GSE UK IMS Working Group Meeting Invitation

GSE UK IMS Working Group

Thursday March 15yh 2007

BMC Software, Egham, Surrey

Meeting Announcement

The agenda has been finalised for the forthcoming meeting of the GSE UK IMS Working Group on Thursday 15 March 2007 at the BMC offices (Assurance House) in Egham, Surrey. For details of the location see http://www.bmc.com/en_GB/aboutus/contacts.html.

Alan Cooper will be presenting on using IMS Connect with Sysplex Distributor, Pete Sadler will be giving us some PHDAM tuning tips, and Andrew Wilkinson will be going into detail about Dynamic Resource Definition, the major new feature of IMS Version 10.

Werner Mueller is coming from the International Mainframe Society near Stuttgart to tell us about the IMS Education curriculum in Europe, and we are also fortunate to have Peter Armstrong giving us a non-technical view of where the mainfame is going.

Of course we'll also have the latest news from BMC and IBM.

The full agenda is as follows:

09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:10 Chairman's welcome
10:10-10:15 BMC Update - Trevor Gill, BMC
10:15-10:30 IMS Audit Management Expert & General IBM Update – Paul Fletcher, IBM
10:30-11:30 IMS Connect and Sysplex Distributor – Alan Cooper, IBM
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:45 Optimising PHDAM performance through DBDGEN – Pete Sadler
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 IMS Education Courses – Werner Mueller, IMS Society
13:50-14:45 IMS V10 Dynamic Resource Definition – Andrew Wilkinson, IBM
14:45-15:00 Tea Break
15:00-16:00 The Future of the Mainframe – Pete Armstrong, BMC
16:00-16:15 AOB & Close

To register for the meeting please contact Frank Fleming.

As previously mentioned, we also hope to hold a meeting on Thursday 17 May (venue TBA) and the 2007 GSE UK conference is on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth (see http://www.gse.org.uk/tyc).

Regards

Neil Price
Chairman, GSE UK IMS Working Group
TNT Express, UK
+44 1827 710702
neil.price@tnt.com

The Steering Committee are always on the lookout for IMS users to present their experiences to us, how you have overcome difficulties with the product or implemented some innovative solution. We also welcome suggestions for topics to include in future agendas. If you have anything to offer then please let us know.

Registration Arrangements

Please register your firm commitment to attend by e-mail to frank.fleming @ barclays.com as soon as possible.

Frank Fleming, SPG/IMS, Barclays Bank plc, Radbroke Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9EU
+44 (0)1565-612103

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