• 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Virtual Db2 User Group | January 2024

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    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 […]

  • Virtual IMS User Group | December 2023

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    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, […]