August 2008
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Welcome to the latest Virtual IMS CONNECTION User Group - Update.
Newsletter:
The latest User Group newsletter is available from the Virtual IMS CONNECTION Web site.
The direct URL is http://www.virtualims.com/doc/VICnewsletter05.pdf.
The contents include:
Virtual IMS CONNECTION presentation 1
IMS User Survey 5
Virtual IMS CONNECTION meeting dates 5
About Virtual IMS CONNECTION 5
Earlier issues are still available from the Web site.
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The meetings take place at 10:30 CDT (which 3:30 GMT) during Daylight Saving Time and 10:30 CST (which is 4:30 GMT) during the rest of the year. Because Summer Time and Daylight Saving Time start and end dates differ in different countries, take care to get online for the meeting at the correct local time!
On the 7th October BMC's Nick Griffin will be looking at autonomics for your IMS databases.
At the 2nd December meeting, a speaker from IBM will be talking about IMS and Web 2.0.
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A user group member has asked the group for some technical help. His question is:
Can you tell me whether any tool are available for converting IMS/DC to CICS. It would be great if you could provide me with various approaches or methodologies for this.
Please send any responses to me and I will pass them on - many thanks.
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Simplifying IMS Problem Determination Through Analysis
by Dale Wood in the June/July issue of zJournal.
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News update (from the www.virtualims.com/news.html page):
Neon Enterprise Software has announced that TITAN Archive now supports IMS databases. TITAN Archive is a database archiving solution enabling the long-term retention of structured data. It also supports DB2 on z/OS and Oracle. TITAN Archive's archived data is tagged and stored with metadata, so it can be retrieved in a meaningful context through standard SQL queries. Even if organizations retire their IMS applications, TITAN Archive assures companies that their IMS data will continue to be available, and be safely stored for as long as it is needed, the company said. The current version of TITAN Archive provides extractors for DB2, Oracle, and IMS. The extractors send data to TITAN Archive's encapsulated archive store. Full details are available here.
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ASG Software Solutions has expanded its BSP (Business Service Platform) capabilities to integrate performance information from both distributed and mainframe environments. The new BSP solutions include specific products for distributed performance management, virtualization performance management, enterprise performance management, and z/OS performance and reporting management. These new developments are designed to assist in locating key performance information, federating this data into a meaningful context, and automating the performance management process for a range of IT environments. ASG's new BSP solutions are supported by six strategic rollouts in ASG's line of ASG-TMON performance monitoring products, which include solutions for z/OS, TCP/IP, IMS, CICS, WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere MQ Enterprise Edition. With ASG's BSP, CIOs can manage the enterprise from the perspective of business services, avoiding critical downtime while saving time and money, the company claims. Full details are available here.
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NEON Enterprise Software has announced that its Eclipse Reorganization Utilities will now run using IBM's z9 Integrated Information Processors (zIIP). The advantage of this is the fact that zIIP processors free up general computing capacity and lower the total cost of computing by moving selected types of workload from general-purpose processors to zIIP processors. Customers incur no software costs for zIIP processing, resulting in reduced software costs and additional processing capacity, which can eliminate or delay the need to upgrade.
Version 5.1 of the NEON Eclipse Reorganization Utilities have the following zIIP processing potential:
iCheck - 97%
iSurvey - 97%
iBuild - 97%
iUnload - 50%
iExtract - 50%
iLoad - 30%
iReorg - 50%
Full details are available here.
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Pre-Sales Support and Implementation Specialist
Based: North America
CIRCLE Computer Group is the global leader in transparent software solutions to facilitate IBM mainframe migration from IMS/DB and VSAM to DB2.
Rapid expansion of our business in North America sees us needing to recruit a technical specialist to provide pre-sales support to our North American sales organisation and to assist with post-sales implementation and customer training.
The position will report to our Global Product Manager for transparency solutions, but will work closely on a day to day basis with our Business Development Manager for North America.
Salary and benefits are negotiable according to experience.
Extensive travel throughout North America (and to the UK) will be a pre-requisite for this position, and the position will be home based, so location is largely irrelevant.
Job Requirements:
Pre-sales experience is an advantage, though not essential, but the successful candidate will be highly experienced in mainframe software environments, particularly DB2, but also CICS, IMS, VSAM etc.
If you are interested, please send your resume to migration@circle-group.com.
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Best wishes
Trevor Eddolls
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