IMS RUG Host Presentation - IMS UG May 2014 San Ramon

IMS Regional User Groups

San Ramon

© 2014 IBM Corporation

IMS Regional User GroupsSan Ramon, May 1, 2014

Catherine CoxIMS RUG Advocate San Ramon

IBM Silicon Valley Lab


Today’s Agenda

• Welcome, Introductions, Host Presentation

• IMS 13 HALDB ALTER and Database Versioning : Rick Long

• How to Handle a Failed IMS System : Rick Long

• Lunch!

• What's New in IMS TM : Jack Yuen

• The new z/OS Transaction Life Cycle: James Martin


• The new z/OS Transaction Life Cycle: James Martin

• Next Meeting / Close

Notice to Employees and Representatives from GOE Entities

• At this IBM function, IBM is providing breakfast and lunch meals and/or

promotional items and considers this a normal business courtesy. U.S.

Federal government regulations and some state or local government

agencies do not permit their employees to accept food or refreshments

from contractors doing business with them.


• IBM provides this notice to assist you in ensuring that your acceptance of

the amenities is in compliance with your employer’s internal policies. If your

receipt of the amenities during your attendance and participation in the

event presents an issue, please advise IBM, and plan for alternate meal

options.

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IMS 13 Migration Workshop!


– April 15,16 Minneapolis, MN

– May 8,9 Toronto, Ontario

– May 12,13 New York City

– June 3,4 Glendale, CA

– July 8 - 10 Online Event

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For more information and to register visit: bit.ly/V13Migration

IMS Database Value Unit Edition

• For both IMS 13 and IMS 12

• The same high-speed, highly available IMS data server at aone-time charge (OTC) price

• Provides competitive advantage to IMS data sharing clients requiringadditional cost-effective access to IMS data for net new workload.

• Expressly for net new applications or workloads in Java or SQL only,through IMS Open Database, from applications on WebSphere ApplicationServer on z/OS


Server on z/OS

• Adds new customized capabilities addressing business growth based on keybusiness initiatives including services-oriented architecture (SOA),enterprise and mobile access strategy, and operational businessintelligence (BI).

• Leverages the unique industry-leading performance andworkload management capabilities of IMS.

• ibm.com/software/data/ims/imsdbvue/index.htmlValue

Unit

EditionJoins CICS VUE and DB2 VUE

New Monthly License Charge (MLC) Pricing StrategyIMS 13, 12 & 11 all cost the sameDB2 9, 10 and 11 all cost the same

• Simpler model

– Prices equalized across all versions of MLC middleware

• Why?

– Helps you plan better for migrations

– Provide consistency of price changes over time

• When?


• When?

– 3Q13/4Q13 announcements

• Includes IMS, DB2, and COBOL• CICS was previously equalized• Effective January 2014 (April 1 in Japan)

External announcement letter 313-070 8.27.13

IMS Business Value Assessment Workshop

Help clients identify ways to getmore out of their IMS investment.

•A proactive assessment

•Provides tactical and strategic

recommendations to:

– Increase benefits

Supported by

Subject Matter

Experts from

IMS Value Assessment?

Project Kickoff Call

Discovery Workshop

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– Increase benefits

– Lower costs

– Improve processing

efficiencies for IMS

applications

IBM or BP Services forDeployment

Experts from

Development

Lab

Joint Proof Of Concept Client Implementation

Data Consolidation andTechnical Assessment

Generate Recommendations anddevelop workshop materials

Deliver RecommendationsProposal for next steps.IBM Client team follow-up

Contact Laura Hunsinger, [email protected], for details

IMS Customer Advisory Council• Monthly e-Meetings

• NA Participants: Third Tuesday

• EMEA & South America Participants: Third Thursday

• Face-to-face Meetings

• Information On Demand (IOD) Conference

• Networking opportunities withpeer IMS experts worldwide


peer IMS experts worldwide

• Influence the strategic product direction of IMS!

• We are planning a unique IMS NextGen CAC

Interested in joining?Contact: Laura Hunsinger at [email protected]

ComingSoon!

IMS NextGenCAC!

• Reserve your spot now to work with our team at SiliconValley Lab in San Jose, California starting April 21st

• Sessions include: Installation, HALDB features, IMSOTMA and Connect, application topics, and MORE!

• Should have at least 2-3 years of IMS experience

• Contact Tori Gonzalez for more information:[email protected]

IMS Customer Internship Program – 2014


“…every subject was successfully covered by the mostappropriate expert. While I was there at SVL, the program wasflexible enough so we could address certain topics which Ipersonally identified, that would benefit me at my homelocation...”

“…a unique experience, where I was given theopportunity to meet with the IMS developers andtesters at the IBM Lab, and work side by side withthem… It's incredible to meet people whose work isknown worldwide.”

IMS ISV Community


New IMS and Rational Compilers Podcast• IMS Development partners with Rational to bring you up-to-date on the

latest enhancements in COBOL compilers

• Convenient podcast format

• Let us know if you’d like to see more of these!


IBM Knowledge Center One-stop shop - IBM Knowledge Center is

your destination on ibm.com for all IBM

technical information and resources. It

replaces multiple sources of information

across IBM products.

Initially... Knowledge Center combines all

of our existing information centers (IMS

and others) into a single web site that

provides an improved, filterable search


provides an improved, filterable search

capability and a brand-new user

experience.

Over time… IBM Knowledge Center will

be the basis for a fusion of a wide variety

of sources including information centers,

wikis, developerWorks, Support,

Redbooks, PartnerWorld, and more.

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Have questions? Interested in early testing?Contact David Hanson from the IMS Information Development team: [email protected]

IMS Best Practices


bit.ly/IMSBestPractices

IMS Social Community!


New IMS Videos Available!

Explore the ReThinkIMS YouTubechannel for demos, tutorials, andmore!


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Now available for both iOS and Android devices

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Are you getting the most from your IMS investment?

IMS is the GOLD Standardfor:

AvailabilityPerformance

DependabilityIMS makes modernizing

easy and affordable

Support for IMS 11 endson October 30, 2014

We Can Help!


We Can Help!•Version-to-Version Migrations

•Health Checks

•SOA Pilots

•Capacity Planning

•Shared Queues, Data Sharing, Sysplex

•….and much more! [email protected]

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IMS User Group Meeting Locations – North America


• NYC, NY• Victoria, BC• Seattle, WA• San Ramon, CA• Phoenix, AZ• Dallas, TX• Fort Lauderdale, FL

•Columbus, OH•Philadelphia, PA•Toronto, Canada•Charlotte, NC•Boston, MA•Hartford, CT

•Southern CA•Jacksonville, FL•Washington, DC•Pittsburg, PA

Physical RUGs e-Meeting RUG – OPEN TO ALL

•Omaha, NE•Minneapolis, MN•Bloomington/Springfield, IL• Detroit, MI

Upcoming meetings @ ibm.co/IMS_RUGs

IMS User Group Meeting Locations – Latin America, Europe, Asia - Pacific


Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific

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•Sao Paulo, Brazil •Oslo, Norway•Helsinki, Finland•Stockholm, Sweden

•Tokyo, Japan•Singapore•Melbourne, Australia•Sydney, AustraliaCheck for upcoming meetings

here: ibm.co/IMS_RUGs

IMS Regional User Groups, San Ramon

May 1, 2014


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IMS RUG Host Presentation - IMS UG May 2014 San Ramon