The Fall Meeting, October 12, 2001
The Mid Atlantic CICS User Group Fall Meeting will be held at the Tyson's
WestPark Hotel in Tyson's Corners, Virginia.
The agenda:
8:00 - 9:00 Registration, coffee, tea and pastries: Pick up name
tag/at the door registration.
9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks and vendor introduction
9:15 -10:30 First Morning session: Z/OS
Sheri F. Penn is currently a senior zSeries Marketing Specialist in the
Baltimore/Washington/Northern VA area. With 6 years in the S/390 brand and
14 years with IBM, Sheri has vast experience in marketing and selling
Complex mainframe and total solutions to IBM's largest commercial
Customers. Prior to 1996, she was an IBM client manager on The Travelers
Account team in Hartford, CT where she focused on storage and lines of
Business solutions.
Sherri will provide a high level discussion of IBM S/390 and zSeries 900 architecture and technology,
including new enhancements for availability and performance such as Fiber Connection (FICON), Processor
Upgrade on Demand, Internal Channels, and parallel Sysplex.
10:30 - 10:45 Break: Soda and coffee.
10:45 - 11:45 Second Morning Session: Z/OS - continued
Carter Adkinson is currently a Field Technical Support Specialist for the
Mid-Atlantic region. His current role includes helping local customers
Architect, configure, and support zSeries solutions. His primary areas of
Expertise is Websphere and Linux on zSeries. After completing his Masters
Degree in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, he spent six months in an
IBM training program to become educated on S/390 architecture and software.
He has been supporting local S/390 and zSeries customers in the
Baltimore/Washington area over the past year and a half.
Carter will provide a description of z/OS and its key features and functions and how these
enhancements will change the way business is done. The key topics that will be covered are Intelligent
Resource Director, Hypersockets, and Workload License Charge.
11:45 - 1:15 Buffet Lunch
1:15 - 1:30 Question and Answer Session with Speakers
1:30 - 2:30 First Afternoon Session: Java, COBOL and CICS working together.
Peter Brennan is the President and Peter Sperling is the Vice President of
Bridgewater Consultants, Inc. They formed Bridgewater in 1993 determined to find a quicker,
better and simpler way to develop enterprise software. They both have over 24 years of
experience in IBM CICS COBOL software development. They have worked with DB2 since the mid 80s
and a number of CASE tools since the late 80s. During the last 3 years they have also worked on
developing an enterprise Java solution that compliments their CICS COBOL work. Both are
certified Sun Java and IBM Visualize for Java programmers. They will provide an overview of
how Java and Cobol can be used to provide a comprehensive solution. The presentation will
concentrate on why Java and CICS COBOL does not have to be an "either or" proposition. We
will use a live demonstration to show how Java Servlets can provide a modern looking web
interface can invoke COBOL programs to perform business logic functions And data I/O, all
with the scalability and reliability we expect (and demand) from CICS. We will also cover
Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Java Server Pages (JSP) and Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs). We
will discuss a transition process through which a CICS COBOL programmer can become a competent
Java programmer. The demonstration will use Bridgewater's BW*Wizard, IBM's VisualAge for
Java, DB2, CICS Client and Transaction Gateway and Merant's (soon to be Micro Focus again)
Mainframe Express.
2:30 - 2:45 Break: Soda and coffee.
2:45 - 3:45 Afternoon Session 2: Web Enabling
Terry Atkins is a Systems Engineering Manager from Micro Focus, Inc. His career
in Information Technology has been in the development and management of application
systems. His application system experience includes Mainframe, Distributed, and
Web application systems and their successful integration. He joined Micro Focus in
1996 and his current focus is in ensuring successful application system deployment
by Micro Focus' customers, stressing the integration of Legacy applications with new
and emerging technologies.
The presentation will include the various options, methods, and processes
available to IT in documenting and web enabling Legacy applications. The process
discussed will be Application analysis and understanding; Legacy asset mining and
documentation; Componentization of Legacy assets; Web enablement of Legacy assets
after componentization; Alternative approaches of web enablement of Legacy
applications with an advantages/disadvantages discussion.
Directions to the Westpark Hotel, Tysons Corner
The Westpark Hotel is located at 8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, Va. Take
beltway exit for Route 7 West. Go west on Route 7. After the Route 123
overpass (the second overpass), turn right at the third light (Westpark
Drive). the first right on Westpark Drive is the hotel entrance.
There is plenty of free parking at the hotel.
Phone number for messages 703-734-2800.
Cost:
Register via web site, Prepay via mail $45.00, Pay at the door $50.00
Not registered, Pay at the door $60.00 (no lunch)
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Last updated: 10/8/2001