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IBM WebSphere Technical Conference 2011 Event Session Directory as of August 26, 2011 (Subject to change)

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Event Session Directory as of August 16, 2011 (Subject to change)

The IBM WebSphere Technical Conference will deliver deep technical content targeted at architects,

developers, integrators and administrators by offering lectures and hands-on labs on BPM, CICS,

Messaging WebSphere Application Servers and Infrastructure, including a focus on SOA, Cloud

Computing and Smarter Commerce.

Your conference pass will allow you to attend additionally any session of the co-located Exceptional Web

Experience Conference, which will include in-depth content on the latest platform technologies, business

advantages and technical strategies leading to an exceptional web experience.

WebSphere Technical Conference Tracks:

Please click on the track titles beneath to switch to the corresponding detailed session list with abstracts.

Contents

Architecture ..................................................................................................................................................2

Business Process Management (BPM) Track ................................................................................................4

CICS Track....................................................................................................................................................10

Development Track.....................................................................................................................................13

Messaging and Connectivity .......................................................................................................................17

Application and Cloud Infrastructure .........................................................................................................26

Smarter Commerce.....................................................................................................................................32



Architecture

This track will enable Architects (Application, Enterprise, and Infrastructure) to build robust and flexible IT

systems based on SOA best practices. It will include sessions on service identification, methodologies,

governance and policy management, as well as practical implementations of SOA Governance based on

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. These concepts will be reinforced through case studies

from of SOA adoption initiatives and lessons learned. Sessions will also explore the emerging

considerations for governance of cloud-based solutions.

The track will also examine practical considerations in an SOA, such as how to reuse business services

across multiple and heterogeneous domains. Attendees will also learn about the WebSphere Enterprise

Service Bus Registry Edition product, a packaged SOA Solution which combines an enterprise service

bus and registry for faster SOA success.

A01 100 Critical Questions Every SOA Project Must Address - Answered

Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow - World Wide AIS CTO and CTO BPO & SOA CoE

This session synthesizes the experiences of hundred of SOA projects into a set of critical, must ask and

answered questions in several domains: business, organization, governance, methods, applications,

architecture, information, infrastructure and future projections. Each domain addresses critical success

factors, lessons learned, and key questions and answers that make SOA benefits a reality. These are the

questions asked by business executives, architects and practitioners about SOA. The answers show how

to make its benefits become real versus platitudes.

A02 20 Ways Mainframe Customers Can Cut Their Costs

Innes Read, Software Engineer, Total Cost of Ownership

This session will focus on the concrete steps you can take to cut your mainframe workload costs: some

are technical - leveraging new technologies and licensing for instance - while others are business

oriented. The mainframe is already a cost effective choice for many organizations but there are always

ways to improve. Customer examples and case studies will be used to demonstrate the scenarios and

impacts of these suggestions. Everyone should leave with some new ideas to consider around cutting

their costs!

A03 An ESB Product Selection Guide

Rachel Reinitz, Distinguished Engineer - WebSphere Services and Support

This session will define the role of the enterprise service bus (ESB) architectural pattern in SOA, identify

the characteristics that are important in choosing an implementation of the ESB pattern, briefly describe

the IBM ESB products and offer guidance on how to use the characteristics to choose the right product

for your solution.

A04 Current trends in SOA Technology

Rob High, IBM Fellow, SOA Foundation Chief Architect

This presentation will survey the emerging capabilities for composite applications delivered across the

WebSphere and other brands Software portfolio. We will put this in the context of how developers are

creating SOA based solutions to increase alignment between Business and IT -- specifically to drive

greater agility in the Business.

A05 Introduction and What's new in WSRR 7.5

Bernard Kufluk, WSRR Development



This session will introduce WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), while demonstrating

what`s new in the WSRR 7.5 release. Whether you are a beginner or an expert in WSRR, this session is

for you. There are many exciting WSRR enhancements in the v7.5 release. These enhancements include

additional business space widgets to enhance the user experience, advanced searching and reporting,

WSRR Studio, Governance Policy, Service Level Agreements, and performance improvements. Come to

this session to see the new WSRR v7.5.

A06 Successful SOA Service Design: Lessons from NAV

Øystein Gisnås, Consultant, Accenture Jonny Mauland, Technology Architect, Accenture

Service identification and modeling is a critical success factor for an SOA implementation. This session

will share experiences from 5 years of service design at The Norwegian Labour and Welfare

Administration's (NAV) SOA Competency Center. We'll cover service identification and contract design

using RSA and SoaML, transition to implementation using WID, and managing rapid change in services

used by multiple consumers. Join this session to learn about techniques to achieve service agility and

robustness such as web service versioning, design for compatible change, and use of service

domains.,Learning points:,-Service identification based on business needs,-Techniques to achieve agility

and robustness.

A07 Practical existence of WSRR in Isbank as part of SOA

Yener Yumlu, IT Architect Salih Sipahi, Software Services for WebSphere

In this session, we will share our experience on WSRR as SOA service governance product and benefits

gained in overall architecture in Turkey’s largest bank; Isbank. We will talk on WSRR about its

governance and runtime topology, and enhancements for ease of use with conventions enforcement.

Meanwhile, we will share design-to-practice challenges we’ve encountered both in technical manner,

service analysis/design approach and wide use of WSRR within the organization. Finally, we will share

values we have gained and mention ‘WSRR Centric Service Governance’ study that resulted in a

definition of how lifecycle transitions meet existing design/development/deployment flows within the

organization.

A08 The Truth About Mainframe Rehosting: 5 Real Customer Examples

Innes Read, Software Engineer, Total Cost of Ownership

In this session we will take a closer look at what's out there in terms of rehosting possibilities and examine

what happened for a number of real customers who completed - or in some cases failed to complete -

such a migration. Despite ongoing multi-billion dollar investment from IBM and partners, resulting in

continued growth and evolution of the mainframe platform, some vendors continue to play up the potential

of mainframe rehosting. As you can imagine, each real case is unique but the overall pattern of results is

quite instructive.

A09 IBM Watson

Dale Lane, Emerging Technologies Specialist

You learned about IBM Watson during the combined Conference Keynote -- now is your chance to learn

more about the technology. This session will address questions such as:,* What problem is the Watson /

DeepQA project trying to tackle? And why is it a difficult area?,* What were IBM's previous efforts in this

space, and how did they lead to the Watson project?,* Why was Jeopardy chosen for the project?,* A

crash course in how Watson works - the hardware architecture, the overall software architecture, and

peeking under the hood at some of the more interesting algorithms,* Looking forward at what might come

next for Watson.



A10 WebSphere Feature Session

TBD, TBD

This session has a panel of speakers that will give you that latest information about enhancements to the

WebSphere brand including Cloud Computing and BPM.

Business Process Management (BPM) Track

This track focuses on technology that enables process improvement, visibility and automation to help

companies get started on projects for specific initiatives or adopt broader BPM programs for wider

transformation. Areas covered will include Business Process Management, Business Rule Management

Systems and Business Event Processing.

The track will use lectures, demos, and hands-on instruction to showcase the IBM Business Process

Manager V7.5, which unifies the WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Lombardi Edition

environments in a single platform. Attendees will learn about the key capabilities of this new platform, as

well as important considerations for application migration, security and performance tuning of the

environment.

Sessions will examine the capabilities of WebSphere Decision Server, which enables responsive,

intelligent decisions by combining business rules management and business event processing in a single

offering.

B01 Application Management with IBM BPM Process Center

Susan Herrmann, WebSphere BPM SWAT

IBM BPM Standard and Advanced Edition V7.5 provide a Process Center Server as central repository for

managing process application and integration service artifacts during authoring time. It also provides the

ability to deploy those process applications onto different environments and manage application versions

from test, over staging till production. This session will focus on the capabilities provided by the Process

Center within IBM BPM and discuss best practices in development centered and administrative usage

scenarios.

B02 Best Practices For Business Activity Monitoring (From The Field)

Marie Holzapfel, IT Specialist - Software Service for WebSphere

WebSphere Business Monitor provides for real-time business level monitoring of business processes.

This session covers the best practices, gathered from the field and from architecture, for using Monitor.

This includes a set of recommendations, and pitfalls to avoid, for people in various roles, including

developers, administrators and architects. This session will help you build performance, and scalability

into your process monitoring applications.

B03 Best Practices for Decision Services Testing with WebSphere ILOG BRMS

Nicolas Sauterey, STSM - Lead Product Architect - (ILOG) Business Rule Management System

ILOG BRMS and its Decision Server aim at deploying Decision Services to production. Decision services

require a testing approach equally adapted to the business agility requirements and the IT requirements

of production software. This session will cover the methodology, practices and product features involved

in Decision Testing.

B04 Best Practices For Developing Advanced Process Integrations

Brian M. Petrini, Senior IT Architect Michele Chilanti, WW BPM Technical Sales

To help you be successful with WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service

Bus (WESB) projects, IBM has collected a number of key best practices that have proven to be the

necessary ingredient of any success story with those products. This session discusses the key



development and deployment best practices for WPS and WESB, as they have been distilled by the lead

IBM practitioners based on the their experience with projects world-wide. By the end of the session you

will have decision guides on choosing the right WPS/WESB components for design, critical points on

keeping the WPS/WESB infrastructure scalable, and links to the top IC in this area.

B05 BPM 7.5.0 Product Production Topologies

Dawn Ahukanna, Principal Technical Architect, Level 3 BPM

This session will recommended Production topologies for IBM BPM 7.5.0 ,Step by step instructions to

build the recommended topology include:

• How to Configure LDAP (IBM HTTP Server & Microsoft Active Directory)

• How to configure SSO & Kerberos,o How to Configure SSL with a Load balancer(IBM HTTP

server)

• How to Change default users and Passwords in a BPM environment

• Best practices and tuning tips for Production deployments

• Clustering topologies (web tier, em tier, incoming ws tier)

B06 BPM and Decisions Technical Update

TBD, TBD

This session will provide a technical update on the BPM and Decision Management Portfolio. Following

an overall architecture perspective, focus will be on recent features and functions added to the products

that make up the portfolio. Specific usage scenarios demonstrating recently added features and

functions will illustrate where value is added to customer solutions. Patterns of usage that leverage

multiple portfolio products and features will also be explored. An update on the technical positioning of

the overall BPM and Decision Management portfolio of products within the broader software group set of

offerings will also be provided.

B07 Building resilient and scalable infrastructures for BPM solutions

Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist - WW BPM Technical Sales

As Business Process Management solutions become more pervasive, line-of-business organizations

have extended their reliance on those solutions in order to perform their day-to-day tasks. Therefore,

provisioning BPM implementations on top of resilient, scalable, and recoverable infrastructures becomes

a critical aspect of BPM projects. This session discusses the key topological solutions that you should

adopt to make your IBM BPM and IBM Business Monitor deployment infrastructure resilient to failure,

scalable, and recoverable. The session covers both the Standard Edition and the Advanced Edition of

IBM BPM v7.5, and includes a discussion on Disaster Recovery considerations.

B08 Building a Single User Experience for Federated Processes and Tasks

Michael Friess, Senior Software Engineer, IBM BPM Architecture, User Interfaces

New with IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5, the Human Task Management widgets in

Business Space provide a single user experience across federated systems and processes and tasks

authored with Process Designer and Integration Designer. They leverage a federation layer that is

realized as Representational State Transfer (REST) services. This session will help you understand the

concepts of federation in context of Business Process Management and User Experience. Also, learn

about the user experience in Business Space and the steps and considerations to build a federated user

interface with Business Space or custom developed.

B09 Building transactional integrity into processes with IBM BPM

Claudia Zentner, Senior Technical Staff Member, WebSphere BPM Architecture



Building transactional integrity into processes is essential for mission critical applications. This session

provides detailed insight into how to build business process based applications in IBM BPM enabling

process integrity and robustness for enterprise applications. Topics covered include the realization of

business transactions using micro-flows and long-running processes, fault handling and compensation,

SCA's integrity enablers, as well as the tuning of transaction boundaries within processes and when

invoking services. The talk not only provides the technical background, but also describes dos and don‘ts

when developing robust, mission critical business process based applications.

B10 Case-study: Implementing an end-to-end BPM/BRMS solution at VKB Insurance

Thorsten Gesing, Lead BPM Developer Olaf Hahnl, Senior IT Architect BPM/SOA

In this session we will describe the overall architecture and technical aspects of a comprehensive BPM

solution developed at VKB insurance in Germany. The solution takes advantage of the full IBM BPM and

BRMS product stack including Business Modeler, Integration Developer, Process Server, Business

Monitor and ILog JRules. We will cover the overall architecture to give you an understanding of the

various aspects and components of the solution. By looking deeper at selected topics we offer you

insights that are highly valuable and applicable to many BPM projects. A selection of these are integrating

document oriented processing, selecting processes to start and/or continue, matching business to

technical services, connecting to legacy back-ends, adapting different quality of services, extracting logic

into business rules, testing and handling errors and recovery. We also share with you our experience how

to interlink all the products and conclude by offering our lessons learned.

B11 Clustering WebSphere Process Server - Best Practices

Hendrik Engler, TeamLead - WPI L2 Support EMEA

Abstract: Making your WebSphere Process Server environment highly available and resilient to failure is

one of the most important requirements to meet your business goals and Service Level Agreements. This

session will discuss the best practices for choosing the right cluster topology and configuration that meets

your business needs. You will learn how a deployment environment supports you to efficiently configure a

complex system. Advanced cluster topologies beyond the IBM patterns are presented including the

challenges and management of multiple Golden Topologies in a single cell environment. This session

applies to all WebSphere Process Server releases also covering new features and improvements in BPM

V7.5.

B12 Collaborative process design - Modeling processes in the Cloud

Roland Peisl, WebSphere BPM Development, Samples/Scenarios and Operations

As observed in many BPM projects adopting BPM is a rather long journey that may take months or years

to get BPM acceptance from all stakeholders. In addition constant discussions between business and IT

slow down BPM execution while requiring huge budgets. Since quite some time there are ideas to start

with process thinking quickly focusing on simple steps first, therefore sowing the seeds of BPM with low

budgets attractive first to the workforce, then to business and IT to further professionalize BPM within an

organization. IBM’s Blueworks Live offering is the BPM beginner’s platform, not only for modeling and

automating (quite simple) business processes, but to move on to full BPM – once time and budget allow.

B13 Delivering Business Agility through BPM and SOA

TBD, TBD

Business agility is a key theme and rally point for linking business and IT. BPM and SOA provide the

necessary underpinnings for enabling business agility. Key areas to cover include:

1.Achieving business agility using SOA concepts

2.Achieving business agility through process design

3.Designing agile processes with decision services



4.Enabling business agility through business monitoring

5.Leveraging business events to achieve business agility.

Examples will be used to demonstrate each key area. The various business roles involved will also be

explained and lead into observations and about the role of governance in achieving business agility.

B14 Developing Effective Services for Use in Critical Business Processes

Brian M. Petrini, Senior IT Architect Kim Clark, Certified IT Specialist

Abstract: A Business Process Management (BPM) engine is an automated consumer of services. How is

this type of consumer different from other consumers such as user interfaces? What additional

characteristics does the service need to provide to be fit for use by an automated business process. This

lecture builds on the very successful Impact 2008 lecture "Exposing Services People Want to Consume"

and examines how the key characteristics of the service consumer affect the requirements of the service

provider. This approach is based on of hundreds of implementation years and is taught internally in IBM

to our consultants.

B15 Governing the BPM Lifecycle with Process Center in IBM BPM v7.5

Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist

The ability to manage and control your BPM assets is a key ingredient of the success of BPM programs.

As organizations in your company increase their demand for new BPM projects, or for new versions of

existing implementations, efficient governance of BPM assets and of the inter-dependencies that exist

among the various components and versions of BPM solutions is imperative. This session - comprised of

a lecture and demo - lets you discover how the Process Center - a fundamental element of the newer IBM

Business Process Manager platform - enables you to effectively govern the most sophisticated BPM

solutions.

B16 IBM BPM For Agile Human-Centric Processes

Gerhard Pfau, IBM Business Process Manager Product Architecture and Design Stefan Liesche,

WebSphere Portal Industry and Web Experience Platform Chief Architect, STSM

IBM BPM provides comprehensive process management for a broad range of processes - from human

centric processes to integration centric processes. Come learn about the exciting innovations in IBM BPM

in 2011 for managing human centric processes. We will provide an overview of the architecture and

discuss how to rapidly develop and deploy page-flows, coaches and human services, and use IBM BPM

to rapidly create and effectively manage agile human centric processes.

B18 People Clouds: Exploiting BPM to support high volume manual tasks

Roland Peisl, WebSphere BPM Development, Samples/Scenarios and Operations

An increasing number of tasks in today’s businesses cannot be fully automated and require human

intelligence or action for completion. Faced with all this required manual work to be done, organizations

are seeking for new ways how all this work can be done – and find answers in ‘crowdsourcing’: A concept

similar to IT clouds, but this time the resources are people available around the world, or – if anonymous

work distribution is not an option – employed by other organizations, e.g. by call center businesses. This

session shows how e.g. call center organizations are offering people services to other organizations,

based in IBM’s BPM platform. Apart from the business model imperatives, we will as well have a look into

the technical challenges addressed by a People Cloud platform.

B19 Top Tips For Administrating and Operating IBM BPM Deployments

Susan Herrmann, WebSphere BPM SWAT

Every IT department strives for maintaining a healthy production environment for their systems. IBM BPM

helps you effectively maintaining a clustered BPM environment that interacts with a large number of back-

end and front-end systems and services. This session will guide you through the essential tasks for



successful system administration and operations of a BPM production environment. We will provide you

with practical tips for application design and administration best practices, continuous maintenance

considerations, application management, promote to production approaches and determining

performance issues. This will help you maintain healthy production environments to support your

stakeholders effectively.

B20 IBM BPM 7.5 migration practices - first findings and lessons learnt

Marcin Kalas, IT Specialist, Software Services for WebSphere

WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) version 7.5 provides capabilities from both

WebSphere Process Server v7.0 (WPS ) and WebSphere Lombardi Edition v.7.2 (WLE) products. BPM

v7.5 is 100% compatible with existing WPS and WLE solutions, however in order to take advantages of

unified runtime while preserving existing applications you must migrate to version 7.5 of the product. This

session covers step-by-step migration demonstration including migration planning and execution steps.

There will be two parallel paths that covers following scenarios: migration from WLE 7.x to BPM 7.5 and

migration from WPS 7.x to BPM 7.5. In each scenario we will cover available migration methods (runtime

migration, manual migration, and artifact migration), migration planning checklist, migration execution and

post migration testing.

B21 WebSphere Process Server performance tuning: reach 80% in 20% of time

Sebastian Faulhaber1, Accredited IT Specialist Konstantin Luttenberger, IT Specialist

This presentation introduces a tuning methodology for throughput-based SOA solutions that are built for

WebSphere Process Server. The tuning process is divided into three main building blocks that cover the

most important aspects of common development scenarios: application architecture and design,

infrastructure optimization, and database tuning. After attending this presentation you will be able to apply

these core tuning concepts in your next SOA implementation project.

B22 WebSphere Process Server: What to check with the DBA

Dr. Stephan Volz, Technical Teamlead BPC L2 Support EMEA

WebSphere Process Server (WPS) uses relational database management systems (RDBMS) like IBM

DB2 or Oracle. This talk will focus on important settings for DB2 and Oracle databases. Main focus is to

provide some technical background for WPS topics which should be discussed with the database

administrator (DBA). The mentioned database settings will have an impact on WPS performance or on

common problems seen with WPS.

B23 What's New in ILOG JRules and WBE

Nicolas Sauterey, STSM - Lead Product Architect - (ILOG) Business Rule Management System

TBA

B24 Modernization of Mainframe applications with ILOG Business Rule Management

Joerg-Ulrich Veser, IT Specialist WebSphere

ILOG Business Rule Management (BRMS) gives the Line of Business the opportunity to quickly react to

changes in,the marketplace by changing the behaviour of mainframe applications dynamically. There are

two major possibilities to integrate ILOG BRMS into existing Mainframe applications, which assure good

performance especially for mass data processing on the mainframe - Rules for Cobol and ILOG JRules

based on WebSphere Application Server (WAS) z/OS. This session will compare both solutions.,Within a

demonstration an existing Cobol program calls the ILOG rules engine in WAS z/OS over a cross-memory

memory connection using the WebSphere Optimized Local Adaptes (WOLA) for a credit check. In this

case Cobol Copybooks are transfered in both directions by calling the WOLA APIs. Moreover WOLA is

not limited to Cobol,,it is capable to call WAS from Assembler, PL1 or C. Compared to WebService



WOLA is six times faster, because there is no network processing and delays, XML parsing and

rendering.

B25 IBM BPM 7.5 Security Hardening

Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist

This presentation walks through IBM BPM 7.5 security configuration. Product defaults and their

implications are reviewed and hardening recommendations are given.

B26 Putting WPS in place for an insurance's core business applications

Annette Scherer, IT Architect Thomas Bohn, IT Architect

HUK Coburg is market leader in Germanies highly competitive car insurance market, both in traditional

and web-based sales channels. HUK's politic is to develop and maintain their IT business systems and

applications by themselves. Therefore the company follows a strategy of designing, implementing and

maintaing functional rich, central frameworks and platforms which give their developers the right tools at

hand to focus on implementing business needs. HUK's current, zSeries-based application platform is

used for almost all of their business applications. Among many other functions it provides a basic

workflow implementation that is replaced with WebSphere Process Server.,Learn first hand from HUK's IT

architect how they integrated WPS into their existing zSeries-based application platform, patterns used

and best-practices made.

B27 Enable mobile workflows using IBM WebSphere technologies

Stephan Kliche, SW Services WebSphere

In this session, we present a mobile architecture which IBM Software Services for WebSphere has

created in cooperation with a German public transport customer. The customer's strategy is to deliver

business processes to their field staff using mobile devices thereby reducing costs, gaining flexibility and

delivering information in very short time. ,Our solution leverages WebSphere Process Server in order to

integrate back-end systems such as SAP and databases. WebSphere Portal is used in combination with

GWT to deliver mobile optimized, secured and manageable HTML5 applications to the smart phones of

the field staff. ,During the talk, we will give an overview of the solution with a special focus on the mobile

part and we will share our lessons learned during the project.

BL1 Accelerated Business Optimization with IBM BPM 7.5 and WebSphere JRules

Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer

IBM Business Process Management v7.5 brings a new level of tools to the business user for defining

business process. Incorporating the features of WebSphere Lombardi Edition, business process

definitions can be easily created and tested prior to deployment. It also includes the ability to define

decision services and decision points right in the business process definition using the same language as

WebSphere ILOG JRules. This language allows business logic to be specified in clear terms and

notations without requiring a background in programming. When more complex business rules authoring

or complex rule logic is required, the rules within a business process definition can be easily imported into

Rule Studio for further development. This lab will look at the different aspects of creating decision

services both within business process definitions and externally through Rule Studio.

BL2 Accelerating Business Process Development with IBM BPM 7.5


The goal for Business Process Management (BPM) is to more quickly respond to market opportunities

that can improve the bottom line. A large part of seizing new opportunities is to enable the line of

business to document, automate, describe, and define the business processes and factors that impact

the business results. IBM Business Process Manager 7.5 is the premier platform for defining BPM

applications. With its simplified interface and approach, BPM applications can be easily built that



automate tasks and adjust to those factors. In this lab you see the ease of building these as you will play

the role of a technical business analyst. You will use Process Designer to build a business process

application that automates different business tasks to reach the goals of the business as well as handle

changes in the market and new opportunities.

BL3 Optimizing BPM applications with Rules and Predictive Analytics


In the past predictive analytics have been typically used to help people make better decisions in the future

based on the analysis of historical data. Now with WebSphere ILOG JRules and SPSS Predictive

Analytics Suite, business rules can be created from predictive models and then integrated into BPM

applications such that the analytics can be used in real-time. This lab session will allow you to build

business rules from predictive models and then integrate these rules into a business process where the

predictive scores directly and immediately affect the execution of the process in the most optimized

manner.

CICS Track

This track provides the information you need to make the most out of major product enhancements

released in the CICS Transaction Server V4.2 allowing you to increase the ease of application integration,

enhance application transformation, and improve enterprise management. Learn how to manage, secure,

monitor and integrate your enterprise CICS environment in a 24/7 world.

Discover how to leverage your CICS applications with new easy to use tools, how to enable them for

access by Web 2.0 applications, and how to capturing CICS events to gain insight into processing within

your CICS applications. Topics covered may include CICS problem determination, testing and debugging,

administration, migrations and performance.

C01 CICS Cloud

Ian J Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer, CICS Transaction Server

TBD

C03 CICS Family Overview

Dave Andrews, Director, CICS Products

Hear from the CICS Development Director about the the CICS portfolio of products and how they may

complement and extend your existing enterprise infrastructure. You will see the latest enhancements

made to CICS, the CICS Tools and connectors and how they may be combined with other products in the

extended CICS family. You will gain insight into the key sessions that will give you deeper knowledge on

specific capabilities to create your own CICS family roadmap to maximise your Impact experience.

C04 CICS SOA Strategic Options

Phil Wakelin, CICS Strategy and Planning - Java, Access to CICS

CICS has a long history as an on-line transaction processor, this presentation reviews the different CICS

runtimes available from procedural COBOL to object orientated Java and dynamic scripting and

summarises how they can be used to exploit existing CICS business logic with an SOA. It then provides

an overview of how different customers are integrating CICS applications with new WebSphere

applications and using CICS in different ways with other key IBM middleware products.

C05 CICS Technical Overview


TBD



C06 CICS TG Overview


This session will provide an introduction to the function of the CICS TG as a CICS connector and supply

information on the features in the latest release of both the z/OS and multiplatform products and how

these functions can be used in conjunction with CICS TS V4.2. Also included is an overview of the CICS

Explorer systems management enhancements, a summary of the latest performance data and an insight

into future CICS connector strategy.

C07 CICS TS 4.2 Jvmserver Application Best Practises

Philipp Breitbach, IT Specialist

CICS TS 4.2 Jvmserver features a multithreaded, 64 Bit JVM with a new Programming model for

CICS/Java applications: OSGI.,But what does that mean for existing applications? And how to use the

OSGI Programming Model wisely for new or existing applications?

This session will give the answers to those questions by discussing the following topics:,

• How to migrate existing applications to Jvmserver?

• How to deploy and update OSGI Bundles to Jvmserver without restarting it?

• OSGI Programming Model Best Practises

• How to use OSGI Declarative Services in CICS?

• How to use OSGI Blueprint in CICS?

• How to use the Equinox Console in Jvmserver?

C09 Connectivity


TBD

C10 Introduction to CICS Deployment Assistant

Stewart Francis, Software Developer - CICS Explorer

CICS Deployment Assistant is a new CICS tool released in 2010, which helps manage existing CICS

deployments, using a host component and a tightly integrated CICS Explorer plugin. This session will be

a live demo of the features of CICS Deployment Assistant, covering CICS system discovery, visualisation,

and model manipulation, including cloning existing CICS regions, and adding CICS regions to

CICSplexes.

C11 Distributed CICS (TXSeries, WX TR)


TBD

C12 CICS TS Event Processing

Andy Armstrong, CICS System Test

TBD

C13 CICS Event Processing Usage Patterns and Implementation Scenarios


TBD

C14 Using CICS Tools to extend the value of CICS

Satish Tanna, Senior IT Specialist, Technical Specialist for CICS z/OS Tools



This session discusses how CICS Tools are extending the value of CICS systems. It will help you

understand why CICS PA, CICS CM and CICS IA are becoming a key part of every CICS ecosystem to

ensure optimum performance, efficient management of CICS resource definitions and deep

understanding of complex CICS applications.

C15 How to debug, monitor and troubleshoot CICS Java applications

Philipp Breitbach, IT Specialist

This session demos how customers can debug, monitor and troubleshoot their CICS Java applications

with Eclipse Remote Debugging and the IBM Healthcenter tool.

C16 Java

William Yates, CICS System Verification Test

TBD

C17 CICS TS V4.2 Management Enhancements


The newest CICS TS V4.2 release is focused on helping our customers to deliver a smarter transaction

processing experience. New and enhanced capabilities have been made in 5 key areas, this session will

cover changes in the Management area. First, there will be a summary of the management

enhancements provided in CICS TS V4.1. Then there will be a deep dive into the enhanced Management

capabilities in CICS TS V4.2 covering transaction tracking, CICSPlex SM Workload Management,

Password phrases and an overview of CICS Explorer.

C19 Performance Update

Ian Burnett, CICS Performance Team

TBD

C20 21st Century Application Development and Debugging


TBD

C21 CICS TS V4.2: Scalability

Satish Tanna, Senior IT Specialist, Technical Specialist for CICS z/OS Tools

CICS Transaction Server V4.2 is focused on helping our customers to deliver a smarter transaction

processing experience. New and enhanced capabilities have been made in 5 key areas. This session will

cover one of those areas - Scalability - in detail. First, there will be a summary of the capabilities that have

been delivered up to CICS TS V4.1. Then there will be a deep dive into new and enhanced Scalability

capabilities delivered in CICS TS V4.2.

C24 Trace / Debug type sessions

William Yates, CICS System Verification Test

TBD

C25 Upgrading

Ian Burnett, CICS Performance Team

TBD

C26 The New Three Musketeers – one Mainframe for all



Isabel Arnold, SWG Client Technical Professional: zSW - Speciality CICS, Rational Developer for System

z, AD & PD Tools

The System Programmer (Porthos) and the Application Developer (Athos) have been working on and

fighting for the mainframe for ages, armed with console based screens like ISPF and keyboards. For

quite some years they are in good company with the Host Modernizer (Aramis), similarly armed, and

connecting the mainframe to the outside world using Web Services, JCA, Web 2.0, dynamic scripting and

other new technologies. But times are changing making it harder and harder especially for the modernizer

to keep up to date with evolving trends using their traditional weapons. ,Now it’s 2011 and the time is ripe

for new gear including mouse and graphical interfaces. Join the speaker trying to walk in the shoes of

each musketeer, carrying new weapons like CICS Explorer or Rational Developer for System z and taking

her hat off to them.

C27 Stepwise Modernizing CICS and Batch applications with Java

Frank Oellermann, Senior IT Architect Philipp Breitbach, IT Specialist Software Services for WebSphere

The session discusses a stepwise modernization approach for CICS and Batch applications and focuses

on the modernization with Java as an innovative, platform-independent language with an overwhelming

pool of libraries.,By leveraging Java, customers can also address the issue of a decreasing number of

COBOL developers available on the market and thereby ensure a future-proof Mainframe application

landscape.,Java can be used as an alternative programming language for new applications or even to

migrate existing COBOL applications to Java in a step-by-step fashion.,In both cases, the tight and bi-

directional interoperability between Java and COBOL, offered by CICS and Batch environments, is

essential since it makes the stepwise approach possible in practice at all.,In particular we share our

experiences on how to provide a Java framework facilitating the encapsulation of the business logic in

platform-independent POJOs and thereby leverage common code for Online and Batch.

C28 Introduction to CICS Explorer

Stewart Francis, Software Developer - CICS Explorer

CICS Explorer, 'The new face of CICS' is a new user interface for CICS TS. It provides a feature-rich

client user interface for administering CICS regions and CICSplexes, and an interface for developers

using CICS Event Processing, and Java using JVM Servers and OSGi. CICS Explorer also provides an

interface for interacting with HFS files, datasets and jobs on system z. This session will cover a live demo

of the functionality of CICS Explorer, and a look at CICS Explorer as a tooling integration platform.

C29 IBM Problem Determination Tools - The total eclipse experience

Wilfried van Hecke, Certified IT Specialist CICS, z/OS COBOL, PLI, C/C++, Assembler, Debug Tool,

Fault Analyser, APA, LE Hans Emrich, Technical Sales Software System z - ADTools + Rational on z

Are you using the IBM Problem Determination Tools on the mainframe? Did you know that you can easily

plug them into an eclipse environment to drive Debug Tool, Fault Analyzer, File Manager and Application

Performance Analyzer with just a few mouse clicks? Join this discussion and live demonstration to

witness how productivity of application developers in CICS TS (and other environments and middleware)

may increase by using graphical Windows or Linux user interfaces.

Development Track

This track will focus on tools and methodologies that enable the addition of new and innovative services

and applications to a company's solutions portfolio. It will feature theoretical and hands-on instruction on

standards-based application development using IBM tools, including Rational Application Developer V8.

Sessions will explore how to develop rich interactive applications and extend the reach of these

applications to mobile devices. Attendees will learn how to develop applications using several

WebSphere Application Server Programming Models and open source development options, including



OSGi, Dojo, REST, JAX-RS, EJB 3.x, Dynamic Scripting, and JPA 2.0. Programming model selection

guidance will be provided.

D01 Application construction for the cloud

Chris Brealey, STSM, RAD SOA & Cloud Anita Rass Wan, RAD product manager

The need for business agility and efficiency is greater than ever. The ability to rapidly deliver higher

quality, lower risk, scalable services to capture new opportunities is critical to the success of your

business, and cloud computing is answering the challenge. At this session you will learn about IBM®'s

strategy and technologies for cloud computing, and about IBM Rational®'s tools for modeling, developing

and deploying applications to the cloud.

D02 Modular & Dynamic OSGi Applications in WebSphere Application Server

Graham Charters, STSM, WebSphere OSGi Applications Architect

Creating modular, extensible applications can be accomplished with good design practices and discipline.

But even with well-designed applications, the deployer still needs a mechanism to identify common

modules that can be shared between multiple enterprise applications. WebSphere Application Server

(WAS) and Rational Application Developer (RAD) provide development and administrative tools to

support the development, deployment and management of truly modular applications, deployed as

versioned OSGi bundles. WAS also supports administrative actions to perform in-place updates of the

modules of running OSGi applications, without requiring a restart of the application. This session

illustrates how OSGi applications can be assembled in RAD, deployed to WAS, and subsequently

updated and extended.

D04 Building Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

Todd Kaplinger, web 2.0 & mobile fep release architect | wsti

With mobile applications, one of the first choices is which technology direction a developer should take.

Developers may choose to develop native applications, or develop browser-based applications using

HTML and CSS to give an appearance similar to native devices. With native applications, the

programming model and languages are not common across all devices; with browser-based applications,

you can't access all of the capabilities included on mobile devices. This is where PhoneGap comes in.

PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Build apps

in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of core features in iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, Google

Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.

D05 Deep Dive: Dojox Mobile for Building Web-Based Mobile Applications


Have you wanted to build applications for the iPhone, Android, or other similar WebKit based mobile

browsers that had the look and feel of a `native` application for the device, but was merely a web-page so

you retained total control? If so, then this module may provide much of what you need. Dojox mobile

provides through CSS3 and custom styles, interfaces that display and work well on mobile devices.

D06 Dojo for the Enterprise

Andrew Ferrier, Web 2.0/Dojo Specialist e

This lecture will cover advanced use of the Dojo Javascript toolkit within large organizations. We will

discuss concepts as reusable business widgets and how they can encapsulate your business logic. We'll

get technical with packaging, name spacing, and class structure concerns, as well as cover the Dojo build

process to properly optimize your applications. Finally we will cover community-based aspects of Dojo,

and how to share expertise, and prevent re-creating the wheel through widget galleries and similar

concepts.



D08 Extending existing Web Applications to Mobile Devices


According to Gartner, "By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access

device worldwide. " As a result, there is a need to provide mobile views to many existing applications that

are currently in production. In this session, we will provide guidance and best practices on how

developers can take existing web applications and create mobile front ends to these applications using

the web programming model (HTML/CSS/Dojo).

D09 Introduction into the innovations of JavaEE 6

Markus Winkler, Head of Development Consulting

This talk gives an introduction in the innovations of the JavaEE 6 programming model. We are discussing

the EJB 3.1, JSF 2, Servlet-API 3.0, Bean Validation API (JSR 303) and CDI (JSR 299). I will give some

practical experiences and examples of how we can use the benefits.

D10 Introduction to REST Web Services

Andrew Ferrier, Web 2.0/Dojo Specialist

This session will introduce you to REST concepts. It will focus on helping you build Resource Oriented

Applications and introduce you to REST Concepts.

D11 JInsight: The Hubble Telescope under the Java Profilers

Paul Anderson, Java Performance Principal - Banking Center of Excellence Philipp Breitbach, IT

Specialist Software Services for WebSphere

JInsight is arguably the most powerful Java Profiler available, it's unique visualization technology allows

even the most complex applications to be analyzed in seconds.,It is both the "Hubble Telescope" and

"Electron Microscope" of the Java performance world.,Customer, ISV, Vendor and JVM code are all

exposed allowing for rapid contextual analysis - nothing can hide from it.,For many years this IBM

technology has been the tool of choice for IBM's top Java performance professionals.,In most cases it

allows developers to see for the first time what their application is "actually" doing.,In this session, we will

show how to use JInsight to profile your business-critical applications and get maximum performance out

of them.

D12 Problem Determination of your WebSphere Applications with RAD

Anita Rass Wan, RAD Product Manager Ernest Mah, RAD Architect

There are many aspects of performance that are vital to improving the overall efficiency of your

applications. Performance affects the number of concurrent users and overall throughput of the

application. Understanding what tools to use and when to use them can be confusing. In this practical

session, we'll cover several common scenarios and demonstrate how you can use tools from IBM®

Support Assistant as well as Rational Application Developer to get to the bottom of these tricky

performance issues.

D13 RAD Support for Building Modular OSGi Enterprise Applications

Tim deBoer, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Developer focus

The OSGi Enterprise programming model helps you build more robust and modular applications, while

still using the Java Enterprise specifications that you're familiar with. In this session, you'll learn about the

capabilities and benefits of OSGi, and the tools available in IBM Rational Application Developer V8.x to

help you convert existing applications seamlessly, or build new ones that take advantage of OSGi.



D14 Rational Application Developer - What's New and Enhanced for the Developer

Tim deBoer, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Developer Focus

IBM Rational Application Developer V8.x is the premier IDE for building internal business and enterprise-

critical applications for the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server. This overview

session highlights the latest technologies that help businesses deliver intelligent and responsive Web,

Java EE, SOA, and Portal applications. RAD provides businesses with the capabilities to prototype and

deliver Web 2.0 apps, and build business services that access data and back-end enterprise-packaged

applications. Organizations can leverage team development, cloud computing, and development test

tools to maximize return on investment, ensure the delivery of quality apps, and get the most value out of

WebSphere IDE.

D15 REST Architecture

Andrew Ferrier, Web 2.0/Dojo Specialist

This session will focus on REST Architecture. It will focus on concepts such as Resource Design,

Content Negotiation, Caching patterns, Security, and other REST Concerns.

D16 The Lean WebSphere Environment for Development

Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect Tim deBoer, STSM, RAD

Lead Architect

This session will look at how the WebSphere Application Server is evolving to address the requirements

of Developers. Developers need a lightweight WebSphere execution environment - in Eclipse or RAD -

whose configuration is simple to edit, version and share, whose footprint is closely tailored the

application's needs, and whose execution behaviour has high fidelity to the target production system. This

session focusses on new improvements in the Developer Experience for web applications and

demonstrates how these dramatically simplify the edit-compile-debug cycle to improve developer

productivity and reduce time to value.

D16 What's New and What's Next in WebSphere Application Development

Greg Truty, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for WebSphere Mobile, REST, and Web Service

Runtimes

TBD

D17 Old Stager vs. Greenhorn – two faces for System z

Isabel Arnold, SWG Client Technical Professional: zSW - Speciality CICS, Rational Developer for System

z, AD & PD Tools Wilfried van Hecke, Certified IT Specialist CICS, z/OS COBOL, PLI, C/C++,

Assembler, Debug Tool, Fault Analyser, APA, LE

Keyboard oriented and black and green, that’s the common understanding of a mainframe application or

development environment and the home of the mainframe old stager, Wilfried van Hecke. He has been

working in this area for ages and started supporting CICS in the very same year the greenhorn Isabel

Arnold was born. When she started working with CICS in 2004 her picture of applications and

development environments was graphical and mouse based and ISPF really caused a cultural shock.

,Now it’s 2011 and you will have the chance to follow the two very different speakers on a journey that

tries to strike a balance between traditional and graphically-oriented worlds. See how they build a bridge

between new tools and well-proven helpers like IBM Debug Tool, Fault Analyzer, File Manager, … and

see the new faces of old friends like CICS, IMS and DB2.



D18 Mobile Application Development with WebSphere Middleware

Greg Truty, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for WebSphere Mobile, REST, and Web Service

Runtimes

With the proliferation of mobile devices, such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Black Berry, and Windows

Mobile, development organizations are struggling with many challenges. Should I build Native

Applications or use Open Web technologies? How do I extend my web content on to devices? How can I

minimize the amount of skills I have to develop in house? This session will talk about some of the issues

and best practices around developing Mobile applications. This session will talk about how you can

target your WebSphere Applications toward Mobile platforms. Technologies like Dojo Mobile, HTML 5,

REST, and Native phone development will be discussed.

D19 Introduction to Dojo

Gill Spencer, Senior IT Specialist, IBM Software Group Services

Learn how Dojo can help speed development of your internal and external Web 2.0 applications by

allowing developers to focus on the user experience rather than wrestling with browser inconsistencies

and home-grown widget frameworks. Dojo is a widely used and respected Javascript library that provides

a suite of browser-independent and commonly needed functions such as remote calls to back-end

servers, managing widget initialization and shutdown, web page manipulation and consistent use of CSS.

Any development team that is not currently using an advanced Javascript library such as Dojo will do well

to come and learn why they should be.

DL1 Hands-on Lab: Building OSGi & SCA Applications with RAD

Tim deBoer, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Developer Focus TBD,

This lab will demonstrate the tools available in IBM Rational Application Developer V8.x that help you

build enterprise-ready OSGi and SCA applications. This session will highlight the latest tools for each

programming model, and show you how SCA can be used to expose and connect OSGi services

seamlessly throughout the enterprise.

DL2 Building Mobile Applications Using JAXRS, Dojo, and Phone Gap

Todd Kaplinger, web 2.0 & mobile fep release architect | wsti Gill Spencer, Senior IT Specialist, IBM

Software Group Services

This hands-on lab session will show you how to build Web 2.0-style applications that target modern

browsers and mobile devices like iPhone, Android, Blackberry and others. You will learn how to use Dojo

to build Rich Internet applications and dojox.mobile to build mobile applications. You`ll also learn how to

access native services like geo-location, network, and camera from open web applications.

Messaging and Connectivity

This track encompasses a range of software and solutions that provide a secure, reliable and scalable

way to connect within and beyond a business to partners and customers, and into the cloud. Sessions will

explore the universal connectivity backbone of the WebSphere MQ family of products, including new

features, administration, security, architectural best practices, problem determination and performance

tuning of WebSphere MQ.

This track features sessions on integrating services through IBM enterprise service bus software,

including the latest offerings in the family of WebSphere DataPower Appliances, WebSphere Enterprise

Service Bus, and WebSphere Message Broker. Attendees will learn about the latest updates to

WebSphere Message Broker (WMB), as well as architecture and implementation best practices for

administering, scaling and securing WMB installations. Attendees will learn how to use the concepts and

patterns of service federation management to integrate across departments, ESB products and domains

using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.



This track includes will examine IBM's new cloud integration capabilities from Cast Iron that accelerate

B2B connectivity by providing rapid integration between services in the cloud and on-premise

applications.

M02 Achieve Agility and Visibility in your SOA with WESB Registry Edition

Andrew Humphreys, WebSphere Client Technical Professional - Consulting IT Specialist Ronnie Mitra,

Worldwide WebSphere Connectivity Client Technical Professional

WebSphere ESB Registry Edition provides a robust, scalable, and flexible infrastructure for service

mediation, hosting, visibility and control. In this session we will introduce you to the WESB Registry

Edition capabilities which allow you to: leverage existing service enablements, create new services to

quickly and dynamically connect service providers with service consumers, and to visualize the impact of

your SOA. WebSphere ESB Registry Edition fosters controlled reuse to accelerate broad adoption.

M03 Announcing WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.4

Michael Hudson, WebSphere Transformation Extender

This session will cover the new features in the recently announced version 8.4 of WebSphere

Transformation Extender. The new features to WebSphere TX itself, its industry packs and its extenders

for Sterling B2B Integrator, DataPower and other WebSphere platforms will be highlighted.

M04 Connectivity and Cloud Computing

Marc-Thomas Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer; Chief Architect SOA Connectivity

In this session we will discuss the opportunities offered and challenges posed by Cloud computing from

an Integration middleware perspective. Whether they start moving select business services into public

clouds (SaaS) or make use of cloud-based IT resources in public or private clouds (IaaS, PaaS) - they

need to integrate the new cloud-based reosurces and services with their existing ones. We will discuss

the key factors to consider in such integration scenarios and describe how IBM's middleware enables

enterprise to establish secure connections to clouds and between clouds and how we support the

consumption of connectivity middleware in a cloud form factor.

M05 DataPower: The Future is Here (Again)

Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist

In 2011, IBM's DataPower products took another quantum leap forward across the board with the

announcement and release of a new generation hardware platform that offers significant performance

and feature advantages over the very popular prior generation. In addition, new platforms for DataPower

have emerged. This presentation will discuss a little bit of the history, and then focus on the new

products, including performance and positioning, new features, and perhaps a glimpse at the future from

here.

M06 Effective Administration In WebSphere Message Broker

Matt Lucas, WebSphere Message Broker Architecture and Strategy

The latest release of WebSphere Message Broker includes many improvements that make administering

the product easier. Come along and find out about the most recent improvements, including

enhancements to the product runtime, graphical, command line, and programmatic front-ends. Session

attendees will discover the right ways to effectively administer and operate the Message Broker, and

learn tips and tricks that should be in every Message Broker administrator's toolbox. Session attendees

should possess an overview of WebSphere Message Broker capabilities. Attendees should leave with an

understanding of available Message Broker administration options and best practices.

M07 Effective Application Development In WebSphere Message Broker



Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker Development

What are the best practices for WebSphere Message Broker development? How do you design message

flows that conform to external and internal standards? Learn how to use the broker's built-in capabilities to

apply common usage patterns and develop, refine and share your own patterns that solve your

company's integration requirements. This session will also introduce the application development

enhancements in the very latest release of WebSphere Message Broker that allow you to implement

Broker solutions more quickly than ever.

M08 Extending WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker to the Cloud

Andy Piper, WebSphere Messaging Community Lead, Connectivity and Integration Sales Support

Cloud computing offers a new delivery model for IT services, but how can messaging and integration

systems be used in this environment? This session takes a look at the different models available for

delivering messaging and integration capabilities in the cloud using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere

Message Broker, starting from the initial concepts and value proposition, covering concrete examples of

messaging and transformation capabilities in clouds and how these will evolve in the future.

M09 How to Connect Everything - Trends in Connectvity & Integration

Marc-Thomas Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer; Chief Architect SOA Connectivity

In this session we will provide a comprehensive overview of the capabilities in the WebSphere

Connectivity & Integration portfolio (including our Messaging and ESB products, Service Registry &

Repository, and the Cast Iron Cloud gateway) and illustrate via concrete examples how to use them to

connect every IT thing within an enterprise and beyond enterprise boundaries. We'll discuss the latest

industry trends in SOA, describe how we support them in our products and explain how that makes it

easier to tackle the integration challenges enterprises are facing today.

M10 Implementing WebSphere Message Broker in .NET Environments

Matthew Golby-Kirk, WebSphere Message Broker Development

The very latest version of WebSphere Message Broker can be integrated with Microsoft .NET

applications. Come along and find out how to run your .NET assemblies natively inside WMB to provide

access to your .NET data and allow your .NET code fast access to the broker message tree. See how

easy it can be to invoke applications such as Microsoft Dynamics or update Microsoft SharePoint from

within your message flow.

M11 Integrating On Premise Applications with WebSphere Cast Iron

Sebastian Rzepka, Associate Technical Sales Professional - Business Integration Franz-Josef

Schneider, Senior IT Specialist, WAS/WP/WPS ( Infrastructure/ Performance/ Security)

WebSphere Cast Iron was originally designed for integration of cloud applications with on-premise

applications. But more and more customers are interested in Cast Iron even though they do not have any

cloud application. Reason for that is the fact that Cast Iron is a small and handy tool for all kind of

application itegrations.,This session will talk about some typical customer situations we had in the last

months, about their usecase and motivation why to use WebSphere Cast Iron. The session will include a

live demonstration for typical use cases.

M12 Introduction to The WebSphere MQ Family of Products

Matthew White, WebSphere MQ JMS Development

IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) is the market-leading messaging product that enables anywhere-to-

anywhere application integration, from the simplest pair of applications requiring basic connectivity and

data exchange, to the most complex business process management environments. Come to this session

to take a deep dive into the rationale of message/queuing, and features and functions of our core product



WebSphere MQ Queue Manager, with a complete overview of how to leverage WMQ and the family of

products (MQ Advanced Message Scurity (MQ AMS), MQ File Transfer Edition (MQ FTE), MQ Telemetry,

and MQ Low Latency Messaging (MQ LLM) ) to build a secure, flexible, and scalable messaging

backbone for your business.

M13 Introduction to WebSphere Message Broker


WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) aims to provide a universal connectivity solution with its ability to

route and transform messages FROM anywhere TO anywhere, and is often referred to as an "Advanced

Enterprise Service Bus". Through a simple programming model and a powerful operational management

interface, WMB allows you to develop complex application integration solutions quickly and to easily

maintain them. This session gives a high-level, technical overview of the product and concludes with a

live product demonstration further explains the kind of processing that can be achieved.

M14 Introduction to WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition

Mark Taylor, WMQ Technical Strategy

Attend this session to find out how you can re-use your MQ infrastructure and skills to transport file data

as well as messages. This session provides and introduction to the features and capabilities of

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition and explains how it can be used to reliably and auditably transfer

file data within your business. It also covers recent enhancements to the product such as the integration

with IBM Sterling Connect:Direct.

M15 It's Tooltime: WESB custom mediation primitives fix everyday problems

Susann Fritzsche, IT Specialist for WebSphere Thomas Bohn, Certified IT Specialist for WebSphere

Do you feel like re-inventing the wheel again and again when you need to combine the same primitives

for the same patterns in your integration solutions? Do you feel that something is missing in WESB that

would solve your individual problems? Do you know that you can extend WESB's set of primitives to build

your personal toolbox?,Implementing your own custom primitives is a very powerful way to customize

WESB's functionality to your particular needs and provide functions to your developers extremely re-

usable. ,The first part of this session will explain you in detail the process of building custom mediation

primitives. The second part will walk through and demonstrate assets built and provided by ISSW that

extend WESB making use of custom mediation primitives: ISSW's logging framework offers powerful

functions for enterprise-level logging and error detection. The BO list cache provides smart, stateful

caching of backend system responses in order to take workload off of your legacy.

M16 Lightweight Messaging - extending WebSphere MQ for a Smarter Planet


WebSphere MQ has recently been enhanced with the MQ Telemetry feature to enable vast numbers of

devices to connect from the edge of the network. Interconnectivity is one of the key aspects to enabling

smarter working and a Smarter Planet. As computing devices get cheaper, smaller and more powerful,

the traditional view of messaging clients is changing, and the boundaries of messaging networks are

being pushed further and further. There is a need to get messages to and from new kinds of client

devices: from terminals and small server devices, through hand-held devices like smart phones and

PDAs, down to sensors, and tiny embedded devices.

M17 Using IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ Together


This session covers interoperability between IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere

MQ. It describe the integration choices available, when each should be used and provides best practice

advice for setting each up. In particular, a detailed look is taken at the ways in which IBM WebSphere MQ



resources can be accessed by Java Enterprise Edition applications running in an IBM WebSphere

Application Server, how WebSphere MQ can be used either directly or integrated with WebSphere

Application Server's service integration bus and best practice for exploiting WebSphere MQ features such

as High Availability and Connection Concurrency.

M18 WebServices and REST Support in WebSphere Message Broker


WebSphere Message Broker is a first-class Web Services provider and consumer, and this session

demonstrates how to use these capabilities effectively. The session examines in detail the web services

enhancements in the very latest release of WMB. It will cover all aspects of the WMB SOAP Nodes and

parser that turn it into a powerful Web services consumer, provider and gateway, and how the nodes

support major WS-* standards. It also covers the support for RESTful interfaces in the broker, and how it

complements the product's JSON parser, which simplifies processing of inbound and outbound JSON

and JSONP data streams.

M19 WebSphere ESB Best Practices and Performance Recommendations

Callum Jackson, WebSphere ESB Software Engineer

This talk will discuss the best practices when developing mediation modules ready for production. It will

describe recommendations for the usage of mediation primitives and bindings to increase the

performance of your solution. Fault handling considerations for production ready services will be

discussed.

M20 WebSphere ESB Introduction and usage patterns


WebSphere ESB provides a robust, scalable, and flexible infrastructure for service mediation, hosting,

visibility and control. In this session we will introduce you to the WebSphere ESB capabilities which allow

you to leverage existing service enablement, and create new services to quickly. It will guide you through

common patterns of usage such as service virtualisation, transformation, routing and aggregation.

M21 WebSphere Message Broker File Processing Options

John Reeve, Message Broker Software Developer

Organizations are frequently integrating file-based systems into an enterprise service bus (ESB) as critical

integration technologies, and WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) continues to extend its built-in support

for files. The latest release of WebSphere Message Broker adds a number of new features including a

new FileRead node that allows file processing to occur mid-flow. WMB now also contains support for

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (FTE) and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct that allow you to process

files after their transfer, or trigger transfers on the back of processed messages. These facilities

complement the existing file processing nodes which appear in the product. This session describes all the

available file processing options in WebSphere Message Broker and how to most effectively use

WebSphere Message Broker and your file transfer solution together.

M22 WebSphere Message Broker Security


WebSphere Message Broker has a wealth of features that enable you to apply a security layer to your

enterprise applications. With a new Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) node, support for WS-Trust providers

and extended security tokens such as Kerberos, SAML, LPTA and RACF, which complement its existing

security features, WebSphere Message Broker is an excellent choice for developing a secure

infrastructure. This session will discuss the range of options available in the broker for both application

and administrative security. It will also cover common security integration patterns with other IBM

products such as WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Datapower XI50 Integration Appliance.



M23 WebSphere Message Broker: Designing for Performance

John Reeve, WebSphere Message Broker Development

This session demonstrates how to design an efficient and effective WebSphere® Message Broker (WMB)

implementation from a performance perspective. It describes the many factors that determine the level of

performance achievable within a WMB environment. It also discusses some of the major improvements

related to performance in the very latest release of WebSphere Message Broker.

M24 WebSphere Message Broker: Modeling and Parsing Business Data

Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development

IT systems handle data written in a wide variety of formats, both industry standard formats and

proprietary. In order to process these formats the data has to be parsed. The process of parsing

requires the existence of a formal model describing the both the logical structure of the data and its

physical representation. The publication of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) by the Open

Grid Forum demonstrates the industry desire to model text and binary data formats using a standards-

based approach. This session explains how to model your message formats using this new standard and

how the latest version of Message Broker supports this approach.

M25 WebSphere Message Broker: Monitoring, Auditing, Repair and Replay

Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development

The latest release of WebSphere Message Broker contains extensive support for message monitoring.

This session describes how you can use the product to implement common scenarios such as audit,

business monitoring, complex event processing, message tracking, editing in-flight message payloads

and replaying messages either through the broker or direct to an application.,This session describes the

available features, and how you can integrate the solution with the rest of your application infrastructure

to allow you to track your business critical messages most effectively.

M26 WebSphere Message Broker: Selecting the Right Transformation Option

Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker Development Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message

Broker Development

WebSphere® Message Broker provides a variety of methods to perform message transformation,

including ESQL, Java, XSL, PHP and graphical mapping transformation technologies... so which is the

best one to use? This session describes the core strengths of each technology and how to get the most

from them in different scenarios. It provides the broad understanding required to know when to use each

of the different transformation options.

M27 WebSphere Messaging and Connectivity Featured Session + Panel Q & A

Gerry Reilly, Director, WebSphere Messaging and Integration

Gerry Reilly and Product strategists share their vision on technical trends and future directions for the IBM

WebSphere® Messaging and Integration products, including WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message

Broker, WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, WebSphere MQ Telemetry, WebSphere Advanced

Message Security, WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging and WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration.

This session begins with a short presentation, followed by discussion with a panel of technical leaders

who are available to answer questions.

M28 WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security: Secure End-to-End Messaging


In some scenarios, protecting MQ messages while they are in transit 'on-the-wire' is not enough. Come to

this session to learn how WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security can be used to provide end-to-



end message protection. This will allow the message contents to be secure from the point they are sent to

the point they are received, including while at rest on queues. Topics covered will include: what

WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security is, when it is appropriate to deploy this level of protection,

how the message protection is applied and how it can be administered.

M29 WebSphere MQ for z/OS Performance and Tuning

Damon Cross, Websphere MQ for z/OS Level 3

How can you get the most out of your queue managers at the lowest cost? Come along and hear about

the performance and tuning features on z/OS and how you can benefit from them. Also come and hear

about the application considerations that can help or hinder performance! During the session we will also

take a look at some of the most recent performance measurements using z196 hardware.

M30 WebSphere MQ for z/OS Shared Queues

Damon Cross, Websphere MQ for z/OS Level 3

This session explains the concepts and best practices for using shared queues on WebSphere MQ for

zOS and how this enables applications to achieve high availability and scalability. Topics discussed will

include guidelines for setting up the shared queue environment, migrating from private queues to shared

queues, ways of exploiting shared queues and identifying limitations in the shared queue environment.

M31 WebSphere MQ Security

Morag Hughson, WebSphere MQ Base Architect

More than ever before, security issues are on the top of everyone's list. Find out about the approach

taken by WebSphere MQ products for controlling user access to MQ resources and recommendations for

how the products security features should be applied.

M32 WebSphere MQ: Deep Dive on High Availability

Andrew Schofield, Senior Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ

BM WebSphere MQ can be made highly available using features of the product or operating system. This

session will introduce and compare these features, focusing on the distributed platforms and show how

they can be effectively used together for extremely reliable environments. We will also briefly discuss the

high availability features of WebSphere Message Broker, and provide advice on adding your own

applications to an HA configuration.

M33 WebSphere MQ: Deep Dive on Publish/Subscribe


IBM WebSphere® MQ Version 7 extended the MQ Application Programming Interface (API) to allow

application programmers to use the publish/subscribe application model with ease. This session starts by

describing the key concepts behind publish/subscribe messaging and how it can be used with

WebSphere MQ, including the changes to the API and administrative changes before covering more

advanced topics such as; topic tree administration control, clustered topics, no code change

Publish/Subscribe and application monitoring.

M34 WebSphere MQ: The Latest in Web Support and SOA


The first-class integration of enterprise applications with the web and SOA architectures is becoming an

essential requirement in modern messaging systems. Come to this session to hear about the latest

capabilities in IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) which help it to support these architectures. This will include

taking a look at the latest WebSockets tech preview and REST interfaces for providing direct access to



messaging from rich internet applications and mobile devices, increased qualities of service as a web

service transport (SOAP over JMS), and the management of messaging applications as services in an

SOA environment using WSDL and URI.

M35 WebSphere MQ: Deep Dive on Disaster Recovery

Andrew Schofield, Senior Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ

This session discusses how to build, test and manage your MQ infrastructure so that you can be up and

running quickly in the event of a disaster. It is a partner to, and builds on, the session on High Availability.

Topics will include managing configurations, storage, MQ clusters and networks; and will look at a range

of qualities of service that can be achieved using different techniques.

M36 What's new in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus


This session provides a detailed technical description of the new and improved features in the latest

releases of IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. Recent versions have enhanced several areas

including integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (Mediation Policy to dynamically

configure the mediation flow based on configuration, and Service Level Agreements within the

Governance Enablement Profile), error handling (using store and forward, error flows and failed event

manager), improved patterns support and mediation primitive enhancements.

M37 What's New In WebSphere Message Broker


Come and find out about the very latest release of WebSphere® Message Broker! WMB plays a critical

role in service oriented architecture, and this session details the latest announcements. This session also

introduces the different WMB topics being covered this week, so use this session to help plan your WMB

education.

M38 What's New in WebSphere MQ


Come to this session to hear all about the latest enhancements to the WebSphere MQ product family.

This will start with a brief summary of the previous releases and roadmap, before focusing on the latest

functions and interfaces made available in WebSphere MQ version 7.0.1 and beyond. Several other

sessions this week include details of the enhanced capabilities; but this session gives an overview of all

the new features.

M39 The WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Integration Solution at City of Zurich

Dirk Budke, IBM BPM Consultant Dimitar Boskov, Integration Architect

This session presents an enterprise service bus integration solution implemented at the City of Zurich

(OIZ) based on WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. It discusses how the ESB has evolved from an

integration tool primarily used for developing a property management application to an enterprise-wide

platform that provides mission critical services to multiple departments in Zurich. The session covers the

various technologies and adapters used and describes the systems and applications that have been

integrated. The current SOA architecture and the migrated and extended WESB 7.0 runtime topology will

be discussed. We provide best-practices and lessons-learned from a customer point of view for building

integration solutions and share our experience in service design, service versioning and service

development techniques.

ML1 DataPower SOA Appliance Hands-On Lab

Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist



This newly redesigned hands-on lab will provide a series of exercises used to configure DataPower

services to handle XML documents and proxy Web Services. In the first section, students will create a

simple loopback XML Firewall service that proxies XML requests. They will then create a Multi-Protocol

gateway service to do an XML transformation on the input document, and create a dynamic routing policy

based on the actual SOAP message content. The Web Service Proxy lab illustrates the highly optimized

proxy for Web services communications, and offers easy configuration using a WSDL and multi-step

policies, along with service-level monitoring, filtering, security, custom error handling, and WSDL

handling.

ML2 Hands-on Lab: WebSphere MQ Security (Distributed Platforms)


Put your MQ security skills to the test! In this hands-on lab, you will build and secure queue managers

from scratch. This will include securing channel connectivity, application access to MQ resources, and

administrative and read-only access for WebSphere MQ Explorer.

ML3 WebSphere Message Broker: Hands-on Lab

John Reeve, Message Broker Software Developer Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker

Development

This hands-on lab will allow you to try out the very latest version of WebSphere Message Broker.

Depending on your experience and interests, you can discover how to get started with a simple message

flow, or you can work through more involved examples including how to work with Web Services, how to

process files, how to connect to Enterprise Information Systems, or how to author your own patterns. To

help you get the most out of this session, you will be assisted by several members of the WMB

Development Team who will guide you through the lab and answer questions. If you are new to WMB or

an expert, there will be something for you in this lab. Come along and get up to speed with the latest and

greatest version of WMB.

ML4 WebSphere MQ: Hands-on Lab


IBM WebSphere® MQ (WMQ) product family is all about anywhere to anywhere integration, from the

simplest pair of applications requiring basic connectivity and data exchange to the most complex

business process management environments. This lab provides a hands-on introduction to some of the

key API and capabilities provided by WMQ portfolio. The step-by-step instructions lead you through

several separate scenarios which you can choose between, with each including the required configuration

and setup steps, sample code modifications and final execution. Available topics include: WebSphere MQ

(API and basic messaging), WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, WebSphere MQ Telemetry and

WebSphere MQ Advanced Security Edition. No prior knowledge of WMQ is assumed but some familiarity

of basic programming concepts would be an advantage. Note: WebSphere MQ security concepts are

covered in a separate lab.

ML5 Accelerate Your SOA Success with WebSphere ESB Registry Edition

Andrew Humphreys, WebSphere Client Technical Professional - Consulting IT Specialist Ronnie Mitra,

Worldwide WebSphere Connectivity Client Technical Professional

This hands-on lab will show you how WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Registry Edition can provide a

dynamic ESB solution for enforcing service level agreements and mediation policies. This solution could

lead to increased business agility, while also allowing for better capacity planning for service

consumption.



Application and Cloud Infrastructure

This track will demonstrate the skills that will enable you to build, deploy and manage applications for

your business needs with IBM WebSphere application infrastructure, while optimizing your IT resources

and reducing costs. Sessions will cover the WebSphere Application Foundation, anchored by WebSphere

Application Server and its feature packs. Sessions in this track will examine how to manage, secure, and

tune WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise for optimal performance and high

availability. Attendees will learn how to further boost application scalability using WebSphere eXtreme

Scale or the WebSphere Datapower XC10 appliance for elastic caching.

The track will educate architects and administrators on how to build private clouds using WebSphere

cloud technologies. Attendees will learn how to create, deploy and manage WebSphere middleware and

application environments in an on-premise private cloud using the IBM Workload Deployer product.

Sessions will examine best practices for building out development, test or production environments

quickly, repeatedly and consistently.

W01 An Introduction to Cast Iron

Larry Yusuf, Chief Architect, WebSphere Cast Iron Chris Bygrave, Cast Iron Development

WebSphere Cast Iron allows easy integration between your SaaS and on premise applications. This

session will take you through the concepts of how Cast Iron works, the different form factors available and

where they may be best applied, before then giving you hands on experience of creating your own

orchestration.

W02 Best Practices WAS ND for a Mission Critical Solution

Thomas Schicketanz, Technical Solution Manager Daniel Froehlich, Senior IT Architect, IBM Software

Services for WebSphere

A Telekom company uses WebSphere Application Server V6.1 as middleware to provision the flag ship

triple play product for customers. This application is one of the top 20 most mission critical applications

with high volume and high availability requirements. The presentation describes the requirements and

shows how to implement them using WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.1 on the

Power Platform. Advanced concepts like Zoning and Staging will be described based on the actual

WebSphere Topology used for the production systems. Best practices for such environments will be

explained.

W03 Building High Performance, High Scale Systems with WebSphere eXtreme Scale

Snehal Antani, IBM Private Cloud Strategy & Product Management Lead

Next-generation IT systems will be highly virtualized and very elastic, where workloads run on shared

resources, and are auto-scaled to meet demands. Bad applications will run even worse in these types of

systems, moreover, poorly designed applications won't be able to leverage the inherent qualities of

service these next-gen systems offer. This session will provide a technical overview of WebSphere

eXtreme Scale, and provide customer experiences and design guidance for building applications that run

well within these systems.

W04 Caching with WebSphere products (WAS, eXtreme Scale, Datapower XC10)

Holger Povel, IT Specialist, WebSphere Application Server

In distributed environments caching is an important mean to control the load and to meet the performance

requirements of a system. ,The first part of this session gives an overview of different caching scenarios

and describes a mean how to estimate the enhancement to be expected by introducing one or more

caches. ,In the second part the usage of Dynacache (WebSphere Application Server), WebSphere

eXtreme Scale and Datapower XC10 are presented and the differences between the different caching

implementations are described.



W05 Cloud Integration Trends and Future Directions

Rishi Vaish, Senior Technical Staff Member, WebSphere Cast Iron Larry Yusuf, Chief Architect,

WebSphere Cast Iron

IBM Cast Iron is an integration appliance, both physical and virtual, as well as a cloud integration service.

This session will provide an overview of the Cast Iron offerings, and give an insight into the future

direction for Cast Iron.

W06 Delivering Cloud Capabilities with Cast Iron Cloud

Manoj Chaudhary, Director of Engineering and Chief Architect, CastIron Systems Clara Liang, Program

Director, Cast Iron Engineering

The market and opportunities for Cloud service providers and application vendors to offer clients

integration capabilities within their portfolio is growing. Using the Cast Iron Secure Connector, you can

seamlessly integrate your IT systems with those of your customers. The solution and solution

considerations from partnering with Cast Iron ensures that Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and vendors will

be able to deliver integration capabilities effectively and efficiently.

W07 Designing Batch Processing Systems

Snehal Antani, IBM Private Cloud Strategy & Product Management Lead

Batch processing is a fundamental computing paradigm within enterprise application infrastructures.

Batch applications are responsible for end of day/week/month/quarter processing, report generation, and

other data-intensive processing tasks. This session will discuss the characteristics and challenges of

designing batch processing systems, and provide customer experiences, application & system design

best practices.

W08 Doing more with less: WebSphere DataPower Development Best Practices

Manuel Rohmann, L1 Certified IT-Specialist - Software Services for WebSphere Rene' Kiessling,

WebSphere Technical Professional, Business Integration and DataPower SOA Appliances

There isn't just one way of doing it. Have you asked yourself what service to choose in WebSphere

DataPower for your use case? How do I implement my policies in a flexible and dynamic way? What is

really possible when using WebSphere DataPower extension functions in XSLT Stylesheets? This

session gives answers to these questions. It provides guidance for solving common use cases and

problem areas with WebSphere DataPower Appliances.,This session focuses on giving advice about the

usage of specific design patterns and best practices for service and policy configuration. There will be

also a comprehensive collection of tips and tricks using XSLT stylesheets in order to maxout the potential

of WebSphere DataPower Appliances.

W09 Hybrid Cloud Integration

Chris Markes, Cast Iron Development Holger Reinhardt, Release Architect Hybrid Cloud Integration -

Cast Iron

Hybrid Cloud Integration (HCI) combines leading application integration, infrastructure management, and

IT,governance in a secure way to simplify, enable, and control the use of cloud resources. In this session,

,we show how HCI addresses scenarios involving provisioning, directory synchronization, monitoring and

,governance across private and public cloud environments.

W10 IBM Private Cloud Strategy & Vision

Snehal S. Antani, IBM Private Cloud Strategy & Product Management Lead

Private cloud computing enables enterprise customers to offer cloud-based services to their lines of

business. These services range from compute resources, to middleware capabilities, to application

services that may even be running off-premisis. This session will discuss IBM's private cloud strategy &



vision, which covers infrastructure & platform as a Service, hybrid cloud capabilities, workload optimized

systems, and is grounded on customer experiences gained over the last several years.

W11 IBM Service Management Pack for Hybrid Cloud (HCI)

Holger Reinhardt, Release Architect Hybrid Cloud Integration - Cast Iron

Hybrid cloud management capabilities are a key enabler of the near and long term cloud delivery models.

As the software market continues to progress in its adoption of cloud delivery models, there is an

increasing need to provide solutions that address the challenge of resources sourced both inside and

outside customer’s physical control. Outside a customer’s physical control - “off-premise”- presents a

new management challenge as our solutions will be called upon to maintain a uniform management

standard for automation, governance, monitoring, and security. The session will introduce the IBM

Service Management Pack for Hybrid Cloud (HCI). The IBM Service Management Pack for Hybrid Cloud

enables the IBM Cast Iron Cloud Integration appliance to extend beyond enterprise data integration into

service management integration, thereby allowing customers to augment their on-premise data center

with computing resources from public clouds like IBM's Smart Business Cloud and Amazon's EC2.

W12 IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance: Introduction and Overview

Holger Povel, IT Specialist, WebSphere Application Server

This presentation will provide an introduction to the WebSphere DataPower XC10 caching appliance. The

three supported use cases, HTTP Session, WebSphere dynamic cache service and simple grid, will be

covered in detail. Attendees will also learn about the scalability, availability and performance

characteristics of the XC10.

W13 Inside IBM Java 7

Toby Corbin, Java Tools Developer

Java 7 is coming really soon, delivering significant new features in function, performance and usability.

Highlights include a new framework for scalable I/O, language syntax improvements, and powerful new

concurrency constructs. As with each release, we will also show the IBM-specific JVM enhancements

we've been working on. Come to the session and see new Java features in action, complete with time-

saving examples and patterns to apply.

W14 Installing WAS 8 with IBM Installation Manager

Pete Neergaard, WebSphere Education - Course Developer/Instructor

IBM Installation Manager (IIM) is a major change for WAS 8. This tool replaces what was previously used

to not just do initial installs, but also modification and updates. It can also be used by the Centralized

Installation Manager (CIM) and the Job Manager to do remote installs and apply fixes across your

network. It also uses the concept of repositories for you installation binaries. These repositories can exist

on your local machine or on the network where they can be shared by all the machines in your network.

W15 Legacy to Virtual Enterprise

Rune Hellem, System Specialist Middleware Geir Sjurseth, Senior System Architect

Come and learn how Telenor with help from Ascendant Technology leveraged RAFW (Rational

Automation Framework for WebSphere) to migrate their legacy WAS 5.1 system to WVE 6.1 (on WAS

7.0). In this session we will discuss the dynamic configuration needs that Telenor had and how a solution

was realized leveraging RAFW. Complete audit trails of all changes, moving from static to dynamic

clusters, WXS implementation (WebSphere Extreme Scale) and SCCM (Software Configuration Change

Management) of the whole configuration will all be covered in this session.

W16 Leveraging transactions management with WAS on z/OS

Yann Kindelberger, Senior IT Architect - Design Center Alain Roessle, IT Specialist



One of the principal benefits of using Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) is its support for enterprise-wide

services like transaction management and security control. Much of the work surrounding the design and

development of enterprise applications involves decisions about how to coordinate the flow of persistent

data. The Java Persistence API (JPA) provides a mechanism for managing persistence and object-

relational mapping and functions for the EJB 3.0.,This session will present an overview of JPA and will

explain how support for transactions is provided within WAS. Then, we will cover the specificity of WAS

on z/OS regarding its capabilities to optimize transaction management by highlighting the role of RRS in

two-phase commit processing.

W17 Managing your Composite Technology Environment

Leigh Williamson, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Software CTO Team

It is unheard of for a production environment to consist of a single technology. With the norm being

solutions based on numerous technology components (either from the same, or disparate vendors)

maintaining consistency throughout the delivery lifecycle requires significant effort. Managing the

stakeholders alone can be a headache. IBM, in partnership with MidVision, have ways to manage this

situation utilizing cutting edge automation frameworks based on reusing proven patterns. Now, ensuring

your test environment is an accurate representation of the intended production environment (and

ensuring the reverse is true when going live) becomes a simple matter. Even the stakeholders can get

involved! Further exploitation is also possible, and the model will be extended to scaling environments

through cloning, irrespective of whether the infrastructure is in-house, or in the Cloud.

W18 Overview & What's New in the Rational Automation Framework?

David Brauneis, STSM, Rational Middleware Automation Chief Architect (RAFW)

Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere (RAFW) continues to expand on its automation mission

for WebSphere. With the new addition to the portfolio of supported middleware, RAFW is now the industry

leader with broadest and deepest support for automation of WebSphere administration, deployment and

build-out operations. Come to this session to learn these and other exciting new developments in RAFW,

and how these can help you address your critical business needs in a variety of scenarios.

W19 Running Your Business Application With WebSphere and Tivoli

Allison Kingberg, Program Director, Tivoli SAPM Portfolio Todd Kindsfather, Product Manager, ITCAM

for Application Diagnostics

Customers must deal with the growing complexity of their dynamic business environments as the rapid

pace of change increases. Websphere solutions help clients achieve business agility in this increasingly

complex environment by enabling integration, interaction, and business execution across heterogeneous

platforms with a layered approach. Tivoli monitoring and management solutions enhance the operational

efficiency, security, and control that our customers agile business environments require. This session will

provide an overview of how WebSphere and Tivoli are working together to deliver these capabilities.

W20 Scripting with wsadmin: Hints & Tips in WebSphere Environment (WAS/WPS V7)

Joachim Schulze, WebSphere BPM L2 Support, EMEA

Inside WebSphere Application Server V7/8 and also WebSphere Process Server V7 there are a lot of

wsadmin functions to manage and control the environment.,In this session you will get a deeper into to

some features with a lot of Jython samples and real life experience.

- wsadmin and list syntax and wildcards

- wsadmin and java configuration and troubleshooting

- wsadmin and sone hints on process server

- wsadmin and JConsole

- and more.



W21 Service Integration Bus in WAS 7.0/8.0

Oliver Rebmann, Senior IT Specialist Franz-Josef Schneider, Senior IT Specialist

This presentation will provide a technical deep?dive for the Service Integration (SIBus), which is the

Default JMS Provider and used by a number of BPM stack products (WPS, ESB). We will also highlight

specific WAS 7.0 and WAS 8.0 features of the SIBus. A main part of the presentation will talk about new

functions and best?practices for performant, high?available and secure messaging with the SIBus.

W22 The Reality of Implementing SSO on an SOA Bus


You are implementing SOA, have deployed an ESB or gateway, and have exposed your applications as

web services. Is it properly fulfilling the security function? What do you need to know to securely

interconnect your web services consumers and providers via the ESB and/or Gateway? What are your

web services SSO options? When should you use (and perhaps more importantly, should you not use) a

Kerberos-based solution? LTPA? SAML? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each solution?

In this presentation, we will explore the various SSO options available with WebSphere Application

Server-based products, including WebSphere ESB, and DataPower appliances.

W23 Using IBM tools to improve Java application performance


This session provides an overview and demo of a suite of tools available to diagnose Java application

performance and run-time problems. The tools cover, amongst others, such areas as live application

monitoring, detecting memory leaks, method profiling, garbage collection tuning and heap analysis. We

will show you how the tools can highlight performance problems during the development cycle and then

also be used once an application goes live to ensure its continued efficiency.,What will your audience

walk away with?,1. Understand how to use Health Center for live, low overhead, application monitoring,2.

How to identify heap usage by interrogating Java objects using Memory Analyzer,3. Visualise, understand

and tune your Garbage Collection behaviour with GCMV

W24 Using IBM WebSphere® Application Server as Transaction Manager

Oliver Rebmann, Senior IT Specialist

This presentation will give a detailed overview of WebSphere Application Servers functionality as

Transaction Manager. Starting with some transaction theory (ACID and 2PC/XA-protocol) it will then

move on to show where and how WebSphere picks up and implements these concepts. The session will

cover development as well as administrative and operational aspects you will face when using

WebSphere Application Server as Transaction Manager. It will furthermore show you some typical

caveats when it comes down to using JMS and JDBC in an XA transacted way.

W25 WAS 8 - new administrative functions


This session discusses some of the new administrative functions in WAS 8. It will discuss the use of the

Monitored directory, also know as Drag and Drop Deploy, to deploy applications by simply dragging them

into a folder on the file system. Further more, it will discuss the use of property file based configurations

and how they can be used with the monitored directory. Finally, this sesion will talk about the new -

asExistingNode option for the addNode script. This feature helps with recovering or moving WAS 8

nodes.

W27 WebSphere Security: Core Concepts




This session provides an overview of the key background material related to understanding and properly

architecting secure solutions. Concepts include trust, least trust, authentication, authorization,

cryptography, PKI, SSL, delegation, and more. We will spend significant time focusing on certificates and

SSL as you must understand both well in order to secure WebSphere Application Server.

W28 WebSphere Security: Infrastructure Hardening


When deploying WebSphere Application Server (WAS), there are a number of security related activities

that must be undertaken in order to create a truly secure WAS environment. While WAS V6.1 and later

are reasonably secure by default in common situations, there are still quite a number of potential

configuration steps that may be appropriate for highly secure environments. This presentation outlines the

weaknesses in a default configuration and lists the specific actions that an administrator should take to

create a hardened security environment. This presentation will cover topics such as: protecting the admin

infrastructure, protecting cookies, securing the various WAS communication channels, using a DMZ, 3rd-

party security integration, as well as other issues.

W29 What's New in WebSphere Application Server V8

Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect

Learn how WebSphere Application Server V8 will help drive down total cost of ownership while increasing

IT's ability to respond to business needs faster. This session will cover new and improved features in

WebSphere Application Server V8, with a particular focus on broad programming model support, a fast,

flexible and simplified application foundation, extensive deployment environments including virtualization

and clouds, and integrated tooling.

W30 Deep dive on Application Workoads and with Demostration

Timothy Vanderham, Program Director, WebSphere Development - Cloud Initiatives and Virtual

Enterprise Steve Ims, STSM, WebSphere Cloud Initiatives

TBD

W30 Virtualized deployments with IWD and IMP

Steve Ims, STSM, WebSphere Cloud Initiatives Timothy Vanderham, Program Director, WebSphere

Development - Cloud Initiatives and Virtual Enterprise

TBD

W31 IWD overview and update for Virtual Systems and Virtual Applications

Timothy Vanderham, Program Director, WebSphere Development - Cloud Initiatives and Virtual

Enterprise Steve Ims, STSM, WebSphere Cloud Initiatives

TBD

W32 Bridging the Gap between Development and Operations with IBM Middleware

Coert Baart, CEO, Xebialabs

With WAS 8 and IBM¹s middleware stack, developers have cutting-edge technology with enterprise

performance at their fingertips, with all the advanced management, monitoring and scalability options

required by Operations. All set? No. Across all industries, companies and leading analysts are realising

that rapid, reliable and cost-effective service delivery that is aligned with the business requires more than

powerful middleware and,development platforms: Release Automation is now the ³missing link that



seamlessly integrates Dev and Ops and critically accelerates time-to-market., ,In this session, we will

demonstrate how industry-leading Release Automation combines with IBM¹s middleware stack to deliver

a true continuous deployment chain. We will present the game-changing benefits of Release Automation

on the basis of a number of customer cases, and will also showcase our integration with next-generation

products such Workload Deployer.

WL1 Lab : Business Integration with WebSphere Cast Iron Express and Studio

Chris Bygrave, WebSphere Cast Iron development Manoj Chaudhary, Director of Engineering and Chief

Architect, CastIron Systems

Get some hands-on time with WebSphere Cast Iron. This is a product for quickly integrating your on-

premise applications with off-premise cloud, Software as a Service applications. In this session you will

work through a realistic example enabling real-time synchronisation of customer and sales data between

an on-premise database with an off-premise SaaS application. No Previous experience required.

WL2 Troubleshooting Masterclass with Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java


Troubleshooting issues such as OutOfMemoryErrors, Performance problems and various exceptions are

a common task for anyone developing or deploying an application. This lab will give you a chance to get

hands-on with the IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java, and to use them under the guidance of

some of the experts from the IBM team to learn to diagnose these common problems types.,What will

your audience walk away with?,1. Hands-on experience of using IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for

Java for troubleshooting Java applications,2. Expert Hints and Tips on diagnosing common problems,3.

Information on how the Tools can help speed up application development and deployment.

WL3 WAS 8 - new administrative functions


This lab session explores some of the new administrative functions in WAS 8. It uses the Monitored

directory, also know as Drag and Drop Deploy, to deploy applications by simply dragging them into a

folder on the file system. Further more, it uses property file based configurations with the monitored

directory to deploy application while also customizing their configuration. Finally, lab session explores the

new -asExistingNode option for the addNode script. This feature helps with recovering or moving WAS 8

nodes.

WL4 WebSphere Security Labs - a collection of labs


This lab session will allow the attendee to the work through a number of different WebSphere Application

Server security labs. This will have a pick-and-choose approach and the labs can be done in any order.

The collection of labs include: ,- Configuring Federated Repositories (File based plus LDAP with SSL),-

Working with security domains,- Configuring fine grained access,- SSL configuration within WebSphere

Application Server,- Configuring SSL to database via JDBC,- Configuring a cross cell trusted

relationship,- Security Hardening

Smarter Commerce

This track Smarter Commerce increases the value that companies generate for their customers and

partners in a rapidly changing digital world. Learn how Smarter Commerce portfolio solutions can help

transform every phase of your commerce cycle, from buying to marketing to selling and service with the

customer at the center of your business.

S01 Better Together: Smarter Work with IBM BPM, Case and Content Management



Sabine Otto, IBM Sales & Distribution, Software Sales TECH SPECIALISTS, ECM PORTFOLIO Client

Technical Specialist : IS&S.ECM.Process

Reaping the greatest benefit from BPM frequently involves leveraging multiple disciplines, including

process automation, content management and case management. Integration between IBM BPM and

FileNet Content Manager enriches IBM BPM processes with key business documents and content

facilitating faster, better and more informed decisions. IBM Case Manager provides flexibility in building

case management solutions and integration with IBM BPM adds sophisticated process choreography.

Join this session about how to leverage IBM BPM, advanced case management capabilities from IBM

Case Manager and content management capabilities from FileNet Content Manager as a smarter way to

handle the full breadth of process, case and content requirements.

S02 Fundamentals of IBM Coremetrics Analytics

Meetal Patel, IBM Software Group, Enterprise Marketing Management, Sr. Technical Training Specialist

This course provides an overview of the Coremetrics platform, a high-level view of Coremetrics tagging

and terminology, and an introduction to the core reports and capabilities available with IBM Coremetrics

Analytics.

S03 IBM Case Manager and WebSphere Touch Points

Sabine Otto, IBM Sales & Distribution, Software Sales TECH SPECIALISTS, ECM PORTFOLIO Client

Technical Specialist : IS&S.ECM.Process (ACM)

IBM Case Manager combines process, content, analytics, business rules, and people (through

collaboration and interaction) to optimize case outcomes. The IBM Case Manager offering is a bundle of

IBM products from different brands and has more than one touch point with the WebSphere world. This

presentation gives an overview of integrated/used WebSphere products including WebSphere Application

Server, IBM BPM, WebSphere Business Space and iLog Rules Engine, and demonstrates how these

integrations really work. This session is the perfect addendum to the session "Better Together: Smarter

Work with IBM BPM, Case Management and Content Management."

S04 Introduction to IBM Coremetrics Explore


This course will introduce participants to the key functionality available to create, review and analyze

reports in IBM Coremetrics Explore. Participants will also learn how to take advantage of the standard

best practice and dashboard reports included in the application.

S05 Overview of the Unica Platform

Janis Fleishman, IBM Software Group, Industry Solutions Development, Technical Instructor and Course

Developer

The Unica Marketing Platform is the foundation component of the entire Unica suite. This course

provides an overview of the IBM Unica Marketing Platform describing how the platform centralizes key

functionality common across IBM Unica’s product line. Participants focus on the ease of installation,

integration, deployment configuration, and administration across the Unica suite.

S06 Technical Overview of IBM Unica Campaign


Developer

This course provides a technical overview of IBM Unica Campaign, including a high-level view of the

installation steps, preparation of the data sources, creation of the IBM Unica Campaign system tables,

guidelines for deployment and post-deployment, and the administration functions.



S07 Technical Overview of IBM Unica Marketing Operations


Developer

This course provides a technical overview of IBM Unica Marketing Operations, including a high-level view

of installation steps, preparation of the data sources, creation of the IBM Unica Marketing Operations

system tables based on your company policy, guidelines for deployment and post deployment, and the

administration functions.

S08 Triggering BPM Events from Production Document Imaging Capture

Michael Vahland, IBM Sales & Distribution, Software Sales IT Specialist Enterprise Content Management,

Leading Technical Sales Professional, SME for Datacap Client Technical Specialist

This session will demonstrate how IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture can automate the processing of

scanned images and other electronic documents in conjunction with Business Process Management

systems. The session will show how a high volume of documents can be scanned, data extracted from

the documents, documents stored in an ECM system, and triggering or notifying a BPM process with the

documents and extracted data. This solution is used to process transactions in paper or document format

like loan applications, account opening forms, tax forms, insurance claims, invoices, and many other

types of transactions.

S09 Utilizing IBM Intelligent Offer


This course provides a technical overview of the steps involved in the offer deployment process as well

as offer creation, A/B Testing, practical guidance for recommendation rules, and how to measure results

in key reports.

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