This document discusses modernizing CICS applications for mobile and cloud. It summarizes IBM's work with two clients: Credit Bureau of Turkey and Nationwide. For Credit Bureau of Turkey, IBM helped implement CICS Web services, improve high availability with CICSplex, and upgrade development tools and processes. For Nationwide, IBM's focus areas included developing CICS applications using standard tools, improving high availability and performance with CICSplex, and enhancing the development environment with tools like Rational Developer for z. The document also briefly discusses plans for future work involving high availability, performance analysis, and continuous integration testing.
IBM z/OS V2R2 Performance and Availability TopicsAnderson Bassani
Apresentação realizada no ITSO z Systems 2015, São Paulo, Brasil, entre os dias 19 e 22 de Outubro de 2015. Apresentação criada pelo time técnico da IBM ITSO.
Apresentação realizada durante IBM ITSO z Systems world tour 2015, em São Paulo, Brasil, entre os dias 16 e 22 de Outubro de 2015. Apresentação criada pelo time técnico IBM ITSO.
IBM z/OS V2R2 Performance and Availability TopicsAnderson Bassani
Apresentação realizada no ITSO z Systems 2015, São Paulo, Brasil, entre os dias 19 e 22 de Outubro de 2015. Apresentação criada pelo time técnico da IBM ITSO.
Apresentação realizada durante IBM ITSO z Systems world tour 2015, em São Paulo, Brasil, entre os dias 16 e 22 de Outubro de 2015. Apresentação criada pelo time técnico IBM ITSO.
z/OS Small Enhancements - Episode 2014BMarna Walle
This presentation covers small enhancements from older z/OS releases. You might have missed little functions that are helpful, but you never knew existed! The content of each of these z/OS Small Enhancements changes every half year (Episode A and Episode B each year).
z/OS Small Enhancements - Episode 2014AMarna Walle
This presentation covers small enhancements from older z/OS releases. You might have missed little functions that are helpful, but you never knew existed! The content of each of these z/OS Small Enhancements changes every half year (Episode A and Episode B each year).
Accelerating Machine Learning Applications on Spark Using GPUsIBM
Matrix factorization (MF) is widely used in recommendation systems. We present cuMF, a highly-optimized matrix factorization tool with supreme performance on graphics processing units (GPUs) by fully utilizing the GPU compute power and minimizing the overhead of data movement. Firstly, we introduce a memory-optimized alternating least square (ALS) method by reducing discontiguous memory access and aggressively using registers to reduce memory latency. Secondly, we combine data parallelism with model parallelism to scale to multiple GPUs.
Results show that with up to four GPUs on one machine, cuMF can be up to ten times as fast as those on sizable clusters on large scale problems, and has impressively good performance when solving the largest matrix factorization problem ever reported.
Learn how to make your first step towards lower costs and lower risks through Server makeover. For more information on IBM systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Ims01 ims trends and directions - IMS UG May 2014 Sydney & MelbourneRobert Hain
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.
Abstract:
Batch performance optimization remains a hot topic for many customers, whether merging workloads, supporting growth, removing cost or extending the online day.
This presentation outlines a structured methodology for optimizing the batch window, incorporating techniques written about in a Redbook written by experts from around the world. This methodology is well-structured and draws on information every installation should have access to.
Session 2546 - Solving Performance Problems in CICS using CICS Performance A...nick_garrod
InterConnect Session 2546, Solving Performance Problems in CICS using CICS Performance Analyzer. CICS performing well is critical to your Enterprise. Knowing how to solve performance problems is just as critical. This session will concentrate on the most common performance problems seen in the Level 2 Service area. Monitoring and Statistic data will be used to show what to look for and how to avoid these common problems. CICS Performance Analyzer will be used as the primary tool to format and present the data needed to solve these performance issues.
Kim Franca is a professional vocal coach based in Franklin, Tennessee (Greater Nashville Area) offering global vocal coaching, singing lessons, vocal training. Improve your vocal with Kim Franca vocal coach. She is also a Nashville-based singer/songwriter.
z/OS Small Enhancements - Episode 2014BMarna Walle
This presentation covers small enhancements from older z/OS releases. You might have missed little functions that are helpful, but you never knew existed! The content of each of these z/OS Small Enhancements changes every half year (Episode A and Episode B each year).
z/OS Small Enhancements - Episode 2014AMarna Walle
This presentation covers small enhancements from older z/OS releases. You might have missed little functions that are helpful, but you never knew existed! The content of each of these z/OS Small Enhancements changes every half year (Episode A and Episode B each year).
Accelerating Machine Learning Applications on Spark Using GPUsIBM
Matrix factorization (MF) is widely used in recommendation systems. We present cuMF, a highly-optimized matrix factorization tool with supreme performance on graphics processing units (GPUs) by fully utilizing the GPU compute power and minimizing the overhead of data movement. Firstly, we introduce a memory-optimized alternating least square (ALS) method by reducing discontiguous memory access and aggressively using registers to reduce memory latency. Secondly, we combine data parallelism with model parallelism to scale to multiple GPUs.
Results show that with up to four GPUs on one machine, cuMF can be up to ten times as fast as those on sizable clusters on large scale problems, and has impressively good performance when solving the largest matrix factorization problem ever reported.
Learn how to make your first step towards lower costs and lower risks through Server makeover. For more information on IBM systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Ims01 ims trends and directions - IMS UG May 2014 Sydney & MelbourneRobert Hain
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.
Abstract:
Batch performance optimization remains a hot topic for many customers, whether merging workloads, supporting growth, removing cost or extending the online day.
This presentation outlines a structured methodology for optimizing the batch window, incorporating techniques written about in a Redbook written by experts from around the world. This methodology is well-structured and draws on information every installation should have access to.
Session 2546 - Solving Performance Problems in CICS using CICS Performance A...nick_garrod
InterConnect Session 2546, Solving Performance Problems in CICS using CICS Performance Analyzer. CICS performing well is critical to your Enterprise. Knowing how to solve performance problems is just as critical. This session will concentrate on the most common performance problems seen in the Level 2 Service area. Monitoring and Statistic data will be used to show what to look for and how to avoid these common problems. CICS Performance Analyzer will be used as the primary tool to format and present the data needed to solve these performance issues.
Kim Franca is a professional vocal coach based in Franklin, Tennessee (Greater Nashville Area) offering global vocal coaching, singing lessons, vocal training. Improve your vocal with Kim Franca vocal coach. She is also a Nashville-based singer/songwriter.
This session will describe how CICS TS v5.1 can quickly and simply support the creation of modern Mobile Ready interfaces to existing applications. The session will introduce the key technologies including the use of Liberty technology in CICS TS. We will work through a simple scenario to demonstrate the key points. The session will cover the core supporting technologies include in CICS TS v5.1 as well as the Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack and content included in the CICS TS v5.2 Open Beta.
نقشی که امروزه محققان بازار ایفا میکنند بیش از هر زمان دیگری مهم و حیاتی است. شرکتها باید نیازها و خواستههای مشتریان خود را بشناسند و انجام این کار مستلزم این است که از صنعت تحقیقات بازار کمک بگیرند. محققان بازار نیز برای موفقیت میبایست به طور پیوسته دانش و مهارتهای خود را توسعه داده و به روز کنند. ۷ توصیه و عادتی که در این اسلاید به آنها اشاره خواهد شد، میتواند به محققان بازار در مسیر موفقیت یاری برسانند.
GSE Nordic 2015 Twist and cloud – How customers make CICS dance. Putting CICS into the cloud, is someone actually doing this? Since 2012 CICS TS Version 5 has been introducing and continuously enhancing its capabilities to support a Platform As A Service approach. Join speakers from CICS Technical Sales to hear about their experiences and how their customers gained value from cloud capabilities in CICS.
S107 5 compelling reasons for using cics in the cloudnick_garrod
GSE Nordic 2015 5 Compelling reasons for using CICS in the cloud. So what does creating a CICS ‘Cloud’ really mean? And what exactly are these new CICS Cloud capabilities? How do these new Applications and Platforms artifacts relate to existing CICS technologies such as programs, transactions and regions? Where do these new Policies fit in? And most importantly, why would you do any of this? What value can you expect to derive from creating a CICS Cloud architecture? If you have ever asked yourself any of those questions, this session will give you five compelling answers. If you ever wondered what the CICS Cloud means in the real world, this session if for you.
InterConnect 2015 Session 3983 CICS Java Real Life Projects. This session will introduce some Projects IBM did with Customers in the last years. These Patterns are generalized and show how other customers can take advantage of the functionality provided by CICS.
Integrate Application Security Testing into your SDLCIBM Security
Considering security early in the development stage is good and valuable, running security tests during the development life cycle is better, integrating that testing into your build system is the best approach.
DMT-2467 Like the Features in Rational DOORS 9? Come Check Them Out in DOORS...IBM Rational software
Interconnect 2015,
DMT-2467 Like the Features in Rational DOORS 9? Come Check Them Out in DOORS Next Generation!
By:
Paul Strachan (IBM)
Alex Ivanov (Raytheon)
Yianna Papadakis-Kantos (IBM)
Capgemini Connected Car Demo Using IBM Internet of Things Foundation on BluemixCapgemini
Does the buzz about IBM Internet of Things (IoT) and Bluemix makes you curious to see some real-world demos and implementations?
IBM and Capgemini are going to show you the future of vehicle technology, focusing on different ways in which vehicles can be connected using IoT and IBM Bluemix. We’ll demo an app named “Follow your Friend” that lets you connect with and exchange GPS positions with other vehicles.
We’ll also demo “Geofence” for location-based marketing: it knows about the drivers’ needs as they drive and informs retailers about potential customers, so they can push offers to their customer’s vehicle devices (or mobile devices) as they drive by.
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015 by Capgemini's Avinash Vaidya.
Complete Solutions in ECM using IBM, Internal and Third Party, Custom ComponentsPyramid Solutions, Inc.
Pyramid Solutions showcased how real-world customers have used IBM Content Navigator and IBM Case Manager to develop solutions that can be applied to the entire enterprise. Using the extendibility of Content Navigator has allowed customers to use custom components that were developed in-house in conjunction with third-party and OOTB components to develop complete solutions to meet the users’ needs. This session examines how custom components can be built and combined with third-party and IBM products. It also examines the flexibility of component design that enables flexible interfaces that can be used across content and case management solutions without the need to develop separate components.
Want first-hand knowledge of how the systems running the financial world work? Want to develop and test those applications faster? Want to enable your software for use by people working on 220 billion lines of COBOL in the field today? In this talk, we will show you how easy it is to create and customize your own z/OS system with only a Bluemix ID and a web browser.
visit http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/enterprise-devops/
Scalable, Available and Reliable Cloud Applications with PaaS and MicroservicesDavid Currie
Presentation given at AtTheFrontend.dk on 27 May 2015 covering an introduction to microservices and how Platform-as-a-Service helps with many of the challenges deploying microservices. Example supporting technologies include Bluemix / Cloud Foundry, Docker and Netflix OSS.
The MUFG Union Bank (MUB) Transaction Banking Department undertook a multi-year initiative to shorten new customer onboarding time with the ultimate goal of business growth. During this initiative, MUB captured a myriad of data. Now that the initial foundation is set, the real fun begins. This data provides newfound visibility into MUB’s processes that will propel it from a position of catch-up to market leader. The solution fueling its accelerated growth puts relevant information in the palm of every user’s hand.
“My systems work perfectly—it’s the applications that are the problem!” If you have ever said (or thought) that, then this session is for you. Outages do not have to be "an application issue" anymore. In CICS TS 5, new policy-based capabilities allow you to set thresholds on the resources that your applications are allowed to consume. Rogue applications can be detected through various task threshold policies, such as excessive file or database access, repetitive program links, or abnormal storage requests. Once detected, you have the ability to notify, to react, or to ABEND. There’s a new sheriff in town, and it’s you. Come to this session to learn how to exercise your new power wisely.
GSE Nordic 2015 CICS Connectivity in DevOps The business driver behind adopting a DevOps approach to developing software, is the need to deliver applications to the market faster, with lower costs and higher quality. With CICS Transaction Server providing the core services on which many of these applications rely, the importance of being able to connect to CICS and reuse these core services continues to increase. When CICS introduced native Web services about a decade ago, SOA became a reality for CICS customers. Today, many customers are doing tens of millions of SOAP based CICS Web services per day. Some are doing much more. But SOAP based CICS Web services are only a part of the CICS connectivity story. Support for the REST architectural style in CICS is an increasingly popular alternative to SOAP. And JSON is a popular alternative to XML for many application use cases. In this session, we will explore the different CICS connectivity options, suggest use-cases in which they can be of most value, and most importantly, learn which is the right tool for the job.
GSE Nordic 2015 Liberty, Egality, Fraternity “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity), is the slogan of France, coined around the time of the French Revolution. It also seems a pretty appropriate slogan for the mini revolution that is happening right now with CICS and WebSphere. The Liberty profile is a highly composable and dynamic application server runtime environment that is shipped as a part of both WebSphere and CICS. This session will introduce Liberty in CICS, compare the capability with WebSphere (note the ‘equality’ word) and discuss how these new Liberty applications can interact with and support the established fraternity of existing CICS applications that run your core business.
GSE Nordic 2015 CICS Java – Beauty and the Beast After giving sessions about Java in the past few years that tell system programmers they should do Java on IBM z Systems and that Java is just like every other language, this session tries to explain why Java is a bit different in operating and handling. We will compare COBOL/PLI/Assembler with Java and provide insight into how the Java technology works on z Systems. Come along if you want to find out the answers to questions such as: Why can't you phase in a Java program? What does the JIT compiler do and how does it work? What is the development process of Java applications? How do I debugging and logging in Java applications?
S108 - 1 Billion Smartphones a year and counting – How is your CICS connected?nick_garrod
GSE Nordic 2015 1 Billion Smartphones a year and counting – How is your CICS connected? According to IDC, in 2013 “the worldwide smartphone market reached yet another milestone, having shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time”. This was an increase of almost 40% over 2012. If much of your business runs on CICS, you have probably already exposed at least some your CICS applications to the mobile world. But are you exposing these services in the optimal way for your company? Come to this session to discover what the supported options are for mobile exploitation in CICS Transaction Server, CICS Transaction Gateway and z/OS Connect. This session will compare and contrast the options available, so you can understand what is right for you. It will also discuss how you can use IBM MobileFirst with CICS TS to optimize your mobile deployments. Make sure your phone is on silent – you won’t want to be disturbed in this session.
S106 using ibm urban code deploy to deliver your apps to cicsnick_garrod
GSE Nordic 2015 Using IBM UrbanCode Deploy to deliver your apps to CICS. Deploying applications to CICS can be tricky, and you may be struggling to figure out how to handle the many new zFS artifacts such as cloud, bundles, Java, and web services. This could even be slowing down the adoption of new technologies that could deliver the solutions your business needs. This session will introduce IBM UrbanCode Deploy as a tool to automate many types of application deployments through your environments. It can provide rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development while providing the audit trails, versioning and approvals needed in production. See the new z/OS and CICS TS plug-ins for UrbanCode Deploy in action to deploy COBOL, web services, and Java applications to CICS in a single action.
GSE Nordic 2015 CICS Performance and Consolidation The CICS TS V5 releases introduce a number of runtime enhancements to reduce CPU usage, improve response times, reduce resource usage, while providing additional insight into transaction performance. Come along to this session as we explore some of the newer performance benefits found in CICS TS and how savings can translate to your environment. We will also look at a lab benchmark that consolidated CICS regions, maintaining throughput, saving significant MIPS, and reducing the management overhead.
GSE Nordic 2015 CICS Cloud and DevOps agility2 Creating a CICS cloud can provide a step change in agility. Add DevOps to the equation and it’s more like a quantum leap. Imagine if the latest CICS DevOps technology could fully automate the reliable and repeatable deployment of CICS applications through the entire lifecycle. Imagine a fully automated build environment for any style of CICS application. With common scripting languages and tools to create a continuous deployment model. Or imagine using a tool like IBM UrbanCode Deploy to provision any type of CICS application, in coordination with other application and database components in a single action. Better still, don’t try and imagine it. Attend this session and see it for yourself.
S102 cics the future is closer abridgednick_garrod
GSE Nordic 2015 - Future of CICS is closer than you think. There is a lot going on behind that mysterious curtain. Recently, the CICS development organization has adopted a new practice called ‘IBM Design Thinking’, which will forever change the way CICS products are developed. The core principle of this approach is to make sure we get as much feedback as possible on our future ideas. This is a quite unique opportunity to participate in a discussion regarding the future of IBM CICS technology. We will be sharing our views. And we will be hoping for lots for interactive feedback. Please don’t be shy!
GSE Nordic 2015 Conferece - CICS Opening. CICS TS V5.1 became available at the end of 2012, followed by CICS TS V5.2 in mid 2014. So what does that mean for you? Perhaps you can reduce operational complexity by hosting modern application interface logic inside the Liberty profile server within CICS? Perhaps you can use the new CICS Cloud capabilities to improve application reliability and accelerate deployments? Maybe you can improve your integration with Mobile devices? Or better control your costs though policies and consolidation? Nick and Ian open the CICS track to help you find out how CICS is reinventing mainframe application serving one again. Discover which sessions you should attend to get the most value from your attendance.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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6. Credit Bureau of Turkey
SNA 1 LPAR 3 REGIONS
LU 6.2 inbound APPC Weblogic COBOL
CPSM TCP/IP DB2 Channels/Containers
Mobile High Availability Parallel Sysplex
CTG / WAS / Native Webservices ?
Who are we ?, What is our IT ? What happened in 2012
and 2014 ?
7. CICS 1
(Consumer
Bureau)
CICS 2
(Corporate
Bureau)
CICS 3 (Limit
Control System)
SNA
Router
VP
N
Client
Application
Servers
HIS
End Users
Web
applicatio
ns
Mobile
applicatio
ns
Applicati
on
Server
Mobile
Application
Server
Client FTP servers
Interne
t
Interne
t
FTP
server
LU6.2
TCP/I
P
IBM
Communications
Server
(IP to SNA)
Oracle
Exadat
a
App
server
FTP
server
LU6.2
LU6.2
TCP/I
P
TCP/I
P
KKB topology
9. Key Focus Areas
• CICS Web Services –
• Develop, Build, and Deploy using our standard development
tools
– ISPF, RDz, Changeman, etc
• High Availability / High Performance
• CICSplex
• Threadsafe
• Development process and tooling
• Rational Developer for z
• CICS Explorer
• Rational Development and Test
• PD Tools – File Manager , Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool
8
13. High Availability and Performance in CICSplex
• CICS Interdependency Analyzer
• Identify Resources used by our transactions and relationships
to other resources
• Identification of affinities
• Threadsafe analysis
• IBM Application Performance Analyzer
• Isolate performance issues
• Measure CPU and IO
12
14. Development Tools and Process Enhancement
13
Desktop
Windows
Rational Asset
Analyzer
RAA plugin
ChangeMan
plugin
RDz 9
Project Management
Tool
Defect Management
Tool
Browser
RTC
Work Item
RRC
Requirements
RubyMine
Ruby
Cucumber
tn3270
IBM PDTools
Plugins
Tests
CICSExplorer
Jremote Plugin
CPSM
CICS
ChangeMan
RSE
JCLPlus
JMon
PDTools
File
Manager
Fault
Analyzer
IBM
Debug
APA
SAR
Mobius
Mainframe LPAR
CICS
RSE JMon
PDTools
File
Manager
Fault
Analyzer
IBM Debug
RD&T
15. Rational Development and Test
14
RD&T – CI Environment
RD&T – CI Environment
Z1091
RPM
RD&T – Infrastructure Test
Server
Test
Gold
Test
Test
RDZ001
Optim
RDZ002
RDZ004
RDZ003
PRD001
PRD002
PRD003
System z
Loadlibs, CICS CSD,
RESLIB, PSB,DBD,etc
JOB
STEP1 - ADRDSSU DUMP
STEP2 - XMIT
STEP3 - FTP XMIT to RD&T
STEP4 - FTP Restore Job
STEP5 - CLEANUP
RDZ001
JOB
STEP1 - RECEIVE
STEP2 - ADRDSSU REST
STEP4 - CLEANUP
Gold
Z1091
RPM
rsyn
c
rsyn
c
RDZ001
RDZ001
RDZ001
RDZ001
RD&T – CI Environment
Test
Data
22. Site A Site B
Active/Active
Using z/OS tools to Manage zClouds
How can we simplify the
cloning and syncing of the
Infrastructure,
Applications and
Data
artifacts across
environments
Private
RD&T
Public
Production
Production
Multi-site clones
Dev/Test RD&T Hybrid Cloud Burst
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Editor's Notes
Manage Development artifacts
Copybooks, XML Schema(XSD), Web Service Definition Language(WSDL), COBOL
CICS Web Service assistant parameters
Pipeline name and Pipeline configuration
Automate Build and validation
CICS Web Service assistant parameters managed inside of changman
Pipeline XML schema validation (COBOL XMLSS validate)
Deploy
zFS and Dataset promote/demote of required artifacts(wsbind, wsdl, xsd, etc)
Install resource and perform Pipeline scan in our CICSplex
Leverage xml standards when possible
ACORD, SWIFT, FIXML, etc
Multiple approaches
Top Down – Start with modeled schema and use generated copybooks internally in all programs(Rare)
Meet in middle - Modeled interface with a program “wrapper” and controller to expose the business logic
Controller layer helps combine multiple units of work
Maximum reuse and no transformation on service bus
Bottom up – Build WSDL from existing copybooks
Simplest to do from a COBOL developer perspective
Transformation on service bus to a public(modeled) interface is required
CICS usually hosts our private service interface and the public accessed via our enterprise service bus. Using datapower for Validation, Authorization/Authentication, message transform
Other best practices
SSL
Deploy/Backout –automatically perform the pipeline scan
Have the ability to manage both WSDL and XSD in source code management tool or WSRR on day 1
Don’t waste time with a top down approach for existing business process
Review/Document zfs backup and recovery process
Validate new and changed pipeline definitions to ensure well formed
COBOL XMLSS
Ability to manage multiple pipelines in deploy process
Developer training – XML, XSD, SOAP, WSDL, Soap UI
Naming conventions – pipeline, zFS directories, services, programs, etc
Use RDz graphical wizards to build wsbind instead of the batch assistants
Enhance Changeman or use RTC
Enhance existing Changeman process to use JSON assistants for JSON Web Services
Websphere Service Repository and Registry(WSRR) integration
Worklight
Mix of stand alone and MRO prior to the CICSplex
IA plugin makes it easy to navigate CICS resource relationships
Many acquisitions over the years resulted inconsistent process and development tooling(you name it we had it). We needed to simplify and standardize on a single set of development tools(multi year effort).
Using CICS Explorer and PD Tools plugins inside RDz
Develop in RDz and Deploy to our z LPARs or to RDT
RDT contains bare essentials for development and testing
