Mark your Calendars Melbourne, Australia IMS Technical Conference

Presented by: IBM

IMS User Group Organization

Details: Monday May 26 – Tuesday May 27, 2014 Location: IBM Southgate

Podium Level Seminar Room (non IBMers need to register with Reception first)

60 City Road Southbank Vic 3006

International speakers include: Shyh-Mei Ho, IBM Distinguished Engineer, is the IMS On Demand SOA Chief Architect,

located in SVL, San Jose, CA. She defines the strategy, and architectural design, and provides IMS Integration & modernization solutions in multi-component enterprise environments that span both host and distributed platforms, including Internet, Mobile and Cloud integration and connectivity. She initiated the creation of an industry standard which placed IBM as the first company to solve the important and difficult problem for data exchange between existing and newly written applications in enterprise environments. She has earned 41 invention achievement awards and 40 worldwide patents. Shyh-Mei has also received several IBM outstanding technical achievement and corporate awards; and was honored with a 2010 YWCA of Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award (TWIN) Sessions Include:

• IMS Trends and Directions

• IMS Modernization & Integration Strategy and Solutions

• IMS and Mobile

Janet Leblanc from IBM Canada Janet LeBlanc is the IMS Tools Architect/Strategist for the IMS Tools team at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. . Janet has worked with IBM’s IMS Tools since 1999. Prior to joining IBM, Janet has worked with DB Tools as a vendor and a customer, and a DBA in the defence industries. Janet has been involved on the mainframe for over 35 years and with IMS and IMS Tools for over 25 years as a customer, vendor and IBMer. Sessions Include:

• IMS / Tools - Not just for the Next Generation

Nick Griffin from IBM US - WW Software Group IMS Sales Advisor Nick Griffin has over 38 years of mainframe experience in Development, Systems and Database Administration for IMS, MVS, CICS/VSAM and VTAM applications. Nick has been a developer for IMS Monitoring code and managed a development group for a competitive software vendor. Nick managed large, complex, mission critical IMS database applications for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Most recently spent 11 years as IMS Product Manager for a large tools vendor. Nick is currently Sales Advisor for z Information Management IMS and IMS/Tools Sessions Include:

• IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions

• Tools that help you migrate to IMS v13

Graham Fox from BMC US Graham Fox is a Lead Technical Support Analyst for BMC Software working in the IMS Transaction Management Product Team. He has been with BMC since 1998. Prior to BMC he has worked for IBM Canada and Standard Life Assurance Co in Scotland working in IMS and VTAM systems programming roles. Sessions Include:

• IMS Connect Monitoring and Diagnosis

• IMS System Administration – A Different View

Local speakers include: Bhups Naris from IBM Sessions include:

• IMS 100K TPS: Roadblocks, Limitations, and Solutions

Geoff Nicholls from IBM Sessions include:

• Using SQL to your IMS databases

Rafael Avigad from Fundi Sessions Include:

• Change you can believe in.

• Can visually interacting with the log records of composite transactions help solve problems more effectively?

Melbourne IMS Technical Conference Agenda 26th & 27th May, 2014

IBM Southgate

Podium Level Seminar Room, 60 City Road, Southbank, 3006

Sponsored by:

Monday 26th May 8:45 – 9:00 Arrive and Register Robert Hain

IBM Australia

9:00 – 10:00 IMS01: Keynote Address: IMS Trends & Directions IMS celebrates 45 years of innovation and a new release. IMS 13 achieves unprecedented levels of performance, staking claim as a cornerstone for contemporary IT enterprises worldwide. This session highlights the significance of IMS’s impact on the world of enterprise software, and discusses strategic directions of IMS.

Shyh-Mei Ho IBM US

10:00 – 10:15 Morning Break

10:15 – 11:15 IMS02: IMS / Tools - Not just for the Next Generation We are always talking about how we need new intelligent tools for the next generation DBA's, but in today’s world all DBA's have smart devices with them or on their desktops. In this presentation you will learn how new IMS/Tools software can help ease the everyday stress DBA's are having with larger workloads and less resources. See how the future of IMS/Tools software will help you reach your future goals. The new features of Autonomic Director will alleviate database related outages by giving you the information needed to forecast the future. The latest Administration Console will combine information across your IMSPlex and beyond. It eases the stress of knowing what the issues are and how to resolve them. You will see use cases of how this will improve your day to day life as a DBA.

Janet Leblanc IBM Canada

11:25 – 12:25 IMS03: IMS Connect Monitoring and Diagnosis The presentation will discuss Energizer for IMS Connect and its integration points with MainView IMS and BMC Log Analyzer for IMS. The aim will be to provide customers with information and tooling to assist in diagnosing OTMA and ODBM problems.

Graham Fox BMC Software

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 IMS04: IMS Modernization & Integration Strategy and Solutions This session discusses how IMS is key to the integration of your enterprise architecture; how it supports open integration technologies both within and beyond enterprise boundaries. This session brings you up to speed on the robust integration capabilities with IBM's strategic solutions, plus cross-brand initiatives, including Clouds, Mobile, Big Data, and Analytics, etc. You will learn how you can leverage your IT resources to better respond to emerging strategic initiatives!

Shyh-Mei Ho IBM US

14:30 – 14:50 Afternoon Break

14:50 – 15:50 IMS05: IMS 100K TPS: Roadblocks, Limitations, and Solutions The IMS 13 "100K" project achieved a sustained average transaction rate of over 117,000 transactions per second (TPS) on a single system, running on the most current IBM hardware. This presentation tells the story of how this was achieve by overcoming the many challenges encountered along the way.

Bhups Narsi IBM Australia

16:00 – 17:00 IMS06: Change you can believe in. What are some of the inhibitors to adapting and growing your IMS environment to take advantage of new IMS capabilities? In this presentation, we would like to look at the challenges for introducing change in the IMS Environment, how tools can help with these challenges, and open a discussion about the issues you are presented with in your organisation for evolving IMS

Rafael Avigad Fundi Software

17:00 IMS07: IMS Swapshop This session is an open forum. It is your chance to ask questions of anyone present or to bring up any concerns you may have.

Robert Hain IBM Australia

17:30 End of day 1.

Tuesday 25th June 8:45 – 9:00 Arrive

9:00 – 10:00

IMS08: IMS System Administration – A Different View Topic will cover System Administration for IMS Database Console and how its features can assist with dynamic changes to IMS. Coverage will include monitoring and managing IMS Message Queues and IMS Connects. If time permits an update will be provided on the latest updates to the System Administration products.

Graham Fox BMC Software

10:00 – 10:15 Morning Break

10:15 – 11:15 IMS09: IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions IMS coupled with Sysplex technologies can greatly

Nick Griffin IBM US

improve IMS's scalability, availability and performance. However, running IMS in a Sysplex environment brings some configurational and operational challenges. CF structures and SQ monitoring, transaction affinity management, long lock detection, buffer overflow protection, and RM structure management are task that IMS administrators have not dealt with before. Learn how to effectively cope with these challenges with IMS Sysplex Manager.

11:25 – 12:25 IMS10: IMS & Mobile The evolution of IMS throughout its 45 years makes it a perfect partner in the current Mobile Revolution. By leveraging IMS integration capabilities, IMS clients can easily extend the business value of their existing IMS transactions and databases, have a fast time-to-market, and reduce the TCO for their Mobile infrastructure. This session discusses a variety of options in integrating Mobile with IMS.

Shyh Mei Ho IBM US

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 IMS11: Using SQL to your IMS databases IMS 13 extends the ability to access your IMS databases with SQL. In this session, I detail how to set up your environment for the IMS Catalog, and write COBOL applications accessing your IMS databases with SQL. Further, I will show how to use C# on the distributed platform to access your IMS databases.

Geoff Nicholls IBM Australia

14:30 – 14:50 Afternoon Break

14:50 – 15:50 IMS12: Can visually interacting with the log records of composite transactions help solve problems more effectively? Analyzing problems with transactions on z/OS can feel like measuring a strand of cotton when your starting point is a shirt: you need to dissect individual aspects of the transaction without losing the overall picture of how they fit together. That means knowing where and how to get logs for various subsystems, relating these logs together, and finally interpreting the combined output. IBM Transaction Analysis Workbench for z/OS is a tool that provides a coherent picture of a transaction across subsystems - including IMS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere MQ, and z/OS itself - helping you to pinpoint the source of problems. We demonstrate a step-by-step proof-of-concept model for visually interacting with composite log data to help identify and resolve problems involving multiple subsystems.

Rafael Avigad Fundi Software

16:00 – 17:00 IMS13: Tools that help you migrate to IMS v13 Together, the IBM IMS Tools Solution Packs and IMS 13 deliver simplification, automation and intelligence, with all the tools needed to support IMS databases now in one package. It doesn’t make sense to run reorganization utilities if your databases do not need to be reorganized. Now you can quickly and easily improve IMS application performance, IMS resource utilization and deliver higher system availability with the end-to-end analysis of IMS transactions. Comprehensive performance reporting and easier interactive analysis determine what happened, what needs fixing and how to fix it – all part of the intelligence and automation of the IMS Tools

Nick Griffin IBM US

Performance Solution Pack.

17:00 Conference End, Collect Feedback forms