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IMS Regional User Groups Toronto September 9, 2014

Sandy Sherrill IMS RUG Advocate Toronto and Montreal

IBM Silicon Valley Lab

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IMS hits the road IBM Impact April 27 – May 1 Las Vegas, NV

Share Pittsburg August 3 - 8 Pittsburg, CA

IBM Innovate June 1 - 5 Orlando, FL

Central Canadian DB2 User Group

CCDUG June 2 - 3 Markham, Ontario

IBM Insight 2014 October 26 - 30 Las Vegas, NV

NEXT

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IBM InterConnect

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If you are interested in presenting how your solution

incorporates IMS and a product from WebSphere, Rational, or Tivoli, we are happy to work

with you! CFS closes on September 26

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IMS Global!

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bit.ly/IMS_Global

Dedicated groups for: • IMS Database Administrators • IMS System Programmers • IMS Business Partners • IBM IMS Development Organization • Spain GSE • United Kingdom GSE • Germany GSE • Nordics GSE • ……..suggestions for more?

Your online source for: • Event announcements • Links to new technical content • Networking • Expertise exchange • Communicating with IMS Market and

Product Management • IMS Job Announcements • ……..suggestions for more?

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Planning to migrate to IMS 13? The Migration Workshop can help!

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For more information and to register: ibm.com/software/os/systemz/telecon/8jul/

The 3-day teleconference series from July 2014 was recorded and is available to you now.

Register here and listen to the replays at your convenience!

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IMS Value Unit Edition

Database Manager • For both IMS 13 and IMS 12

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

now with an alternative and attractive pricing option.

• Provides competitive advantage to IMS data sharing

clients requiring additional cost-effective access to IMS

data for net new workload.

• Expressly for net new applications or workloads in Java or

SQL only, through IMS Open Database, from applications

on WebSphere Application Server on z/OS

Transaction Manager • For both IMS 13 and IMS 12

• The same performance and workload management

capabilities of IMS Transaction Manager, now with an

alternative and attractive pricing option to access IMS

assets from qualified Java, mobile, analytics, and big data

workloads.

• For new qualifying Java workloads and new qualifying

packaged application workloads

Both add new customized capabilities to address business growth based on key business initiatives including SOA, enterprise and mobile access strategy, and operational business intelligence (BI).

Both leverage the unique industry-leading performance and workload management capabilities of IMS.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/ims

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IMS Business Value Assessment Workshop

Help clients identify ways to get more out of their IMS investment.

• A proactive assessment

• Provides tactical and strategic

recommendations to:

– Increase benefits

– Lower costs

– Improve processing

efficiencies for IMS

applications

IBM or BP Services for Deployment

Supported by

Subject Matter

Experts from

Development

Lab

Joint Proof Of Concept Client Implementation

IMS Value Assessment?

Project Kickoff Call

Data Consolidation and Technical Assessment

Generate Recommendations and develop workshop materials

Deliver Recommendations Proposal for next steps.

IBM Client team follow-up

Discovery Workshop

Contact Laura Hunsinger, lshunsin@us.ibm.com, for details

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IMS Customer Advisory Council • Monthly e-Meetings

• NA Participants: Third Tuesday

• EMEA & South America Participants: Third Thursday

• Face-to-face Meetings

• Information On Demand (IOD) Conference

• Networking opportunities with peer IMS experts worldwide

• Influence the strategic product direction of IMS!

• We are planning a unique IMS NextGen CAC

Interested in joining? Contact: Laura Hunsinger at llhunsin@us.ibm.com

Coming

Soon!

IMS NextGen

CAC!

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“…every subject was successfully covered by the most appropriate expert. While I was there at SVL, the program was flexible enough so we could address certain topics which I personally identified, that would benefit me at my home location...”

• Interested in one (1) final Customer Internship event in 2014? Let us hear from you!!!

• Sessions include: Installation, HALDB features, IMS OTMA and Connect, application topics, and MORE!

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

• Contact Tori Gonzalez for more information: gotori@us.ibm.com

IMS Customer Internship Program – 2014

“…a unique experience, where I was given the opportunity to meet with the IMS developers and testers at the IBM Lab, and work side by side with them… It's incredible to meet people whose work is known worldwide.”

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IMS ISV Community ? ? Any

others to

add?

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

your destination on ibm.com for all IBM

technical information and resources. It

replaces multiple sources of information

across IBM products.

Initially... Knowledge Center combines all of

our existing information centers (IMS and

others) into a single web site that provides an

improved, filterable search capability and a

brand-new user experience.

Over time… IBM Knowledge Center will be

the basis for a fusion of a wide variety of

sources including information centers, wikis,

developerWorks, Support, Redbooks,

PartnerWorld, and more.

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Have questions? Interested in early testing? Contact Patti Tonello from the IMS Information Development team: tonello@us.ibm.com

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IMS Best Practices

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IMS Social Community!

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New IMS Videos Available!

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Explore the ReThinkIMS YouTube channel for demos, tutorials, and more! bit.ly/IBMIMS_YouTube

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IMS Redbooks – there’s an App for that!

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Now available for both iOS and Android devices

Get it now!

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VIRTUAL RUG NEW F2F RUG F2F RUG

Find information and agendas for upcoming meetings @ ibm.co/IMS_RUGs

IMS User Group Meeting Locations – North America

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Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific

IMS User Group Meeting Locations – Latin America, Europe, Asia - Pacific

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• Sao Paulo, Brazil • Oslo, Norway

• Helsinki, Finland

• Stockholm, Sweden

• Tokyo, Japan

• Singapore

• Melbourne, Australia

• Sydney, Australia

Check for upcoming meetings

here: ibm.co/IMS_RUGs

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Today’s Agenda

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8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast* and Registration IBM

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Host Presentation Sandy Sherrill

IBM Host

9:15 – 10:30 Evolving Mobile Systems of Engagement in Your Enterprise

The strong business motivations to deliver mobile applications into the market quickly drives aggressive schedules for mobile

development projects. Inception-to-delivery in weeks or months is common and the accepted norm. How can you deliver mobile

apps with agility along with traditional mainframe development? In this session, we'll show you how may already have the interfaces

to leverage existing, trusted mainframe applications to create cutting-edge mobile applications that run on today's most popular

handheld and tablet devices.

Kenny Blackman

IBM

Suzie Wendler

IBM

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 12:00 Enterprise Application Modernization and Business Process Modeling

Designing an application with an internal service flow template not only supports flexibility but also facilitates the creation of new

business processes. This means, for example, that a control application could call another application, analyze the results and,

based on those, call any other application all within the control programs unit of work. The ability to enhance IMS applications in this

fashion is called synchronous program switching and is a mechanism for new applications or can be used to extend the value of

transactions that may have been written yesterday or even decades ago.

Suzie Wendler

IBM

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch – Provided by IBM*

13:00 – 14:00 Enterprise Systems - Creating the Perfect Cloud

More and more companies recognize that cloud technology can help them achieve business goals, but the widely-held perception

remains that creating a private cloud infrastructure is expensive, time-consuming, complicated and could introduce security risks.

Not true. System z solutions can provide a secure, well-managed, multi-architecture cloud platform where resources are elastic,

workloads can be heterogeneous, service levels are automatically met, and overall costs are dramatically reduced. The example of

am IMS environment shows how integration with z solutions can be used to create the perfect cloud and access newly-defined

resources as well as those that have been part of mission-critical systems for years.

Kenny Blackman

IBM

Suzie Wendler

IBM

14:00 – 14:15 Break

14:15 – 15:15 DEMO: SQL to What? Mobile to Where? Exploring IMS Data

This demo will show how easy it is to generate SQL to access IMS databases remotely. Ken will demo the step-by-step approach,

start to finish, on what it takes to create the calls, test the environment, and view the results using a downloadable no-charge IDE,

the IMS Explorer.

Kenny Blackman

IBM

15:15 – 15:30 Meeting Close Sandy Sherrill

IBM Host

15:30 – 16:00 Steering Committee Discussion Steering

Committee

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