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 […]
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 […]
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Managing mainframe application performance and availability is an ongoing endeavor that continues to grow more complex in today's hybrid computing environments. Optimizing the performance and availability of hybrid IT infrastructure is crucial for driving digital transformation and requires modernizing how organizations manage and monitor system health. Artificial intelligence can help identify expected operational behaviors, ensuring […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
System z (Mainframe) as the Enterprise Information Server Build a Dedicated z/OS EIS LPAR for Information-as-a-Service for AI, ML, and Analytics This presentation describes enabling the mainframe for providing production data for use by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics by building a dedicated data sharing LPAR to serve as the Enterprise Information Server with […]