• 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

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    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 […]

  • Virtual Db2 Meeting – Claims, Drains and Automobiles

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    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 CICS Meeting – December

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    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 […]

  • Virtual IMS Meeting – December

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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 […]

  • Virtual Db2 User Group – Oh, The Things I’ve Seen! Db2 Stories and Best Practices

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    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. […]

  • Optimizing Performance at the Speed of Light: Why I/O Avoidance is Even More Important Today

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    Long gone are the days of the mainframe processors having relatively low processor speeds and relatively small memory sizes. The modern mainframe can have TBs of memory, and the processor clock speeds are among the fastest in the world. Fast processors wait at the same speed as slow processors, but the opportunity cost of waiting […]

  • Virtual CICS User Group – CICS Resource Definitions as part of a DevOps Pipeline

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    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 […]

  • Pervasive Encryption and IMS – Virtual IMS User Group – Featuring Dennis Eichelberger

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    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 […]

  • Virtual CICS User Group | January 2024

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    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. […]