he next meeting of the NY Metro NaSPA Chapter will be on Tuesday, 29
October, 2013, in room 1219 at the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue, New
York City, from 10:00 AM until 4:30 PM. Sessions for the day include:
"A Perspective on System z Capacity Delivery - Past and Future", Bob
Rogers, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Retired, Consulting Engineer,
Trident Services
Corporations, governments and other large enterprises always have a
nearly insatiable demand for more mainframe computing power. Over
recent decades advances in chip technology and processor design have
met the lion's share of this demand. However, we are entering an era
when hardware advancement is most likely not going to continue at the
same pace. So now is a perfect time to review other techniques for
growing capacity like multiprocessing and Sysplex clustering and also
prognosticate on how we can continue to grow mainframe capacity
without big bumps from chip technology. Your future will include
increasing the number of processors in your z/OS images and possibly
clustering images with Parallel Sysplex. You'll also have to be ready
for some entirely new technologies that will be introduced into your
mainframe environment.
About the speaker: Bob Rogers worked on mainframe system software for
43 years at IBM before retiring as a Distinguished Engineer in 2012.
He started with IBM as a computer operator in 1969. After receiving a
B.A. in Mathematics from Marist College in 1971, he became a computer
programmer at the Poughkeepsie Programming Center, where he worked on
the OS/370 operating system.
Bob continued to work on mainframe operating system development for
his entire career at IBM. He contributed to the transitions to XA-370
and ESA/370, and was lead software designer for the transition to the
64-bit z/Architecture. He implemented the support for single z/OS
images with more than 16 CPUs and was a lead designer of the z/OS
support for the zAAP and zIIP specialty engines. Today's z/OS
implements dozens of his design ideas. His last assignment at IBM was
to foster greater synergy between System z hardware and software. Bob
has been a popular speaker at the System z Technical University and
other venues for many years.
Currently, he is doing some work with Trident Services, Inc., a
software vendors whose software is also sold by IBM. He’s also a
technical editor and occasional writer for IBM Systems Magazine.
"z/OS V2.1 Overview", Greg Daynes, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
This session will discuss new facilities and features in z/OS V2.1
that affect system programmers and application developers. It will
cover highlights of functions for scalability and performance,
availability, management, security, application development, and
usability.
About the speaker: Greg Daynes is a Senior Technical Staff Member
and the z/OS Installation Deployment Architect in IBM at
Poughkeepsie, New York. His current responsibilities include
designing solutions for z/OS software acquisition, software
installation, hardware and software migrations, software deployment,
and as well as implementing maintenance strategies. Greg is a
frequent speaker at SHARE and the IBM System z Technical University
(formerly zExpo).
"The Care and Feeding of Couple Datasets", Mark Brooks, IBM
This session provides a comprehensive overview and detailed
discussion of couple data sets (CDS). We will cover basics such as:
What is a CDS? Why do I need one? How is it used? How do I create
one? How do I get the sysplex to use it? W will discuss in detail the
sysplex couple data set, the various function couple data sets, and
explain terminology such as "primary CDS", "alternate CDS",
"PSWITCH", "active policy", "administrative policy", "format
utility", and "policy utility".
There will also be a discussion of best practices and "real world"
mistakes seen by the XCF level 2 service team with an eye towards
helping you avoid them in your shop (and how to recover if possible).
Those that are new to sysplex should walk away with a firm grasp of
all that is needed to confidently deal with couple data sets in their
sysplex. Those with experience will find value as well -- even if
most of the basics are well known -- as they should walk away with a
more detailed understanding that should enable them to better ensure
that couple data sets in their sysplex are configured and managed in
a way that avoids unnecessary risk. After all, mistakes with a CDS
can lead to a sysplex wide outage!
About the speaker: Mark Brooks is a Senior Programmer in
Poughkeepsie, New York. For more than 90% of his three decade career
with IBM, Mark has nurtured the XCF and XES components of z/OS.
These components are the foundation on which all sysplex applications
stand. Some of Mark's babies include the XCF Signalling Service, CF
Structure Duplexing, XCF Client/Server Services, and XCF Note Pad
Services. To this day, Mark continues to design, develop, diagnose,
decipher, and describe XCF and XES services. He is a frequent
speaker at SHARE and the IBM System z Technical University.
"Are you Aware of how IBM zAware can Improve z/OS Availability?",
Christopher Brooker, IBM
IBM zAware is the latest addition in IBM's continuing drive to
improve System z availability by early detection of anomalies in z/OS
system behavior. IBM zAware uses analytics to learn normal z/OS
OPERLOG message patterns and detect differences in the current
traffic. In this session, we will cover how the data is summarized,
how the model is built, and how the real-time message traffic is
analyzed. We will show (via demo or slides) how IBM zAware can be
used to help identify problems on z/OS systems before they build up
to a more serious outage and show how the GUI helps speed diagnosis
of a problem.
About the speaker: Chris Brooker is an Advisory Software Engineer at
the IBM Poughkeepsie Lab. He has spent 12 years developing and
servicing the Global Resource Serialization (GRS) component of z/OS.
He joined the IBM zAware team in 2012 and has performed development,
test, and service for the team. Chris has spoken about GRS at SHARE
and is a frequent contributor to the z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter.
Registration: Registration is required . Please RSVP to [email protected]
as soon as is possible if you are thinking of attending, but no later than
Noon ET on Monday, 28 October.
The meeting is open to non-NaSPA members and is free. Please pass this
invitation on to your colleagues!
Thanks!!! - Mark
Mark Nelson, CISSP®, CSSLP®
z/OS Security Server (RACF) Design and Development
IBM Corporation
2455 South Road MS/P388
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 435-7758, tie line 8+295-7758, fax (845) 432-9787
[email protected]
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