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Keynote Presentations
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K01 IMS Strategy and Directions (Beverly Tyrrell)
Continuous innovations keep IMS going strong while meeting the needs of customers looking for high availability, top performance, and scalable growth--at affordable cost. Learn how to extend your current applications and add new ones. Understand how your business can benefit from integrating IMS into SOA initiatives. October marks the availability of IMS 11--you've read about it in the press, you've heard customers talk about it. Hear what companies are working with new application development, and using IMS to run their core businesses while positioning it as the application focal point for SOA. Learn how the IMS business is growing as customers increase usage and manage bottom lines by modernizing and extending IMS applications.
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Beverly Tyrrell is the Director of IMS, responsible for all aspects of IMS including product management, development, test, support, education and services. Prior to joining IMS, Bev spent much of her IBM career in the Storage Systems Division, working in various technical and management positions in customer support, marketing and development. Originally from Canada, Beverly is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, and started her career as a systems programmer at the IBM Toronto Lab in 1981.
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K02 IMS V11 Overview (Alan Cooper)
IBM continues its investment in IMS with Version 11, providing leadership in performance, reliability and security to help you keep pace with the evolving IT industry. Three key areas are addressed in this release to help lower your IT costs: business flexibility, simplified administration and growth. IMS 11 provides an integrated distributed database access solution, improves connectivity and ease of use, increases system availability, and offers an architectural road map that supports future growth. This session takes a high-level view of the various new features that enable these benefits. Key features include: 1. Open distributed IMS database access support with extended connectivity for SOA. 2. Enhanced commands and user exits that simplify installation and system management. 3. Fast Path 64-bit buffer management, expanded storage, and security enhancements that increase performance, scalability and reliability as well as improve security.
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Alan Cooper is an IMS Consultant in the IBM Software Business, and is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has worked with IMS for over 34 years, and has specialised in a broad range of aspects of IMS, including Performance, Fast Path, DBRC, Parallel Sysplex, e-business On Demand, and the new range of IBM's IMS Tools. Alan teaches IMS courses throughout Europe, and has written and contributed to several IMS Red Books. He features on the agenda of many IBM and GSE IMS-related technical conferences in Europe, assists with the IMS Early Support Programme, and travels widely to help customers working on the leading edge of IMS technology. His other technical interests include programming languages, and he is an enthusiastic champion of JAVA.
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K04 IMS Tools (Tom Ramey)
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Tom Ramey is Director of DB2 and IMS Tools. Located at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory, he is responsible for the development, support, marketing and service of tools for IMS, DB2 for z/OS, and DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. Tom and his team are responsible for more than 90 products for DB2 and IMS. As the leader of this organization, he works closely with customers and business partners to provide solutions that improve their time to value with new DB2 and IMS releases, helps them manage increasingly complex environments, and lowers their total cost of ownership.
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K04 The Mainframe: Surviving and Thriving in a Turbulent World
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Frank Balzer
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