WebSphere Application Server Version 8 - Batch Update

Java batch is a rapidly evolving topic space.  WebSphere Compute Grid V8 has been announced and it brings to the Java batch environment a host of new features and functions.  In this session we'll provide a brief overview of Java batch and then explain what's in new Compute Grid V8 such as:

• Manage Java batch applications deployed to environments such as z/OS®, and CICS®.
• Call COBOL modules within a Java application
• Calendar and clock scheduling of jobs
• Integration with enterprise schedulers
• Usage reporting with SMF and DB2 records
• WLM transaction classification by job
• Job pacing and job execution throttling
• Parallel job management and dispatching

Tracks: Application Technologies and Architectures, Architecture Summit, Software Architecture and z/OS Systems Programming