EVENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS DIRECTORY · 2.0, Enterprise Mobile, OSGi, Dojo, Rest, JAX-RS, EJB 3.x, Dynamic Scripting, SCA, JPA 2.0 and supporting tools. Programming model selection

2012 IBM WebSphere Technical Convention Participate in the largest European annual technical event dedicated to WebSphere products and solutions

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EVENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS DIRECTORY Updated on September 24th 2012 (Subject to Change)

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1 TECHNICAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW ................................................................................................. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 TECHNICAL TRACKS ......................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Application Development................................................................................. 3 2.2 Application Infrastructure ................................................................................ 3 2.3 Messaging, Connectivity, SOA and Integration ................................................... 4 2.4 BPM and Decision Management ........................................................................ 4 2.5 CICS ............................................................................................................ 5

3 LIST OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS BY TRACK ................................................................................... 6 3.1 Application Development Track Sessions ........................................................... 6 3.2 Application Infrastructure Track Sessions ........................................................ 11 3.3 Messaging, Connectivity, SOA and Integration Track Sessions ........................... 18 3.4 BPM and Decision Management ...................................................................... 28 3.5 CICS .......................................................................................................... 35




1 Technical Program Overview The 2012 IBM European WebSphere Technical Convention (WTC) is a 4 day technical enablement event scheduled from 15-18 October 2012 in Berlin, Germany. This event has earned the reputation for delivering deep technical content targeted at architects, developers, integrators and administrators by offering lectures and hands-on labs that focus on the best practices and practical skills required to run today’s agile enterprises. WTC will include over 100 technical sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM software and solutions. This event will highlight the latest IBM technologies including BPM, SOA, WebSphere, Cloud computing, Mobile technologies inclusive of business advantages and technical strategies leading to an exceptional web experience.

2 Technical Tracks WTC 2012 technical content is designed to cover various technical topics under following five tracks:

2.1 Application Development This track will focus on tools and methodologies that will help you deliver Mobile and Web 2.0 applications along with innovative solutions faster, in order to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and build competitive advantage. It will feature theoretical and hands-on instructions on Java Enterprise Edition application development using WebSphere developer tools, both on the desktop and in the cloud. It will also feature tools for IBM Mobile Platform and Web 2.0 technology tools providing an end-to-end development experience. You will hear about best practices from colleagues and subject matter experts and learn how to architect solutions and develop applications using several WebSphere Application Server Programming Models inclusive of latest WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile and other open source development options. There will be sessions on Web 2.0, Enterprise Mobile, OSGi, Dojo, Rest, JAX-RS, EJB 3.x, Dynamic Scripting, SCA, JPA 2.0 and supporting tools. Programming model selection guidance will be provided. The track will explore forward-looking development options in a cloud computing environment, including how to improve software delivery in virtualized environments. Programming using the IBM Worklight Studio and Rational Mobile development tools and programming techniques and tips will also be discussed.

2.2 Application Infrastructure This track will cover WebSphere Application Infrastructure solutions that enable you to intelligently manage your application environment for improved operational efficiency, enhanced security, and control and cost optimization. You will learn how to leverage a proven foundation for your applications and services through IBM offerings such as WebSphere Application Server. You will discover how to architect, deliver and scale new services leveraging private clouds and how to support new business models with Mobile delivery. In addition, this track will discuss how to establish faster, more consistent virtualized application environments that are easier to deploy, customize, and manage while delivering superior IT economics.




You will learn IBM’s newly announced IBM PureApplication Systems capabilities as they relate to the application lifecycle. This will help you understand how to identify and onboard your existing applications as workloads, and which capabilities are best suited for your applications. You will also learn how you can maximize the security and control of application infrastructure through industry leading management capabilities. Experts will share best practices and you will hear about lessons learned from colleagues and subject matter experts in interactive sessions.

2.3 Messaging, Connectivity, SOA and Integration This track encompasses a range of software and solutions that provide a secure, reliable and scalable way to connect within and beyond your business and into the Cloud. Sessions in this track will explore the universal connectivity backbone and administration, security, problem determination and performance for IBM products including WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging, and WMQ Telemetry Transport to integrate devices for a Smarter Planet, as well as application integration using WebSphere Message Broker. You will learn about the latest updates to WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker, as well as architecture and implementation best practices for scaling and securing WMB and WMQ installations and implementations. This track will feature sessions on how to integrate across departments, and domains using service federation management patterns and WebSphere Service Registry & Repository. This track will also extend the integration discussion to purpose-built integration appliances, highlighting the latest in the family of WebSphere DataPower appliances as well as the latest details on the WebSphere Cast Iron appliance. Other topics of discussions include solutions provided for challenges posed by Cloud computing from an Integration middleware perspective. Whether an enterprise starts moving select business services into public clouds (SaaS) or making use of cloud-based IT resources in public or private clouds (IaaS, PaaS), they need to integrate the new cloud-based resources and services with their existing ones with WebSphere Cast Iron. Additionally this track will feature sessions on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), with architect-focused sessions on integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks and/or services to meet the governance required, in order to properly manage the enterprise.

2.4 BPM and Decision Management This track focuses on technology that enables process improvement, visibility and automation, to help companies get started on projects for specific initiatives or adopt broader Business Process and Decision Management programs for wider transformation. It will showcase the comprehensive set of offerings that enables clients to model, simulate, execute, adapt, monitor, automate and optimize core business processes, business rules and business events. This track will cover latest versions of IBM’s Business Process Manager and WebSphere Operational Decision Management portfolio from in-depth sessions about products to implementation methodology. Attendees will learn how to get started with a small project and then incrementally grow to an enterprise level program in a way that proves value to the business throughout the entire transformation. This track will highlight IBM’s Business




Process and Decision Management technologies and how they work hand-in-hand with IBM’s proven methodology. This track will also highlight some of the case studies from IBM experts having a breadth of industry knowledge and track record of delivering high value to our customers.

2.5 CICS This track provides the information you need to make the most out of major product enhancements released in the CICS Transaction Server allowing you to increase the ease of application integration, enhance application transformation, and improve enterprise management. You will also learn how to manage, secure, monitor and integrate your enterprise CICS environment in a 24/7 world. Discover how to leverage your CICS applications with new easy to use tools, how to enable them for access by Mobile and Web 2.0 applications, and how to capture CICS events to gain insight into processing within your CICS applications. Topics covered may include CICS problem determination, testing and debugging, administration, migrations and performance.




3 List of Technical Sessions by Track 3.1 Application Development Track Sessions D01 - Avoid Brittle Applications with OSGi Modularity Tim deBoer, STSM, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Focus, IBM If you are familiar with using the Java enterprise specifications, you will find the OSGi enterprise programming model can help you build robust and modular applications. Learn about the capabilities and benefits of OSGi, and the support available in Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server to easily convert or build new OSGi applications. D02 - Building Mobile Applications with the Dojo Toolkit Christopher C Mitchell, STSM, IBM This session will introduce the JavaScript Dojo Toolkit and in its mobile module. The session will also demonstrate how to create, step by step, a simple mobile Web application with Dojo. Tips & tricks will be discussed as well as integration of the applications into native containers. Finally, we will look at the future of the mobile platform for Dojo. D03 - What's new with Rational Application Developer and Development for WAS Tim deBoer, STSM, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Focus, IBM Jim Zhang, Architect, Web Development Tools, Rational Application Developer, IBM IBM Rational Application Developer is an award-winning IDE for developers, building applications for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server. RAD provides developers with capabilities for end-to-end application development of enterprise Java services to Web 2.0 and mobile web clients, and everything in between. Come and hear about what's new, in support of the latest releases of WAS and Portal, that can simplify and accelerate your development and improve your application quality. D04 - You need an app for that! IBM's Mobile App Development Solution Leigh Williamson, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Software CTO Team, Mobile Software Development Strategy, IBM Mobile apps are now mandatory. On a Smarter Planet, successful organizations are computing in motion – providing a mobile experience that is rich, relevant and fully connected – arming their customers, partners and employees to innovate at lightening speeds and improving the way they work. The IBM Mobile Enterprise is a comprehensive set of capabilities for enabling mobile to be an integral part of the enterprise in an open and governed manner. Come see how you can address the four critical challenges related to mobile app development by leveraging the full spectrum of the IBM Mobile Enterprise solution.




D05 - Improve your Developer Experience using the WAS Liberty Profile with JRebel Tim Deboer, STSM, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Focus, IBM Anton Arhipov, JRebel Product Lead, ZEROTURNAROUND This session demonstrate how developers can improve their productivity using WebSphere's Liberty profile and JRebel, integrated together, to optimize their development. WebSphere Application Server 8.5 includes the new Liberty profile, which is optimized for developer productivity and web application deployment. It has an incredibly fast restart time, small foorprint, and ease of use that makes the Liberty profile a great option for developers building applications that do not require the full Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) environment of traditional enterprise application server profiles. JRebel is a JVM-plugin that makes it possible for Java developers to instantly see any code change made to an app without redeploying. JRebel lets you see code changes instantly, versioning classes and resources individually and updating one at a time instead of as a lump application redeploy. D06 - Building Effective Real-World Dojo Mobile Applications Andrew Ferrier, Software Services for WebSphere, Web 2.0/Dojo/Mobile Specialist, IBM Drawn from real-world experiences on recent IBM customer projects, this session will demonstrate how to build real-world Dojo Mobile applications to provide rich cross-platform Dojo mobile applications that integrate with enterprises, yet are beautiful and usable. We briefly discuss Dojo, what Dojo Mobile is and what it brings, and then discuss the full project lifecycle of a Dojo Mobile project, from design (both visual and technical), implementation and deployment. We'll also talk about its place in the IBM Worklight development platform. D07 - RESTful and Web API Services in Modern Web 2.0 and Mobile Applications Andrew Ferrier, Software Services for WebSphere, Web 2.0/Dojo/Mobile Specialist, IBM This session will introduce RESTful and Web API concepts, explaining what this style of service exposure is and is not. We'll cover the advantages of simplicity and easy of use, contrast them with the SOAP approach to building services, look at the options available for building them, as well as explaining how they integrate with modern Web 2.0 and Mobile applications. We'll also describe how they relate to the IBM Worklight and Cast Iron platforms. We'll talk about HTTP verbs, content types, and other topics, and how these map to the resources we model using REST. D08 - Developing a Mobile Application for IBM Worklight - Live Demo Andrew Ferrier, Software Services for WebSphere, Web 2.0/Dojo/Mobile Specialist, IBM Jim Zhang, Architect, Web Development Tools, Rational Application Developer, IBM In this 75 minute live demo, this session demonstrate how to develop a mobile application with IBM Worklight. We'll start out by explaining some of the core principles of IBM Worklight, then fire up the IDE to create the application. We'll show how to build out mobile web content, host it on the Worklight server, then combine this inside a native application wrapper and deploy it to a phone. We'll show Worklight's direct update capability in use, as well as some of the options for connecting from IBM Worklight to back-end services.,We'll also talk about some possible extensions: how unified push management could be used, how to use encrypted local storage, and so on.




D09 - Understanding Core Web Technologies for Rich Mobile Web Applications Andrew Ferrier, Software Services for WebSphere, Web 2.0/Dojo/Mobile Specialist, IBM In order to build rich mobile web applications, such as those using Dojo Mobile and IBM Worklight, it's essential to have an understanding of core web technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. In this session, we revisit each of these, providing a thorough understanding of the core principles of HTML5 and CSS3. We'll look at some of the strong and weak points of JavaScript, and the essential things to know for those moving from building server-side Web 1.0 applications to modern client-side Web 2.0 applications. We'll also talk about some of the newer web standards, such as Geolocation, Database, and File APIs, as well as offline storage. We'll round off by looking at when it's appropriate to extend these technologies with support from a JavaScript toolkit such as Dojo Mobile, and what value a hybrid approach, such as that offered by IBM Worklight, can add. D10 - Worklight Deep Dive Christopher C Mitchell, STSM, IBM Worklight Architecture, IBM Todd Kaplinger, Architecture IBM Mobile Technology ,Master Inventor, IBM This session will provide an overview of the new IBM Mobile Foundation: a new middleware offering from IBM that will enable customers to build and deliver innovative mobile applications, centrally govern and manage their mobile infrastructure, and integrate with existing enterprise data and services. Attendees will leave with an understanding of what the platform is and how it can help them effectively and efficiency take advantage of mobile for their enterprises. D11 - Building Mobile Applications with IBM Mobile Platform and Tools Jim Zhang, Architect, Web Development Tools, Rational Application Developer, IBM Todd Kaplinger, Architecture IBM Mobile Technology ,Master Inventor, IBM By combining the Worklight Studio and Rational mobile development tools, the Tools for IBM Mobile Platform provides an end-to-end development experience. Come to learn how you can use this IDE to develop mobile applications for Business-to-Customer or Business-to-Employee scenarios and leverage the platform capabilities. The session includes a demo of creating projects, constructing UI with a WYSIWYG Editor, coding in Javascript/HTML5/CSS, previewing and debugging with a browser based simulator, building and deploying the application, and run on the native simulator and physical device. D12 - IBM Enterprise Mobile Strategy Roland Barcia, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Mobile is a top priority for innovation and competitiveness across industries today. IBM has been working to address the full spectrum of mobile development, management, and security needs. This discussion is designed to gather customer input and feedback on IBMs mobile strategy and gather insight for future product direction.




D13 - HTML5 Mobile Apps With IBM Worklight and Integration with Popular Frameworks Christopher C Mitchell, STSM, IBM Worklight Architecture, IBM Roland Barcia, Distinguished Engineer, IBM The session will show how Dojo Mobile, JQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch can be used to build mobile apps with IBM Worklight v5. It will compare/contrast, programming models and capabilities of each library. D14 - Scaling IBM Worklight Mobile Applications using Elastic Caching Todd Kaplinger, Architecture IBM Mobile Technology ,Master Inventor, IBM This session will provide an overview of elastic caching in the context of mobile and explain IBM`s offerings and technology in this space. We will also share a set of usage scenarios that will demonstrate why this technology is so hot and why it can dramatically improve the performance and memory utilization of mobile applications deployed on the IBM Mobile Foundation Platform. D15 - Extending the reach of your Mobile Applications with Cast Iron Todd Kaplinger, Architecture IBM Mobile Technology ,Master Inventor, IBM Jean-Sebastien DELFINO, STSM, IBM The explosion of mobile applications provides an unique opportunity to extend your collection of integration services to significant number of possible devices beyond the typical desktop browser. With the IBM Worklight Cast Iron Adapter, developers can quickly assemble HTTP end points that can expose mobile friendly data structures for easy consumption by mobile devices. By integrating with Cast Iron, Worklight can leverage the features of Cast Iron to rapidly deliver cloud integration projects in days and achieve higher return on investment in software as a service (SaaS) and cloud models. We also share on how to leverage reusable process templates and use a “configuration, not coding” approach to solve the entire lifecycle of your cloud integration. D16 - Best Practices for Building Mobile Web and Hybrid Applications Roland Barcia, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM This session will discuss building Mobile Solutions and focus on architecture, development, testing, deployment and management. It will also focus on giving guidance on choosing between Mobile Web, Hybrid and Native, and on development topics around Offline Storage, application structure, dojo mobile, REST interactions and others. The session also will cover testing for mobile, such as when to test with the browser, emulators, real devices and device clouds. D17 - Application Security Hardening Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM Simon Kapadia, Appliances Lead, IBM This session will discuss a number of issues related to the hardening of J2EE applications against security attacks. Topics include crosssite scripting/input validation, session safety, tracing, authentication, authorization at every layer/side door attacks, protection of data at rest, chained delegation, and more.




D18 - A Developers Introduction to Leveraging the WAS Programming Models Tim deBoer, STSM, IBM As a developer, are you familiar with all the capabilities and technologies available within WAS, and how they can benefit you? Come and get a comprehensive overview of the programming models in WAS and the tools support in WDT and RAD that can help you realize value in your application and in your day to day tasks. You will learn about everything from taking advantage of java batch programming, how to build reusable components with SCA, to mobile web capabilities that are all available to you as a WAS developer. DL01 - Hands-On Lab: Learn to Accelerate Your Web App Development with the Liberty Profile Tim deBoer, STSM, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Focus, IBM Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile Development Lead, IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 introduces a lightweight server profile that is focussed on a radically improved developer experience. The Liberty Profile provides a lightweight server runtime which only enables the runtime capabilities an application requires. This allows the server to start quickly with the smallest footprint to run applications. This lab takes you through several exercises to help build an application using the Liberty Profile and the WebSphere Development Tools for the Liberty Profile. In the lab you will learn how to quickly get up and running with the Liberty Profile and how to use the tools to write, debug, test and update an application quickly and efficiently that uses Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JPA and OSGi. DL02 - Hands-On Lab: Mobile App Development with IBM Worklight and HTML5 Jim Zhang, Architect, Web Development Tools, Rational Application Developer IBM Todd Kaplinger, Architecture IBM Mobile Technology ,Master Inventor, IBM This session will show developers how to build Mobile Apps with the Worklight Platform. You will learn how to build Mobile Apps that target multiple Mobile platforms. You will learn how to build secure Hybrid applications that can make use of device features, handle different form factors, and provide back end integration. You will also learn how to use toolkits like the Dojo Mobile to provide a Native look and feel. DL03 - Hands-On Lab: Dojo, HTML5, CSS 3 and JAX-RS Andrew Ferrier, Software Services for WebSphere, Web 2.0/Dojo/Mobile Specialist, IBM Lars Besselmann, IBM Certified IT Specialist - WebSphere Technical Sales, IBM This hands-on lab session will give you the opportunity to build Rich Internet Applications using Dojo, HTML5, CSS 3, and JAX-RS. There will be a special focus on new features in Dojo 1.7 such as AMD, dojo.on, and others. You will also learn how to use HTML 5 based technologies like App Cache, Local Storage, Geo-Location, and others.




3.2 Application Infrastructure Track Sessions A01 - Top Tuning Recommendations for WebSphere Application Server David W Hare, WebSphere Performance, IBM WebSphere Application Server supports a wide array of tuning options to ensure all application types perform optimally. This session provides insight on the most important tuning parameters from tests conducted in the lab, and years of experience working with customers in the field. With proper tuning following the recommendations explained here, applications can easily perform at 2x-3x faster than the out of the box defaults. A02 - How To: Performance Testing and Analysis with WebSphere Application Server David W Hare, WebSphere Performance, IBM IBM WebSphere Application Server supports an ever-growing range of applications, each with their own unique set of features, requirements, and services. It is essential to conduct proper performance testing and analysis on each of these applications to ensure they are performing at their maximum potential. This presentation provides guidance on some best practices on how to build a performance test and compare results across application or environment changes, and how to identify bottlenecks using freely available tools from IBM. The methodologies in this lecture apply to all versions of WebSphere Application Server, including the newly released WebSphere Application Server V8.5. A03 - Batch Modernization, Design and System Processing Susann Thomas, SWG Client Technical Professional for zSoftware - Java, Java Batch, XML & WebSphere on System z, IBM Batch is a typical workload on mainframe systems but is more and more common on distributed systems as well. Batch means long running applications for mass data processing which run during the night. As businesses move toward a 24h and 7 days a week model, the batch windows become smaller. Batch and OLTP running concurrently during a 24x7 period became the norm. With IBM's modern batch processing platform you have an environment for JEE based OLTP workload and with the batch container a scalable and reliable batch platform on distributed as well as on mainframe systems. This session introduces new processes, tools, and technologies to the batch environment. In this session we discuss those reasons and provide an overview of modernization techniques and technologies for Batch processing. A04 - WAS v8.5 Liberty Profile for Agile Web Development Tim deBoer, STSM, RAD Lead Architect, WAS Focus, IBM Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect, IBM Introduced with WAS v8.5 is the new lightweight WAS Liberty Profile which, along with the new WebSphere Developer Tools for Eclipse, provides a lean and dynamic development environment for web and OSGi applications. Tiny footprint, lightening fast server start, dramatically simplified server configuration and runtime fidelity to full-profile WAS, enables new projects to achieve fast time to market and low TCO. Don't take our word for it - see the tools and runtime in action in live demo.




A05 - High Availability for IBM PureApplication System Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, SOA and Emerging Technologies, Master Inventor, IBM This session will describe approaches for High Availability for the new IBM PureApplication System. We will discuss how a combination of built-in mechanisms for availability and the HA features of various products (e.g. WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ) work together to support your requirements for resiliency and failover. This includes a number of sample scenarios, covering a range of sytem and application patterns. A06 - Executing the Onboarding of Applications to the Cloud Barton Akeley, Development Lead - Rational Automation Framework, IBM Are you looking for practical approaches to move your applications onto the Cloud? In this lecture you will get an overview of the various approaches for on-boarding an application to the cloud. We will show how IBM PureApplication System tools, and Rational Automation Framework can be used to execute these application on-boarding efforts. You will learn techniques to fast path applications into the cloud as well as see how to use advanced features of RAF to perform physical to virtual migrations of existing complicated cells. If your organization is adopting cloud, or if your organization has struggled to execute consistent and timely deployments of applications, you cannot afford to miss this session. A07 - Introducing IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5 - The Future Is Now Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect, IBM Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile Development Lead, IBM Learn about improvements to developer productivity with the new lightweight Liberty Profile and IBM WebSphere Developer Tools for Eclipse. Find out about new unzip-and-go deployment capabilities. Have a first look at the enhancements to resiliency introduced into WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployment in v8.5 and hear about the latest updates in WAS support for Java and OSGi standards. You need to know about the future - which is now. A08 - WAS v8.5 Liberty Profile for Production and Development Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect, IBM Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile Development Lead, IBM IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5 introduces a new, lightweight WAS Liberty Profile which provides a lean environment for development and a dynamic, minimal server footprint for production scenarios that do not require a full Java EE server. New deployment scenarios include an option to package a server and its applications in a simple "unzip and go" distribution that can be optionally managed through WAS Network Deployment Centralized Installation Manager. This session will demonstrate the WebSphere Liberty Profile in action, with a focus on the Liberty Profile in production scenarios. A09 - Using IBM WebSphere Application Server as Transaction Manager Oliver Rebmann, Senior IT Specialist, WebSphere Application Server, IBM This session will give a detailed overview of WebSphere Application Servers functionality as Transaction Manager. Starting with some transaction theory (ACID and 2PC/XA-protocol) it will then move on to show where and how WebSphere picks up and implements these concepts. The session will cover development as well as administrative and operational




aspects you will face when using WebSphere Application Server as Transaction Manager. It will furthermore show you some typical caveats when it comes down to using JMS and JDBC in an XA transacted way. In addition we will take a close look on how Web Services can be enriched with transactional behavior. A10 - Java EE Development for IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrators Oliver Rebmann, Senior IT Specialist, WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrators are responsible for the configuration, deployment and availability of Java EE applications. To take the right decisions in these areas it is essential to have a basic understanding of the Java EE programming model. This is even more important when it comes down to discussing issues and topics with the application providers who developed the application. This session will help WebSphere Administrators to understand how the administrative tasks they are performing and the decisions they take correlate to the respective Java EE source code, annotations and descriptors that the developers are providing. To achieve this understanding, we will first look at some basic Java EE concepts and constructs, followed by studying some real-world source code fragments and depicting their counterparts in the WebSphere administration console and the product's logfile entries. The session will focus on the most common scenarios used across the the industry. A11 - IBM PureApplication System - Experiences From the PureExperience Markus Keppeler, Senior IT Specialist, IBM PureApplication System, IBM Thomas Blattmann, Senor IT Specialist, IBM This session will present customer experiences with the PureApplication System. It will cover setting up a PureApplication System from the ground up and it will also explain the onboarding application process and the operation of the environment. A12 - WAS 8.x - New Administrative Functions Pete Neergaard, WebSphere Education - Course Developer/Instructor, IBM This session discusses some of the new administrative functions in WAS 8.x. It will discuss the use of the Monitored directory, also know as Drag and Drop Deploy, to deploy applications by simply dragging them into a folder on the file system. Further more, it will discuss the use of property file based configurations and how they can be used with the monitored directory. Finally, this session will talk about the new -asExistingNode option for the addNode script. This feature helps with recovering or moving WAS 8.x nodes. A13 - Introduction to WebSphere Application Server Pete Neergaard, WebSphere Education - Course Developer/Instructor, IBM This session will cover the architecture of a WebSphere Application Server cell, including the Deployment Manager, node agents and application servers. The roles of the Deployment Manager and the node agent will be presented. The configuration repository will be described. The steps involved in building a cell will be outlined. The administration of a cell using the admin console and wsadmin will be described. The role of the WebSphere Application Server administrator will be defined. The basics of configuring JEE resources and deploying JEE applications will be described. Configuring WAS security will alos be touched on lightly.




A14 - Security Core Concepts Related to WebSphere Application Server Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM Simon Kapadia, Appliances Lead, IBM This session provides an overview of the key background material related to understanding and properly constructing secure solutions. Concepts include trust, least trust, authentication, authorization, cryptography, public key infrastructure (PKI), secure sockets layer (SSL), delegation, and more. We will spend significant time focusing on certificates and SSL since you must understand both well, in order to secure IBM WebSphere Application Server. A15 - IBM WebSphere Application Server and Liberty Security Update Simon Kapadia, Appliances Lead, IBM Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM In this session, we will cover what is new in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Security V8.0 and v8.Next, focused on enhancements for the administrator as well as the application developer. We will also cover security for the new Liberty profile for v8.Next. In addition we will cover recent security enhancements added to both WAS V7.0 and WAS V8.0 in the service stream. The WebSphere development team has added new cryptography capabilities and has implemented new Single Sign-On solutions leveraging the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Profile. A16 - WebSphere Application Server Infrastructure Hardening Simon Kapadia, Appliances Lead, IBM Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM When deploying WAS, there are a number of security related activities that must be undertaken in order to create a truly secure WAS environment. While WAS V6.1 and later are reasonably secure by default in common situations, there are still quite a number of potential configuration steps that may be appropriate for highly secure environments. This session outlines the weaknesses in a default configuration and lists the specific actions that an administrator should take to create a hardened security environment. This session will also cover topics such as: protecting the admin infrastructure, protecting cookies, securing the various WAS communication channels, using a DMZ, 3rd-party security integration, as well as some advanced issues. You can see the closely-related firewalls session for more on infrastructure hardening. A17 - Inside Java 7 Adam Pilkington, Senior Inventor, Software Engineer, IBM Java 7 is now available in IBM WebSphere Application Server v.Next, out and ready for business! IBM has been involved in Java 7 since the beginning, and more recently, directly in OpenJava Development Kit (OpenJDK). Come hear about how IBM is contributing to Java, both through its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and in IBM's participation in OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP). The session will focus on technical improvements to the IBM J9 JVM, including work in the just-in-time compiler, the garbage collector, and base runtime. Attendees will leave with an appreciation of the cutting-edge technology being applied in todays JVMs as well as how both collaboration and competition are critical to the well-being of the Java ecosystem.




A18 - Practical Performance: Understanding the Performance of Your Application Adam Pilkington, Senior Inventor, Software Engineer, IBM This session will case study the best practice approach to optimizing the performance of a WebSphere Application Server deployment using Rational Performance Tester along with IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools for Java - Health Center to identify Operating System, Java Runtime, and Java Application code level improvements. A19 - IBM PureApplication System Patterns of Expertise James K Kochuba, WebSphere Cloud - Shared Services Architect, IBM This session will provide an overview of expert patterns in PureApplication System. Dive into Virtual Application pattern to show how to create, deploy and manage. This will also dive into Virtual System patterns using images to customize patterns, deploy and manage these in the cloud. Finally we will point out how to add other expertise into the cloud. A20 - How IBM PureApplication System Works Jason McGee, Distinguished Engineer, IBM James Kochuba, Development Architect, IBM You've probably heard quite a bit of buzz around IBM's announcements in the Workload Optimized Systems space. You've heard what a profound impact it can have on your business in terms of cost savings, agility, and efficiency. You're probably wondering how it works! Take this opportunity to spend 75 minutes with two of the leads responsible for architecting and building this solution. You'll learn how little time, effort, and skill is required to get systems up and running. You'll hear about a host of capabilities that are built into this product for managing your application environments. Finally, you'll learn how to use the box, including configuration of user roles and permissions, deployment,, and application of maintenance. A21 - IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Deep Dive Paul Idstein, IT Specialist, IBM IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise uses autonomic computing to dramatically decrease the total cost of ownership and increase the quality of service for your middleware. This session provides a deep dive into Virtual Enterprise's autonomic controllers: the brains of Virtual Enterprise. Come to this session to learn not only what Virtual Enterprise can do for your middleware infrastructure, but also how it works. A22 - Planning for Catastrophe: WebSphere Application Server Disaster Recovery Oliver Rebmann, Senior IT Specialist, IBM This session will focus on the architectural and operational issues that need to be considered, when planning and implementing a Disaster Recovery plan with WebSphere Application Server. Topics will include use of multiple data centers, geographic separation constraints, supporting software components disaster recovery and other common deployment issues. Though focused primarily on WebSphere Application Server, this session also covers Portal, ESB and WPS. While not a prerequisite, attendees should be familiar with the material covered in "Preparing to Fail, Practical WebSphere Application Server High Availability".




A23 - Best Practices for Configuring and Managing Large IBM WebSphere Topologies Franz-Josef Schneider, Senior IT Specialist, IBM This session will summarize the latest recommendations for creating and managing a large IBM WebSphere topology. It will cover how WebSphere components scale with the size of your environment, demonstrate how to configure these components for a large environment, and present the recommended tuning parameters and programming model. Additional considerations for managing the new Liberty profile servers will also be discussed in detail. A24 - Elastic Data Grid Using WebSphere eXtreme Scale and XC10 Daniel Froehlich, Senior IT Architect, IBM This session will provide an overview of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale V8.5 and DataPower XC10 2.1. Attendees will learn how customers are utilizing Data Grids in their enterprises to provide better performance, availability and scale. In addition to providing a basic overview of Elastic Data Grids, the session will provide specific emphasis on the latest products features including support for the WebSphere 8.5 Liberty Profile and eXtreme Memory. A25 - Expert Integrated Systems Virtual Application Pattern Details and Demo Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Markus Keppeler, Senior IT Specialist, IBM PureApplication System, IBM IBM PureApplication System is a complete cloud-based integrated offering that includes software, hardware and life cycle management of clients deployment of middleware and applications in the cloud. PureApplication System supports various deployment models. This session will provide overview and details of the Virtual Application Pattern, namely, Web App patterns centered around Web applications, and DBaaS patterns centered on creating Database deployments. The session will cover the details of the life cycle management of deployed VMs through Virtual Application Patterns. A26 – Next Era of Private Cloud: Continuous Delivery to Your Private PaaS Andrew Philips, VP of Product Management, XEBIALABS In this session you will learn how to turn your WebSphere environments into a private PaaS using application release automation techniques. Enable the deployment and distribution of complex applications to WebSphere and other enterprise middleware such as databases, ESBs and messaging systems from a single tool and a simple, self-service PaaS frontend. Discover how to scale your private PaaS using provisioning tools and support your organization's DevOps and cloud initiatives through Continuous Delivery. AL01 - Hands-On Lab: Diagnostic and Performance Tools for WebSphere Application Server David W Hare, WebSphere Performance, IBM Performance problem determination can be a difficult topic to understand, but with the right tooling it's quite easy to do. This lab provides guidance on some best practices on how to run a performance test and use freely available tools from IBM to identify the cause of performance problems like memory leaks, deadlocks, high CPU, etc.. The methodologies




explained in this this lab will certaily apply to all versions of WebSphere Application Server, including the newly released WebSphere Application Server V8.5. AL02 - Hands-On Lab: WebSphere Security - A Collection of Labs Pete Neergaard, WebSphere Education - Course Developer/Instructor, IBM Simon Kapadia, ISSW EMEA Security Lead, IBM This lab session will allow the attendee to the work through a number of different WebSphere Application Server security labs. This will have a pick-and-choose approach and the labs can be done in any order. The collection of labs include: ,- Configuring Federated Repositories (File based plus LDAP with SSL),- Working with security domains,- Configuring fine grained access,- SSL configuration within WebSphere Application Server,- Configuring SSL to database via JDBC,- Configuring a cross cell trusted relationship,- Security Hardening. AL03 - Hands-On Lab: IBM PureApplication System Patterns of Expertise Lab James K Kochuba, WebSphere Cloud - Shared Services Architect, IBM Thomas Blattmann, Senior IT Specialist, IBM This lab will allow you to explor the different types of expert patterns you can create/use in PureApplication System. This will allow you to create Virtual Application and Virtual System patterns to better understand the different capabilities of each expert pattern. Then you will be able to deploy the patterns to the cloud and see how to do life cycle management of these deployed patterns.




3.3 Messaging, Connectivity, SOA and Integration Track Sessions M01 - Introduction and What's New in WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist, IBM It's been a very exciting year for IBM's WebSphere DataPower appliance line of products! This session will cover an introduction to DataPower, and then the latest line of hardware, as well as the newly announced major firmware and software releases. M02 - WebSphere Message Broker: Designing for Performance Tim Kimber, WebSphere Message Broker Developer, IBM This session demonstrates how to design an efficient and effective WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) implementation from a performance perspective. It describes the many factors that determine the level of performance achievable within a WMB environment. It also discusses some of the major improvements related to performance in WebSphere Message Broker V8. M03 - Integrated DataPower and Tivoli Security Scenarios Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist, IBM Attend this session to see how products like DataPower, WebSEAL, Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Tivoli Security Policy Manager combined with standards such as SAML, XACML, WS-Security and WS-Trust, in order to provide effective security for the ESB-driven SOA infrastructure. M04 - WebSphere Message Broker: Selecting the Right Transformation Option Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8 provides a variety of methods to perform message transformation, including ESQL, Java, XSL, PHP, .NET and graphical mapping technologies... so which is the best one to use? This session describes the core strengths of each technology and how to get the most from them in different scenarios. It provides the broad understanding required to know when to use each of the different transformation options. M05 - WebSphere Message Broker: Graphical Data Mapping Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM The ability to route and transform messages using wiring diagrams and drag and drop operations is one of the cornerstones of WebSphere Message Broker. This concept of developing applications without writing code gives the opportunity for non-programmers to build robust business solutions. Come along to this session to learn about the new IBM Graphical Data Mapper technology in use by WebSphere Message Broker V8, which focuses on performance, functional richness and ease of use. M06 - EDI Processing with DataPower and WebSphere TX Sunil Dandamudi, Architect, WTX, IBM You already know that DataPower appliances are capable of hosting WebSphere TX maps, but how can they handle the complexities around EDI processing? This session, focusing on the XB60/62, will explain the recently announced technology covering the security




compliance checking and data transformation challenges common with EDI protocols such as X12 and Edifact and how it can be used to build B2B gateway appliance applications. M07 - Effective Application Development In WebSphere Message Broker Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM What are the best practices for WebSphere Message Broker development? How do you design message flows that conform to external and internal standards? Learn how to use the Broker's built-in capabilities to apply common usage patterns and develop, refine and share your own patterns that solve your company's integration requirements. This session will also introduce the application development enhancements in WebSphere Message Broker V8 (including the new application development API) that allows you to implement Broker solutions more quickly than ever. M08 - Integrating WebSphere Message Broker in .NET Environments Ben Thompson, WebSphere Message Broker - Operational Model Architect, IBM It is simple to integrate WebSphere Message Broker V8 with .NET applications. Come along and find out how to run your .NET assemblies natively inside WMB to provide fast access to your data and broker facilities in any of the languages supported by the V4 CLR (e.g. C#, VB.NET, F#). See you will learn how easy it can be to build transformation nodes in Microsoft Visual Studio and integrate Microsoft Dynamics or other .NET applications directly from within your message flow. M09 - WebSphere Message Broker: Message Monitoring, Auditing, Recording and Replaying Tim Kimber, WebSphere Message Broker Developer, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8 contains extensive support for message monitoring and a sophisticated record and replay feature. This session describes how you can use the product to implement common scenarios such as audit, business monitoring, complex event processing, message tracking, recording and replaying messages either through the broker or direct to an application.,This session describes the available features, and how you can integrate the solution with the rest of your application infrastructure to allow you to track your business critical messages most effectively. M10 - What's New In WebSphere Message Broker Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8 is a significant release which delivers further enhancements to productivity and ease in developing and managing enterprise service bus (ESB) deployments, complementing its industry-leading performance and scalability. WMB V8 (and its follow-on deliveries) include natural integration with IBM WebSphere Application Server, record and replay functionality complemented by a new web UI, embedded caching technology and comprehensive support for Microsoft .NET environments. Come to this session and get right up to date with this key connectivity product. This session also introduces the different WMB topics being covered at the convention, so use this session to help plan your WMB education.




M11 - Effective Administration In WebSphere Message Broker Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8 includes many improvements that make administering the product easier. Come along and find out about the most recent improvements including a new web user interface, as well as enhancements to the product runtime, graphical, command line, and programmatic front-ends. Session attendees will discover the right ways to effectively administer and operate the Message Broker, and learn tips and tricks that should be in every Message Broker administrator's toolbox. Session attendees should possess an overview of WebSphere Message Broker capabilities. Attendees should leave with an understanding of available Message Broker administration options and best practices. M12 - WebSphere Message Broker Security Tim Kimber, WebSphere Message Broker Developer, IBM WebSphere Message Broker has a wealth of features that enable you to apply a security layer to your enterprise applications. With a new Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) node, support for WS-Trust providers and extended security tokens such as Kerberos, SAML, LPTA and RACF, which complement its existing security features, WebSphere Message Broker is an excellent choice for developing a secure infrastructure. This session will discuss the range of options available in the broker for both application and administrative security. It will also cover common security integration patterns with other IBM products such as WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Datapower XI50/2 Integration Appliance. M13 - Integrating WAS Applications Using WebSphere Message Broker Ben Thompson, WebSphere Message Broker - Operational Model Architect, IBM WebSphere Message Broker is a compelling choice for WebSphere Application Server users. WAS provides efficient application development and delivery & WMB has industry-leading application connectivity. WMB V8.0.0.1 includes new tools to simplify the learning curve for WAS users, helping to provide them with a a seamless on-ramp to connectivity, and vice versa. New features include the ability to create and manage SOA services in the WMB Toolkit, and the ability to administer brokers and their deployed applications and services in the WAS Admin Console. Come along to this sesson to find out more about this technology, and gain insight into how IBM plans to evolve the features. M14 - IBM API Management with Cast Iron Web API Services and DataPower Appliances Chris Bygrave, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Markets are changing faster than ever. Companies are dealing with a shortage of skilled resources, time, and money to implement and maintain critical business applications that allow them to reach new channels and maintain a competitive edge, especially with the multitude of devices available today. To help resolve these challenges, and sometimes by pure partner pressures, companies are externalizing core service as web APIs. As a business's public persona, Web APIs allow businesses to quickly integrate with multiple partners in a simplified and standard way. They also allow companies to tap into the large external and internal developer pools. This session will cover the newly released Cast Iron Web API Services, offering a solution that provides easy assembly of new APIs, enabling




security, providing management and insight, and fostering community socialization to drive companies to become successful players in the new and open API economy. M15 - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started to Love the ESB Daniel Engehagen, ntegration Center Lead, NAV Ismar Slomic, Consultant, ACCENTURE What do you do when the complexity of your service bus starts to compromise the flexibility and scalability of your SOA? How can you transform the bus from merely a physical product to a sound logical architecture? Attend this session to learn how to stop worrying and start to love the ESB through better utilization of the IBM product portfolio, smarter governance and some good, old common sense. M16 - WebSphere MQ: Simplifying Migration to V 7.1/7.5 with Multiple Installs Morag Hughson, WebSphere MQ Base Architect, IBM Claudio Brandani, Certified IT Specialist, IBM WebSphere MQ has historically had a single migration path for applications and queue manager data on non-zOS platforms. This session describes the latest approaches to simplify the migration making use of the ability to install alongside existing releases. M17 - WebSphere MQ: Publish Subscribe including Multi-Cast Morag Hughson, WebSphere MQ Base Architect, IBM IBM WebSphere MQ allows application programmers to use the publish/subscribe application model with ease. This session starts by describing the key concepts behind publish/subscribe messaging and how it can be used with WebSphere MQ including the key API and administrative commands before discussing the new multi-cast capabilities which support the large scale, high volume distribution of published data. M18 - WebSphere MQ: Securing Your Queue Manager Morag Hughson, WebSphere MQ Base Architect, IBM More than ever, security issues are on the top of everyone's list. Find out about the approach taken by WebSphere MQ for controlling access to MQ resources and the recommended best practices. This session will introduce the authentication features of WebSphere MQ, including SSL/TLS and channel authentication rules; how MQ uses profiles for authorisation of objects; audit and event messages and how message content can also be secured. M19 - WebSphere MQ for Managed File Transfer Mark Taylor, WMQ Technical Strategy, IBM The transfer of file data underpins many critical business processes both inside and outside the enterprise walls. Attend this session to find out how you can exploit your investment in WebSphere MQ to reliably and auditable transfer file data. We'll look at the basics of managed file transfer with WebSphere MQ and then dive into real world scenarios where customers have seen the benefits. This session also contains details on the recent enhancements, including details of how MQ Managed FIle Transfer has been fully integrated into the WebSphere MQ product.




M20 - WebSphere MQ: What Is Your System Up To? Mark Taylor, WMQ Technical Strategy, IBM Knowing what your queue managers and MQ applications are doing is essential, whether you are interested in monitoring, performance tuning, auditing, problem determination, or in future planning. MQ Administrators are getting constantly increasing demands to provide data to different people, whether external auditors or for other subsystems and environments. This session will provide illustrations and insight on the various techniques and capabilities available for administrators to meet these requirements for WebSphere MQ on all platforms. M21 - WebSphere MQ: Mobile, M2M and the Internet of Things Dave Locke, Strategy and architecture for pervasive and advanced messaging technologies - micro broker, MQTT, MQe, IBM Interconnectivity is one of the key aspects for enabling smarter working and a Smarter Planet. Come to this session to learn how WebSphere MQ lets you push back the boundaries of traditional messaging clients, beyond the enterprise to new types of devices, applications and protocols in both the mobile and machine to machine worlds. This session will examine the capabilities before taking a detailed look at how the reach of WebSphere MQ is extended to these environments using MQTT. M22 - Extending WebSphere MQ to the Cloud Charlie Martin, WebSphere MQ Development, IBM Cloud computing offers a new delivery model for IT services, but how can messaging systems be used in this environment? This session takes a look at the different models available for delivering messaging capabilities in the cloud using WebSphere MQ. Starting with a brief summary of the concepts and value proposition, before focussing on the realisation of these systems using with IBM Workload Deployer and IBM PureApplication Systems. Practical examples of all the latest features will also be shown. M23 - What's New in the WebSphere MQ Family of Products Mark Taylor, WMQ Technical Strategy, IBM Come to this session to hear all about the latest enhancements to WebSphere MQ and its related family of products. This session will describe the many features added in latest versions of Websphere MQ including both 7.1 and 7.5, and will be your guide to other sessions during the week. M24 - Introduction to WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker Charlie Martin, WebSphere MQ Development, IBM Anthony Phillips, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) is the market-leading messaging product that enables anywhere-to-anywhere integration, from the simplest pair of applications or devices requiring basic connectivity and data exchange, to the most complex business process management environments using a wide variety of endpoints. WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) aims to provide a universal connectivity solution with its ability to route and transform messages FROM anywhere TO anywhere, and is often referred to as an "Advanced Enterprise Service Bus". This session gives a high-level, technical overview of




both products. Come to this session learn about the rationale behind messaging and connectivity and the business problems they solve. M25 - Design and Implementation of the Volkswagen Service Repository Yevheniy Eydelman, Architect, VOLKSWAGEN Ralf Bracht, IT-Architect, IBM Service-orientation and enterprise service bus concepts and technologies are nowadays the basis of integration infrastructures of large and medium-size organisations. Proper service governance has to be implemented to meet the persistent requirements to reduce costs and increase quality and efficiency. Main component of service governance support is the service repository that stores all required service metadata and that orchestrates the service design, implementation, and deployment process. In this lecture the challenges and requirements for implementing the Volkswagen Service Repository are presented. The role of the service repository within the service governance processes is discussed. Implementation of the service repository that is based on WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is explained in more detail. Finally, the integration with the Volkswagen Service Bus that is based on WebSphere DataPower appliances is presented. M26 - Web APIs Recommended Practices Jean-Sebastien Delfino, STSM, Cast Iron, IBM Web APIs are changing the way companies define and run their business, opening new channels and fostering innovation. In this session, we will address the key concepts in enabling an API strategy. These concepts will include how to decide if an API should be public or private, how to implement an API, how to secure an API, how to manage an API and how to advertise an API. M27 – Simply Good Design: How SOA is core to Business Success Claus T Jensen, STSM, IBM Hot topics like mobile, cloud, social business and big data are transforming entire industries and forcing C-level executives to re-assess their ability to cope with both complexity and need for change. With continued double-digit growth, SOA is at the core of the engaging enterprise. SOA principles - including reusability, composability and process integrity at internet scale - have become the de facto standard for good design and the premise for increased business agility and improved business outcomes. Join this session to learn more about the importance of good design and how to leverage IBM's leadership in SOA to meet your business needs. M28 - What's New in IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Steve Groeger, WebSphere Service Registry Development, IBM Come and hear about the new and enhanced features in the new version of IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). There are many exciting enhancements of WSRR in the version 8 release. These enhancements include additional improved usability for developer and operations roles and runtime enhancements to allow the enforcing of Service Level Agreements with DataPower.




M29 - Applying SOA Governance Using WSRR, DataPower and WS-Policy Steve Groeger, WebSphere Service Registry Development, IBM Claus T Jensen, STSM, IBM New features in WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) and DataPower products provide a good platform for applying SOA Governance principles using Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Policy. In this session, you will learn how web services and SLA contracts information governed in WSRR is easily provisioned into DataPower for dynamic runtime enforcement. The session will include information on: Close alignment of business with IT through automatically deployed SLA policies, resulting in increased agility and responsiveness to change, Easy authoring and attachment of policies to SLAs, reducing costs through eased administration of business service requirements & Leveraging the capabilities of the WSRR platform to apply formal governance and lifecycle management of policies. M30 - Reality of Implementing Secure Single Sign-On on SOA Bus Simon Kapadia, Appliances Lead, IBM Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM You are implementing SOA, have deployed an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or gateway, and have exposed your applications as web services. Is it properly fulfilling the security function? What do you need to know to securely interconnect your web services consumers and providers via the ESB and/or gateway? What are your web services Single Sign-On (SSO) options? When should you use (and perhaps more importantly, not use) a Kerberos-based solution? Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA)? Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each solution? This session will explore the various SSO options available with IBM WebSphere Application Server-based products, including WebSphere ESB and DataPower appliances. M31 - A Real-Life Implementation of a High Throughput WebSphere MQ-Based Solution Klaus Bonnert, Senior IT Specialist, IBM Rob Van Der Spek, ACCENTURE This session will give an overview of the successful and fast (first release in 8 months!) planning and implementation cycles of a mission critical solution where WebSphere MQ is the messaging backbone with extremely high speed and a throughput of 63.000 msgs/sec. The whole lifecycle starting from architectural design, sizing estimates and implementation until the handover to the maintenance team will be presented with lots of lessons learned and practical do’s and don’ts for every phase. Keywords: high throughput (63.000 msgs/s), highly available (active/passive cluster), JMS, all MQ client solution, XA. M32 - Extending Data to Mobile Apps with WebSphere Integration Jean-Sebastien Delfino, STSM, Cast Iron, IBM Will Au, Senior Software Engineer, IBM There are many use cases for mobile applications, ranging from branding and marketing to full workforce enablement. The value of these applications is largely determined by the data users are able to access via mobile apps, as well as data enterprises are able to collect from these apps, resulting in a new breed of integration challenges. In this session, hear how the WebSphere integration portfolio enables rapid and reliable mobile integration.




M33 - Lightweight Monitoring for IBM WebSphere Message Broker Sebastian Hirt, Senior Consultant, ESCIRIS WebSphere Message Broker provides a rich and number of built in facilities for effective and lightweight System Monitoring. This session provides a review of Message Brokers monitoring facilities and how to combine them to collect all the information that is required for effective system management. All the key features will be demonstrated along with explaining on how features can add value to monitoring solutions for the WebSphere Message Broker. M34 – WebSphere ESB Recent Updates and Best Practices Callum Jackson, Software Engineer, IBM WebSphere Message Broker provides a rich and number of built in facilities for effective and lightweight System Monitoring. This session provides a review of Message Brokers monitoring facilities and how to combine them to collect all the information that is required for effective system management. All the key features will be demonstrated along with explaining on how features can add value to monitoring solutions for the WebSphere Message Broker. M35 – ISBANK SOA Platform: Alternative Implementation Patterns Ugur Kilic, Application Architect, ISBANK Ahmet Caglar Gulseni, Integration Architect, ISBANK In this session you will learn alternative implementation patterns of Isbank SOA platform, which consists of WebSphere suite of products inclusive of Datapower, WESB, WSRR, MQ and WAS etc.. You will also learn the deep dive technical details that were considered for alternative pattern selection criteria. Speakers will also present real life solutions based on these patterns, including technical challenges and different ways to overcome the challenges. You will also learn the best practices gathered from lessons learned in working with alternative implementing patterns. M36 – Best Practices for Cloud Integration Solution Design Wolfgang Schmidt, Managing Partner, X-INTEGRATE The WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration Platform allows integrating Cloud and on-premise systems in days. Additionally there are more WebSphere capabilities for hybrid cloud connectivity. In this session you will learn best practices in Cloud Integration and the possible WebSphere solutions – e.g. solutions design and deployment of Cast Iron integration solutions – extracted and distilled from real project experiences. Highlight’s will include: A live demo based on an integration scenario with SugarCRM and a Domino-based back office application - displaying the use of best practices in real world; additional tools which are essential for Cast Iron development like soapUI and Wireshark; showcases how to solve technical and project specific challenges including workarounds for the Domino adapter.




ML01 - Hands-On Lab: WebSphere Message Broker Ben Thompson, WebSphere Message Broker - Operational Model Architect, IBM Andrew Coleman, WebSphere Message Broker Development, IBM This hands-on lab will allow you to try out WebSphere Message Broker V8. Depending on your experience and interests, you can discover how to get started with a simple message flow, or you can work through more involved examples including how to work with Web Services, how to process files, how to model messages using DFDL, or how to author your own patterns. To help you get the most out of this session, you will be assisted by several members of the WMB Development Team who will guide you through the lab and answer questions. If you are new to WMB or an expert, there will be something for you in this lab. Come along and get up to speed with the latest and greatest version of WMB. ML02 - Hands-On Lab: WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist, IBM Rene Kiessling, Technical Sales Professional, IBM Thorsten Harth, Technical Sales Professional, IBM This hands-on lab will provide a series of exercises to configure DataPower services to handle XML documents and proxy Web Services. In the first section, students will create a simple loopback XML Firewall service that proxies XML requests, and then a Multi-Protocol gateway service to do an XML transformation on the input document, and create a dynamic routing policy based on the actual SOAP message content. The Web Service Proxy lab illustrates the highly optimized proxy for Web services communications and offers easy configuration using a WSDL, the use of multi-step policies, as well as service level monitoring, filtering, security, custom error handling, and WSDL handling. ML03 - Hands-On Lab: WebSphere MQ Charlie Martin, WebSphere MQ Development, IBM Dave Locke, Strategy and architecture for pervasive and advanced messaging technologies - micro broker, MQTT, MQe, IBM IBM WebSphere MQ is all about anywhere to anywhere integration, from the simplest pair of applications to the most complex business process management environments. This lab provides a hands-on introduction to the key API and capabilities. The step-by-step instructions lead you through several separate scenarios which you can choose between, including the configuration and setup steps, coding and execution. Available topics include: Basic messaging, Security, Managed File Transfer, Telemetry and Message Level Security. No prior knowledge of WMQ is assumed but some familiarity of basic programming concepts would be an advantage. ML04 - Hands-On Lab: Build Your Own Connector for Cast Iron Integration Services Will Au, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Vasile Patrascu, Architect, Design Tools - Cast Iron Systems, IBM Cast Iron enables rapid, configuration-not-coding integration between on-premise and SaaS applications. In this lab, you'll use the wizard-based Connector Development Kit to create your own connectors that can be shared and reused across all of your Cast Iron projects.




ML05 - Hands-On Lab: Getting Started with Cast Iron Live WebAPI Services Vasile Patrascu, Architect, Design Tools - Cast Iron Systems, IBM Chris Bygrave, Senior Software Engineer, IBM In this lab, get started with a no charge, 90-day trial of Cast Iron Live WebAPI Services. In just about an hour, learn how to become an engaging enterprise by defining new business APIs, assembling them from existing data sources, documenting them, and publishing them to be accessible to partners and external developers. Let Cast Iron Live help you unlock new channels for your business by engaging your customers where they are most likely to be found -- on their mobile phones, on social networks, or even in their cars.




3.4 BPM and Decision Management

B01 - People Clouds: Exploiting BPM to Support High Volume Manual Tasks Roland Peisl, Architect, IBM An increasing number of tasks in today’s businesses cannot be fully automated and require human intelligence or action for completion. Faced with all this required manual work to be done, organizations are seeking for new ways on how all this work can be done – and find answers in ‘crowdsourcing’, A concept similar to IT clouds, but this time the resources are people available around the world, or if anonymous work distribution is not an option – employed by other organizations, e.g. by call center businesses. This session shows how e.g. call center organizations are offering people services to other organizations, based on IBM’s BPM platform. Apart from the business model imperatives, we will as well have a look into the technical challenges addressed by a People Cloud platform. B02 - Clustering Business Process Manager Environments - Best Practices Hendrik Engler, TeamLead - BPM L2 Support EMEA, IBM Making your Business Process Manager environment highly available and resilient to failure is one of the most important requirements to meet your business goals and Service Level Agreements. This session will discuss the best practices for choosing the right cluster topology and configuration that meets your business needs. You will learn how a deployment environment supports you to efficiently configure a complex system. Advanced cluster topologies beyond the IBM patterns are presented including the challenges and management of multiple Golden Topologies in a single cell environment. This session applies to all WebSphere Process Server releases also covering new features and improvements in BPM V7.5 and V8.0. B03 - Collaborative Business Processes Modeling with IBM Blueworks Live Roland Peisl, WebSphere BPM Development, Samples/Scenarios and Operations, IBM As observed in many BPM projects, adopting BPM is a rather long journey that may take months or years to get BPM acceptance from all stakeholders. In addition, constant discussions between business and IT slow down BPM execution while requiring huge budgets. Since quite some time, there are ideas to start with process thinking quickly, focusing on simple steps first, therefore sowing the seeds of BPM with low budgets attractive first to the workforce, then to business and IT to further professionalize BPM within an organization. IBM’s Blueworks Live offering is the BPM beginner’s platform, not only for modeling and automating (quite simple) business processes, but to move on to full BPM – as time and budget allows. B04 - Modelling Business Processes for Immediate Execution in IBM BPM Advanced v8 Roland Peisl, WebSphere BPM Development, Samples/Scenarios and Operations, IBM BPM is all over the place, but different business scenarios require different approaches to optimize and automate business processes. IBM Business Process Manager v8 Advanced shows new ways how business processes are modeled and automated integrating existing or new service components. No matter if the processes are highly automated, or highly human-centric, IBM BPM v8 Advanced qualifies for both scenarios, and any other scenario in between. This session demonstrates how to create assets in either IBM Process Designer or




IBM Integration Designer, and how to best bring them together to create state of the art Process Applications. B05 - Optimizing Business Process via Simulation and Analysis Roland Peisl, WebSphere BPM Development, Samples/Scenarios and Operations, IBM This session explains in detail the benefits of business process simulation to gain insights into business transformation projects, before the changes are actually adapted by the organization or implemented by IT. Doing this right is key to gain the maximum in business transformation initiatives, be it to investigate maximum processing volumes, or to understand cost and time impacts of future process change. This session explains how simulations can be set up, how to compare business process models with all their varying simulation scenarios, and how to generate meaningful simulation reports to finally allow for selecting the best process alternative for the next steps in BPM. The session focus on IBM Process Designer's (part of IBM BPM v8) simulation and optimization capabilities. B06 - Operational Excellence in a WPS/BPM V7.5 Environment Hendrik Engler, TeamLead - BPM L2 Support EMEA, IBM Thomas Reinecke, Senior IT Specialist, IBM Every IT department is challenged by the daily business to keep a high-available production environment healthy. Continous monitoring and maintenance of a complex WebSphere Process Server or BPM environment requires deep and focused skills in these areas. The interactions with many frontend and backend systems need special attention from a middleware point of view. This session covers the best practices regarding monitoring, maintenance and tuning. In addition various approaches and tools are discussed that lead to operational excellence and a successful system administrator. B07 - BPM Design Considerations when Optimizing Business Processes Brian Petrini, Senior IT Architect, IBM Whilst it is not always possible to remove and automate human tasks in a process, if it can be done, it often leads to the most dramatic optimisation, leading to fully straight through processing. The challenge is that if straight through processing is the goal, we may need to design the process differently from the beginning, with automation in mind. This lecture uses tried and tested techniques for assessing processes to establish whether they are likely to be able to evolve to full automation, and recommends design patterns to be used to simplify the progression from manual to decision supported to completely automated. B08 - IBM BPM Security Hardening Jens Engelke, Senior Accredited IT Specialist, IBM Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer, IBM This session walks through details of IBM BPM security configuration in any given environment. Product defaults and their implications are reviewed in detail and most importantly hardening recommendations and best practices are shared with the audience.




B09 - Integrating Salesforce and 3rd Party Websites with IBM BPM Fabian Steiger, CEO, Esciris GmbH, ESCIRIS ESCIRIS uses IBM BPM Standard to integrate Content from 3rd Party Websites and user Actions of their own sites with a Salesforce System. This session shows a real-life BPM solution that is working in production. Focus will be either on technical issues and on the business value generated with IBM BPM. Further the "esceon" showcase will be presented which makes it possible to every visitor, to play around with a BPM/Lombardi Integration with Salesforce and IBM Portal. B10 - Governance of the BPM Lifecycle with IBM Process Center Version 8 Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM Business Process Management solutions are composite in nature: they normally include process models, integration services, decisions. BPM implementations also need to quickly evolve, as more efficient ways to perform those processes are rolled out in new versions of the solutions. This session, through a lecture and demo, covers the fundamentals of BPM governance in Business Process Manager, and offers insights on how you can use Process Center to simplify the maintenance of the potentially intricate network of dependencies among the various artifacts within BPM solutions. B11 - Continuous Integration with IBM BPM and Jenkins Jonas Grundler, Managing Consultant, NOVATEC-GMBH Patrick Kütterer, Working Student, NOVATEC-GMBH Continuous Integration (CI) in projects with BPM is not yet as commonly used as in other areas. Also best practices and solutions to potential problems are available rarely for this combination. Consultants of the NovaTec GmbH has expertise with both technologies. We want to provide guidance,and "how-to's" for CI with IBM BPM. With tools like ANT, Jenkins, and Sonar, BPM projects can implement CI and deliver well-tested software in time. In addition to that, the NovaTec "Model-Coverage" plugin for processes helps to ensure good model coverage when running automated tests. B12 - Getting Started with BPMN Processes in IBM BPM v8 Gerhard Pfau, STSM, IBM BPM Product Architecture and Design, IBM Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer, IBM In this session we will be providing a quick overview of the new capabilities in IBM Business Process Manager v8, prior to jointly authoring a BPMN process from scratch using Process Designer and Process Center. By example, we will show how to create a process application, how to develop a BPMN process, how to assign people, how to build UI forms (a.k.a. Coaches), and how to test and run them. B13 - Harvesting Business Terminology and Rules Using WebSphere ODM Stephane Mery, STSM - Product Architect - Business Tools - WebSphere Operational Decision Management, IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM) product is strong on supporting bottom-up creation of business rules from existing XML document or Java data model. This session explores the other way around, i.e. capturing business terminology and rules from policies, processes and documents, ,and reconciling them to existing data model. This




session presents how to use a top down approach to develop data model and rules during the rule discovery and analysis activities of the open source Agile Business Rules Development (ABRD) methodology, and see how, it integrates with the existing product. In this session, you will hear about best practices in capturing Business terminology and rules and will have a deep look at the product features that support this activity. B14 - Building A Business Rules Application Using WebSphere ODM Live on Stage Stephane Mery, STSM - Product Architect - Business Tools - WebSphere Operational Decision Management, IBM Do you need relief from your business rules and events management woes? The leaders of this session will use the IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WebSphere ODM) tool to build your "shout-out" requirements into an executable solution. An initial solution will be created and then you can make change requests to see how easily updates can be applied. Join us and try to stump the experts performing this live build! (Note: WebSphere ODM is the evolution of IBM`s ILOG JRules BRMS and WebSphere Business Events (WBE) products). B15 - Designing Error Handling in IBM Business Process Manager Susan Herrmann, Software Engineer, IBM BPM SWAT, IBM IBM BPM provides strong capabilities for modelling, executing and monitoring your business processes. One important part that usually falls aside during process modelling is to ensure proper error handling facilities are implemented. This session will focus on the error handling capabilities that IBM BPM provides for modelling robust business processes. We will discuss best practices for implementing an error handling strategy, starting with the business process design. New IBM BPM V8 features in regards to error handling will also be discussed. We will show the proven existing features for both BPMN processes, BPEL processes and SCA modules. You will wlakout of the session with a knowledge on designing error handling strategy for your BPM applications along with knowing how your error handling design influences run-time related behavior of your environment. B16 - Troubleshooting IBM BPM Environments Susan Herrmann, Software Engineer, IBM BPM SWAT, IBM Incidents may happen in each IT landscape, no matter which software or hardware is used. Being prepared to quickly react and limit consequences is the best strategy to cope with such situations. This lecture will cover proven strategies for diagnosing and handling unexpected problems with IBM Business Process Manager. You will learn how to identify the source of a problem, where to gather diagnostic information and how to check for corresponding troubleshooting information. The session also covers BPM built in tools which are helpful to monitor, detect and repair issues in your BPM environment. B17 - IBM BPM in the Cloud Eric Herness, Distinguished Engineer, BPM and Decision Management CTO, IBM This session will describe the various ways to leverage the cloud for developing, testing and executing IBM Business Process Manager based workloads. First, specific details about the capabilities available for authoring and testing IBM BPM applications through Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) offerings will be provided. The various images available and the relevant configurations will be discussed. Secondly, the ability to author, test and execute IBM BPM




workloads using IBM PureScale Application System in a private cloud environment will be introduced. Technical details supporting recent announcements related to using IBM BPM in the private cloud will be provided. Specific patterns and topologies supported will be outlined along with supporting usage guidance for these patterns. How the images are configured, via IBM Workload Deployer into the patterns will also be described. B18 - BPM v8 and WebSphere Operational Decision Management v8 Update Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Eric Herness, Distinguished Engineer, BPM and Decision Management CTO, IBM The Business Process Manager v8 release provides new support for helping business users collaborate and work more efficiently. WebSphere Operational Decision Management v8 also provides enhanced support for developing and managing rules more efficiently. This session will provide an overview of the new features of Business Process Manager v8.0 and WebSphere Operational Decision Management v8.0. Technical descriptions of the enhancements will be supported by an enumeration of scenarios now supported through the features and the business value provided by the improved capabilities in the platform. B19 - IBM BPM Top Practices - Administration and Operations Focus Brian Petrini, Integration Architect - Business Process Management & Integration, IBM Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist - WW BPM Technical Sales, IBM To help you succeed with IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) Standard and Advanced, IBM has collected a number of key top practices that have proven to be the necessary ingredient of any success story with those products. Placed in the context of a recommended end to end BPM solution lifecycle, the second of this two part session focuses on the key infrastructure, administration, and operational top practices for IBM BPM Standard and Advanced and IBM Business Monitor, as they have been distilled by the lead IBM practitioners based on the their experience with projects world-wide. By the end of the session you will have the top tips on setting up development environments, critical points on keeping the IBM BPM infrastructure scalable, performance tuning, and links to the top intellectual capital in this area. B20 - IBM BPM Top Practices - Design and Developer Focus Brian Petrini, Integration Architect - Business Process Management & Integration, IBM Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist - WW BPM Technical Sales, IBM To help you succeed with IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) Standard and Advanced, IBM has collected a number of key top practices that have proven to be the necessary ingredient of any success story with those products. Placed in the context of a recommended end to end BPM solution lifecycle, the first of this two part session focuses on the key modeling and development top practices for IBM BPM Standard and Advanced, as they have been distilled by the lead IBM practitioners based on the their experience with projects world-wide. By the end of the session you will have the top tips on modeling your process, defining and monitoring business key performance indicators, building the implementation of the business task (both human and service), decision guides on choosing the right components for design, top practices for designing solution architectures for agility and change management and links to the top intellectual capital in this area.




B21 - Monitoring IBM BPM Solutions with Tivoli's SmartCloud APM Aaron Tobin, IBM Tivoli Product Manager, IBM Markus Reichart, WebSphere BPM Architecture - WPS Operations and Admin Clients, Tivoli BPM Integration, IBM This session will introduce how the newest version of Tivoli's Application Performance Management offering can be used to monitor the health of BPM solutions running on IBM Business Process Manager. Tracking the interactions between components and their response times as well as drill-down analysis in case of errors will be demonstrated. Additionally the integration with ITCAM for Application Diagnostics and BPM administrative user interfaces will be explained. B22 - How Yapi Kredi Bank Achieved Business Agility with WebSphere ILOG JRules Caner Kaplica, IT Architect, YAPIKREDI Huseyin Erdem Yontem, Software Client Architect, IBM This session will introduce how the newest version of Tivoli's Application Performance Management offering can be used to monitor the health of BPM solutions running on IBM Business Process Manager. Tracking the interactions between components and their response times as well as drill-down analysis in case of errors will be demonstrated. Additionally the integration with ITCAM for Application Diagnostics and BPM administrative user interfaces will be explained. B23 – IBM Operational Decision Management Topologies Pierre Feillet, Product Architect, IBM What are the preferred enterprise deployment topologies for WODM? This session will describe the best practices and recommended topologies for Decision Center and Decision Server (both Business Rules and Events runtimes). Topologies take into account the main patterns for enterprise volume stress on the various components of the platform, overall performance and high availability. B24 – What’s New in IBM Operational Decision Management? Stephane Mery, STSM Product Architect, IBM IBM Operational Decision Management is the new name for the ILOG BRMS and WebSphere Business Events products. The recent product releases significantly extend the BRMS capabilities on the z platform, and the integration between decision services and event processing. In addition, we have introduced a new collaborative and friendly web environment for business users for rule authoring, maintenance and governance and it's called the Decision Center Business Console. This session will go through all the new features and newly supported use cases introduced this year within ODM V8 and above. BL01 - Hands-On Lab: Experiencing the New Face of IBM Business Process Manager Michele Chilanti, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM The latest version of IBM Business Process Manager (Version 8) is strongly focused at improving the end-user experience and at maximizing users productivity. At the same time, the productivity of process designers and developers can greatly benefit from some of the newer User Interface capabilities introduced by this version of product. The Process




Designer includes a new "coach designer" that allows the rapid creation of modern UI page flows, and that supports the creation of reusable UI components. The Process Portal is completely redesgined, and supports collaborative functions out-of-the-box. This session through an introductory lecture and a hands-on lab lets you experience first-hand some of the most compelling new UI capabilities such as Web 2.0 enablement, collaboration, and maximized reuse of UI components. BL02 - Hands-On Lab: Accelerated Business Optimization with IBM BPM and WODM Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Gerhard Pfau, STSM, IBM BPM Product Architecture and Design, IBM IBM Business Process Management v8.0 brings a new level of tools to the business user for defining business process. Business process definitions can be easily created and tested prior to deployment. It also includes the ability to define decision services and decision points right in the business process definition using the same language as WebSphere Operational Decision Management. This language allows business logic to be specified in clear terms and notations without requiring a background in programming. When more complex business rules authoring or complex rule logic is required, the rules within a business process definition can be easily imported into Rule Designer for further development. This lab will look at the different aspects of creating decision services both within business process definitions and externally through Rule Designer. BL03 - Hands-On Lab: Setting up a Highly Available BPM Environment Eric Erpenbach, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Hendrik Engler, TeamLead - BPM L2 Support EMEA, IBM Clustering a BPM environment creates the basic infrastructure for a highly available and resilient production environment. Understanding the complexity of creating clustered environment can be a challenge in daily life of a system administrator. Setting up equivalent environments for test, pre-production and production system is a common requirement to successfully deploy applications. In this lab you will learn on how to easily create a BPM environment using a deployment environment patterns.




3.5 CICS C01 - Making the Most of Your CICS: Are You Tooled Up? Em James, CICS IA Lead Developer and CICS TOOLS Tech Specialist, IBM The CICS portfolio of tools enable you to manage and maintain your CICS assets, from the process of discovering your topology through to optimising your application performance, and all the steps in between. This session provides an introduction to the CICS Tools portfolio for those who are unfamiliar with our offering, and provides a summary of the latest features in each. C02 - CICS Integration: Architecture and Technology Choices Nigel Williams, Certified IT specialist, IBM Marcel Daeppen, WMSB CTO, UBS CICS handles billions of transactions every week and you probably use it yourself most days without being aware. But CICS is rarely used in isolation anymore, instead, the applications form an integral part of a wider set of business processes that span several platforms and architectures. We review the strategic CICS integration options and help you to chose between them. We focus on Web services, Java connectors, messaging and Web 2.0 style integration. Examples are used to highlight how customers are building robust and scalable infrastructures using these technologies. This session is based on the new IBM ITSO Redbooks publication ‘CICS Integration: Architecture and Technology Choices’ (SG24-5466). C03 - CICS TS: Managing the Platform Matthew Webster, CICS meets Agile/Java/Eclipse/OSGi, IBM During this session we will dive into the details of the Platform resource to see how it can be used to manage cloud-style deployments of CICS Applications. The session will also show how CICS Deployment Assistant can help discover and define these platform definitions, and how CICS Configuration Manager enables you to efficiently manage your CICS resource definitions. C04 - CICS TS : Support for WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile Ian J Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM CICS TS V5.1 open beta offers a fast and lightweight Java™ web container, providing developers with the rich features of Java Servlet and Java Server Pages (JSP) specifications, and fast local access to your existing CICS applications and data. Built on WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile technology, this web container runs in the CICS JVM server environment. A wide range of Java development tools can be used to develop web applications, such as WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse (WDT), and Rational Developer for System z. This session will demonstrate these features and show the integration between the web container and CICS resources. C05 - CICS Core Foundations and Scalability John Tilling, Senior Software Engineer CICS Technical Planning and Strategy, Hursley, IBM The newest CICS Transaction Server release is focused on helping our customers to deliver a smarter transaction processing experience. New and enhanced capabilities have been made in several areas. This session will cover changes to CICS core foundation and




scalability features in detail. First, there will be a summary of the capabilities that exist in CICS TS V4, to be followed by discussion of changed areas including Security, Communications and startup configuration. Enhanced Scalability capabilities include extensions to OTE, Virtual Storage Constraint relief, greater use of 64bit storage, more task capacity and increased instrumentation, all of which is designed to allow customers to do significantly more with much greater ease. C06 - CICS TS Introduction to Applications as First Class Entities Matthew Webster, CICS meets Agile/Java/Eclipse/OSGi, IBM What's in an application? The large set of disparate but interrelated resources that make up a business application within CICS can now be logically defined as a single entity and deployed to CICS as a single resource. An application that is defined in this way can then be managed as a single entity throughout its lifecycle. In this session we introduce the concepts that underpin the Application resource and how this will change the way you manage enterprise services. C07 - CICS TS: Introduction to Platforms as Deployment Targets Matthew Webster, CICS meets Agile/Java/Eclipse/OSGi, IBM To facilitate the deployment of a new application level resource, CICS introduces the concept of a platform. Platforms are new CICS resources that deliver a simple layer of abstraction to decouple applications from the underlying region topology. In addition we introduce the concept of a Policy. Policies enable the behaviour of applications and platforms to be managed by determining whether tasks running as part of a platform, as an application, or as types of operation within an application, exceed certain predefined thresholds. After a threshold is exceeded, CICS can issue a message, or abend the task with a specific abend. This session will cover the fundamental details of the Platform concept that enable you to manage you platform as a service (PaaS). C08 - CICS TS Managing the Application Lifecycle Matthew Webster, CICS meets Agile/Java/Eclipse/OSGi, IBM Application resources enable a far greater level of control and management than in previous CICS releases. Applications can be monitored as a logical whole, helping users to manage resource usage and process internal charge-back billings. Applications enable you to drill down to the resource consumption of individual resources. The latest release of CICS IA allows you to gain far greater insight into you applications and their dependencies, whilst CICS PA allows you to fine tune your application performance and identify application bottlenecks. This session will demonstrate the portfolio tools that enable you to define, deploy, manage, and optimise your applications. C09 - What's New in the CICS Transaction Gateway Kate Robinson, CICS Transaction Gateway Architect, IBM This session introduces the CICS Transaction Gateway suite of products, which can provide non-invasive CICS connectivity to a variety of application environments and platforms in different topologies. The session will then takes a closer look at the enhancements in the latest release including scalability, high availability, transaction tracking, distributed platform applications, security, CICS connectivity and the CICS TG plugin for CICS Explorer.




C10 - CICS Performance: Scream If You Want to Go Faster John Tilling, Senior Software Engineer CICS Technical Planning and Strategy, Hursley, IBM Kate Robinson, CICS Transaction Gateway Architect, IBM Do you keep getting asked to do more with less? Finding the right tools are critical for tracking down potential and actual outages, as well as proactively making decisions to improve the performance of your CICS environment. This session shows how IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS and products within the CICS Tools portfolio, such as CICS Performance Analyzer and CICS Independency Analyzer, can be deployed to improve your system availability and reduce the overhead of CICS monitoring, management and problem solving. Recent enhancements to these products provide you with fast, yet detailed access to the information required to make informed decisions and take appropriate action within your CICS environment. C11 - Integrating the CICS Tools with the CICS Explorer Em James, CICS IA Lead Developer and CICS TOOLS Tech Specialist, IBM This session will discuss how CICS Tools are extending the value of CICS system. It will show how the CICS Explorer forms the foundation of an integrated suite of tools that together deliver end to end management and control of your CICS applications and resources. It will help you understand how CICS PA, CICS CM and CICS IA are becoming a key part of every CICS ecosystem to ensure optimum performance, efficient control of CICS resource definitions and deep understanding of complex CICS applications. It will show how IBM Session Manager provides a highly available, secure and user-friendly method of accessing multiple systems from a single terminal. Finally we will show how CICS Deployment Assistant is helping with discovery, modelling, visualisation, creation and deployment of CICS regions using policy driven advice and automation. C12 - Upgrading Your CICS John Tilling, Senior Software Engineer CICS Technical Planning and Strategy, Hursley, IBM After months and months of writing letters of justification, you are finally given the OK to order the latest version of CICS Transaction Server. Before you know it the software has arrived and is ready to install. What do you do next? Do you have to buy lunch for the z/OS Systems Programmers to get them to install the latest release of z/OS? What about the Data Base administrators - what do you need from them? Is this the time to finally bite the bullet and make use of CICSPlex Systems Manager? Are your CICS Exits and User Replaceable Modules still valid? What will it take to get them working with this release of CICS? What will you have tell the Application Programmers? Are their programs still going to work or will they have to be changed? Is your shop relying on any function that has been removed from this release of CICS? Come to this technical session to get the answers to the above questions & more. C13 - The New Face of CICS just got Smarter: CICS Explorer Update Em James, CICS IA Lead Developer and CICS TOOLS Tech Specialist, IBM Looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practice to the next generation of technical staff/experts? The CICS Explorer provides task-oriented views, powerful context-sensitive resource editors, and integrated access to broad range of data and control capabilities for CICS TS. CICS Explorer has been restructured to separate the CICS-specific perspectives and capabilities from the connectivity infrastructure and z/OS




platform views to create a new, reusable component known as IBM Explorer for z/OS V1.1 (z/OS Explorer). This session provides an introduction to the CICS Explorer as well as diving into some of the key enhancements in the latest release. C14 - CICS for the Cloud - CICS TS Technical Overview Ian J Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer, CICS Transaction Server, IBM This years CICS Family Keynote will highlight some the recent successes of the flagship CICS TS V4.2 product, including how a number of customers and partners are using it to support their mission critical business applications today. You will hear about some of the the major new technologies that IBM has delivered since the last IMPACT conference - as well as introducing some exciting new capabilities that will truly help shape the future of applications and infrastructure on System z. There will be a number of demo’s throughout this session, as well as some pointers to other IMPACT sessions that will cover certain areas in more detail. 2012 is going to be an exciting year in the life of the CICS Portfolio. Come and hear how the worldwide CICS team is transforming your expectations with a range of innovations that you will want to exploit both now, and in the years to come. C15 - The OSGi JVMServer within CICS Usage Patterns and Customer References Tobias Leicher, SWG Client Technical Professional for CICS, IBM This session will give an impression of the OSGi Server that was introduced in CICS TS V4.2. There will be examples of platform agnostic development architecture as well as Customer examples showcasing on how the JVMServer is used. C16 – Connecting CICS & SchuFa Using Web Services Helmut Roese, COM-SOFTWARE SchuFa (General Credit Protection Agency) provided a structured data interface to query information like credit status called SchuFa-Computer-Daten-Interface (SCDI). This is migrated to a new XML-based interface, which incorporates 2 different communication styles: SIML2 and Web Services. SIML2 is a proprietary message-format with a digital signature inside, whereas web services use the standard security mechanisms. These Web Services are based on the Initiative for Financial Processes in Germany and should become a mandatory standard for web services in the financial sector. This session outlines implementation approaches at different customers - based on Cobol CICS or Java. C17 - CICS TS : Java and the JVM Server Ian J Mitchell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM CICS has for a long time provided a Java environment for application development. In recent releases of CICS, the JVM Server has transformed CICS into a first-class hosting environment for Java. This session will provide a brief history of the development of the Java environment within CICS, followed by a detailed look at the capabilities offered by CICS version 4. In particular, we will look at how the OSGi framework provides excellent lifecycle management of Java applications without having to restart the JVM Server, how Java application can be eligible for zAAP offload thereby reducing the cost of a transaction, and how the JVM Server supports multiple concurrent transactions, reducing the storage requirements and the need for multiple JVM instances in a single region.




CL01 - Hands-On Lab: Managing CICS TS Applications Using CICS Tools Em James, CICS IA Lead Developer and CICS TOOLS Tech Specialist, IBM This hands on lab session will introduce you to the new CICS TS 5.1 concepts of Applications and Platforms. You will use the CICS IA Tool to understand your existing resource usage by program and region and identify an Application entry point. You will then define and deploy a Platform. You will then define an Application and deploy it into your platform. You will then capture both CICS IA and SMF data for this application. You will then use the CICS PA Explorer plug-in to view performance data for the Application and use the CICS IA Explorer plug-in to discover resources used by this Application.

CL02 - Hands-On Lab: Discovering and Managing CICS TS Topologies using CICS DA Em James, CICS IA Lead Developer and CICS TOOLS Tech Specialist, IBM This hands-on lab session will introduce you to the capabilities of CICS Deployment Assistant. You will use the CICS DA Tool to understand your existing CICS topologies with a Sysplex. The CICS DA visualisation and connections view will enable you to understand how managed CICS regions are connected and different layouts can be used to truely represent your topology flow (TOR/AOR/FOR). Unmanaged regions will be added into a CICSplex. Existing regions will be replicated and connected into your topology. Then discovered data will be exported into a reporting tool for further analysis (e.g. answering key business questions like how many CICS regions are in my Sysplex?). © Copyright IBM Corporation 2012

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