In this educational webinar, the heads of mainframe development and product management from Syncsort will discuss key mainframe optimization problems, opportunities and use cases for 2017, spanning DB2 and network management on z/OS, as well as new ways to save on your monthly IBM MLC charges and new options for long-standing mainframe issues.
In this educational webinar, the heads of mainframe development and product management from Syncsort will discuss key mainframe optimization problems, opportunities and use cases for 2017, spanning DB2 and network management on z/OS, as well as new ways to save on your monthly IBM MLC charges and new options for long-standing mainframe issues.
Watch this webcast on-demand to learn:
o How the latest innovations for zIIP and sort will save you time and money each month
o How workload-centric database optimization changes the game for DB2 and IDMS
o New options for long-standing network management and IMS cost and resource issues
Mainframe Education Webcast: Innovations in Your Mainframe SortPrecisely
Whether you’re running DFSORT or MFX 1.4, or another sort technology, you can now process more data, in less time, while reducing overall MSU consumption.
- zIIP in your house? We’ve got 2 key new ways to leverage zIIP for up to 90% improvement!
- Got a z13? Learn how to optimize the latest mainframe technology
- Have zEDC? Find out how MFX works with this game-changing technology
- What have your peers experienced? See and hear exactly why organizations like yours have used the latest technology and learn their results!
Learn from Syncsort’s head of development and lead sort Engineer how you can now leverage the latest advancements in mainframe technology, including:
- Faster Performance. Leveraging the new IBM z Systems High Performance FICON (zHPF) architecture to reduce elapsed time.
- Enhanced OPTMODES. Significant enhancements to DSM optimization modes (OPTMODES) allowing you to optimize performance, based on what resources are important to you.
- Higher Developer’s Productivity. Additional data manipulation functions such as field type comparisons and parsed field identification; and 64-bit addressing allow your developers to get more done in less time.
- Easy installation & deployment. Administrators can now specify installation options in SYS1.PARMLIB. Multiple sets of options can be created allowing for greater flexibility.
Introducing MFX for z/OS 2.1 & ZPSaver SuitePrecisely
Syncsort MFX for z/OS 2.1 leverages the latest advancements in mainframe technology, including IBM’s zHPF architecture and deeper exploitation of zIIP engines, to help you overcome the challenges of modern mainframe systems.
One of the most CPU resource intensive, and highly used functions, within every IT environment is sorting. Virtually every application needs to sort data, as well as copy information from one location to another. Utilization of zIIP engines for sort, copy, and compression provides an organization with additional processing capacity and can limit the expansion of the 4-Hour Rolling Average of LPAR Hourly MSU Utilization (4HRA) which will prevent an in increase Monthly License Charges (MLC).
View this IBM Systems Magazine webcast to learn:
• How to assess what's driving peaks in your 4HRA
• 5 advantages of offloading workloads to zIIP engines
• Examples of Fortune 500 companies maximizing their mainframe through zIIP exploitation
Bringing Mainframe Security Information Into Your Splunk Security Operations ...Precisely
In today’s always-on IT world, a single security breach can bring your business to a standstill. You rely on Splunk’s powerful platform for monitoring, integrating, analyzing and visualizing security data from across your enterprise to protect your organization from security threats and incidents. However, Splunk doesn’t natively interact with mainframe and IBM i systems, leaving a glaring blind spot.
Join us to learn how to effectively integrate Mainframe and IBM i security data into Splunk- providing you with a comprehensive view of your security operations landscape.
Topics will include:
- An overview of different types of security data and how to tap into mainframe & IBM i data in your Splunk Security Operations Center
- Unique and comparative differentiators across security data integration tools to be used within the Splunk Security Operations center
- Customer use cases and examples
In this educational webinar, the heads of mainframe development and product management from Syncsort will discuss key mainframe optimization problems, opportunities and use cases for 2017, spanning DB2 and network management on z/OS, as well as new ways to save on your monthly IBM MLC charges and new options for long-standing mainframe issues.
Watch this webcast on-demand to learn:
o How the latest innovations for zIIP and sort will save you time and money each month
o How workload-centric database optimization changes the game for DB2 and IDMS
o New options for long-standing network management and IMS cost and resource issues
Mainframe Education Webcast: Innovations in Your Mainframe SortPrecisely
Whether you’re running DFSORT or MFX 1.4, or another sort technology, you can now process more data, in less time, while reducing overall MSU consumption.
- zIIP in your house? We’ve got 2 key new ways to leverage zIIP for up to 90% improvement!
- Got a z13? Learn how to optimize the latest mainframe technology
- Have zEDC? Find out how MFX works with this game-changing technology
- What have your peers experienced? See and hear exactly why organizations like yours have used the latest technology and learn their results!
Learn from Syncsort’s head of development and lead sort Engineer how you can now leverage the latest advancements in mainframe technology, including:
- Faster Performance. Leveraging the new IBM z Systems High Performance FICON (zHPF) architecture to reduce elapsed time.
- Enhanced OPTMODES. Significant enhancements to DSM optimization modes (OPTMODES) allowing you to optimize performance, based on what resources are important to you.
- Higher Developer’s Productivity. Additional data manipulation functions such as field type comparisons and parsed field identification; and 64-bit addressing allow your developers to get more done in less time.
- Easy installation & deployment. Administrators can now specify installation options in SYS1.PARMLIB. Multiple sets of options can be created allowing for greater flexibility.
Introducing MFX for z/OS 2.1 & ZPSaver SuitePrecisely
Syncsort MFX for z/OS 2.1 leverages the latest advancements in mainframe technology, including IBM’s zHPF architecture and deeper exploitation of zIIP engines, to help you overcome the challenges of modern mainframe systems.
One of the most CPU resource intensive, and highly used functions, within every IT environment is sorting. Virtually every application needs to sort data, as well as copy information from one location to another. Utilization of zIIP engines for sort, copy, and compression provides an organization with additional processing capacity and can limit the expansion of the 4-Hour Rolling Average of LPAR Hourly MSU Utilization (4HRA) which will prevent an in increase Monthly License Charges (MLC).
View this IBM Systems Magazine webcast to learn:
• How to assess what's driving peaks in your 4HRA
• 5 advantages of offloading workloads to zIIP engines
• Examples of Fortune 500 companies maximizing their mainframe through zIIP exploitation
Bringing Mainframe Security Information Into Your Splunk Security Operations ...Precisely
In today’s always-on IT world, a single security breach can bring your business to a standstill. You rely on Splunk’s powerful platform for monitoring, integrating, analyzing and visualizing security data from across your enterprise to protect your organization from security threats and incidents. However, Splunk doesn’t natively interact with mainframe and IBM i systems, leaving a glaring blind spot.
Join us to learn how to effectively integrate Mainframe and IBM i security data into Splunk- providing you with a comprehensive view of your security operations landscape.
Topics will include:
- An overview of different types of security data and how to tap into mainframe & IBM i data in your Splunk Security Operations Center
- Unique and comparative differentiators across security data integration tools to be used within the Splunk Security Operations center
- Customer use cases and examples
Capacity Management for system z license charge reportingMetron
Capacity Management for System z is not a silo activity within an enterprise.
Every Capacity Management decision is a business decision, and with that in mind, there are either positive or negative cost implications with each decision made.
Capacity Management reports are visible to all the stakeholders within an organization from the C-Level down to the Lines of Business and the Analysts.
In order to be successful, one needs to take an enterprise view in all aspects of Capacity Management and with all the cost implications involved with various licensing models, there needs to be an understanding of the current (and future) ways in which licenses can be allocated.
This presentation discusses:
•Capacity Management from an Enterprise level
•MLC & WLC (Monthly and Workload License Charges)
•Explanation of Country Multiplex Pricing (CMP) and how it may affect your enterprise
•Reporting necessary to understand the license charges
•Forecasting for future changes
Learn about Batch Modernization on z/OS, which Provides an overview of current batch processing technology, Discusses how to use, simplify, and improve batch processing, Includes example scenarios that use batch processing. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Eranea's solution and technology for mainframe migration / transformation : d...Eranea
This presentation provides plenty of details about Eranea's technology for mainframe transformation / migration.
We do convert large Cobol / 3270 applications (millions of lines) to Java / web. Usually powered by Linux (private cloud), the new application is then optimal from a financial efficiency standpoint (usually, many millions saved each year) and based on state-of-the-art platform unleashing massive potential for further evolution.
Our very incremental amd fully riskless migration process is unique : using 100% automation and strict iso-functionnality, we transform the application / system in a very smooth manner so that your users remains undisturbed and fully productive.
For geeks, have a look at the second part : Complements > Tooling where we detail the large palette of tools that we propose to run the project in a fully industrial manner.
interested ? Get in touch !
email: contact@eranea.com
Also check out our website : www.eranea.com
Cutting-edge Solutions with Mainframe ServicesQAT Global
QAT Global understands that the Mainframe platform is still relied upon by many organizations to support their infrastructure and business processes. At the same time, this platform has certain unique needs and specialized skills requirements. QAT Global helps companies overcome these challenges through our intimate knowledge of legacy systems, business processes, architecture, and the broader ecosystem in which businesses operate today.
We offer end-to-end solutions, where our services help customers run business as usual, develop and enhance custom applications and transform their legacy applications.
Lily Craps, responsible for the Mainframe outsourcing project at SDWorx, explains how the moving of their mainframe to a shared environment at NRB, enabled ‘economies of scale’ on infrastructure costs for hardware and software. She describes the process, from starting the outsourcing study, over the RFI/RFP process, the selection of the provider, the contract negotiations and the migration project, next to the criteria for choosing NRB and an Infrastructure As A Service –cloud model.
Capacity Management for system z license charge reportingMetron
Capacity Management for System z is not a silo activity within an enterprise.
Every Capacity Management decision is a business decision, and with that in mind, there are either positive or negative cost implications with each decision made.
Capacity Management reports are visible to all the stakeholders within an organization from the C-Level down to the Lines of Business and the Analysts.
In order to be successful, one needs to take an enterprise view in all aspects of Capacity Management and with all the cost implications involved with various licensing models, there needs to be an understanding of the current (and future) ways in which licenses can be allocated.
This presentation discusses:
•Capacity Management from an Enterprise level
•MLC & WLC (Monthly and Workload License Charges)
•Explanation of Country Multiplex Pricing (CMP) and how it may affect your enterprise
•Reporting necessary to understand the license charges
•Forecasting for future changes
Learn about Batch Modernization on z/OS, which Provides an overview of current batch processing technology, Discusses how to use, simplify, and improve batch processing, Includes example scenarios that use batch processing. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Eranea's solution and technology for mainframe migration / transformation : d...Eranea
This presentation provides plenty of details about Eranea's technology for mainframe transformation / migration.
We do convert large Cobol / 3270 applications (millions of lines) to Java / web. Usually powered by Linux (private cloud), the new application is then optimal from a financial efficiency standpoint (usually, many millions saved each year) and based on state-of-the-art platform unleashing massive potential for further evolution.
Our very incremental amd fully riskless migration process is unique : using 100% automation and strict iso-functionnality, we transform the application / system in a very smooth manner so that your users remains undisturbed and fully productive.
For geeks, have a look at the second part : Complements > Tooling where we detail the large palette of tools that we propose to run the project in a fully industrial manner.
interested ? Get in touch !
email: contact@eranea.com
Also check out our website : www.eranea.com
Cutting-edge Solutions with Mainframe ServicesQAT Global
QAT Global understands that the Mainframe platform is still relied upon by many organizations to support their infrastructure and business processes. At the same time, this platform has certain unique needs and specialized skills requirements. QAT Global helps companies overcome these challenges through our intimate knowledge of legacy systems, business processes, architecture, and the broader ecosystem in which businesses operate today.
We offer end-to-end solutions, where our services help customers run business as usual, develop and enhance custom applications and transform their legacy applications.
Lily Craps, responsible for the Mainframe outsourcing project at SDWorx, explains how the moving of their mainframe to a shared environment at NRB, enabled ‘economies of scale’ on infrastructure costs for hardware and software. She describes the process, from starting the outsourcing study, over the RFI/RFP process, the selection of the provider, the contract negotiations and the migration project, next to the criteria for choosing NRB and an Infrastructure As A Service –cloud model.
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
Moving a data center is something that most IT professionals will have to engage in at some point, and this presentation looks at several areas that can help to make a data center migration as smooth and seamless as possible. We cover areas such as:
-Determining whether to replicate your existing data center infrastructure, or build a new infrastructure as part of the migration project.
-The importance of experience during the logistical side of the data center migration.
-The significance of planning as well as evaluating and fine-tuning your plan on an ongoing basis.
If you will soon be in the process of planning and performing a data center migration, then we encourage you to read up!
Optimizing Your z/OS Mainframe Through zIIP Offload and SQL AnalysisPrecisely
Many organizations that have purchased zIIP processors are not realizing their full benefit.
In this session we review how SORT, COPY, and compression workloads can be offloaded to zIIP engines to provide General Processor constraint relief, delaying capacity upgrades and containing MLC costs. View this webcast on-demand to learn more about
• How zIIP offload for SORT, COPY, and compression is saving organizations over 90% in General Processor resource utilization for those activities.
• How to optimize sorting operations and achieve both reduced CPU and Elapsed time to help meet the shrinking Batch window.
• How to optimize Db2 queries to get the maximum performance out of your Db2 systems.
Unlock Cost Savings for your IBM z Systems EnvironmentPrecisely
For many larger enterprises, the pressure to squeeze more performance out of existing mainframes, while avoiding or deferring major upgrades, is a top priority. Routine sort processing tasks such as sort, copy, merge, and compression take up a large and disproportionate share of CPU processing time and related mainframe resources. They are thus obvious areas to examine when seeking relief from mainframe cost and performance pressures.
When evaluating potential solutions many organizations want to “try before they buy” to ensure strong ROI. We have developed tools to help you understand your batch processing and calculate your expected ROI.
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear about:
• How our Syncsort MFX solution drive cost savings
• What a “try before you buy” evaluation looks like
• How to analyze results for your specific situation
New Mainframe Developments and How Syncsort Helps You Exploit ThemPrecisely
Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. More than 70% of Fortune 500 enterprises continue to use mainframes for their most crucial business functions. Syncsort has been the leader in mainframe innovations since the early years. Recently, IBM made two major announcements for their mainframe customers.
IBM has recently made two major IBM z announcements: new Tailored Fit Pricing and the next-generation z15 mainframe. In this on-demand webinar we’ll help you understand the opportunities and challenges that the new pricing model and z15 systems present. We’ll also share exciting sorting technology innovations from Syncsort that drive cost savings with the new z15.
You will learn:
• How to evaluate the decision to move to Tailored Fit pricing or to stay on 4HRA pricing
• How Syncsort's Elevate MFSort (formerly MFX) reduces workloads on the new z15 mainframes
• How we plan to exploit the IBM’s new instructions for sort acceleration
Evaluate the Benefits of TFP for Your IBM Z SystemPrecisely
Mainframe customers are increasingly moving to hybrid cloud environments and new workloads challenges continue to emerge. The new Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z delivers a consumption pricing solution that provides more flexibility and simplifies the existing pricing landscape. As companies consider this new pricing model, they are evaluating ways to minimize their mainframe costs to justify the move.
Precisely’s Syncsort MFX and Syncsort ZPSaver can offer significant benefits in a TFP environment to help improve your mainframe efficiency, better manage workloads and control costs across your IBM Z Platform system.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn:
* How workload management changes in a TFP environment
* How to significantly reduce CPU utilization for sort operations to control costs and delay CPU upgrades
* How to reduce the workload on your mainframe’s CPU by off-loading sort operations to zIIP engines
Organizations are looking to cloud computing solutions to improve the flexibility of their IT. But in today’s marketplace you still need to control operating expense, improve performance and maintain reliability. You need a cloud infrastructure solution that can help you manage costs and risk.
As information technology evolves, your data center faces a range of pressures from growing complexity. Energy usage and costs are rising; keeping your systems reliable is becoming more difficult; managing the whole system is time-consuming and expensive. You need your IT environment to be simple to manage, responsive to changing needs and cost effective.
Revolutionize Your Data with Precisely and Confluent Streaming TechnologiesPrecisely
Core transactional systems like the z/OS Mainframe and IBM i represent the backbone of the global economy. They run the most mission critical business processes today, but organizations do not have an efficient way to integrate their core business data with emerging cloud platforms for real-time analytics and modernization.
Organizations that successfully integrate and operate new cloud-based technologies alongside these core transactional systems deliver a distinct and differentiated experience for their customers. This experience serves as their competitive advantage as business needs and offerings continue to grow.
Join us for this session to learn how Precisely Connect can help use the power of Confluent to unlock IBM data for powering cloud-native, real-time revenue driving applications. Feel confident in your streaming journey, knowing you don’t need to leave essential transaction data behind!
SVA discusses the opportunities and challenges they have encountered during their journey with customers, using mainframe offloading projects as an example.
SpringOne Platform 2017
Rahual Deo, Mphasis
There are many key elements a customer considers before moving to Pivotal. Two of the biggest barriers are Bubble Cost for migration & operating cost of Pivotal + Cloud. Our presentation will consists of multiple tracks which drastically lowers the cost of Pivotal migration, coupled with our creative engagement model which manages bubble cost issues.
Maximizing the Value of IBM's New Mainframe Pricing Model with Syncsort Elevate Precisely
IBM’s new Tailored Fit Pricing is a generational shift in IBM Z software pricing, offering an alternative to the Rolling 4-Hour Average model introduced in 1999. Designed to eliminate the challenges of forecasting demand for hybrid cloud environments and dynamic workloads, this new pricing model can make your mainframe licensing costs more predictable and manageable.
Our Elevate MFSort and Elevate ZPSaver products, combined with the new Tailored Fit Pricing offer the opportunity to achieve even more efficiency and cost savings through high-performance sort and the ability to offload expensive processing to zIIP engines.
Learn about:
The two new Tailored Fit Pricing options from IBM
How Elevate MFSort and Elevate ZPSaver cut down workloads
How Syncsort can help you project the savings you may achieve
POWER8 the x86 Server Farm - IBM Business Partners use POWER8 to Lower Client...Paula Koziol
Discover ISV solutions built using Linux on IBM POWER8 that will lower your Total Cost of Ownership compared to alternative platform technologies. Gain a competitive advantage with these solutions that analyze more data faster and improve performance at a much lower cost. Linux on IBM POWER8 is the only infrastructure that provides both scale-out and scale-up capabilities that optimizes the efficiency of your workloads while reducing your costs, allowing you to handle any business challenge.
This presentation highlights several high value solutions we have developed with Independent Software Vendors (ISV) IBM Business Partners. Hear directly from our ISV partners on the partnership and the value we deliver to our joint customers.
Visit http://www.ibm.com/power for more information.
Also visit the IBM Systems ISVs YouTube video channel for additional ISV Solutions on IBM Power Systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0Az2aq_pjgJs-1fFX0fw4BMRy2GeaHC
Follow us at @IBMSystemsISVs (https://twitter.com/IBMSystemsISVs)
Using Mainframe Data in the Cloud: Design Once, Deploy Anywhere in a Hybrid W...Precisely
Your company is storing and processing more data in the cloud – and mainframe data is no exception. Whether you’re centralizing enterprise data for analytics, streaming it to real-time cloud-native applications, or archiving for regulatory compliance, you know your mainframe data has to be included. Unfortunately, as with most mainframe initiatives, this is easier said than done!
View this webcast on-demand to learn some practical strategies for leveraging mainframe data in the cloud. We will cover:
• Common use cases for mainframe data in the cloud
• Challenges in using mainframe data in the cloud – and how to solve them
• How to get started
How to Balance System Speed and Risk for Multi-Platform InnovationClaudia Ring
Walking the line between speed to market and stability of mission-critical systems is something many enterprise organizations deal with on a consistent basis, especially when planning a major application release. Multi-speed IT is a term that connotes the difficulty of balancing speed and risk for these enterprises, but also one that inherently defines a solution; moving at different speeds depending on system requirements. While moving at various speeds based on whether you are releasing changes for Systems of Engagement (SOE) or Systems of Record (SOR) can seem negative, it can be used as a stepping stone towards complete enterprise agility and iterative improvements in release management across both types of systems. Join Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps, as she discusses;
How to begin incorporating continuous testing into the release cycle for both SOE's and SOR's
How deployment automation can be incorporated into multi-platform deployments
How earlier, more frequent testing and automated deployments can help stabilize risk while increasing speed
Customer success with using these testing and deployment solutions to achieve agility across both SOE's and SOR's
Imagine an entire IT infrastructure controlled not by hands and hardware, but by software. One in which application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource, whether running locally or in the cloud. A Software Defined Infrastructure enables your organization to deliver IT services in the most efficient way possible, optimizing resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. It is the foundation for a fully integrated software defined environment, optimizing your compute, storage and networking infrastructure so you can quickly adapt to changing business requirements. A comprehensive portfolio of management tools dynamically manage workloads and data, transforming a static IT infrastructure into a workload- , resource- and data-aware environment.
Learn more: http://ibm.co/1wkoXtc
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2015/03/slidecast-software-defined-infrastructure/
Fugoku is a pioneering application hosting company, aligning with the contemporary trend of embracing open-source software. Recognizing the shift in preference towards autonomy and control, businesses are veering away from dependency on major corporations like Google and Microsoft for their data management.
At Fugoku, our mission is to empower companies by facilitating the seamless creation of their personalized environments through a simple click. We understand that open-source solutions provide unparalleled control, and our platform ensures that businesses can effortlessly harness this power to tailor their digital landscapes according to their unique needs. In an era where independence and data sovereignty are paramount, Fugoku stands as a reliable partner, simplifying the path to complete autonomy in application hosting.
AI-Ready Data - The Key to Transforming Projects into Production.pptxPrecisely
Moving AI projects from the laboratory to production requires careful consideration of data preparation. Join us for a fireside chat where industry experts, including Antonio Cotroneo (Director, Product Marketing, Precisely) and Sanjeev Mohan (Principal, SanjMo), will discuss the crucial role of AI-ready data in achieving success in AI projects. Gain essential insights and considerations to ensure your AI solutions are built on a solid foundation of accurate, consistent, and context-rich data. Explore practical insights and learn how data integrity drives innovation and competitive advantage. Transform your approach to AI with a focus on data readiness.
Building a Multi-Layered Defense for Your IBM i SecurityPrecisely
In today's challenging security environment, new vulnerabilities emerge daily, leaving even patched systems exposed. While IBM works tirelessly to release fixes as they discover vulnerabilities, bad actors are constantly innovating. Don't settle for reactive defense – secure your IT with a layered approach!
This holistic strategy builds multiple security walls, making it far harder for attackers to breach your defenses. Even if a certain vulnerability is exploited, one of the controls could stop the attack or at least delay it until you can take action.
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• How security risks continue to evolve and change
• The importance of keeping all your systems patched an up-to-date
• A multi-layered approach to network, system object and data security
Navigating the Cloud: Best Practices for Successful MigrationPrecisely
In today's digital landscape, migrating workloads and applications to the cloud has become imperative for businesses seeking scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, executing a seamless transition requires strategic planning and careful execution. Join us as we delve into the insightful insights around cloud migration, where we will explore three key topics:
i. Considerations to take when planning for cloud migration
ii. Best practices for successfully migrating to the cloud
iii. Real-world customer stories
Unlocking the Power of Your IBM i and Z Security Data with Google ChroniclePrecisely
In today's ever-evolving threat landscape, any siloed systems, or data leave organizations vulnerable. This is especially true when mission-critical systems like IBM i and IBM Z mainframes are not included in your security planning. Valuable security data from these systems often remains isolated, hindering your ability to detect and respond to threats effectively.
Ironstream and bridge this gap for IBM systems by integrating the important security data from these mission-critical systems into Google Chronicle where it can be seen, analyzed and correlated with the data from other enterprise systems Here's what you'll learn:
• The unique challenges of securing IBM i and Z mainframes
• Why traditional security tools fall short for mainframe data
• The power of Google Chronicle for unified security intelligence
• How to gain comprehensive visibility into your entire IT ecosystem
• Real-world use cases for integrating IBM i and Z security data with Google Chronicle
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• The unique challenges of securing IBM i and IBM Z systems
• Real-world use cases for integrating IBM i and IBM Z security data with Google Chronicle
• Combining Ironstream and Google Chronicle to deliver faster threat detection, investigation, and response times
Unlocking the Potential of the Cloud for IBM Power SystemsPrecisely
Are you considering leveraging the cloud alongside your existing IBM AIX and IBM I systems infrastructure? There are likely benefits to be realized in scalability, flexibility and even cost.
However, to realize these benefits, you need to be aware of the challenges and opportunities that come with integrating your IBM Power Systems in the cloud. These challenges range from data synchronization to testing to planning for fallback in the event of problems.
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• Seamless migration strategies
• Best practices for operating in the cloud
• Benefits of cloud-based HA/DR for IBM AIX and IBM i
It can be challenging display and share capacity data that is meaningful to end users. There is an overabundance of data points related to capacity, and the summarization of this data is difficult to construct and display.
You are already spending time and money to handle the critical need to manage systems capacity, performance and estimate future needs. Are you it spending wisely? Are you getting the level of results from your investment that you really need? Can you prove it?
The good news is that the return on investment of implementing capacity management and capacity planning is most definitely positive and provable, both in terms of tangible monetary value and in some less tangible but no-less-valuable benefits.
Join us for this webinar and learn:
• Top Trends in Capacity Management
• Common customer pain points
• Ways to demonstrate these benefits to your company
Automate Studio Training: Materials Maintenance Tips for Efficiency and Ease ...Precisely
Ready to improve efficiency, provide easy to use data automations and take materials master (MM) data maintenance to the next level?
Find out how during our Automate Studio training on March 28 – led by Sigrid Kok, Principal Sales Engineer, and Isra Azam, Sales Engineer, at Precisely.
This session’s for you if you want to discover the best approaches for creating, extending or maintaining different types of materials, as well as automating the tricky parts of these processes that slow you down.
Greater control over your Automate Studio business processes means bigger, better results. We’ll show you how to enable your business users to interact with SAP from Microsoft Office and other familiar platforms – resulting in more efficient SAP data management, along with improved data integrity and accuracy.
This 90-minute session will be filled with a variety of topics, including:
real world approaches for creating multiple types of materials, balancing flexibility and power with simplicity and ease of use
tips on material creation, including
downloading the generated material number
using formulas to format prior to upload, such as capitalization or zero padding to make it easy to get the data right the first time
conditionally require fields based on other field entries
using LOV for fields that are free form entry for standard values
tips on modifying alternate units of measure, building from scratch using GUI scripting
modify multiple language descriptions, build from scratch using a standard BAPI
make end-to-end MM process flows more of a reality with features including APIs and predictive AI
Through these topics, you’ll gain plenty of actionable takeaways that you can start implementing right away – including how to:
improve your data integrity and accuracy
make scripts flexible and usable for automation users
seamlessly handle both simple and complex parts of material master
interact with SAP from both business user and script developers’ perspectives
easily upload and download data between SAP and Excel – and how to format the data before upload using simple formulas
You’ll leave this session feeling ready and empowered to save time, boost efficiency, and change the way you work.
Automate Studio reduces your dependency on technical resources to help you create automation scenarios – and our team of experts is here to make sure you get the most out of our solution throughout the journey.
Questions? Sigrid & Isra will be ready to answer them during a live Q&A at the end of the session.
Who should attend:
Attendees who will get the most out of this session are Automate Studio developers and runners familiar with SAP MM. Knowledge of Automate Studio script creation is nice to have, but not required.
Leveraging Mainframe Data in Near Real Time to Unleash Innovation With Cloud:...Precisely
Join us for an insightful roundtable discussion featuring experts from AWS, Confluent, and Precisely as they delve into the complexities and opportunities of migrating mainframe data to the cloud.
In this engaging webinar, participants will learn about the various considerations, strategies, and customer challenges associated with replicating mainframe data to cloud environments.
Our panelists will share practical insights, real-world experiences, and best practices to help organizations successfully navigate this transformative journey.
Whether you're considering migrating and modernizing your mainframe applications to cloud, or augmenting mainframe-based applications with data replication to cloud, this roundtable will provide valuable perspectives and insights to maximize the benefits of migrating mainframe data to the cloud.
Join us on March 27 to gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities and challenges in this evolving landscape.
Data Innovation Summit: Data Integrity TrendsPrecisely
Data integrity remains an evolving process of discovery, identification, and resolution. With an all-time low in public confidence on data being used for decision-making, attention has gradually shifted to data quality and data integration across multiple systems and frameworks. Data integrity becomes a focal point again for companies to make strategic moves in a world facing an evolving economy.
Key takeaways:
· How to build a data-driven culture within your organization
· Tips to engage with key stakeholders in your business and examples from other businesses around the world
· How to establish and maintain a business-first approach to data governance
· A summary of the findings from a recent survey of global data executives by Drexel University's LeBow College of Business
AI You Can Trust - Ensuring Success with Data Integrity WebinarPrecisely
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a strategic imperative in a rapidly evolving business landscape. However, the rush to embrace AI comes with risks, as illustrated by instances of AI-generated content with fake citations and potentially dangerous recommendations. The critical factor underpinning trustworthy AI is data integrity, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and full of rich context.
Attend our upcoming webinar, "AI You Can Trust: Ensuring Success with Data Integrity," as we explore organizational challenges in maintaining data integrity for AI applications and real-world use cases showcasing the transformative impact of high-integrity data on AI success.
During this panel discussion, we'll highlight everything from personalized recommendations and AI-powered workflows to machine learning applications and innovative AI assistants.
Key Topics:
AI Use Cases with Data Integrity: Discover how data integrity shapes the success of AI applications through six compelling use cases.
Solving AI Challenges: Uncover practical solutions to common AI challenges such as bias, unreliable results, lack of contextual relevance, and inadequate data security.
Three Considerations of Data Integrity for AI: Learn the essential pillars—complete, trusted, and contextual—that underpin data integrity for AI success.
Precisely and AWS Partnership: Explore how the collaboration between Precisely and Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses these challenges and empowers organizations to achieve AI-ready data.
Join our panelists to unlock the full potential of AI by starting your data integrity journey today. Trust in AI begins with trusted data – let's future-proof your AI together.
Less Bias. More Accurate. Relevant Outcomes.
Optimisez la fonction financière en automatisant vos processus SAPPrecisely
La fonction finance est au cœur du succès de l’entreprise, et doit aussi évoluer pour faire face aux enjeux d’aujourd’hui : aller plus vite, traiter plus d’informations et assurer une qualité des données sans faille.
Nous vous proposons de découvrir ensemble comment répondre à ces défis, notamment les points suivants :
Gérer les référentiels comptables et financiers, comptes comptables, clients, fournisseurs, centres de couts, centres de profits…Accélérer les clôtures et permettre de passer les écritures comptables nécessaires, de lancer les rapports adéquats et d’extraire les informations en temps réelOrganiser les taches en les affectant de manière ordonnancée à leurs responsables ou en les lançant automatiquement et les suivre de manière granulaire
Notre webinaire sera l’occasion d’évoquer et d’illustrer cette palette de capacités disponibles pour des utilisateurs métier sans code ou avec peu de code et nous vous espérons nombreux.
In dieser Präsentation diskutieren wir, welche Tools aus unserer Sicht dabei helfen, die Transformation zu SAP S/4HANA optimal zu gestalten. Aber wir blicken auch nach vorne!
In unserem Beitrag fokussieren wir uns nicht nur auf kurzfristige Lösungen, sondern es geht auch um das Thema „Nachhaltigkeit“. Um Investitionen für die Zukunft.
Dazu gehören Entwicklungen, die die SAP Welt nachhaltig verändern werden.
Wir betrachten zukünftige Technologien, wie KI oder Machine Learning, die dazu beitragen, datenintensive SAP Prozesse zu optimieren, die Datenqualität zu verbessern, manuelle Prozesse zu reduzieren und Mitarbeiter zu entlasten.
Werfen Sie mit uns einen Blick in die Zukunft und gestalten Sie die digitale Transformation in Ihrem Unternehmen mit.
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
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
3. Session Abstract and Speakers
• In this educational webinar, the heads of EMEA customer support and mainframe
development from Syncsort will discuss key mainframe optimization problems, opportunities
and use cases for 2017, spanning DB2 and network management on z/OS, as well as new ways
to save on your monthly IBM MLC charges and new options for long-standing mainframe
issues.
• Join us to learn:
– How the latest innovations for zIIP and sort will save you time and money each month
– How workload-centric database optimization changes the game for DB2 and IDMS
– New options for long-standing network management and IMS cost and resource issues
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
Stan Hoey
Director
EMEA Customer Support
Sid Isted
Senior Manager
Software Development
5. Optimization Need: Cost and Elapsed Time
Business
Problem
1. Companies need to contain MLC costs associated with the “4 Hour Rolling Average”
or the capacity of the mainframe
2. Large SORT jobs present challenges to SLA management
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
16. Roadmap for Sort and zIIP (MFX & ZPSaver)
Strategic Intent: Reduce mainframe costs through zIIP offload, smart resource usage and superior algorithms
LATEST PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION
DELIVERY V2.1 base (2016 Q2) V2.1 2016 Q4
Improve elapsed time performance of
large sorts with compression through
increased parallelism
Extend cost saving achievable with
ZPSaver to: OUTFIL, VSAM & invoked
sorts
Provide culturally sensitive sorting by
supporting Unicode
Improved resource management by
externalizing the control of the zIIP
offload percentage
Improved SLA management through
parallel processing using Spark engines
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
Extend cost saving achievable with
ZPSaver to:
JOIN applications
SYNCTOOL applications
Applications with Multi-volume,
compressed data sets
Optimize performance for
applications that process zEDC
compressed data sets
Improve performance on z/OS
release 2.2 operating systems
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
19. Business
Problem
As Mainframe budgets increase organizations need to continue to provide secure,
reliable networks to support business critical enterprise wide applications via a cost
effective suite of monitoring and management tools.
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
Optimization Need: Network Management Cost and Ease-of-Use
22. Roadmap: Zen Suite
Strategic Intent: Cost effective enhanced z/OS Network monitoring, management and security
LATEST PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION
DELIVERY 2016 Q2 2016 Q4
Provide application level tracing for
greater operational control and
improved network-related problem
resolution.
Reduce MLC costs by exploiting zIIPs for
Zen products
Extend FTP monitoring to include secure
FTP protocols for greater operational
control and compliance.
Support IBM Shared Memory
Communications technology to enable
better operational management and
control for z13 environments
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
Enables expanded operational
visibility in OSA Monitor to RoCE
devices and their activity
Deploy IBM Communications Server
Network Management Interfaces
(NMI) across the product suite to
enable greater operational flexibility
and extensibility
Expand secure communication
capability for Enterprise Extender
Security product to include Windows
Servers that communicate with z/OS
and Unix
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
23. Business
Problem
Businesses are faced with expensive ongoing IMS license costs and a diminishing skills
base needed to maintain legacy applications with ‘locked in’ data. Against this
backdrop they need to modernize these legacy applications and free the data to
distributed and mobile access.
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Optimization Need: IMS Database Migration
27. Roadmap: DL/2
Strategic Intent: Increased value and accessibility to IMS legacy data through migration to DB2
LATEST PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION
DELIVERY 2016 Q2 2016 Q4
Continue to identify improvements to
the mapping, data migration and
application testing process to enable
increased value and robust verification
for product implementation
Investigate partner options around
technology to isolate IMS
database/application relationship and
provide targeted cost effective
application testing
Package DL/2 with SMP/E
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
Enhanced application migration
features direct from customer
implementation experiences
Improved Mapper tool with
increased database design coverage
and comprehensive migration test
processes
Further application migration
changes for ease of use and
extended functionality
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28. Business
Problems
DB2 for z/OS database administrators worry about three things: (1) application
response times, (2) throughput, and (3) mainframe CPU utilization — not necessarily in
that order.
And they have to keep those parameters at reasonably optimal levels.
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Optimization Need: DB2 Database Management
31. Optimization Poll #2
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Q2. What database issue does your organization face today?
We need to improve DB2 SLA performance
We want or need to migrate IMS to DB2
We want to lower CA IDMS-related costs
We have other DB2, IDMS or IMS issues
(Check all that apply)
32. Business
Problems
Difficult to continue to meet mission-critical needs for CA IDMS database
administration
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Optimization Need: IDMS Database Management
33. Optimization Need: CA IDMS Database Management
Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
34. EZ-IDMS (Cogito tools for CA IDMS®)
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36. Questions and More Information
Questions for Sid and Stan?
Questions on DB2 or CA IDMS tools for Gary?
Questions on Zen for Ken?
For more information:
syncsort.com
blog.syncsort.com/
Comments/Other:
Stan Hoey: shoey@syncsort.com
Annika Llewellyn-Smith: alsmith@syncsort.com
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37. Syncsort is the Global Leader in Big Iron to Big Data Solutions
37Syncsort Confidential and Proprietary - do not copy or distribute
Trusted Industry Leadership
Providing world-class data management software to large enterprises for
nearly 50 years with a focus on customer value and unparalleled support
Lower Cost, Higher Performance
Our fast, efficient software helps power business and operational analytics
while optimizing resource utilization to dramatically reduce the cost of
managing mainframe and legacy systems
Connecting Big Iron To Big Data
Our solutions address the complex set of requirements for delivering rich
data from mainframe and legacy sources to Big Data environments
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Marquee global customer base of leaders and
emerging businesses across all major industries
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strategic partners in Big Iron and Big Data ecosystems
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emerging businesses across all major industries