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SHARE CICS Project Opening

and Keynote

Steve Ware, UF, Dave Andrews, IBM Session 1324, SHARE 113August 24, 2009 (Mon.), 11:30amColorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 705

http://nersp.cns.ufl.edu/~sfware/share113/s1324sfw.pdf (Updated: 08-06-2009)

Session 1324, SHARE 113, Denver, CO, Steve Ware, UF. 2

Abstract

If you want the inside information on what is happening this week in the CICS Project, this is the session for you. During the first part of the session, the CICS Project Manager will give a brief description of the project and its organization. The schedule for the week will be discussed and other items of interest highlighted. Please join us in kicking off another information-packed week at SHARE.

During the last part of this session, Dave Andrews, the IBM CICS Development Director from the Hursley Laboratory, will deliver the CICS keynote. There's lots of excitement around CICS this year, so this should be a session on your MUST ATTEND list!


Steve's Disclaimer

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Steve's Agenda/Topics

• Introduction

• SHARE Session Administrivia

• About the SHARE CICS Project

• CICS Celebrations

• Q-Box, Prizes and Giveaways, CICS Grid, Surveys, SCIDS

• SHARE CICS Project Top 5 Survey

• CICS Sessions Notes

• Future SHARE Conferences

• CICS Keynote - Dave Andrews, IBM


Introduction

Welcome to SHARE 113 in Denver, CO, "The Mile High City".

The CICS Project is chartered to provide an exchange forum for users of the IBM CICS family of products and their ancillary services. The goals of this project include providing the membership with technical education, keeping them informed of new developments within the CICS family of products, promoting dialogue between members and IBM and among the membership itself, and submitting requirements and papers to IBM on technical needs and business directions in the CICS product line.


SHARE Session Administrivia

• No Smoking• Wear your SHARE badge during all SHARE sessions

• Silence all phones, pagers, watches, computers, etc.• Return completed forms and surveys (except session evaluation

forms) to FORMS box in the front of the CICS sessions room• Please fill out the SHARE session evaluation form for each

session, and turn in to a SHARE CICS Project ribbon wearer as you exit

• If you are interested in actively participating in the SHARE CICS Project, please discuss with project ribbon wearers

• Visit the SHARE CICS Project site at http://www.share.org/cics


SHARE CICS Project Organization

• Project Manager: Steve Ware

• Deputy Project Managers: - Gene Linefsky (Assistant Manager)- Larry Trollope (Administration) - Tom Harper (Futures) - Lisa Fellows (Requirements)

• IBM CICS Representatives: - Kathy Tyrrell, Hursley Development - Leigh Compton, Dallas Advanced Technical Support - Ed Addison, Raleigh Level 2

• Project Officers: Susanne Branson, Russ Evans, Henry Fogwill, Ivan Gelb, Gene Hudders, Geoffe Payne, Dennis Pherigo, Glenn Schneck


CICS Celebrations

• At this SHARE, we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of the IBM CICS Product!

• Be sure to attend session 1330 at 4:30pm today, when Paul Kettley and IBM present "CICS 40th Anniversary - the life of the World's premier software"

• Best session award winners from SHARE in Austin:- Gene Hudders and Russ Evans for User session 1068, "CICS Application Debugging"- Dennis Weiand, for IBM session 1050, "CICS and Web 2.0 - The Reality: Early User Experiences"


Q-Box, Prizes and Giveaways, CICS Grid, Surveys, SCIDS, Oh my!

• Don't miss the CICS Question Box (Q-Box) and Pot Luck session 1372 Thur. @ 4:30pm - IBMers on the "hot seat", prizes (drawings from "Top 5" survey forms - must be present to win!), giveaways?, fun and educational for all!

• Put Q-Box questions in the Q-Box box at the front of the room

• You should have a SHARE CICS Project Attendee grid handout and Top 5 survey form

• SCIDS - Evening Receptions - look for the CICS Road Runner (our mascot)


SHARE CICS Project Top 5 Survey

• Please fill out early this week and place in FORMS box at front of CICS sessions room, or give to any project ribbon wearer

• Used in planning our future agendas

• SHARE 113 in Denver (current) survey results presented at the CICS Q-Box this Thur. @ 4:30pm, session 1372

• SHARE 112 in Austin (prior) survey results presented at this session (any moment now) - 38 surveys were tallied - thanks to all that participated (46 surveys @ SHARE 111 in San Jose)

• Special thanks to Gene Linefsky and Larry Trollope for all the work involved in tabulating and processing the surveys


Presentation Topics

PRESENTATION SHARE 112

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Performance and Tuning 15 23 39% 50%

New Release Information 13 22 34% 48%

CICSplex SM 9 12 24% 26%

CICS DB2 Interface 8 7 21% 15%

24 Hour / Extended Operations 7 7 18% 15%

CICS Web Services (HTTP/XML/SOAP)

5 11 13% 24%

User Testing / Experiences 5 11 13% 24%

Installation and Customization 5 10 13% 22%

Problem Determination (IPCS, VSAM Web Ser )

5 8 13% 17%

Release Upgrade User Experience 4 14 11% 30%


Presentation Topics (cont.)

Threadsafe Coding Techniques 4 11 11% 24%

Monitoring and Statistics 4 9 11% 20%

CICS Coding Techniques 4 7 11% 15%

CICS Support for Parallel Processing

4 6 11% 13%

CICS Web Support (CWS/HTTP) 4 4 11% 9%

CICS Resource Definition (RDO BAS)

4 2 11% 4%

CICS and Web 2.0 4 0 11% 0%

VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS) 3 7 8% 15%

CICS MQ Series API 3 5 8% 11%

Intro To CICS 3 4 8% 9%


CICS Platforms

CICS Platforms SHARE 112

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CTS 3.2 26 26 68% 57%

CTS 3.1 19 28 50% 61%

CTS 2.3 10 11 26% 24%

CTS 2.2 3 4 8% 9%

TxSeries 3 2 8% 4%

ESA 4.1 2 3 5% 7%

VSE 2 3 5% 7%

CTS 1.x 2 2 5% 4%

CTS-VSE 2 5 5% 11%

CLIENTS 1 0 3% 0%

Tx Linux 0 0 0% 0%

CICS for NT 0 0 0% 0%


Web Enabling Software

Web Software SHARE 112

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CICS Web Support-CWS/HTTP 19 16 50% 35%

CICS Sockets Native z/OS 16 15 42% 33%

Web Services-SOAP/XML 12 16 32% 35%

3270 Bridge 3 4 8% 9%

HOD/HATS 3 4 8% 9%

EJB 1 1 3% 2%

IIOP 0 0 0% 0%


Development Tools

Development Tools SHARE 112

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TSO/SPF 35 37 92% 80%

Rational Application Developer

5 10 13% 22%

Eclipse SDK 5 7 13% 15%

WebSphere Developer for Z 4 9 11% 20%

Other (XDB) 4 3 11% 7%


Development Languages

Languages SHARE 112

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COBOL 37 39 97% 85%

ASSEMBLER 20 30 53% 65%

JAVA 8 11 21% 24%

PL1 7 11 18% 24%

REXX 6 7 16% 15%

C++ 5 8 13% 17%

C 3 7 8% 15%


CICSPlex/SM Components

CICSPLEX SHARE 112

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WUI 15 13 39% 28%

WLM 11 15 29% 33%

API 9 7 24% 15%

RTA 8 9 21% 20%

MON 6 5 16% 11%

BAS 5 5 13% 11%

SSI 2 2 5% 4%


CTG Usage

CTG SHARE 112

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CTG- S390 V7 4 5 11% 11%

CTG- S390 V6 1 9 3% 20%

CTG-NON-S390 V7 1 3 3% 7%

CTG- S390 V5 1 1 3% 2%

CTG-NON-S390 V6 0 4 0% 9%

CTG-NON-S390 V5 0 0 0% 0%


MQ/WebSphere Usage

MQ Websphere SHARE 112

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MQSeries S/390 20 25 53% 54%

WebSphere S/390 10 9 26% 20%

WebSphere Non-S/390 7 12 18% 26%

MQSeries Non-S/390 7 11 18% 24%

CICS Explorer 1 0 3% 0%


Specialty Processors

Specialty Processors SHARE 112

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ICF - Coupling Facility 16 20 42% 43%

zIIP - DB2 13 16 34% 35%

zAAP - Java 6 13 16% 28%

IFL- Linux 5 11 13% 24%

ICSF - Crypto 5 10 13% 22%


SHARE CICS Sessions Notes

• We think we've put together a great agenda, and hope you can make it to all of the CICS sessions - but if that's not the case, here are some thoughts to help you plan your week - with some previously mentioned

• Interested in CICS futures? Don't miss sessions 1326 and 1328 this afternoon starting at 1:30pm

• Don't forget that our grid handout is 2-sided - we have 3 CICS labs this week - all Wed. afternoon

• We hope you can stay through Fri. with 3 great sessions:1336, "TCP/IP Considerations for the CICS Systems Programmer", speaker Alfred Christensen, 1378, "CICS Performance Tutorial - Other Tuning Considerations", speaker Gene Hudders, and 1380, "CICS Nuts & Bolts and Gotchas", speaker Ed Addison and ???


Future SHARE Conferences

• SHARE 114 in Seattle Conference & Technology Exchange Expo March 14-19, 2010 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, WA

• SHARE 115 in Boston Conference & Technology Exchange Expo August 1-6, 2010 Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA


CICS Keynote - Dave Andrews, IBM

Please welcome Dave Andrews, IBM CICS Development Director, presenting the SHARE in Denver CICS Keynote

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