Here’s a list of the System z webcasts scheduled for March. Email [email protected] if you’re interested in registering for any of these sessions.
March 1 – Increase availability and reduce costs with redesigned OMEGAMON
Highlights
Topics include:
· Redesigned user interface for an expansive enterprise view
· Built-in best practices based on problem-solving scenarios
· Autonomic functions for data synchronization
· Use of less compute resources and fewer address spaces
· Monitoring more components of the zEnterprise
Speaker: Mike Goodman, OMEGAMON Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 1, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 4:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; system analysts; system programmers; and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
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.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 6 – Customer experiences in maximizing analytics through query acceleration
Highlights
Topics include:
· Meeting more requirements of business users
· Improving price/performance for analytic workloads
· Minimizing the need to create data marts for performance
· Creating a highly secure environment for sensitive data analysis
Host: Alan Meyer, Senior Marketing Manager, System z Data Warehousing, IBM Software Group
Speakers: Peter Bendel, Senior Developer, DB2 Analytics Accelerator, IBM Software Group
Jeffrey Feinsmith, Director of Integration, Netezza Technology
Frank Neumann, Data Warehousing on System z, Center of Excellence, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: 6, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 4:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: Data center operations and managers; DBAs; IT architects and managers; BI program managers and report authors; BI Competency Center executives
Technical level: Intermediate
With the speed of business today, and the need to make fast, fact-based decisions, organizations are no longer willing to wait on information from slow queries. The new IBM DB2® Analytics Accelerator meets that challenge and is one of the most exciting new products in the IBM Data Warehousing portfolio, creating additional opportunities for analytics on System z®.
The first customer experiences are in and the results are even better than expected. Join us for this complimentary webcast and learn how IBM customers are planning new architectures and new workloads, now possible through the acceleration of their analytic queries. You’ll see how this blending of DB2 for z/OS® and Netezza technologies is simplifying data warehousing environments, facilitating transparent deployment and reduced costs, removing the need to export data off the platform and enabling phenomenal speed. In this one-hour webcast, we’ll review initial analyses from customers, and why they see DB2 Analytics Accelerator as a true game changer.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 8 – See into the heart of CICS and resolve problems faster across LPAR boundaries
Highlights
Topics include:
• Using problem-solving scenarios designed by customers
• CICS and z/OS® monitors combined in an enhanced 3270 workspace
• Fewer screen interactions to find root cause performance impact in real time
Speaker: Mike Goodman, Tivoli OMEGAMON Product Manager, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 8, 2012, 11 a.m., EST
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; systems analysts; system and CICS programmers; and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
IBM CICS® performance is important to virtually every business that uses it — and it’s critical to quickly find and fix CICS problems before they become outages. IBM has continued to enhance and extend Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for CICS capabilities to make its monitoring and management faster, more productive and more effective.
Join us for this complimentary webcast for an overview of OMEGAMON XE for CICS V5.1 — with enhancements based on customer requirements — as we explore its redesigned, problem-solving features. You’ll learn how greater visibility into CICS can help you resolve issues across Parallel Sysplex® and LPAR boundaries with fewer screens and keystrokes.
In this one-hour webcast, we’ll discuss how OMEGAMON XE for CICS 5.1 helps you more easily monitor and maintain your entire mainframe environment to quickly find and fix problems before they become outages. We’ll also show you how you can exploit IBM’s zIIP hardware to help you more easily meet service level agreements and lower the cost of compute time.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 13 – Beyond migration — Reduce CPU in DB2 10 using DB2 Utilities and Tools
Highlights
Topics include:
· Minimize downtime associated with routine DB2 data maintenance
· Set up recurring utility jobs for conditional and routine maintenance tasks
· Drive significant savings in elapsed time and CPU during utility sort processing, especially LOAD, REORG and RUNSTATS
· Customize DB2 utility tasks to meet your business needs
Speakers: Haakon Roberts, IBM Distinguished Engineer, DB2 for z/OS® Development, IBM Software Group
Jennifer Nelson, Product Specialist, Rocket Software
Broadcast date: March 13, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: Database administrators and managers
Technical level: Intermediate
Most DBAs have a list of things they want to improve after migrating to IBM DB2® 10, and reducing CPU is usually at the top of the list. With the latest DB2 Utility enhancements applied in your environment you can accomplish this and reduce elapsed time during utility processing, automate statistics gathering and potentially eliminate some REORGs altogether.
You can always count on DB2 Utilities and Tools to provide Day 1 support for new releases of DB2. But do you know how to maximize their use in your environment? Are you familiar with the most recent performance features delivered in the DB2 Utilities Suite since DB2 10? Join us for this complimentary webcast and learn more. We’ll focus partly on CPU savings and zIIP offload, but also on features that improve availability in the DB2 Utilities and Tools. We’ll show you how you can take advantage of DB2 Tools in the utility management portfolio to maximize the effective use of DB2 10 Utilities. You’ll come away from this session with valuable, cost-savings and best practices information.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 14 – Achieving optimum CICS performance
Highlights
Topics include:
· Where to focus performance tuning efforts that also meet demanding SLAs
· Automate monitoring of CICS applications and know when they exceed performance thresholds
· Quickly identify and dynamically respond to out-of-line business situations
· Ensure the scalability of your application portfolio
· Take better advantage of the specialty engines
Speaker: Pete Siddell, CICS Tools Technical Specialist, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: 14, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; developers; IT managers; performance specialists; and system programmers
Technical level: Intermediate
With CICS® Transaction Server V4.2, even more optimization opportunities are now available. But with the growing complexity of systems, it can be difficult to take full advantage of them — without the support of powerful monitoring, tuning and reporting utilities. If you use CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®, especially if you use it with IMS Database Manager, attend this webcast to learn how new features in these products can significantly reduce your CPU usage and improve response times.
IBM and SHARE are presenting this complimentary webcast on optimizing the performance of CICS systems and applications. You’ll learn how it not only releases capacity to support new or growing workloads, but also helps to improve response times and increase customer satisfaction. We’ll discuss a powerful set of IBM tools that can work together to support a wide range of performance scenarios, not just threadsafe analysis, but capacity planning, application-level analysis, monitoring and alerting, problem determination, and many others. The webcast will feature extensive demonstrations of key scenarios.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 15 – The critical role of Service Management in moving to cloud on System z
Highlights
Topics include:
• Detect and recover potential problems in essential system resources automatically
• Quickly isolate and take action automatically to resolve issues
• Automate best practices for common data center provisioning activities
• Understand the structure of interdependent and complex applications
Speaker: Mike Baskey, Integration Architect and Chief Architect, Management Standards, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 15, 2012, 11 a.m., EDT
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; systems analysts; system programmers; and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
The move to cloud computing is being driven by several problems familiar to most IT professionals:
• Infrastructures that are slow to adapt and hinder business agility
• Software costs that consume a disproportionate share of IT budget
• Security management weaknesses that expose the business
• Inability to respond to peak demand that limits competitiveness
Cloud is all about making it easier to manage resources, and if you’re thinking about moving to cloud on System z®, or zEnterprise™, good Service Management will be key to your success.
In this complimentary webcast, we’ll discuss how to tie discovery and monitoring to performance and workload management, while considering capacity planning of your cloud environment on System z. We’ll show you how you can look across virtual servers — System z, System p® and System x® — and associated workload performance goals, to manage your System z, or zEnterprise, resources. We’ll also discuss how Tivoli™ monitoring can leverage Unified Resource Manager insight at the virtual server and operating system levels. This gives you the Service Management needed to begin a successful cloud implementation.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 20 – What’s new from the Optimizer in IBM DB2 10 for z/OS?
Highlights
Topics include:
· Enhanced plan management
· “Safe” query optimization
· Improvements to complex OR and IN list processing
· RUNSTATS management and performance improvements
Speaker: Terry Purcell, Senior Technical Staff Member, DB2 for z/OS Optimizer Development, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 20, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: IT managers; IT and enterprise architects; database administrators and managers; system programmers; and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
One of the most significant benefits of query optimization is reducing the total cost of ownership. Since its initial inception in DB2® for z/OS®, the cost-based Optimizer has continually evolved to deliver expert-based query and workload analysis and many other performance-enhancing functions. In DB2 10, it’s proving to deliver even more.
Join us for a complimentary webcast and learn how the latest enhancements to IBM’s Optimizer are helping customers worldwide. For example, you’ll see how with critical tested selects statements, the DB2 10 Optimizer chose the optimal access path, sometimes even improving previous access path choices in DB2 9. In this presentation we’ll share the insight uncovered during early usage, provide the motivation for each enhancement, and delve into highlights of the actual enhancements.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 22 – Shave time off application and service delivery with enhanced event management
Highlights
Topics include:
• Proactive discovery capabilities for faster time to resolution
• Asynchronous discovery to ensure that discovered data is accurate and business service views are current
• Multiple, concurrent discovery jobs supported on a single discovery server
Speaker: James Moore, Product Manager, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 22, 2012, 11 a.m., EDT
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; systems analysts; system programmers; and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
To get full value out of IBM zEnterprise™, it should be used to manage mainframe and distributed environments. This requires seeing detailed views of infrastructure, including configurations and seeing the relationships of various components, such as applications and hardware. This information can help you manage events and event results by understanding relationships before the events occur. Are you able to track changes being made to the infrastructure and the change dependencies across software and hardware? By improving application and event visibility with discovery, you can understand the impact of changes, and application or event outages.
If you’re wasting time with manual efforts in trying to find and track all components, infrastructure and their interactions, including application and events — you’re wasting your investment. With the size and complexity of most zEnterprise environments, automated discovery provides a level of event management needed to meet SLAs.
If you’re already on System z® or you’re moving to zEnterprise, you’ve taken the most important step. Now it’s time to make sure you’re taking advantage of recent improvements in performance. The best place to start is by quickly discovering all the applications and events on your mainframe. In this complimentary webcast, we’ll show you how to improve event visibility using Tivoli® Discovery and Integration, enabling big savings in time and cost for application and service discovery across zEnterprise, including Linux® on System z and zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. The webcast will also be available for replay after the event.
March 27 – IMS database replication for enhanced system resiliency
Highlights
Topics include:
· Native IMS-to-IMS software replication for high-availability IMS data environments
· Synchronizing the contents of IMS databases in near real-time with full recovery
· Hot standby environmental support to reduce recovery time
Speaker: Greg Vance, IMS Replication Development for System z, IBM Software Group
Broadcast date: March 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. GMT / UTC
Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; database administrators and managers; systems analysts; system programmers; security managers, and, operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
IBM® IMS™ clients on System z® are always on the lookout for ways to improve system resiliency and availability, especially because IMS remains the lowest cost-per-transaction DBMS. Now there’s a new option. IBM InfoSphere® IMS Replication for z/OS® enables IMS as a source for IBM’s InfoSphere Change Data Capture solutions. This helps increase the availability of IMS data, whether it is for a continuous availability strategy or to ensure the timely distribution of critical enterprise information.
Join Greg Vance, IMS replication subject matter expert, in this complimentary teleconference as he shows how IMS and IBM InfoSphere IMS Replication for z/OS can help improve system resiliency and availability by enabling IMS as a source for IBM’s InfoSphere Change Data Capture solutions. Now, one IMS data replication solution, InfoSphere IMS Replication for z/OS, enables both homogeneous IMS database replication (IMS-to-IMS) and IMS database sourcing for heterogeneous replication. Greg will share details about implementing this solution, as well as an overview of the GDPS® Active/Active sites solution.
Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.
