Mid Atlantic CICS User Group: Next Meeting

The Fall Meeting, October 27, 2000

The Mid Atlantic CICS User Group Fall Meeting was held at the Tyson's WestPark Hotel in Tyson's Corners, Virginia.

The agenda:

CICS TS 1.3
CICS TS The Next Release
Web Sphere Introduction
S/390 Security and the Web

The following four handouts are available in .PDF Format.

Session One Session Two Session Three Session Four

SESSION ONE - CICS Transaction Server 1.3 - An Overview

Come hear all about CICS Transaction Server V1R3 and how it enables you to
enter the 21st Century with your existing applications able to run in the
new e-business environment using Java and Objects. For traditional CICS applications,
come hear how CICS provides enhanced Parallel Sysplex support with Data Tables, Enqueues
and Named Counter Servers. And, there's a evolution of the
pseudo conversational programming model into CICS Business Transaction Services.

SESSION TWO - CICS - The next release

The next release of CICS will provide an environment in which Enterprise
Java Beans can execute. EJBs bring the power of component based programming to the
enterprise server environment. They allow programmers to build scalable
applications from off-the-shelf components while hiding the complexities of security,
transactions and distributed computing.

The Speaker: Leigh Y. Compton

Leigh is a consulting IT specialist in the IBM Dallas Systems Center. With
a background in systems programming, industrial engineering, and
education, Leigh provides technical support on CICS products to customers and IBMers.
She is a frequent presenter at the CICS Technical Conference and CICS user
groups around the US.

Leigh has been associated with information processing and CICS for more
than 20 years. She joined IBM in 1984 as a Systems Engineer assigned to a
large manufacturing customer. Prior to coming to IBM, Leigh was the lead systems
programmer and systems programming manager at the Florida Department of
Labor.

SESSION THREE (3) - Introduction to WebSphere

WebSphere is a family of products supporting a variety of popular eBusiness
scenarios including web serving with dynamic content, support for new object oriented
transactional business models, and the integration of existing CICS and IMS transactional
assets. The WebSphere technology is available for many popular server platforms
including Windows/NT, AIX, OS/390, Solaris, HP/UX and Linux. It is supported by
popular development tools including Web Studio, VisualAge for Java, Rational Rose
and the Tivoli management suite.

This session will explore the WebSphere technology including it's support
for the Enterprise Java programming model and a robust runtime architecture
providing the qualities of service necessary for scale, security and availability in a
eBusiness setting.
The runtime architecture for OS/390 and Linux for S/390 will be described
in detail along with a perspective on where this technology is heading over the next
few months.

The Speaker: Carl Wohlers

Carl is a Consulting I/T Specialist with the IBM WebSphere for
OS/390 Technical Marketing Support organization. He has been with IBM for twenty-four years
including eleven years with System/390 Software Marketing focused on distributed and
client/server computing. During the last five years he has focused on object technology
for OS/390.
He received an M.S. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute for
Technology and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Hawaii.

SESSION FOUR (4) - S/390 Security and the Web

Mike will discuss what makes the S/390 the most secure server platform and
will highlight some recent security features in OS/390 V2R10.

The Speaker: Mike Kearney

Mike is a S/390 Security Specialist with IBM's Washington Systems
Center. He has been focusing on security topics since 1990 and became a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in 1997. He teaches the
Web Security Workshop, a free seminar on S/390 web security, at the Washington
Systems Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland.