The next meeting of the NY Metro NaSPA Chapter will be on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 in room 1219 at the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue, New York City, from 10:00 AM until 4:30 PM. We have an *outstanding* day planned, with some of the best System z speakers in the industry. Sessions for the day include:
"Linux on System z: Perfect Together", Dennis Wunder, Technical Consultant for Linux, z/VM, zSeries, IBM Corporation Faced with the challenges of managing rising costs, delivering improved feature/function, and optimizing servers and people skills, today's IT industry is turning to Linux and Virtualization technologies. Linux and z/VM running on System z Enterprise Servers from IBM are helping large and small enterprises alike. Nationwide Insurance claims it will save 15 million dollars over 3 years because of its investment in z/VM and Linux. DGTIC claims to have recovered the cost of a new System z solution in less than 2 years based on database licensing savings alone. This interactive session will discuss the technical and business benefits of including z/VM and Linux on System z in your IT strategy. Come and learn how the Linux operating system allows businesses to build platform independent skills. Come and learn how z/VM's extreme virtualization allows big companies like Nationwide, and smaller operations like DGTIC, to run hundreds of virtual servers on 1 or 2 physical servers. We will discuss what workloads make sense, and what are easy starting points. We will show why making an investment in Linux and System z will provide a solid return to your IT operation. Customer examples will be included throughout the talk as proof points and areas of opportunity for to consider. "An Introduction to SDSF Support for REXX", Joe Perillo, SDSF Development, IBM Corporation With z/OS V1R9, SDSF added support for the REXX programming language, which allows you to perform SDSF operations from within a REXX application. This presentation provides a brief overview of SDSF and an introduction to using REXX with SDSF. Access to nearly all SDSF functions and data are available using the REXX interface. This gives you the power to examine or collect data from SDSF programmatically, automate logical decisions, and implement any of SDSF's actions on those values. "Migrating to z/OS V1R10", Marna Walle, z/OS System Build and Installation, IBM Corporation Come drink from the fire hose! This session is of interest to systems programmers and their managers who are migrating to z/OS R10. The speaker will cover the following topics: steps to take now to prepare for your migration, driving and target system requirements, and some of the most important migration actions you'll need to know when upgrading to z/OS R10. Attend this session to get the technical information you'll need for your z/OS R10 migration. Pre-registration is requested and recommended as it simplifies getting into the building and helps us get the room set up correctly. Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as is possible if you are thinking of attending. The meeting is open to non-NaSPA members and is free. Please pass this invitation on to your colleagues! Thanks!!!! - Mark Mark Nelson, CISSP z/OS Security Server (RACF) Design and Development IBM Corporation 2455 South Road MS/P388 Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 (845) 435-7758, tie line 8+295-7758, fax (845) 432-9589 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
