IBM CM OnDemand for z/OS & Multi-platform

Hamardi IT Service

v/Steen Camillo HamardiIndependent IT Services Specialist

Www.hamardi.dk+45-2041.3873

steen@hamardi.dkhamardi@gmail.com

Customer Wishes

●High volume document archive●High speed document search and retrieve●Facilitate all types of IT documents, incl. PC types●Integration with DFSMS/TSM automatic object management●Integration with document retention products●Built in document retention●Possibility to integrate with company applications●Print / secure print●Integration with RACF and other security products●Exits for special actions●API for integration with WEB applications●API to integrate with traditional COBOL applications●And many, many other wishes of more special character

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●High volume document archive– Cache (DASD only)– Both high speed and high volume DASD– Transition data to Tape (ATS & VTS) with DFSMS

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●High speed document search and retrieve– Separate Index and Data archive– Online Index and Data stored in DB2– Retrieves only the requested document not the whole load

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●Facilitate all types of IT documents, incl. PC types

– As long as the input can be provided digitally OD can store it– Line Data, AFP, PDF, JPG, TIFF, Word, Excel, etc.

– For AFP and PDF resources are stored separately, one time only – but as a sorted group (as output from ACIF and ISIS Papyrus) not individually …

– Line Data, AFP and PDF can be stored as “Large Object” allowing storage of large documents in groups of pages

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●Integration with DFSMS/TSM automatic object management

– OD uses DFSMSoam or TSM on z/OS– OD uses TSM on all other platforms

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●Retention Management

– OD has a built-in retention manager– OD can integrate with IBM FileNet Retention Manager

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●Integration with customers' LOB applications

– OD is delivered with a full set of Java API functions– = ODWEK (OnDemand Web Enablement Kit)– ODWEK includes 2 test browser based clients– (CGI and Servlet) – code stabilized since OD V8.4.0

– OD on z/OS is also delivered with a COBOL Structured API:– has only a subset of the functions delivered with the Java API– works in Batch, CICS, IMS and TSO

Fulfilling Customer Needs

●Integrates with RACF and other similar on z/OS●Integrates with LDAP on all other platforms

– Logon security– Folder and Application Group security– Document level security

– Possible to integrate with customer's one-of-a-kind security system thru exits and sample code delivered with OD

Additional Features

●ODF – OnDemand Distribution Facility

●AFP2PDF – in the fly – Transform

●AFP2WEB Transform

●PDF Indexer

Special Questions raised up-front

●Storing individual AFP resources ?

– NO! Has never been requested, and– is very expensive to implement and run

●Annotations?

– YES!

Time for questions from the audience

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