Abstract:

If the mainframe is a mystery to you or you have recently started work as a mainframe technician and you want to know a bit about the mainframe history, it's components and how it works bring your questions and come and listen to the mainframe 'Robert Langdon', Roger Fowler and the panel of z Specialists.

Roger will give you an overview of the System z technology and then he and the panel will answer your questions whatever they may be as long as they are about mainframes.

Roger Fowler is a Consulting IT Specialist with the Systems and Technology Group in IBM United Kingdom Ltd. He is responsible for technical leadership of z/OS and Parallel Sysplex, and pre-sales System z technical support. Roger is also the IBM liaison for the whole of GSE in the UK and for the Large Systems Working Group in particular. He is a graduate from Loughborough University with an honours degree in Computer Science. Prior to joining IBM in 1988, Roger worked in large systems technical support for two large energy corporations and a financial institution. He has over twenty seven years of mainframe experience and began work in the early 1980s writing assembler programs for MVS/370 on a System/370 Model 158 (generally rated at roughly 1 MIPS). The programs still work.

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