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IMS Regional User GroupsNew York City and Toronto
February, 2014
Sandy Sherrill
IMS Worldwide Market Manager
IMS RUG Advocate
IBM Silicon Valley Lab
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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome and Introductions - Sandy
• IMS Database: Futures Update: Kyle Charlet, IMS Senior Technical Staff
Member
• Standard Access to IMS Data Assets from COBOL Using SQL: Haley Fung, IMS
Development
• Lunch!
• Java + z + IMS: Marcel Mitran, IBM Canada
• IMS and Tools – Not Just NextGen! – Janet LeBlanc, IBM IMS Tools Strategist
• Close Meeting / Steering Committee
• SURVEY LINK! bit.ly/IMSUG2014
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Notice to Employees and Representatives from GOE Entities
• At this IBM function, IBM is providing breakfast and lunch meals and/or
promotional items and considers this a normal business courtesy. U.S. Federal
government regulations and some state or local government agencies do not
permit their employees to accept food or refreshments from contractors
doing business with them.
• IBM provides this notice to assist you in ensuring that your acceptance of the
amenities is in compliance with your employer’s internal policies. If your
receipt of the amenities during your attendance and participation in the event
presents an issue, please advise IBM, and plan for alternate meal options.
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IBM IMS
100,000 reasons to move to IMS 13
Still delivering the highest levels of performance, availability
security, and scalability in the industry.
#IBM_IMS
IMS 13: Record-setting benchmark
IMS 13 achieves
117,292
transactions
per second
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IMS Onstage @ IOD 2013! November, Las Vegas
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Upcoming Conferences (1H14) featuring IMS
IBM Impact
April 27 – May 1
Las Vegas, NV
Share Anaheim
March 9 - 14
Anaheim, CA
IMS Symposium EMEA
March 17 – 20
Wiesbaden, Germany
IBM Innovate
June 1 - 5
Orlando, FL
Central Canadian
DB2 User Group
June 2 - 3
Markham, Ontario
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IMS 13 Migration Workshop!
– February 3,4 Dallas, TX
– February 6,7 Phoenix, AZ
– February 20,21 Charlotte, NC
– February 25,26 Philadelphia, PA
– March 19,20 Hartford, CT
– March 24,25 Southfield, MI (Detroit)
– March 27,28 Columbus, OH
– March 31,1 Victoria, British Columbia
– April 3,4 Seattle, WA
– April 8,9 Bloomington, IL
– May 8,9 Toronto, Ontario
– May 12,13 New York City
– June 3,4 Glendale, CA
– July Virtual Event
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IBM System z Technology Summit
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IMS Database Value Unit Edition
• For both IMS 13 and IMS 12
• The same high-speed, highly available IMS data server at a
one-time charge (OTC) price
• Provides competitive advantage to IMS data sharing clients requiring additional
cost-effective access to IMS data for net new workload.
• Expressly for net new applications or workloads in Java or SQL only, through IMS
Open Database, from applications on WebSphere Application Server on z/OS
• Adds new customized capabilities addressing business growth based on key
business initiatives including services-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise and
mobile access strategy, and operational business intelligence (BI).
• Leverages the unique industry-leading performance and
workload management capabilities of IMS.
• ibm.com/software/data/ims/imsdbvue/index.html
Value
Unit
EditionJoins CICS VUE and DB2 VUE
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New Monthly License Charge (MLC) Pricing StrategyIMS 13, 12 & 11 all cost the sameDB2 9, 10 and 11 all cost the same
• Simpler model
– Prices equalized across all versions of MLC middleware
• Why?
– Helps you plan better for migrations
– Provide consistency of price changes over time
• When?
– 3Q13/4Q13 announcements
• Includes IMS, DB2, and COBOL
• CICS was previously equalized
• Effective January 2014 (April 1 in Japan)
EXTERNAL ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER 313-070 8.27.13
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IMS Business Value Assessment Workshop
Help 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 and
develop workshop materials
Deliver Recommendations
Proposal for next steps.
IBM Client team follow-up
Discovery Workshop
Contact Laura Hunsinger, [email protected], for details
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IMS Customer Advisory Council
• Monthly e-Meetings
• NA Participants: Third Tuesday
• EMEA & South America Participants: Third Thursday
• Face-to-face Meetings
• Information On Demand (IOD) Conference
• EMEA Participants: IMS Symposium, in Weisbaden Germany, March 10th
thru 14th
Interested in joining?Contact: Laura Hunsinger at [email protected]
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““““…every subject was successfully covered by the most
appropriate expert. While I was there at SVL, the program was
flexible enough so we could address certain topics which I
personally identified, that would benefit me at my home
location...””””
• Reserve your spot now to work with our team at Silicon
Valley Lab in San Jose, California starting February 17th
• Sessions include: Installation, HALDB features, IMS OTMA
and Connect, application topics, and MORE!
• Should have at least 2-3 years of IMS experience
• Contact Tori Gonzalez for more information:
IMS Customer Internship Program – 2014
““““…a unique experience, where I was given the
opportunity to meet with the IMS developers and
testers at the IBM Lab, and work side by side with
them… It's incredible to meet people whose work is
known worldwide.””””
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IMS ISV Community
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New IMS and Rational Compilers Podcast• IMS Development partners with Rational to bring you up-to-date on the latest
enhancements in COBOL compilers
• Convenient podcast format
• Let us know if you’d like to see more of these!
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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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Have questions? Interested in early testing?Contact David Hanson from the IMS Information Development team: [email protected]
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IMS Best Practices
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bit.ly/IMSBestPractices
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IMS Social Community!
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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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Are you getting the most from your IMS investment?
IMS is the GOLD Standard
for:
Availability
Performance
Dependability IMS makes modernizing
easy and affordable
Support for IMS 11 ends
on October 30, 2014
We Can Help!•Version-to-Version Migrations
•Health Checks
•SOA Pilots
•Capacity Planning
•Shared Queues, Data Sharing, Sysplex
•….and much more!
Contact
Visit us @
ibm.co/QQn7WW
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IMS Regional User Group Locations – North America
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• Seattle, WA
• San Ramon, CA
• Phoenix, AZ
• Dallas, TX
• Omaha, NE
• Minneapolis, MN
• Bloomington/Springfield, IL
• Detroit, MI
• Columbus, OH
• Philadelphia, PA
• Toronto, Canada
• Charlotte, NC
• Boston, MA
• Hartford, CT
• NYC, NY
• Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Victoria, BC
• Southern CA
• Jacksonville, FL
• Washington, DC
• Pittsburg, PA
Note: e-Meetings are open to everyone.
Check for upcoming meetings here:
ibm.co/IMS_RUGs
Physical RUGs e-Meeting RUG
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Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific
Regional User Group Locations – Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe
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• Sao Paulo, Brazil • Oslo, Norway• Helsinki, Finland• Stockholm, Sweden
• Tokyo, Japan• Singapore• Melbourne, Australia• Sydney, Australia Check for upcoming meetings
here: ibm.co/IMS_RUGs
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Questions?
SURVEY LINK: bit.ly/IMSUG2014
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