development

The waterfall development process has been around a long time but increasingly new projects have been adopting a new alternative style of development, an agile process. In this session you will hear how an agile development process has been adopted on a product that has been around for forty years, why it was adopted and the result of the adoption.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Strategy and Planning, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has more than 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, and an active member of the Event Processing Technical Society. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences.

Nick works as the Worldwide Marketing Manager for CICS based in the Hursley Lab. in England. Having spent some time in the business area of CICS he moved into Marketing where he has represented CICS at many conferences both as a speaker and solution centre representative. He most recently worked on the Smarter banking with CICS Transaction Server Redbook

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.

by Phil Grainger - Cogito (UK)

Audience: Application Developer, Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S621. Native XML Support in DB2 for zOS - (Chapter two)

One of the most significant additions to DB2 for z/OS is the ability to both store and manipulate XML documents directly - Last year we saw an overview of XML itself before looking at the SQL extensions provided by DB2 (Chapter one). Chapter Two of the ongoing XML story starts by considering when it is a good idea to consider storing XML data directly in DB2 tables and when it might be more appropriate to shred the XML and store the resulting information as traditional relational data. We will then move on to look at the enhancements DB2 10 has brought to the XML story - including subdocument changes as well as strong enforcement of XML schemas.

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.

by Søren Bjerg Jensen Jyske Bank (DK)

Audience: General Interest, Application Development, Architects Level: Basic, Intermediate

Link to presentation Is not Available

This session will be an introduction to the XML parser in COBOL, how it works and a bit about the differences between the OS parser and the "old" built-in parser in COBOL. There will also be some cases on how we used XML in Jyske Bank, before the merger with Bankdata.

Prior to the merger with Bankdata in 2010, Søren worked as an enterprise architect in Jyske Bank, with integration architecture as one of his tasks. Søren has a background as z/OS and Java developer, and has been the lead architect of the XML solutions used in Jyske Bank.

by Tom Ross IBM (US)

Audience: General Interest, Apllication Development, Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S623. Cobol Coding For Optimal Performance

There has been a lot of buzz lately about IBM Enterprise COBOL compilers and performance of the programs that they produce. Come and hear the real scoop from IBM COBOL development. We will talk about COBOL performance past, present, and (most importantly) future, and will give you tuning tips along with COBOL coding hints. We will also talk about lessons learned from updating the Performance Tuning Paper for the new releases of IBM Enterprise COBOL.

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 A7is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for z/OS, and in many issues facing IBM mainframe customers.

by Fraser Bohm IBM (UK)

Audioence: Application developers  Level: Basic, Intermediate

Link to presentation S624. CICS and PHP Dynamic Scripting

IBM CICS® has been powering the world's businesses for over forty years, continually evolving and adopting new technologies. Many customers view CICS' adoption of a technology as evidence that it's ready for enterprise deployment. The CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack provides a new, agile Web application platform for developing and running modern Web 2.0 applications. It can be used to create RESTful Web services and rich AJAX interfaces using popular Web languages such as PHP and Groovy. With this Feature Pack, CICS TS 4.1 brings seamless integration of rich Web 2.0 interfaces to your core CICS applications. This session explores and examines the role of dynamic scripting in the enterprise world. Understand how to exploit the potential of your existing CICS assets in Web 2.0 applications and mashups more easily and seamlessly than ever before.

Fraser is the Development Lead for CICS Transaction Server, having worked on the CICS TS product for over 14 years. Prior to becoming the Development Lead he was the technical lead for Web Services and SOA Technologies in the CICS team.

by Catherine Moxey IBM (UK)

Audience: General Interest, Apllication Development, Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S625. Positioning Rest, web services and Events

The scope of Service-Oriented Architecture is expanding. Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and WSDL-based Web services, while Event-Driven Architectures are becoming increasingly important. This session takes a look at the broad spectrum of service-enablement, and considers when you would use SOAP Web services, RESTful Web services, and Event Processing, as well as how these approaches fit together.

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.

by Gary Mazo IBM (US)

Audience: Application developers, general Interest Level: Basic

Link to presentation S626. The latest technologies for the Enterprise SOA application lifecycle: Introduction

JavaScript, Dojo, Ajax, Web 2.0, REST... How do these technologies relate to one another? How do they relate to Services-Oriented Architecture(SOA)? How does this all fit into "Cloud" and what does it have to do with Enterprise applications written in COBOL and PL/I? How does one develop and maintain these applications? What tools are there to help? If any of these questions are of interest, come to this presentation where we introduce these technologies and describe the importance, advantages and disadvantages of each specific technology and how they affect Enterprise SOA. We will also talk about what open source and vendor tools exist that support developing applications that utilize these technologies and different tiers of run-time configurations. (Firebug, IBM Rational Tools, Dojo toolkit are some of the tools that will be introduced.) [A companion presentation that demonstrates some of these technologies on a concrete example of a SOA COBOL CICS application is available]

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.

by Phil Grainger, COGITO/GdbS (UK)

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

Link to presentation S633. Application Performance - Tuning, Trending and Testing

It seems to be a constant battle to ensure that DB2 applications are running at their optimum efficiency and speed, but what are the factors that affect this efficiency. This presentation looks briefly at those aspects of application coding, development and execution that have a bearing on the overall performance. But what if it?s really not the applications fault? How do you determine, before embarking on lengthy analysis, that the problem really IS one you can fix from a DB2 perspective. We?ll also look at why it is important to build a performance database that easily allows comparisons between ?now? and ?then?. The performance database can also prove invaluable in determining trends in performance ? perhaps even allowing problems to be highlighted and resolved BEFORE they cause major impacts

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.

by Gary Mazo IBM (US)

Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S632. Putting it all together: Enterprise SOA applications, a practical approach

In this presentation we will talk about practical experiences for making SOA possible in COBOL and CICS applications. We will describe how to turn a COBOL application into a first class participant in an SOA environment. In a concrete example and a demo of both development and run-time we will walk through enabling a COBOL application as a service. We will introduce a concept of a RESTful interface that has gained popularity as a light weight service interface for enabling an rapidly increasing number of composite applications. We will use the recently released CICS resources for service enablement (for instance, ATOMSERVICE) as an example of turning the COBOL application into a RESTful service. We will also use a Dojo-based library to outfit the RESTful COBOL CICS application with a "Web UI"-look-and-feel graphical user interface.

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.

by Cathrine Moxey IBM (UK)

Audience: Generel Interrest, Level: Basic

Link to presentation S633. RTC user experience

Rational Team Concert provides team collaboration and software lifecycle management. This session will provide an introduction to Rational Team Concert, and its position within the Jazz Team Server platform. Experiences of adopting Rational Team Concert on a large software development project will be discussed.

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.

by Tom Ross IBM (US

Audience: General Interest, Apllication Development, Level: Intermediate

Link to presentation S634. Enhancement in Cobol v 4.2

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 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 A7is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for z/OS, and in many issues facing IBM mainframe customers.

by Per Rosenquist, IT Specialist and zChampion IBM (DK)

Level: Introduction

Link to presentation S613. Enterprise Linux Servers and zEnterprise Overview

This presentation will give an introduction to the modern Mainframe, running Linux on state-of-the-art virtualization, including economics, architecture and candidates for workload consolidation using System z hardware in context with the new hybrid platform called zEnterprise ,building the future for IT cloud service in a box.

Per has a background in mainframes for more than 35 years, as application programmer, database administrator, systemsprogrammer, IT Operations Manager and have been within IBM for more than 10 years as Technical Solution Manager and now working in IBM Systems and Technologi Group as System z technical presale.

by 5 Key Representatives from DB2, IMS, MQ, CICS and Appl. Development

Audience: All, Level: Basic

Key representatives for zOS, IMS, CICS, DB2, WMQ and Application development will in 10 Minutes each give you the message that will keep their platform as the core of your business in the years to come. The highlighted news that tells you that every thread is moving rapidly and keeping you and your business on track. Will the threads be performing and be economicaly attractive enough? Will the technical qualities and opportunities keep up the pace, so you can feel confident that your job is there tomorrow? The 6 speakers will in 10 minutes each give their point of views.

S135. Closing Keynote - 10 minutes of what the Audience had waited for by zOS, DB2, CICS, MQ , IMS, Appl Development

by Svenn-Aage Sønderskov, chairman of the GSE Nordic DB2 Working Group (DK)

Audience: General Interest, Level: Basic

Link to the presentation S136. Conference Closing

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

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

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

Link to the Conference report in Stockholm 2011