Winter 2009: MVS

Sunday, March 1, 2009

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

3118

zNextGen Project Working and Planning Session
Kristine Harper, Iris Rivera, Reg Harbeck, Linda Mooney and Mike C. Todd

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

2861

CA SYSVIEW: The Systems Programmer's Tool Kit
James Cray

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2403

MVS Program Officers Meeting
Skip Robinson and Sam Knutson

2612

ISPF Users Boot Camp - Part 1 of 2
Liam Doherty and Peter Van Dyke

2842

Advanced I/O Configuration Topics - Part 1 of 2
John Hughes

2862

Achieving Autonomic Computing Using CA OPS/MVS and CA SYSVIEW
Jeff Geminder

3010

DFSMS Basics: An Introduction to Basic Access Methods
Stephen Branch

3019

DFSMS Basics: SMS Basics
Steve Huber and Douglas Lehr

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

2501

EWCP Project Working Session
Norman Hollander

2613

ISPF Users Boot Camp - Part 2 of 2
Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty

2720

JES3/EPS Project Working Session - Austin
James E Lund and James E Lund

2843

Advanced I/O Configuration Topics - Part 2 of 2
John Hughes

2863

CA's Automation and Performance Update and Road Map
Rob Steiskal

2901

MVS Open and Distributed Steering Committee
Clark L Kidd

3011

DFSMS Basics: What Is VSAM?, Part 1
Stephen Branch

3015

DFSMS Basics: The ABCs of DFSMSrmm - Part 1 of 2
Mike W Wood

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2502

EWCP Project Working Session
Norman Hollander

2651

JES2 Project Working Session
Jack Schudel

2907

Share Your z/OS Skills with Hands-on Labs
Thomas P Hackett

3012

DFSMS Basics: What is VSAM?, Part 2 (The Return of VSAM)
Stephen Branch

3016

DFSMS Basics: The ABCs of DFSMSrmm - Part 2 of 2
Mike W Wood

5:30 PM-12:00 AM

2801

MVS SCP Project Volunteer Coordination
Edward Jaffe and Edward Jaffe

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

2504

EWCP Project Steering Committee
Norman Hollander

5:45 PM-6:45 PM

3001

MVS Storage Management Project Volunteers Coordination
Duane Reaugh and Duane Reaugh

Monday, March 2, 2009

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

2590

Linux on System z Performance Update Part 1 of 2: z10 CPU and Memory, Linux Kernel and Java
Eberhard Pasch

2600

ISPF Project Opening and Keynote Topic
Kenneth E Tomiak, Liam Doherty and Peter Van Dyke

2700

JES3/EPS Project Opening, Product Updates and Latest Status
James E Lund, David Jones, Howard Turetzky and James E Lund

2800

MVS SCP Project (MVSE) Opening and z/OS Hot Topics
Edward Jaffe, Edward Jaffe, Riaz Ahmad and Jerry Ng

2912

Securing Your z/OS UNIX Network Access with OpenSSH
Garth Godfrey

3000

MVS Storage Management Project (MVSS) Opening and Keynote
Duane Reaugh, Duane Reaugh, Steve Huber and Scott Drummond

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2500

EWCP Project Opening and WSC z/OS Performance Hot Topics
Norman Hollander and Kathy Walsh

2715

Introduction to ACIF
Donald Scrima and Howard Turetzky

2832

System z10: Business and Enterprise Class Overview
Harv Emery

2864

CA's Mainframe 2.0: Simplifying the Installation, Deployment, and Configuration of CA z/OS Products
Scott A Fagen

2910

Introduction to the zSeries File System (zFS)
Jim Showalter

3025

z/OS 1.10 DFSMS New Features
Scott Drummond and Barbara W McDonald

3082

Evaluating the Performance Characteristics and Resiliency of Global Mirror
Lee La Frese and H. Pat Artis

3100

zNextGen Project Opening and Keynote
Kristine Harper, Iris Rivera, Reg Harbeck and Rita Beisel

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

2543

Understanding a z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) Service Policy
Glenn Anderson

2650

JES2 Project Opening and Latest Status
Jack Schudel, John Hutchinson and Jack Schudel

2839

System z10: Enterprise Class (EC) User Experience
Jim Petersen, Skip Robinson and Edward Jaffe

2865

CA's Mainframe 2.0: Service Quality Improvements and Health and Configuration Checks for CA z/OS Products
Dave Danner

2918

z/OS UNIX System Programmer Topics
Charles Haight

2995

Simple but Useful Web Applications with your Favorite Scripting Language - Hands-on Lab
Matt Finlayson

3049

ICF Catalog Diagnostics Under z/OS1.10
Blair Svihra

3064

Why Isn�t Your Critical Data Encrypted by Now? �Let�s Talk.
Tim Bruce

3105

zNextGen Open Panel Discussion: The Experienced Weigh in on What YOU, the New Mainframer, Need to Know
Kenneth E Tomiak, Ron Higgin, Wai Choi and Reg Harbeck

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2533

System Logger - Understanding, Measuring, and Tuning
Peter Enrico

2713

Configuring and Using Transforms to and from AFP
Donald Scrima and Elizabeth Smith

2837

System Automation for IBM System z Hardware
Juergen M Holtz

2860

Exits: In-house code or Dynamic Tools Shoot Out - Featuring a User, DTS Software, and Trident Services
Kenneth E Tomiak, Steve Pryor and Tim Humphreys

2900

MVSO Project Opening Keynote : Mainframe Myth Busting
Frank DeGilio and Clark L Kidd

2996

Designing z/OS CGI Web Applications for the Craven - Hands-on Lab
Matt Finlayson

3045

Tuning Techniques for z/OS DFSMS ICF Catalogs
Eileen McClintock

3106

zNextGen Huddle: Five Hot Topics
Kristine Harper, Linda Mooney, Iris Rivera and Reg Harbeck

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

2873

z/OS Preview: New Facilities and Features Beyond 1.10
John Eells

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

3002

IBM Responses to Requirements Submitted by the SHARE MVS Storage Management Project
Jim Erdahl

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

3103

Mastering System z - Entry Level Systems Programmer Certification
Rita Beisel

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

2530

z/OS 1.9 and 1.10 Performance Update
Marianne Hammer

2655

JES2 z/OS 1.10 Product Update
Chip Wood

2813

z/OS Parallel Sysplex: Update
Mark A Brooks

2855

z/OS Basics: SMP/E - Basics Using Legos
Eileen McClintock

3030

What's New in DFSMShsm
Glenn Wilcock

3051

DFSMSrmm: What's New in z/OS 1.10
Mike W Wood

3102

Head of the Class: Professors' Perspectives on Mainframe Education
Rita Beisel, Angelo F. Corridori, H. Paul Haiduk, Eddie Prather, Paul Newton and Cameron Seay

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

2540

Workload Management Update for z/OS 1.9 and 1.10
Horst Sinram

2657

IOF Release 8D Product Update
Jack Schudel, Jim Walker and Jim Ott

2815

z/OS Parallel Sysplex: In One Box - What is Old is Hip Again
Michael Giglio

2841

System z Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) Update
John Hughes

2856

z/OS Basics: SMP/E - Intermediate Topics
Eileen McClintock

2921

zFS Advanced Topics - Hints and Tips
Jim Showalter

3031

DFSMShsm Best Practices'
Glenn Wilcock

3119

Virtualization and Open Systems Pave the Way to System z at West Texas A&M University
Mike C. Todd and H. Paul Haiduk

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

2537

The Ups and Downs of zIIPs and zAAPs
Norman Hollander

2701

Introduction to Printing on System z
John Szura and Howard Turetzky

2814

z/OS Parallel Sysplex: Performance Update
Frank Kyne

2858

SMP/E 3.5: Simplifying PSP Buckets and Other Goodies
Greg Daynes and Marna Walle

2915

Basic UNIX Shell Commands for the z/OS System Programmer - Part 1 of 2
Garth Godfrey

3032

DFSMShsm Fast Replication
Glenn Wilcock

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2534

zAAPs and zIIPs: Understanding the Basics
Glenn Anderson

2625

ISPF Hidden Treasures - Part 1 of 2
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2730

(E)JES Update
Dennis L Roach and Edward Jaffe

2848

z/OS Software Positioning for a z10 Server
Greg Daynes

2881

Testing: IBM System Verification Test Before General Availability
Greg Thompson

2895

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: GPC and OS - Part 1 of 5
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

2916

Basic UNIX Shell Commands for the z/OS Systems Programmer - Part 2 of 2
Garth Godfrey

3043

How SMS Volume Selection Works
Stephen Branch

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

2583

Business Service Management
Thomas A. Halinski

2626

ISPF Hidden Treasures - Part 2 of 2
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2714

Early Experiences with High-Speed AFP Color Printing
Donald Scrima and Howard Turetzky

2849

Server Time Protocol (STP) User Experience in Small and Large Enterprise Deployments
Kenneth E Tomiak and Jim Petersen

2882

Testing: ISV Testing Before General Availability
Jeanette Stroud and Scott A Fagen

2896

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: From IPL to Running Work - Part 2 of 5
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

3112

What Does a DBA Do Anyway? A Dual Experience Perspective
Willie Favero and Eddie Prather

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2408

MVS Program Meeting
Skip Robinson and Sam Knutson

2555

The CPU Activity Report
Brad D. Snyder

2560

Java SDK5, SDK6 and Beyond: A Performance Update
Kishor Patil

2704

Recent VPS and DRS Enhancements - SNMP and LRS/Fastpath Delivery
Dennis L Roach and Beverly J Weaver

2847

Server Time Protocol (STP) Updates Delivered in 2008
David Whitney

2883

Quality: z/OS System Configuration and Deployment Strategies to Minimize Production Outages
Marie Cheng

2897

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: SVC - Part 3 of 5
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

3044

Simplifying ICF Catalog Management with Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS
Janet Sun

3068

Prepare for z/OS 1.10, EAV Consolidation, Instant Backup and Rapid Restore with FDR & VTS Tape Migration with FATSCOPY
Tom Meehan

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

3104

Mastering System z - Entry Level Systems Programmer Certification
Rita Beisel

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

2747

JES3/EPS Requirements Review
Robert Jenkins and David Jones

2903

MVS Open and Distributed Free-for-All
Paul H Bohannon Jr. and Garth Godfrey

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

3005

DFSMS Free-for-All
Duane Reaugh, Steve Huber, Lisa Gundy, Mike W Wood and Jeff Suarez

7:15 PM-8:15 PM

2506

EWCP Project Dinner
Norman Hollander

2659

JES2 Project Dinner
Jack Schudel

2748

JES3/EPS Project Dinner
James E Lund and James E Lund

3006

MVSS MVS Storage Management Project Dinner
Duane Reaugh

7:15 PM-9:15 PM

2804

MVS SCP Project Dinner Event
Edward Jaffe, Marna Walle and Edward Jaffe

7:30 PM-9:00 PM

2906

MVS Open and Distributed Project Dinner
Clark L Kidd

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

2602

ISPF Dialog Developers Boot Camp - Part 1 of 3
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2705

Hints and Tips for VPS and DRS Print Administration
Robert Jenkins and Beverly J Weaver

2845

z/OS Internals: Real Storage Manager (RSM) Large Page Support
Elpida Tzortzatos

2890

Get Your Hands-In: Shaping the Future JCL Builder
Geoff Smith

2898

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: Program Interrupts - Part 4 of 5
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

3061

IBM and SUN/STK virtual tape replication considerations
John Ticic

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

2531

To MIPS or Not to MIPS, That Is the Question!
Kathy Walsh

2603

ISPF Dialog Developers Boot Camp - Part 2 of 3
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2661

z/OS Basics: Introduction to JES2 for New Systems Programmers
John Hutchinson

2878

z/OS 1.10: Sysprog Goody Bag
Robert R Rogers

2891

Get Your Hands-In: Shaping the Future of z/OS System Programmer Tasks
Iris Rivera

2899

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: I/O - Part 5 of 5
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

3023

Extended Address Volume (EAV) Overview
James Cammarata

3115

What Does a Sysprog Do Anyway? A Dual Experience Perspective
Kevin Wick and Kenneth E Tomiak

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

2604

ISPF Dialog Developers Boot Camp - Part 3 of 3
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2721

z/OS 1.10 JES3 New Features
Robert Jenkins and David Jones

2822

z/OS Debugging: IPCS Bag of Tricks
Jerry Ng and Evan Haruta

2870

z/OS 1.10: Migration - Lights! - Part 1 of 3
Marna Walle

3024

Extended Address Volume (EAV) - Migration, Coexistence, �Installation
James Cammarata

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

2544

z/OS Capacity Provisioning - Introduction and Implementation
Horst Sinram and Charles Haight

2920

Diagnosing Problems in a UNIX System Services Environment
John C. Shebey III

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2532

IEAOPTxx: A Fresh New Look
Peter Enrico

2663

What's New in SDSF for z/OS 1.10
Chip Wood

2866

IBM Experience Building Remote Health Checker Checks
James Caffrey

2871

z/OS 1.10: Migration - Cameras! - Part 2 of 3
Marna Walle

2914

z/OS UNIX Advanced Topics
Garth Godfrey

3041

SAN Basics for Mainframers
Scott Drummond

3063

How to make Virtual Tape Fly
David Helsley

3117

What Does a Capacity & Performance Specialist Do Anyway? A Dual Experience Perspective
Cheryl Watson and Linda Mooney

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

2513

Best Practices for Capacity Planning
Denise P Kalm

2664

SDSF Rexx API Update
Chip Wood

2874

z/OS 1.10: User Experience
Micheline Bissell and Alan C Field

2924

Managing and Monitoring your z/OS UNIX Environment
Glenn Anderson

3074

What's New with CA 1 and CA 1/Copycat?
Russell Witt

3080

Space Efficient FlashCopy
Lisa Gundy

3111

Planning for the Future of the Mainframe Workforce - Now What?
Reg Harbeck

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2409

MVS Program Meeting
Skip Robinson and Sam Knutson

2535

zIIPs and zAAPs: Everything New and Old
Kathy Walsh

2627

ISPF Panels - Advanced Features
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2820

z/OS Basics: Introduction to IPCS
John C. Shebey III

2925

Hints for a Successful HFS to zFS Migration
Charles Haight

3081

New IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy Deep Dive
Lisa Gundy

3109

zNextGen's A SHARE'd History of SHARE: The Journey, the People and the Paddles!
Robert P Rannie and Anne E Caluori

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

2665

How to Recover from JES2 Imminent Disasters
Tom Wasik

2872

z/OS 1.10: Migration - Action! - Part 3 of 3
Marna Walle and Greg Daynes

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

2578

The Importance of I/O Parallelism and I/O Priority structures in z/OS Environments.
Anthony Mungal

2628

ISPF Panels - Dialog Tag Language (DTL)
Peter Van Dyke

2844

Documenting and Reporting Changes in Your IODF
Glennon H Bagsby

2917

z/OS UNIX Shell Scripting for the Not So Dumb
Garth Godfrey

3062

OMEGAMON XE for Storage
Kevin Hosozawa

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

2993

Using the z/OS SMB server to access z/OS data from Windows -- Hands-on Lab
Jim Showalter

6:15 PM-7:15 PM

3110

zNextGen's Game of Mainframe Jeopardy!
Kristine Harper

7:15 PM-8:15 PM

3107

zNextGen Project Networking Event
Kristine Harper, Reg Harbeck, Iris Rivera, Linda Mooney and Mike C. Todd

Thursday, March 5, 2009

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

2521

Coupling Technology Overview and Planning - What's the Right Stuff for Me?
Riaz Ahmad

2592

Linux on System z Performance Update Part 2 of 2: I/O, Networking and Crypto
Eberhard Pasch

2605

ISPF Dialog Developers Hands-on Lab - Part 1 of 2
Clive Nealon and Peter Van Dyke

2727

Being Bi-JESual: Understanding the other JES
Dennis L Roach, Greg Thompson and Marie Cheng

2850

ServerPac: Enhancements From z/OS 1.8 and Up
Lucy Miller

2884

Continuing the Focus on z/OS RAS: Serviceability Work in 1.8 and Above
James Caffrey

2889

z/OS Documentation Tools and Technology Today
Geoff Smith

3054

Object Access Method (OAM) Update
Lisa Gundy

3120

The Art of Mentoring or Being a Mentee
Jaya Srikrishnan and Willie Favero

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

2514

The Right Metrics and the Wrong Metrics for Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis
Denise P Kalm

2606

ISPF Dialog Developers Hands-on Lab - Part 2 of 2
Clive Nealon, Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty

2724

JES3 Basics: Introduction to JES3 Part 1 of 2
John Szura and Greg Thompson

2840

System z Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM) 1.8 Through 1.10 Update
John Hughes

3050

DFSMS Advanced Topics: Tape Policy Management
Mike W Wood

3108

zNextGen's A SHARE'd History of the Mainframe: The Chronicles, Artifacts and Stories!
John Eells

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

2516

Using Spreadsheets for Linux/Unix Capacity planning reporting
Robert Anderson

2518

Optimizing Mainframe Performance through Automation
Norman Hollander

2725

JES3 Basics: Introduction to JES3 Part 2 of 2
John Szura and Greg Thompson

2825

z/OS Basics: Introduction to SLIP
Evan Haruta

2892

Get Your Hands-In: Shaping the Future of z/OS Product Documentation
Geoff Smith

3113

What Does an Application Developer Do Anyway? A Dual Experience Perspective
Tom Harper and Kristine Harper

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

2536

WSC Short Stories and Tall tales
John Burg

2667

Revisit Your JES2 Init Deck to Exploit the Changes of the Last Two Decades
Tom Wasik

2811

MVS Freeware: System Utilities
Greg Price and Dave Danner

2831

System z10: HiperDispatch From a Sysprog Perspective
Robert R Rogers

2894

Mainframe Operating System Boot Camp: GPC and OS Remix With IPL, SVC, Program Interrupts, and I/O Highlights
Robert P Rannie and Milica Kozomara

2963

The Impact of Banking and Financial Services
Thomas P Hackett

3020

DFSMS Basics: How to Create/Modify an SMS Configuration Hands-on Lab
Steve Huber and Douglas Lehr

3065

Issues You Need to Consider in Deploying Current Tape Encryption Solutions
Tim Bruce

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

2669

Exploiting JES2 Commands
John Hutchinson

2819

A Guided Tour Through the z/OS I/O Subsystem
Bill R Fairchild

2828

The z/OS GRS Resource Serialization Detective Tools for Monitoring and Debugging
Nat Stevenson

2835

System z10: Extended Distance Solutions
Connie Beuselinck

2965

Apache on z/OS - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Mike Buzzetti

3021

How to Write ACS Routines Hands-on Lab
Steve Huber and Douglas Lehr

3071

PPRC Manager/FlashCopy Manager
Donald J Chesarek

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

2549

Meet the Experts: WLM, Performance and Capacity Planning Topics
Norman Hollander, Horst Sinram, Kathy Walsh, Cheryl Watson and Peter Enrico

2632

ISPF Productivity Tool for z/OS: Product Demo - Part 1 of 2
Clive Nealon, Mike Mike Rotter, Liam Doherty and Peter Van Dyke

2678

JES2 Project Planning for Denver
Jack Schudel

2851

Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM) Hands-on Lab
John Hughes

2886

Simplification: Meet Alice, Today's New System Programmer
Iris Rivera

2966

Platform Selection Basics
Tim Durniak

3053

DFSMS Basics: Storage Reporting
Mike W Wood

4:30 PM-5:45 PM

2810

Fully Wired Hot Topics Austin City Limits Edition: Free MVS Tools and Tips Update
Sam Knutson

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

2749

JES3/EPS Project Planning for Denver
James E Lund, Howard Turetzky and James E Lund

5:45 PM-6:45 PM

3004

MVS Storage Management Project Planning for SHARE in Denver
Duane Reaugh and Duane Reaugh

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

2584

Reduce software and hardware costs by managing MIPS consumption - A solution for any organization
Thomas A. Halinski

2633

ISPF Productivity Tool for z/OS: Product Demo - Part 2 of 2
Clive Nealon, Mike Mike Rotter, Liam Doherty and Peter Van Dyke

2818

Hercules: The MVS/380 Project Running and Modernizing the Ancient, but Free, MVS/370 OS for Fun
Jay Maynard

2887

A Week in the Life of a System Programmer
Kenneth E Tomiak

3101

zNextGen Project Wrap-Up
Kristine Harper, Reg Harbeck, Iris Rivera, Linda Mooney and Mike C. Todd

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

2821

z/OS Basics: Introduction to IPCS Hands-on Lab
John C. Shebey III, Nicole Fagen and Evan Haruta

2902

MVS Open and Distributed Steering Committee
Clark L Kidd

10:00 PM-11:00 PM

2680

JES2: Esprit de Corps
Janet Sun

Friday, March 6, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

2406

MVS Program Wrap-up
Skip Robinson and Sam Knutson

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

2508

EWCP Project Closing
Norman Hollander

2585

IBM z10 News and Views
Ivan Gelb

2885

A z/OS Systems Programmer Productivity Tool Bag
Bette Brody

3069

Virtual Tape Technologies: Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) from SUN/STK
Denny Lach

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

2509

Cheryl's Hot Flashes #21
Norman Hollander and Cheryl Watson

2836

System z10: I/O Subsystem (The BUS)
Connie Beuselinck

2875

z/OS Feature: Common Information Model (CIM)
Horst Sinram

2962

Comparing and Contrasting Virtualization Technologies
Mike Buzzetti

3097

System Backup and Recovery Methodologies for DB2 and IMS
Ron Haupert

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

2517

Excelling at DB2 Monitoring and Reporting
Robert Anderson

2614

ISPF Editor - Beyond the Basics
Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty

2817

Bit Bucket x'25'
Edward Jaffe, Sam Knutson and Skip Robinson

3034

DFSMSdss FlashCopy Essentials
Lisa Gundy