IMS Connect Reimagined: Leveraging SQL to Access IMS Data in Today's Digital Ecosystem Step into the modern era of IMS by modernizing IMS Connect to support newer technologies and architectures, such as cloud computing, RESTful APIs, and microservices. Join us for a comprehensive overview of setting up environments optimized for both JAVA and PYTHON programming […]
Driving Down Database Development Dollars Application developers and database administrators alike are under constant pressure to drive down costs and reduce CPU cycles. This talk suggests some technical tips and cultural changes to Developers, DBAs, and Operations, to address this ubiquitous challenge facing mainframe enterprises world-wide. Presented by: Marcus Davage | Lead Product Developer, BMC […]
Enhanced Analysis Through Integrating CICS and Other Types of SMF Data Continuing the theme from last January's session on enhancing CICS analysis from SMF data, this session will expand beyond CICS Transaction and Statistics data and examine ways CICS analysis can be enhanced through integration with SMF data from other components across the z platform. […]
Virtual IMS User Group Meeting featuring Steve Nathan! Sponsored by BMC
CICS Interdependency Analyzer (aka CICS IA for z/OS) is a runtime tool for use with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, that can be used to collect data related to transaction affinity, resource dependency and command flow. CICS IA plugin for CICS Explorer is an intuitive front end to visualize and explore the collected data. CICS […]
Regulatory and industry standards press for more and more safety around customer and company data. The Pervasive Encryption model with IMS datasets requires some planning. IMS is unique in many ways and keeping the IMS Infrastructure safe is as important as keeping its databases safe. This session discusses IMS data, logging, and utility use from […]
Many organizations already leverage automated DevOps practices for distributed applications, and now many are looking to include z applications in the pipeline. For CICS, developers manage source code and the executable modules, but the systems programmers typically manage the related CICS resource definitions. This separation between the code and resource definitions creates issues when incorporating […]
With a nod to Dr. Suess, this presentation discusses a few Db2 best practices based on experiences I've encountered during my consulting career. It takes a look at actual scenarios (without naming names) to explore situations that can arise in any organization. Some of the things covered include RUNSTATS, RID failures, lock escalation, and more. […]
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Understanding What IMS Applications Can Do and How You Can Benefit From REST APIS IMS clients worldwide have a wealth of assets in the form of IMS applications. These business-critical apps have been running your business for decades, at performance levels hard to rival. Their durability, reliability, and scalability are legendary. IMS continues to add […]
The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations Horror is not constrained to the movies, but happens every day in your CICS environment! We will share common examples of poor and horrific examples of CICS integration which drives up MIPS and degrades response times. Just when we thought the insanity of screen scraping was over, along […]
