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IMS Regional User GroupsEmeeting, December 9, 2015

Robin Hoyt Lawrence/Maida Snapper/Vikram ManchalaIMS RUG Advocates – Jacksonville/Pittsburgh/Washington

eMeetingsIBM Silicon Valley Lab

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Meet your IMS Regional User Group advocates – North America

Advocate LocationRick Engel Bloomington/Springfield, ILLinda Weed Charlotte, NCJohn Butterweck Dallas, TXNancy Stein Detroit, MI / Columbus, OHRobin Lawrence Jacksonville, FL eMeetingJerry Silva Minneapolis, MNPoonam Chitale New York, NY / Philadelphia, PAYuhui Li Omaha, NEMaida Snapper Pittsburgh, PA eMeetingJeffery Pearce Phoenix, AZ / Fort Lauderdale, FLDwayne Richardson San Ramon, CAEvgueni Liakhovich Seattle, WA / Victoria, BC / Vancouver, BCSuling Li Southern CA, eMeeting / Glendale, CASandy Sherrill Toronto/Montreal, CanadaVikram Manchala Washington, DC eMeeting

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Advocate Location

Carlos Alvarado / Joy Hwang Sao Paulo, Brazil

Geoff Nicholls Singapore

Jouko Jantti Stockholm, Sweden / Oslo, Norway / Helsinki, Finland

Robert Hain Sydney / Melbourne, Australia

Maki Matsuo Tokyo, Japan

Tori Gonzalez IMS RUG Program Coordinator – all regions

Meet your IMS Regional User Group advocates Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific

To get connected with an IMS RUG advocate, send your request to ibmims@us.ibm.com

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Today’s Agenda – eMeeting RUG• Welcome and Introductions • IMS V14 Overview: Greg Vance• Break 1

• IMS Explorer for Development Overview and Demo: William Li• Break 2

• IMS and the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator: Deepak Kohli

• Q&A / Survey / Close Meeting

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IMS hits the road – Q1 2016IMS @ InterConnect

February 21 – 25Las Vegas, NV

IBM IMS Technical Symposium

March 7 – 10, 2016Wiesbaden, Germany

• Worldwide IMS Event!• 50 + technical IMS and IMS

Tools sessions• Hands on Labs, Demos, CAC• www.ims-symposium.com

February 28 – March 4, 2016 San Antonio, TX

• Special Sunday Super Session!• 17 technical IMS and IMS Tools

sessions• Hands on Labs and Demos• www.share.org/sanantonio

• Multiple sessions on IMS and Tools

• IMS Mobile, IMS in the Cloud• Hands on Labs and Demos• ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/interconnect/

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IMS Wildfire Workshop 2016

The zGrowth team will offer a valuable “no-charge” 2 day workshop focusing on:IMS V14 product enhancement

Stay tuned for dates and an event location near you.

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We have many IMS and IMS Tools Teleconferences on Replay• IBM IMS Solutions: Sharpen Your Competitive Edge – IMS 14!• IMS Tools – The Next Generation

• IMS on IBM System z: Optimized for Mobile!

• Mix it up: How your enterprise assets fit perfectly with IBM Bluemix

• Take Control of Your IMS Environment

• Do you Have Critical IMS Data? We can Show You How to Take Care of it

• IMS Catalog: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask

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ibm.com/software/os/systemz/events/calendar/index.html

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IMS Business Value Assessment WorkshopHelp clients identify ways to get more out of their IMS investment

•A proactive assessment

•Provides tactical and strategic recommendations to:

– Increase benefits

– Lower costs

– Improve processing efficiencies for IMS applications

IBM or BP Services for Deployment

Supported by

Subject Matter

Experts from

Development

Lab

Joint Proof Of Concept Client Implementation

IMS Value Assessment?

Project Kickoff Call

Data Consolidation and Technical Assessment

Generate Recommendations anddevelop workshop materials

Deliver Recommendations Proposal for next steps.

IBM Client team follow-up

Discovery Workshop

For more details, send your request to ibmims@us.ibm.com

Still a no-charge workshop!

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IMS Customer Advisory Council• Monthly e-Meetings third Thursday at 7:30 *AM* (PST) • Face-to-face Meetings twice yearly at:

IBM Insight and IMS Technical Symposium Conferences • Networking opportunities with

peer IMS experts worldwide• Influence the strategic product direction of IMS!

For more details, send your request to ibmims@us.ibm.com

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“I enjoyed these talks and discussions very much and learned a lot...”

IMS Customer Internship Program – 2016

“Definitely useful for our daily DBA task especially when we face with a concept that we went through during internship. We recheck the documents and critical information and see how it is applied to our system.”

• Now planning for the April 2016 internship

• Sessions held in San Jose, California

• Let us hear your topic suggestions!

For more details, send your request to ibmims@us.ibm.com

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IMS ISV Community

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IBM Knowledge Center One-stop shop - IBM Knowledge Center is

your destination on ibm.com for all IBM technical information and resources. It replaces multiple sources of information across IBM products.

Initially... Knowledge Center combines all of our existing information centers (IMS and others) into a single web site that provides an improved, filterable search capability and a brand-new user experience.

Over time… IBM Knowledge Center will be the basis for a fusion of a wide variety of sources including information centers, wikis, developerWorks, Support, Redbooks, PartnerWorld, and more.

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IMS Social Community!

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New IMS Videos Available!

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Explore the ReThinkIMS YouTube channel for demos, tutorials, and more! ibm.biz/youtubeIMS

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IMS Redbooks – there’s an App for that!

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Now available for both iOS and Android devices

Get it now!

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