Mainframe and Mobile - Are Your Back-end Apps Ready?
Speakers: Leigh Williamson, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Software CTO Team, Mobile Software Development Strategy, IBM Corporation; Michael Lavacca, Client Technical Professional, Rational Software on System z, IBM Corporation; Aaron Allsbrook, Clear Blade
Description: Mobile is about anytime, anywhere access to information. It improves productivity and is driving business innovation in the enterprise. Mobility enables quicker access to customer data, improved customer satisfaction and support, customer access to business and important functionality, and the capability to respond to customer demands.
Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends affecting IT today, but an inevitable one. Indeed, most companies already have some type of mobile strategy. However, in order to take it to the next level and offer five-star apps, businesses will have to integrate mobile applications with business-critical back-end data sources.
Join us for this complimentary webcast as our subject matter experts discuss a unique IBM solution that combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development features – all integrated into one package. The experts will spotlight a new mobile app that uses the selling of office supplies as an example.
Additional videos:
Mobile Demo of EGUI
Mobile Management of your z/OS Job Queue
| Mainframe and Mobile - Are Your Back-end Apps Ready? Speakers: Leigh Williamson, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Software CTO Team, Mobile Software Development Strategy, IBM Corporation; Michael Lavacca, Client Technical Professional, Rational Software on System z, IBM Corporation; Aaron Allsbrook, Clear Blade
Description: Mobile is about anytime, anywhere access to information. It improves productivity and is driving business innovation in the enterprise. Mobility enables quicker access to customer data, improved customer satisfaction and support, customer access to business and important functionality, and the capability to respond to customer demands.
Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends affecting IT today, but an inevitable one. Indeed, most companies already have some type of mobile strategy. However, in order to take it to the next level and offer five-star apps, businesses will have to integrate mobile applications with business-critical back-end data sources.
Join us for this complimentary webcast as our subject matter experts discuss a unique IBM solution that combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development features – all integrated into one package. The experts will spotlight a new mobile app that uses the selling of office supplies as an example.
Additional videos:
Mobile Demo of EGUI
Mobile Management of your z/OS Job Queue
Enabling the Private Cloud with CICS: An Analyst Perspective Speakers: Gary Barnet, Partner and CTO, Bathwick Group; Andrew Bates, Product Manager, CICS Transaction Server, IBM Software Group
Description: An agile enterprise operating at optimal efficiency is one of the goals when implementing a private cloud, which can also help you improve your capability for delivering new and enhanced services to business users. How can you best use your existing resources in innovative ways for a private cloud, especially resources that are critical to your business?
Hear noted analyst Gary Barnet from the Bathwick Group and Andrew Bates from IBM Corporation talk about the CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® and how it solves two main challenges businesses face through cloud enablement. They will discuss how CICS offers businesses greatly increased and more dynamic scalability and faster deployment.
We will also share with you some of the major enhancements in CICS TS V5.1, including new CICS applications and platforms, along with policy-based management, and advancements in performance and scalability. You’ll learn how these improvements position CICS users for the next transformational era in technology, moving toward a service delivery platform for cloud computing. This webcast will introduce exciting new capabilities and innovation throughout the CICS portfolio that are helping shape the future of critical information systems on IBM® System z®. The Payments Ecosystem: Security Challenges in the 21st Century The Payments Ecosystem: Security Challenges in the 21st Century Mainframe Compiler Experts Panel: Strategies and Best Practices for Successful Compiler Upgrades Mainframe Compiler Experts Panel: Strategies and Best Practices for Successful Compiler Upgrades Enterprise Encryption 101 Enterprise Encryption 101 Minimizing Total Cost of Ownership for Mainframe Tape Data Storage Minimizing Total Cost of Ownership for Mainframe Tape Data Storage CICS V5.1: Operation Efficiency and Service Agility Through Cloud Enablement Improved IMS Monitoring with New OMEGAMON V5.1
Improved IMS Monitoring with New OMEGAMON V5.1 Mainframe Data Encryption: Maximizing Efficiency Mainframe Data Encryption Maximizing Efficiency - Webcast 7.26.12 Why Expert Integrated Systems Will Reshape IT Why Expert Integrated Systems Will Reshape IT The Big Deal About Big Data The Big Deal About Big Data Navigating the New Normal of Mainframe Join this webcast to learn more about the evolving mainframe landscape – and what your organization can do to adapt. Our experts will demonstrate how new interfaces can help both experienced and new-to-the-mainframe developers alike be more efficient when: analyzing code, optimizing test data, testing and debugging, pinpointing problems, validating quality, and tuning applications and performance. In this webcast, you will learn how to plan for business risks associated with the new normal by: - Bringing novice programmers up to speed more quickly - Invigorating the productivity of your veteran programmers - Leveraging industry-leading tools for accessing z/OS, source code editing, debugging, editing and browsing data, and more Presenters: Tyler Allman, Lead Product Manager, Compuware and Jim Liebert, Subject Matter Expert for the Compuware Workbench and Abend AID Sysplex: Using Some Key Coupling Facility Measurements for Tuning Structures Increase Availability and Reduce Costs with Redesigned OMEGAMON When operations staff or system programmers have to navigate multiple systems, applications and products to track down and fix problems — your business is losing valuable time and money. This process also introduces the risk of system outages because problems take too long to resolve. Is that the sound of increased costs? Add to that, the prevalent decrease of maintenance windows, and it’s clear that increasing staff productivity can go a long way toward addressing important issues in IT today.
Attend this complimentary webcast, presented by IBM and SHARE, to learn about the redesigned Tivoli® OMEGAMON® family of products with better monitoring, faster problem management, improved maintenance and decreased resource usage. IBM worked with its customers to understand their top mainframe monitoring and management requirements and redesigned it accordingly. Now you can more easily monitor and maintain your entire mainframe environment, with an enhanced 3270 user interface, problem-solving scenarios, self-describing agents, and support for zEnterprise™ and zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension.
Overall, the new OMEGAMON user interface helps subject matter experts better understand what’s happening on their mainframe with information customized to focus on key problems experienced in System z® environments. This redesigned OMEGAMON can help increase mainframe visibility, decrease costs and reduce risks.
Presenter: Mike Goodman, OMEGAMON Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Ensuring the Availability of Critical Applications: What WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V8 Can do for You How much downtime can your company tolerate? Is a server outage an annoyance or is it crippling? Is an application outage acceptable? The IBM System z® operating system is about availability, and the WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS® is designed to exploit the z/OS platform and provide a highly available Java™ environment. In Version 8, IBM has further enhanced this capability so that you get continuous availability and transactional integrity even in the face of disaster.
Join us for this complimentary webcast, presented by IBM and SHARE, and learn how to assess and prevent downtime using WebSphere Application Server on z/OS V8 — and how it can be a lifesaver for anyone in your company. Its unique implementation is optimized to leverage the advantages of System z and z/OS and provide required levels of transaction throughput for service-level agreements, with instantaneous response to unexpected demands. In this session, we’ll also show you how to get optimal performance from co-location of WebSphere Application Server and DB2® in the same LPAR, especially with JDBC™ Type 2 local drivers. Finally, we’ll discuss its intelligent management capabilities which enable you to make autonomic adjustments to match business priorities.
Presenter: Don Bagwell, IBM Advanced Technical Skills Professional, WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
Four Key Data Trends for 2012, From The Perspective of IT Professionals Trends in four key areas are defining competitiveness and investments in information technology in 2012: Data Security, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Data Integration, and Unstructured Data. New concerns are arising in each area and new solutions are being employed. Is your organization keeping pace? Join Unisphere Research President, Thomas J. Wilson Thursday, February 9 to learn:
- What your peers are prioritizing
- What is keeping them up at night
- Where they view their organizations heading in 2012
Unisphere Research is an independent research organization, not an IT consulting group. Its research efforts in the area of information technology are based on professional surveys conducted among defined communities of IT professionals and tap into the vast peer knowledge available through SHARE, the International Oracle Users Group, the Oracle Applications Users Group, Professional Association for SQL Server, International Sybase Users Group memberships as well as Database Trends and Applications magazine subscribers. Through a battery of studies conducted among over 122,000 professionals within these communities in 2012, Unisphere has reached into the front lines to identify current practices and opinions on technology, and distilled many of the key trends and influences that are shaping priorities in IT investment today.
This webcast is designed to be an excellent, user-grounded benchmark for your organization’s progress and a stimulus for further assessing your organization’s priorities for the coming year. Thomas J. Wilson will be a featured speaker at the SHARE in Atlanta ExecuForum March 12-13.
Presenter: Thomas J. Wilson, President, Unisphere Media, A Division of Information Today, Inc.
Dynamically Changing the Behavior of Mainframe Applications Are you being asked to make your business policies more transparent? Would you like to make your mainframe more relevant to your organization without giving up control? Process-related decisions are made repeatedly, and they determine the appropriate course of action for each customer, partner and internal interaction. When you let lines-of-business define their policies and automate decisions in a form that is both understandable to the non-technical user and consumable by the systems that will use them, you’re opening up clear communication between the policy managers defining the requirements and the developers implementing the business system solution. By automating these intelligent decisions, you can also improve the quality of each transaction and reduce the amount of time to implement changes.
Implementing decision logic using a decision management solution enables a giant leap forward in bridging the gap between business people and IT. Join us for this complimentary webcast, presented by IBM and SHARE, and learn how the adoption of decision management can address these issues while facilitating flexibility throughout the entire enterprise. Application owners want better visibility of the logic that drives their systems, along with the ability to quickly make changes. Business rules and events drive these critical applications that run on your mainframe. You’ll see how, by combining the management and execution of business rules and business events, you can achieve better agility, traceability, and full life cycle support of existing mainframe applications.
We’ll discuss how IBM tools provide the ability:
- Adapt to a rapidly changing business environment with speed and agility
- Align rules and events across multiple business departments and lines-of-business, and between business and IT
- Act in real time with precision and reliability
- Reduce execution costs through co-location with your existing batch and CICS® COBOL applications
Julie Reese, Product Marketing Manager, IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management for z/OS, IBM Software Group
Did You Know that Your Legacy Applications are at Risk? As online businesses grow, application security continues to be a dominant threat that can enable high profile breaches. New challenges for meeting application security and compliance have emerged as criminals are increasingly targeting applications. The need for greater security measures is clear, especially for existing enterprise applications because features provided in legacy applications and exposed in web interfaces and services create significant risk without proper security measures, as many legacy applications were developed before this risk was understood.
This webcast will help you to understand the current threat landscape, the benefits of building security into the software lifecycle and best practices on how to proactively secure your modern and legacy applications. We will also discuss how the IBM Rational® AppScan portfolio can help with comprehensive application vulnerability management across the application lifecycle — by designing security into your business.
In this webcast, you’ll learn how to:
- Cost-effectively manage risk with proactive remediation of application vulnerabilities
- Protect legacy assets by securing applications early in the application lifecycle
- Identify vulnerabilities and risks associated with multiple languages including COBOL, Java™ and .NET
Presenter: Karl Snider, IBM Corporation and Rich Szulewski, IBM Corporation
IBM Webcast Series - Webcast #3: Latest Innovations for zEnterprise - zEnterprise 114 On July 12, IBM rounded out the zEnterprise System family with the addition of an entry-level hybrid mainframe, the zEnterprise 114 (z114), which joins the large-scale zEnterprise 196 (z196). The z114, tuned for mid-sized clients, features lower hardware entry cost, increased performance and capacity compared to its predecessor, and lower operational costs than a distributed infrastructure. The z114 can be deployed as an on-ramp to the mainframe and its hybrid capabilities. Applications and workloads can span across the mainframe to Power blades and System x blades running Linux (and in the future, Microsoft Windows). This is significant for clients that seek maximum flexibility and dependability in their environments. The zEnterprise hybrid environment allows clients to optimize workloads, deploy enterprise clouds and take action based on real-time analytics of big data.
We will share the advantages of hosting and simplifying management of hybrid architectures for clients of all sizes, including how it can maximize efficiency and transform IT economics. Please join us to learn about how you can optimize workloads, deploy private clouds and take action based on real-time analytics and integrated data and how you can learn more at the upcoming SHARE Conference in Orlando.
Presenter: Scott Searle, System z Offering Manager; Mike Dickson, System z Offering Manager
IBM Webcast Series - Webcast #2: "Solving Application and Network Issues with OMEGAMON® and NetView" As networks become more complex and IT shops integrate their IBM® System z® and distributed platforms, improved network automation is essential to both increased availability and improved utilization. In this Webcast, we’ll discuss the value of increasing network automation capabilities for System z, System p® and System x® platforms across both SNA and IP networks. This improvement is a key requirement in supporting new business opportunities, and new hardware like the IBM zEnterprise™. You’ll learn how to set up your System z environment to react quickly to events for increased availability, and achieve operational efficiencies to free up needed business and IT resources.
Presenter: Kirk Bean, NetView® Product Manager, IBM Software Group
IBM Webcast Series - Webcast #1: "An Early Look at CICS TS V4.2 Performance" In this Webcast, you will hear about some of the new capabilities introduced in CICS TS V4.2 and the performance implications (if any) when using the capability. Among the topics to be covered will be the new CICS mapping program to support Hardware Instrumentation Services, a comparison of performance between CICS TS V4.1 and V4.2, IPIC for Transaction Routing, Function Shipping File Control requests and DPL. Java with the JVM server as well as the other performance changes in CICS V4.2
Presenter: John Burgess, IBM Software Group, Application Integration and Middleware Software Performance
Technology update from IBM Impact! Can WebSphere Application Server on z/OS and CICS Transaction IBM’s continuing investment in System z technology helps to make the platform even more strategic. Learn what the future holds for WebSphere Application Server and CICS Transaction Server. WebSphere Application Server provides a common and consistent set of Java programming interfaces and services across all IBM platforms. So why WAS on z/OS? Because of specific platform exploitation that takes place “below” the open standard interfaces. Hear what those features are and why you benefit. The newest CICS TS V4 innovations will help to deliver a smarter transaction processing experience. Learn about five major CICS TS V4 innovations areas: (1) Events, (2) Java, (3) Connectivity, (4) Management, and (5) Scalability.
Presenters: David Follis, WebSphere Application Architect and Developer, IBM Software Group, Ian J Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer, Hursley Development Lab, IBM Software Group
Success with Linux on System z at Nationwide - Lessons Learned You've heard by now that Linux runs on the mainframe and is effectively the same Linux as anywhere else - from Intel to System z servers. The challenge is that there can be a lot of politics around choosing to run Linux on the mainframe, deciding on a distribution and methodology for installing and maintaining Linux and even who will be responsible for the virtual Linux environments. Many decisions and discussions need to be made around processes, tools and solutions to decide if they are 'right' for a virtual Linux farm. This session will give you a candid insight on how Nationwide dealt with those topics along with:
- A key to opening the door for building a Linux environment - how Nationwide got Linux on the mainframe
- What it may take to motivate server, mainframe and even management to work with virtual servers
- Why Linux? What did we expect it to do for our business?
- What we planned to do with and to the environment, what we did, and what we learned along the way
This complimentary webcast will cover building a Linux Virtualization environment with z/VM on System z at Nationwide Insurance, where it is today and some key benefits and issues.
Presenter: James Vincent, Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer, Nationwide Insurance
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