This document provides details about an IMS Technical Conference to take place in Melbourne, Australia on May 26-27, 2014. It includes information on location, speakers, and session topics. International speakers will discuss trends in IMS, modernization strategies, integration with mobile, and monitoring tools. Local speakers will cover performance testing IMS at 100K TPS, accessing IMS databases with SQL, and using tools to analyze transactions across subsystems. Sessions will help administrators manage IMS environments and migrate to the new IMS v13 release.

1. Mark your Calendars
Melbourne, Australia IMS Technical Conference
Presented by: IBM
IMS User Group Organization
Details:
Monday May 26 – Tuesday May 27, 2014
Location: IBM Southgate
Podium Level Seminar Room
(non IBMers need to register with Reception first)
60 City Road
Southbank
Vic 3006
International speakers include:
Shyh-Mei Ho, IBM Distinguished Engineer, is the IMS On Demand SOA Chief Architect,
located in SVL, San Jose, CA. She defines the strategy, and architectural design, and provides IMS Integration &
modernization solutions in multi-component enterprise environments that span both host and distributed platforms,
including Internet, Mobile and Cloud integration and connectivity. She initiated the creation of an industry standard which
placed IBM as the first company to solve the important and difficult problem for data exchange between existing and
newly written applications in enterprise environments. She has earned 41 invention achievement awards and 40
worldwide patents. Shyh-Mei has also received several IBM outstanding technical achievement and corporate awards;
and was honored with a 2010 YWCA of Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award (TWIN)
Sessions Include:
• IMS Trends and Directions
• IMS Modernization & Integration Strategy and Solutions
• IMS and Mobile
Janet Leblanc from IBM Canada
Janet LeBlanc is the IMS Tools Architect/Strategist for the IMS Tools team at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. . Janet
has worked with IBM’s IMS Tools since 1999. Prior to joining IBM, Janet has worked with DB Tools as a vendor and a
customer, and a DBA in the defence industries. Janet has been involved on the mainframe for over 35 years and with
IMS and IMS Tools for over 25 years as a customer, vendor and IBMer.
Sessions Include:
• IMS / Tools - Not just for the Next Generation
Nick Griffin from IBM US - WW Software Group IMS Sales Advisor
Nick Griffin has over 38 years of mainframe experience in Development, Systems and Database Administration for IMS,
MVS, CICS/VSAM and VTAM applications. Nick has been a developer for IMS Monitoring code and managed a
development group for a competitive software vendor. Nick managed large, complex, mission critical IMS database
applications for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Most recently spent 11 years as IMS Product Manager for a large
tools vendor. Nick is currently Sales Advisor for z Information Management IMS and IMS/Tools
Sessions Include:
• IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges and Solutions

2. • Tools that help you migrate to IMS v13
Graham Fox from BMC US
Graham Fox is a Lead Technical Support Analyst for BMC Software working in the IMS Transaction Management Product
Team. He has been with BMC since 1998. Prior to BMC he has worked for IBM Canada and Standard Life Assurance Co
in Scotland working in IMS and VTAM systems programming roles.
Sessions Include:
• IMS Connect Monitoring and Diagnosis
• IMS System Administration – A Different View
Local speakers include:
Bhups Naris from IBM
Sessions include:
• IMS 100K TPS: Roadblocks, Limitations, and Solutions
Geoff Nicholls from IBM
Sessions include:
• Using SQL to your IMS databases
Rafael Avigad from Fundi
Sessions Include:
• Change you can believe in.
• Can visually interacting with the log records of composite transactions help solve problems more effectively?

3. Melbourne IMS Technical Conference Agenda
26th
& 27th
May, 2014
IBM Southgate
Podium Level Seminar Room, 60 City Road,
Southbank, 3006
Sponsored by:
Monday 26th
May
8:45 – 9:00 Arrive and Register Robert Hain
IBM Australia
9:00 – 10:00 IMS01: Keynote Address:
IMS Trends & Directions
IMS celebrates 45 years of innovation and a new
release. IMS 13 achieves unprecedented levels of
performance, staking claim as a cornerstone for
contemporary IT enterprises worldwide. This session
highlights the significance of IMS’s impact on the world
of enterprise software, and discusses strategic
directions of IMS.
Shyh-Mei Ho
IBM US
10:00 – 10:15 Morning Break
10:15 – 11:15 IMS02: IMS / Tools - Not just for the Next Generation
We are always talking about how we need new
intelligent tools for the next generation DBA's, but in
today’s world all DBA's have smart devices with them or
on their desktops. In this presentation you will learn how
new IMS/Tools software can help ease the everyday
stress DBA's are having with larger workloads and less
resources. See how the future of IMS/Tools software will
help you reach your future goals. The new features of
Autonomic Director will alleviate database related
outages by giving you the information needed to
forecast the future. The latest Administration Console
will combine information across your IMSPlex and
beyond. It eases the stress of knowing what the issues
are and how to resolve them. You will see use cases of
how this will improve your day to day life as a DBA.
Janet Leblanc
IBM Canada
11:25 – 12:25 IMS03: IMS Connect Monitoring and Diagnosis
The presentation will discuss Energizer for IMS Connect
and its integration points with MainView IMS and BMC
Log Analyzer for IMS. The aim will be to provide
customers with information and tooling to assist in
diagnosing OTMA and ODBM problems.
Graham Fox
BMC Software

4. 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 IMS04: IMS Modernization & Integration Strategy
and Solutions
This session discusses how IMS is key to the integration
of your enterprise architecture; how it supports open
integration technologies both within and beyond
enterprise boundaries. This session brings you up to
speed on the robust integration capabilities with IBM's
strategic solutions, plus cross-brand initiatives, including
Clouds, Mobile, Big Data, and Analytics, etc. You will
learn how you can leverage your IT resources to better
respond to emerging strategic initiatives!
Shyh-Mei Ho
IBM US
14:30 – 14:50 Afternoon Break
14:50 – 15:50 IMS05: IMS 100K TPS: Roadblocks, Limitations, and
Solutions
The IMS 13 "100K" project achieved a sustained
average transaction rate of over 117,000 transactions
per second (TPS) on a single system, running on the
most current IBM hardware. This presentation tells the
story of how this was achieve by overcoming the many
challenges encountered along the way.
Bhups Narsi
IBM Australia
16:00 – 17:00 IMS06: Change you can believe in.
What are some of the inhibitors to adapting and growing
your IMS environment to take advantage of new IMS
capabilities? In this presentation, we would like to look
at the challenges for introducing change in the IMS
Environment, how tools can help with these challenges,
and open a discussion about the issues you are
presented with in your organisation for evolving IMS
Rafael Avigad
Fundi Software
17:00 IMS07: IMS Swapshop
This session is an open forum.
It is your chance to ask questions of anyone present or
to bring up any concerns you may have.
Robert Hain
IBM Australia
17:30 End of day 1.
Tuesday 25th
June
8:45 – 9:00 Arrive
9:00 – 10:00 IMS08: IMS System Administration – A Different
View
Topic will cover System Administration for IMS
Database Console and how its features can assist with
dynamic changes to IMS. Coverage will include
monitoring and managing IMS Message Queues and
IMS Connects. If time permits an update will be
provided on the latest updates to the System
Administration products.
Graham Fox
BMC Software
10:00 – 10:15 Morning Break
10:15 – 11:15 IMS09: IMS in a Sysplex Environment: Challenges
and Solutions
IMS coupled with Sysplex technologies can greatly
Nick Griffin
IBM US

5. improve IMS's scalability, availability and performance.
However, running IMS in a Sysplex environment brings
some configurational and operational challenges. CF
structures and SQ monitoring, transaction affinity
management, long lock detection, buffer overflow
protection, and RM structure management are task that
IMS administrators have not dealt with before. Learn
how to effectively cope with these challenges with IMS
Sysplex Manager.
11:25 – 12:25 IMS10: IMS & Mobile
The evolution of IMS throughout its 45 years makes it a
perfect partner in the current Mobile Revolution. By
leveraging IMS integration capabilities, IMS clients can easily
extend the business value of their existing IMS transactions
and databases, have a fast time-to-market, and reduce the
TCO for their Mobile infrastructure. This session discusses a
variety of options in integrating Mobile with IMS.
Shyh Mei Ho
IBM US
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 IMS11: Using SQL to your IMS databases
IMS 13 extends the ability to access your IMS
databases with SQL. In this session, I detail how to set
up your environment for the IMS Catalog, and write
COBOL applications accessing your IMS databases
with SQL. Further, I will show how to use C# on the
distributed platform to access your IMS databases.
Geoff Nicholls
IBM Australia
14:30 – 14:50 Afternoon Break
14:50 – 15:50 IMS12: Can visually interacting with the log records of
composite transactions help solve problems more
effectively?
Analyzing problems with transactions on z/OS can feel like
measuring a strand of cotton when your starting point is a
shirt: you need to dissect individual aspects of the transaction
without losing the overall picture of how they fit together. That
means knowing where and how to get logs for various
subsystems, relating these logs together, and finally
interpreting the combined output.
IBM Transaction Analysis Workbench for z/OS is a tool that
provides a coherent picture of a transaction across
subsystems - including IMS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere MQ,
and z/OS itself - helping you to pinpoint the source of
problems. We demonstrate a step-by-step proof-of-concept
model for visually interacting with composite log data to help
identify and resolve problems involving multiple subsystems.
Rafael Avigad
Fundi Software
16:00 – 17:00 IMS13: Tools that help you migrate to IMS v13
Together, the IBM IMS Tools Solution Packs and IMS 13
deliver simplification, automation and intelligence, with all the
tools needed to support IMS databases now in one package.
It doesn’t make sense to run reorganization utilities if your
databases do not need to be reorganized. Now you can
quickly and easily improve IMS application performance, IMS
resource utilization and deliver higher system availability with
the end-to-end analysis of IMS transactions. Comprehensive
performance reporting and easier interactive analysis
determine what happened, what needs fixing and how to fix it
– all part of the intelligence and automation of the IMS Tools
Nick Griffin
IBM US

6. Performance Solution Pack.
17:00 Conference End, Collect Feedback forms