ims updates - sandy sherrill - nyc and toronto february 2014

© 2014 IBM Corporation

IMS Regional User GroupsNew York City and Toronto

February, 2014

Sandy Sherrill

IMS Worldwide Market Manager

IMS RUG Advocate

IBM Silicon Valley Lab


Today’s Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions - Sandy

• IMS Database: Futures Update: Kyle Charlet, IMS Senior Technical Staff

Member

• Standard Access to IMS Data Assets from COBOL Using SQL: Haley Fung, IMS

Development

• Lunch!

• Java + z + IMS: Marcel Mitran, IBM Canada

• IMS and Tools – Not Just NextGen! – Janet LeBlanc, IBM IMS Tools Strategist

• Close Meeting / Steering Committee

• SURVEY LINK! bit.ly/IMSUG2014


Notice to Employees and Representatives from GOE Entities

• At this IBM function, IBM is providing breakfast and lunch meals and/or

promotional items and considers this a normal business courtesy. U.S. Federal

government regulations and some state or local government agencies do not

permit their employees to accept food or refreshments from contractors

doing business with them.

• IBM provides this notice to assist you in ensuring that your acceptance of the

amenities is in compliance with your employer’s internal policies. If your

receipt of the amenities during your attendance and participation in the event

presents an issue, please advise IBM, and plan for alternate meal options.

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IBM IMS

100,000 reasons to move to IMS 13

Still delivering the highest levels of performance, availability

security, and scalability in the industry.

#IBM_IMS

IMS 13: Record-setting benchmark

IMS 13 achieves

117,292

transactions

per second


IMS Onstage @ IOD 2013! November, Las Vegas

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Upcoming Conferences (1H14) featuring IMS

IBM Impact

April 27 – May 1

Las Vegas, NV

Share Anaheim

March 9 - 14

Anaheim, CA

IMS Symposium EMEA

March 17 – 20

Wiesbaden, Germany

IBM Innovate

June 1 - 5

Orlando, FL

Central Canadian

DB2 User Group

June 2 - 3

Markham, Ontario


IMS 13 Migration Workshop!

– February 3,4 Dallas, TX

– February 6,7 Phoenix, AZ

– February 20,21 Charlotte, NC

– February 25,26 Philadelphia, PA

– March 19,20 Hartford, CT

– March 24,25 Southfield, MI (Detroit)

– March 27,28 Columbus, OH

– March 31,1 Victoria, British Columbia

– April 3,4 Seattle, WA

– April 8,9 Bloomington, IL

– May 8,9 Toronto, Ontario

– May 12,13 New York City

– June 3,4 Glendale, CA

– July Virtual Event

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IBM System z Technology Summit

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IMS Database Value Unit Edition

• For both IMS 13 and IMS 12

• The same high-speed, highly available IMS data server at a

one-time charge (OTC) price

• Provides competitive advantage to IMS data sharing clients requiring additional

cost-effective access to IMS data for net new workload.

• Expressly for net new applications or workloads in Java or SQL only, through IMS

Open Database, from applications on WebSphere Application Server on z/OS

• Adds new customized capabilities addressing business growth based on key

business initiatives including services-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise and

mobile access strategy, and operational business intelligence (BI).

• Leverages the unique industry-leading performance and

workload management capabilities of IMS.

• ibm.com/software/data/ims/imsdbvue/index.html

Value

Unit

EditionJoins CICS VUE and DB2 VUE


New Monthly License Charge (MLC) Pricing StrategyIMS 13, 12 & 11 all cost the sameDB2 9, 10 and 11 all cost the same

• Simpler model

– Prices equalized across all versions of MLC middleware

• Why?

– Helps you plan better for migrations

– Provide consistency of price changes over time

• When?

– 3Q13/4Q13 announcements

• Includes IMS, DB2, and COBOL

• CICS was previously equalized

• Effective January 2014 (April 1 in Japan)

EXTERNAL ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER 313-070 8.27.13

© 2014 IBM Corporation11

IMS Business Value Assessment Workshop

Help clients identify ways to get

more out of their IMS investment.

• A proactive assessment

• Provides tactical and strategic

recommendations to:

– Increase benefits

– Lower costs

– Improve processing

efficiencies for IMS

applications

IBM or BP Services for

Deployment

Supported by

Subject Matter

Experts from

Development

Lab

Joint Proof Of Concept Client Implementation

IMS Value Assessment?

Project Kickoff Call

Data Consolidation and

Technical Assessment

Generate Recommendations and

develop workshop materials

Deliver Recommendations

Proposal for next steps.

IBM Client team follow-up

Discovery Workshop

Contact Laura Hunsinger, [email protected], for details


IMS Customer Advisory Council

• Monthly e-Meetings

• NA Participants: Third Tuesday

• EMEA & South America Participants: Third Thursday

• Face-to-face Meetings

• Information On Demand (IOD) Conference

• EMEA Participants: IMS Symposium, in Weisbaden Germany, March 10th

thru 14th

Interested in joining?Contact: Laura Hunsinger at [email protected]


““““…every subject was successfully covered by the most

appropriate expert. While I was there at SVL, the program was

flexible enough so we could address certain topics which I

personally identified, that would benefit me at my home

location...””””

• Reserve your spot now to work with our team at Silicon

Valley Lab in San Jose, California starting February 17th

• Sessions include: Installation, HALDB features, IMS OTMA

and Connect, application topics, and MORE!

• Should have at least 2-3 years of IMS experience

• Contact Tori Gonzalez for more information:

[email protected]

IMS Customer Internship Program – 2014

““““…a unique experience, where I was given the

opportunity to meet with the IMS developers and

testers at the IBM Lab, and work side by side with

them… It's incredible to meet people whose work is

known worldwide.””””


IMS ISV Community


New IMS and Rational Compilers Podcast• IMS Development partners with Rational to bring you up-to-date on the latest

enhancements in COBOL compilers

• Convenient podcast format

• Let us know if you’d like to see more of these!

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IBM Knowledge Center� One-stop shop - IBM Knowledge Center is

your destination on ibm.com for all IBM

technical information and resources. It

replaces multiple sources of information

across IBM products.

� Initially... Knowledge Center combines all of

our existing information centers (IMS and

others) into a single web site that provides an

improved, filterable search capability and a

brand-new user experience.

� Over time… IBM Knowledge Center will be

the basis for a fusion of a wide variety of

sources including information centers, wikis,

developerWorks, Support, Redbooks,

PartnerWorld, and more.

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Have questions? Interested in early testing?Contact David Hanson from the IMS Information Development team: [email protected]


IMS Best Practices

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bit.ly/IMSBestPractices


IMS Social Community!

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IMS Redbooks – there’s an App for that!

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Now available for both iOS and Android devices

Get it now!


Are you getting the most from your IMS investment?

IMS is the GOLD Standard

for:

Availability

Performance

Dependability IMS makes modernizing

easy and affordable

Support for IMS 11 ends

on October 30, 2014

We Can Help!•Version-to-Version Migrations

•Health Checks

•SOA Pilots

•Capacity Planning

•Shared Queues, Data Sharing, Sysplex

•….and much more!

Contact

[email protected]

Visit us @

ibm.co/QQn7WW


IMS Regional User Group Locations – North America

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• Seattle, WA

• San Ramon, CA

• Phoenix, AZ

• Dallas, TX

• Omaha, NE

• Minneapolis, MN

• Bloomington/Springfield, IL

• Detroit, MI

• Columbus, OH

• Philadelphia, PA

• Toronto, Canada

• Charlotte, NC

• Boston, MA

• Hartford, CT

• NYC, NY

• Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Victoria, BC

• Southern CA

• Jacksonville, FL

• Washington, DC

• Pittsburg, PA

Note: e-Meetings are open to everyone.

Check for upcoming meetings here:

ibm.co/IMS_RUGs

Physical RUGs e-Meeting RUG


Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific

Regional User Group Locations – Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe

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• Sao Paulo, Brazil • Oslo, Norway• Helsinki, Finland• Stockholm, Sweden

• Tokyo, Japan• Singapore• Melbourne, Australia• Sydney, Australia Check for upcoming meetings

here: ibm.co/IMS_RUGs


Questions?

SURVEY LINK: bit.ly/IMSUG2014

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