IMS Regional User Group – Burnaby, BC

Yves Tolod

IBM

 IMS, IMS Connect, and zOS Connect EE – The API Economy

Enterprise clients who plan to repurpose their IBM Z assets as mobile apps/APIs can concurrently save money and make money.  How?  In this session, you will learn about the end-to-end collaboration that begins with z/OS assets such IMS Connect, z/OS Connect EE, and the API toolkit, which assist in the movement toward API creation and robust mobile apps.   Additionally, we will look at the security process flow between IMS and z/OS Connect for both inbound and outbound.

Suzie Wendler

Kenny Blackman

IBM

The Basics of Managed ACBs and Data Definition Language

Are you tired of waiting for IMS changes in your environment to be generated, scheduled and approved by Change Control in order to make your IMS program or database changes? What if you didn’t need to wait?  IMS Catalog and Managed ACBs provide database administrators a modernized capability to quickly visualize, maintain and create resources to be used in an IMS Environment. Using IMS Catalog and IMS Managed ACBs, resource definitions and application control blocks can be updated using Data Definition Language while your IMS is running. Use the newly created metadata for improved application development, resource identification, auditing and analysis of IMS data in place.  Immediately available resources! No middle of the night outage! Best of all,
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Dennis Eichelberger

IBM

IMS BMPs – Why, What, and How

As high availability becomes more of a requirement in your environment and the batch window continues to shrink, conversion of DLI batch jobs to BMPs becomes more critical.  This session lays out the steps needed to accomplish this task and discusses some of the issues and concerns that need to be considered.

Suzie Wendler

IBM

IMS BMP Management with Tools and IMS Buffer Tuning

This session covers several of the IBM IMS Tools that can aid in IMS management. The IMS Program Restart Facility automates the Checkpoint, Restart and Backout processing for IMS batch and BMP programs. Also covered is the IMS Buffer Pool Analyzer, which significantly simplifies buffer tuning by removing the extensive guesswork often involved.

Richard Engel

IBM

IMS 15: Continuous Delivery and Function Level Activation

With the delivery of IMS 15, continuous delivery is now a reality for all IBM Z software offerings. What does this really mean, and how will it impact you?  Learn about this new strategic direction for IBM and the implications it has for your environment.  This session will also provide a brief overview of the enhancements delivered with IMS 15.

Kenny Blackman

IBM

Yves Tolod

IBM