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IMS Regional User GroupsSF / San Ramon, October 18, 2012
Catherine CoxIMS RUG Advocate SF / San Ramon
IBM Silicon Valley Lab
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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome and Introductions
• Using IMS to Build a Smarter Cloud, by Ken Blackman
• Simplifying Dynamic Resource Definition: A Basic
Approach with Best Practices, by Angie Greenhaw
• Lunch
• OSAM – The Healthy Alternative to VSAM, by Charles
Jones
• Continued Modernization of IMS Administration, by
Chris Holtz
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Conferences in 2012 - 2013
2013
4/28 – 5/3
2013
�33 technical sessions
�Hands-on Labs
�Customer Appreciation Dinner
�IOD CAC
February 3 - 8, 2013
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Free IMS Lab-driven Customer Workshops
• IMS Business Value Assessment
– Business and architectural review of IMS subsystem and applications with
the goal of helping customers get more value out of their IMS investment
• IMS Database Workshop
– Hands-on workshop for application developers to learn about and test drive
the latest advances in IMS database technology
• IMS SOA Workshop
– Hands-on workshop for application developers to learn about IMS SOA
capabilities that help you service-enable and reuse IMS assets (data and
business logic), and save money!
• IMS Cobol, JAVA, and PLI Application Development Workshops
– Hands-on workshop for application developers to test drive the latest tools
that accelerate and simplify IMS application development; available for
COBOL, PLI, and JAVA developers
Want to know more? Ask Laura Hunsinger [email protected]
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New IMS Customer Internship Program
• Located at IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose,
California – home of IMS Development
• Help you to quickly grow IMS skills
• First class is scheduled for 2Q 2012
• Class is limited to <10 participants for focused
attention
• 2-month minimal duration, possibility to extend
• Customers will work on real projects tailored to
their job responsibilities: AD, DBA, SysProg
• Formal and informal classes will be taught by
IMS engineers
Interested?
Contact Steve Zozaya - [email protected]
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IMS ISV Community
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IMS 12 General Availability
• IMS 12 became generally available on
October 28, 2011
– Enterprise Suite 2.1
• Quality Partnership Program highly successful
– 14 external customers, 26 vendors
– 5 customers were in production before GA; one was in production
more than 100 days before GA
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IMS 12 - Extras
Phoenix, Dallas, Columbus, Detroit, Charlotte, Boston, Hartford, Toronto, NYC, Springfield, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco
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IMS Enterprise Suite 2.2
• IMS ES SOAP Gateway
• IMS ES Connect APIs for Java and C
• IMS ES Explorer for Development
• IMS TM Resource Adapter
• IMS Web 2.0 solutions
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IMS 12 on zEC12 provides
superlative Security, Compliance,
Performance, Efficiency, and Industrial-Strength Transaction and
Database management
Revolutionize your IMS with zEC12!
� Most secure system with 99.999% reliability
� Optimized data serving with largest cache in the
industry
� Leadership in performance with middleware and
5.5GHz processor chip.
� Ability to process terabytes of data to provide
valuable output
� Millions of transactions per day with less than 1
second response
� Faster problem determination with IBM zAware
for improved availability
� Java exploitation of Transactional Execution for
increased parallelism and scalability
� A 31% improvement to PL/I-based CPU intensive
applications based on NEW Enterprise PL/I for z/OS
and Updated C/C++ compilers
� Increased Performance through Flash Express
and pageable large pages via z/OS 1.13 exploitation
Additional gains include:
� XML hardware acceleration; streamline and
secure valuable SOA applications with IBM
WebSphere DataPower
� Centrally monitored, controlled and
automated operations across heterogeneous
environments with IBM Tivoli Omegamon
IMS 12 on zEC12 shows a
30% improvement
in transaction rate
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Get more out of your middleware investmentsIBM C/C++, COBOL and PL/I Compilers for z/OS
Increase Application Performance
IMSIMSDB2CICS
Tune application performance by taking
advantage of the latest IMS, CICS, and DB2 on System z196 and z114 hardware
Capitalize on existing Investments
Enterprise COBOL and PL/I for z/OS offer low
risk upgrade paths from older versions of compilers and middleware
Build New Applications Faster
New Compilers offer strong integration with IMS, CICS,
and DB2, as well as modern development tools,
providing a high productivity environment for developing business critical
applications
ReduceCosts
Simplify development with compiler support for the latest IMS, CICS, and DB2 features; Offload PL/I
and COBOL XML processing to zAAP
specialty engine
Optimize
12
Questions?
Contact Melanie Steckham
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Extend your IMS data to the rest of the enterprise
• Synchronize mission-critical IMS data with InfoSphere Classic Change Data Capture for z/OS
� Extension of InfoSphere Change Data Capture to support replication from IMS
� Efficient capture & delivery of IMS data to local or remote DBMS, message queues, flat files, and ETL tools
� Optimize processor utilization by only sending data changes which eliminates massive batch movements
� Extend application availability by shortening batch windows by streaming changes as they occur
� Deliver up-to-date data for business analytics by distributing data across multiple systems or between central and satellite systems
• Increase the availability of IMS data with InfoSphere IMS Replication for z/OS
� Efficient capture & delivery of IMS data to a local or remote IMS copy
� Synchronize data centres for continuous availability, business continuity, disaster recovery
� When combined with IBM monitoring and workload management software, provides a hot standby site at unlimited distances with a recovery time in seconds to minutes
� Learn more at the product webpage
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Replication
IMS
IMS or other DBMS
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