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 […]
Ansible Automation Platform in Action: Provisioning z/OS Middleware with the Latest CICS TS Collection Drew Hughes, Developer - CICS Modernization Team at IBM Andrew Twydell, Software Engineer at IBM Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceqvqzopGNcoTN-0YcOCo1HXLjE6tZBq
Claims, Drains and Automobiles Picture a bustling metropolis: thousands of people crossing streets, driving cars, and getting to work. It would be chaos without traffic lights, police officers, or laws. In Db2 for z/OS, that metropolis is data, transactions, utilities, queries, Units of Work. Claims, Drains, Locks, and Latches are the silent traffic controllers keeping […]
Virtual IMS User Group Meeting - Deal with growing cybersecurity risks and do Real-time and after-the-event IMS analytics, all at the same time Presented by Sahil Gupta and Santosh Belgaonkar, BMC In this session, the speakers will discuss how IMS organizations worldwide can address the growing risks posed by cybersecurity issues by enhancing their cross-platform […]
Presenter: Saurabh Pandey, Lead Product Manager, BMC Indexes are the heart of efficient SQL and access path in Db2 for z/OS. But when they become bloated due to page splits, they can quietly eat away at your performance, escalate CPU usage, and increase locking contention. If your insert-heavy application is facing throughput drops, it’s time […]
Join us for a collaborative session of the Db2 for z/OS Virtual User Group—an open forum for practitioners, architects, and DBAs to share knowledge, explore new features, and discuss best practices for managing Db2 in modern mainframe environments. Whether you're optimizing performance, planning migrations, or exploring the latest capabilities in Db2 12 or 13, this […]
Mainframes in Big Data In this session, Colin Knight explores the role of mainframes—particularly Db2 for z/OS—in the evolving world of big data. Drawing on his extensive experience at NatWest, he shares how mainframe data is delivered into big data environments using tools such as Infosphere CDC, Q Replication, and unload processes. Colin also looks […]
IMS Managed ACB Mandate After 6 Months – Adapting to the New Normal Six months after the IMS Managed ACB mandate, the landscape for IMS administrators and DBAs has fundamentally changed. What began as a modernization requirement has evolved into a catalyst for greater automation, consistency, and agility across IMS environments. This session revisits the […]
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Db2 12 introduced the concept of continuous delivery and along with the base SQL and SQL PL capability delivered, there were 10 Functions levels where additional enhancements were made. Db2 13 has been in the field for 3 Years, and additional enhancements have been added. This presentation will cover the SQL and SQL PL enhancements […]
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses demand seamless, efficient, and secure transaction processing to keep up with evolving customer expectations and market dynamics. On IBM Z, a platform renowned for its reliability and performance, CICS Transaction Server has been at the forefront of enabling robust application serving for decades. As we embrace the era of artificial […]