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Sunday
3:00 PM-4:00 PM

MVS Program Officers Meeting
Speakers: Skip Robinson and Sam Knutson
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

MVS Core Technologies Project Volunteer Coordination
Speaker: Edward Jaffe
Project: MVS Core Technologies

MVS Storage Management Project Volunteers Coordination
Speaker: Russell Witt
Project: MVS Storage Management
4:30 PM-6:00 PM

EWCP Project Working Session and Steering Committee
Speaker: Norman Hollander
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
5:30 PM-6:00 PM
5:30 PM-6:30 PM

ISPF Committee Meeting with ISPF Developers
Speakers: Liam Doherty and Peter Van Dyke
Project: MVS Core Technologies
Monday
11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Good Outsourcer, Bad Contract: What Performance and Capacity Planners Need to Know
Speaker: Denise P. Kalm
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Testing and Debugging Your Installation's ACS Routines
Speaker: Steve Pryor
Project: MVS Storage Management
11:00 AM-12:30 PM

MVS Core Technologies Project (MVSE) Opening and z/OS Hot Topics
Speakers: Edward Jaffe , Jerry Ng , Riaz Ahmad and Steve Warren
Project: MVS Core Technologies
12:15 PM-1:15 PM

Monday Lunch Hour BOF: Performance and Capacity Management Best Practices
Speaker: Ivan Gelb
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
12:15 PM-1:30 PM

z/OS Documentation Blog Live!
Speakers: Geoff Smith , Iris Rivera and Bob Pfeiffer
Project: MVS Core Technologies
1:30 PM-2:30 PM

MVS Storage Management (MVSS) Project Opening
Speaker: Scott Drummond
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS 1.12 New Facilities and Features
Speaker: John Eells
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS UNIX File System Administration
Speaker: Ann Totten
Project: MVS Core Technologies
1:30 PM-2:45 PM

EWCP Project Opening and WSC z/OS Performance Hot Topics
Speakers: Kathy Walsh and Norman Hollander
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
3:00 PM-4:00 PM

How do you do what you do when you're a z10 CPU
Speaker: Robert R. Rogers
Project: MVS Core Technologies

RMF: The Latest and Greatest
Speaker: Peter Muench
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

What's New in DFSMS Overview
Speaker: Barbara W. McDonald
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS 1.12 JES3 Latest Status and New Features
Speaker: David Jones
Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

Web Problem Management Through IBM Service Request
Speaker: Christian Gilmore
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Workload Management Update for z/OS 1.11 and 1.12
Speaker: Horst Sinram
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

z/OS 1.12 JES2 Product Update and Latest Status
Speaker: Tom Wasik
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS 1.12 UNIX System Services Latest Status and New Features
Speaker: Richard Theis
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Basics: JES3 for New Users
Speaker: David Jones
Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:30 PM-5:45 PM

z/OS 1.12 New Feature VSAM CA Reclaim
Speaker: Barbara W. McDonald
Project: MVS Storage Management
6:00 PM-7:00 PM

IBM Responses to SHARE MVS Storage (MVSS) Requirements
Speaker: Barbara W. McDonald
Project: MVS Storage Management
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Tuesday
9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Evaluating Best Fit Architecture for Customer Workloads on zEnterprise Systems
Speaker: Doris Conti
Project: MVS Core Technologies

How to Write ACS Routines Hands-on Lab – Part 1 of 2
Speaker: Steve Huber
Project: MVS Storage Management

IBM Printing Update and Latest Status
Speaker: Howard Turetzky, EDP
Project: MVS Core Technologies

The Fast and the Curious: Streamlining the Development of a New Mainframe Generation
Speakers: Renat Islamov and Michal Cizek
Project: zNextGen

The Future Integrated Information and z/OS Documentation
Speaker: Geoff Smith
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Using WLM Service and Report Classes to Gather Workload Performance Metrics
Speaker: Mary Astley
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

z/OS Data De-De-De-De-duplication
Speakers: H. Pat Artis and Vic T. Peltz
Project: MVS Storage Management
11:00 AM-12:00 PM

How to Write ACS Routines Hands-on Lab – Part 2of 2
Speaker: Steve Huber
Project: MVS Storage Management

Increasing Efficiency and Reducing System Overhead for z/OS Workloads to reduce computing costs
Speaker: Norman Hollander
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

What's New in DFSMShsm
Speaker: Glenn Wilcock
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS Freeware: Authorized TSO Commands and Their Use
Speaker: Sam Golob
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Parallel Sysplex: Update
Speaker: Mark A. Brooks
Project: MVS Core Technologies
11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Detecting Soft Failures Using z/OS PFA: Basic and Advanced topics
Speaker: Karla Arndt
Project: MVS Core Technologies
1:30 PM-2:30 PM

DFSMShsm Best Practices
Speaker: Glenn Wilcock
Project: MVS Storage Management

IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) Hardware Overview
Speaker: Harv Emery
Project: MVS Core Technologies

SMP/E V3.5 Advanced Function Hands-on Lab
Speakers: Greg Daynes and Marna Walle
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Sysplex: Key Coupling Facility Measurements
Speaker: Peter Enrico
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

z/OS 1.12 JES2 New Functions, Features, and Migration Actions
Speaker: Tom Wasik
Project: MVS Core Technologies
3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Accessible Density: Learning to Live with High Capacity Disk Drives
Speaker: John Baker
Project: MVS Storage Management

Hints and Tips for Improving Your DFSMShsm Environment
Speakers: Steve W. Clar and Chris Taylor
Project: MVS Storage Management

Performance Management Hints Using RMF Data: Customer Experience
Speaker: Meral Temel
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

z/OS Parallel Sysplex Best Practices
Speaker: Dan St. Cyr
Project: MVS Core Technologies

zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager
Speaker: Patty Driever
Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

BCPii for Dummies: Start to finish installation, setup and usage
Speaker: Steve Warren
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Manage your Workloads and Performance with z/OSMF
Speaker: Peter Muench
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

SAN Basics for Mainframers
Speaker: Scott Drummond
Project: MVS Storage Management
4:30 PM-6:00 PM

MVS Program Meeting
Speaker: Sam Knutson

System z Platform Performance Management Overview
Speaker: Hiren Shah
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS, z/OS UNIX & Linux Productivity Toolbag for Beginners
Speakers: Vit Gottwald , Deric Abel and Dustin Ratliff
Project: zNextGen
6:00 PM-7:00 PM

DFSMS Free-for-All
Speakers: Glenn Wilcock , Mike W. Wood , Scott Drummond and Steve Huber
Project: MVS Storage Management

Meet the Experts: WLM, Performance and Capacity Planning Topics
Speakers: Peter Enrico , Kathy Walsh , Horst Sinram , Thomas Blattmann and Cheryl Watson
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Roundtable Discussion: z/OS Simplification and Consumability
Speakers: Iris Rivera and Geoff Smith
Project: MVS Core Technologies

The zNextGen Project 5 Year Anniversary Celebration!
Speakers: Kristine Harper , Reg Harbeck , Justin F. Bastin , Dustin Ratliff and Deric Abel
Project: zNextGen
7:00 PM-9:00 PM

zNextGen Project Networking Event
Speakers: Kristine Harper , Justin F. Bastin , Reg Harbeck , Vit Gottwald , Dustin Ratliff and Deric Abel
Project: zNextGen
7:15 PM-9:15 PM

MVS Core Technologies JES/EPS Combined Dinner Event
Speakers: Jack Schudel , James Lund and Donald Scrima
Project: MVS Core Technologies

MVS Core Technologies Project Dinner Event
Speaker: Edward Jaffe
Project: MVS Core Technologies
7:30 PM-9:30 PM

EWCP Project Dinner
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
Wednesday
9:30 AM-10:30 AM

CA 1 Best Practices
Speaker: Russell Witt
Project: MVS Storage Management

CPU MF - the "Lucky" 113s Update and WSC Experiences
Speaker: John Burg
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Configuring OpenSSH on z/OS - Hands-on-Lab
Speaker: Richard Theis
Project: MVS Core Technologies

ISPF Hidden Treasures and New Features - Part 1 of 2
Speakers: Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty
Project: MVS Core Technologies

SDSF for New Users - Hands-on Lab
Speaker: Chip Wood
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Using the z/OS SMB Server to access z/OS data from Windows Hands-on Lab
Speaker: Jim Showalter
Project: MVS Core Technologies

What's New in DFSMSrmm
Speakers: Horst Sinram and Mike W. Wood
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OSMF 1.12 Overview
Speaker: Anuja Deedwaniya
Project: MVS Core Technologies
11:00 AM-12:00 PM

ISPF Hidden Treasures and New Features - Part 2 of 2
Speaker: Peter Van Dyke
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Smarter SVC Dump Processing for Improved z/OS Resiliency
Speaker: Elpida Tzortzatos
Project: MVS Core Technologies

What's New in DFSMSdss and System Data Mover
Speaker: Jeff Suarez
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS Basics Freeware PDS, The Swiss Army Knife of Utilities, Hands-on Lab
Speaker: Thomas Conley
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Basics: Differences between HFS and zFS
Speaker: Jim Showalter
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OSMF 1.12 Implementation and Configuration
Speaker: Greg Daynes
Project: MVS Core Technologies
12:15 PM-1:30 PM

MVS Core Technologies Project Steering Committee
Speaker: Edward Jaffe
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OSMF Roundtable Discussion
Speaker: Anuja Deedwaniya
Project: MVS Core Technologies
1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Best Practices: Tape Storage Administration with DFSMSrmm
Speakers: Horst Sinram and Mike W. Wood
Project: MVS Storage Management

DFSMS Advanced Topics: VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS) Best Practices
Speaker: Douglas Lehr
Project: MVS Storage Management

Exploiting the IBM Health Checker for z/OS Infrastructure RedPaper
Speaker: Peter Relson
Project: MVS Core Technologies

How to Get the Most from Your IBM Mainframe Investment
Speaker: William Malik
Project: MVS Core Technologies

The Basics of GRS - An Overview of GRS ENQ Processing
Speaker: Nick Matsakis
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS 1.12 zFS Shared File System Update
Speaker: Ann Totten
Project: MVS Core Technologies

zPCR Capacity Sizing Lab - Part 1 Introduction and Overview
Speaker: John Burg
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Migrating to z/OS 1.12: Part 1 of 2
Speaker: Marna Walle
Project: MVS Core Technologies

SMF Buffers: How NOT to Lose Your Precious Assets
Speaker: Richard S. Ralston
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

System z Hardware Peeled: z/OS Hardware From the Inside Out
Speaker: Tom Harper
Project: zNextGen

Understanding GRS ENQ and Latch Usage and Contention
Speaker: Nick Matsakis
Project: MVS Core Technologies

What's new with OMEGAMON XE for Storage
Speaker: Vickie Dault
Project: MVS Storage Management

zPCR Capacity Sizing Lab - Part 2 Hands On Lab
Speakers: John Burg and Brad D. Snyder
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

IBM PPRC Manager/FlashCopy Manager update
Speaker: Donald J. Chesarek
Project: MVS Storage Management

ISPF Behind the Scenes
Speaker: Peter Van Dyke
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Introduction to z/OS Capacity Provisioning
Speaker: Horst Sinram
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
4:30 PM-6:00 PM

MVS Program Meeting 2
Speaker: Skip Robinson

Migrating to z/OS 1.12: Part 2 of 2
Speaker: Marna Walle
Project: MVS Core Technologies
6:00 PM-7:00 PM

EWCP Project Closing
Speaker: Norman Hollander
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Roundtable: Shaping the Future of z/OS System Programmer Tasks Discussion
Speaker: Iris Rivera
Project: MVS Core Technologies
6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Meet the CA z/OS Products Developers
Speaker: Scott A. Fagen
Thursday
8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Coupling Technology Overview and Planning - What’s the Right Stuff for Me?
Speaker: Gary King
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Energy Management for zEnterprise
Speaker: Andreas Bieswanger
Project: MVS Core Technologies

ICF Catalog Synchronization at the DR Site Using Catalog RecoveryPlus
Speaker: Janet Sun
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS Basics: Q&A on a Dump using IPCS
Speaker: Jerry Ng
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Performance Monitoring Tools Shoot-Out: ASG, BMC, CA, Rocket
Speakers: Gary Henderson , Keith E. Moe , James Cray and Bob Shannon
Project: MVS Core Technologies
9:30 AM-10:30 AM

DFSMSdss Best Practices in an SMS Environment
Speakers: Jeff Suarez and Steve Huber
Project: MVS Storage Management

Exploring and Using the New SMF 113 Processor Cache Counters
Speaker: Peter Enrico
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

PSIFB (Infiniband) Coupling Links Overview and User Experience
Speakers: Riaz Ahmad , Sam Knutson and George Handera
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Utilizing System Logger Support for SMF
Speaker: Glenn Anderson
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Basics: Virtual Storage Management (VSM) Overview
Speaker: Elpida Tzortzatos
Project: MVS Core Technologies
11:00 AM-12:00 PM

A z/OS Systems Programmer Productivity Tool Bag
Speaker: Bette Brody
Project: MVS Core Technologies

SDSF Product Update
Speaker: Chip Wood
Project: MVS Core Technologies

To MIPS or Not to MIPS, That is the CP Question!
Speaker: Gary King
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Virtualize Mainframe and Open Systems Backup to Ensure Business Resiliency
Speaker: Tom Meehan
Project: MVS Storage Management
11:00 AM-12:15 PM

System z: Building the Business Case for System z
Speaker: Marlin Maddy
Project: MVS Core Technologies
11:00 AM-12:30 PM

IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: OpenSSH V1R2
Speaker: Richard Theis
Project: MVS Core Technologies
12:15 PM-1:15 PM

Thursday Lunch Hour BOF: LSPR and CPU MF Update
Speakers: Gary King and John Burg
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
12:15 PM-1:30 PM

ISPF Editor - Beyond The Basics Hands-on Lab - Part 1 of 2
Speakers: Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty
Project: MVS Core Technologies
1:30 PM-2:30 PM

A Mainframe Guy Discovers Cloud Computing
Speaker: Glenn Anderson
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Bit Bucket x'27'
Speakers: Edward Jaffe , Sam Knutson and Skip Robinson
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Framework for Doing Capacity Sizing on System z Processors
Speaker: Brad D. Snyder
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

ISPF Editor - Beyond The Basics Hands-on Lab - Part 2 of 2
Speakers: Peter Van Dyke and Liam Doherty
Project: MVS Core Technologies

STP Overview and Planning Considerations
Speaker: Greg Hutchinson
Project: MVS Core Technologies

Using Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager for Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Speakers: Nancy Rassbach and Piotr Polanowski
Project: MVS Storage Management

z/OS Basics: ServerPac 101
Speaker: Marna Walle
Project: MVS Core Technologies
3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Flexible Storage Management
Speaker: Deborah McCarty
Project: MVS Storage Management

IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer Overview and Beta Experiences
Speaker: Bill Schray
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

XCF Concepts and Coding: A Multi-system Application Example
Speaker: Carl Feinberg
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS 1.12: Sysprog Goody Bag
Speaker: Robert R. Rogers
Project: MVS Core Technologies

z/OS Software Positioning for the IBM zEnterprise System
Speaker: Greg Daynes
Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

Connecting the Dots: LPARs, HiperDispatch, WLM, zIIPs and zAAPs
Speaker: Glenn Anderson
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance

Data Migration & Disaster Recovery At Odds No More.
Speaker: Brett A. Quinn
Project: MVS Storage Management

Getting from Xerox to AFP
Speaker: Howard Turetzky, EDP
Project: MVS Core Technologies
4:30 PM-5:45 PM

Cheryl's Hot Flashes #24
Speaker: Cheryl Watson
Project: Enterprise-wide Capacity & Performance
6:00 PM-7:00 PM

z/OS Ask the Experts Panel & MVS Program Closing
Speakers: Riaz Ahmad , Mark A. Brooks , Greg Daynes , Harv Emery , David Jones , Barbara W. McDonald , Mark Nelson , Robert R. Rogers , Richard Theis , Elpida Tzortzatos , Marna Walle , Steve Warren and Tom Wasik