GSE-UK Virtual Conference (Guide Share Europe)

Tuesday 23 Apr  - Thursday 25 April 2024 

See: https://conferences.gse.org.uk/2024V 

On 24th April at 1330 GMT, Db2 Stream, Session 6P see:

"SQL performance monitoring with analytics and interactive visualization through Grafana"

A user presentation from REWE (Germany’s 3rd largest retailer) highlighting fluctuating cases and showing how performance problems can be identified and visualized using modern methods. Moreover, it will delve into various approaches in gaining an overview of the system workload, placing specific emphasis on early detection of performance bottlenecks, monitoring consumption trends, and tracking changes in access paths.

Presenter: Vi An Lieu is a Db2 database administrator with REWE and will highlight some of their requirements around 50+ Billion executed SQL statements per day, and their use also of the new UBS-Hainer product SQLQC to capture problems across the enterprise in a 14-way Data Sharing group. 

Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter - 2023 #4 

Available since Feb 12, 2024

See article on "Life of an IPL", written by Michael FitzGerald in Newsletter

https://watsonwalker.com/cheryl-watsons-tuning-letter-2023-no-4-available-now/ 

or email us for a reprint of the article.

GSE-UK Conference (Guide Share Europe)

Monday 30 October - Thursday 2 November 2023, @ Whittlebury, England 

We will have a booth there. Please call by.

Michael FitzGerald speaking 

On the Monday 30 October @ 16.00 in New Technologies stream:

  "Zero Trust in People and Machines – It’s not just AI we need to fear"

On the Tuesday 31 Oct @ 15.15 in LSWG (Large Systems Work Group) stream:

  "The important Parmlib Members and impact on IPL process"



DevOps & Mainframe - The Challenges in Parallel Projects and Parallel Testing

Wednesday, 21 June 2023, @ 14.00-14.45 BST 

Presenter: Daniel Raisch, Executive Enterprise Architect, Eccox

Mainframe Modernization is primarily addressing business demands for the Digital Economy.  This requires Agility, Delivering More at the Speed of Market Changes, and all at Reduced Costs. 

As always it comes down to develop, test and deploy more applications. Outside of resources, one of the biggest challenges is provisioning a test environment allowing multiple projects running in parallel (e.g. different versions of applications, different versions of programs, different database structures, …).

Eccox’s Application Parallel Testing (APT) automatically creates isolated Container workloads and test tracks which provide the necessary speed, security, and adherence in the provision of a testing environment. You can meet multiple, parallel projects without conflict by standardizing the testing processes of programs and systems.

APT is a complementary solution for existing DevOps and test tools in the mainframe market, but addressing the full test-cycle, and vastly improving your DORA metrics.

The Webinar will highlight how using Parallel Testing from ECCOX will dramatically improve your Development Throughput with both life-cycle cost and time reductions. It delivers the required faster turnaround in Mainframe Modernization and Digitalization.

To register email info @ fitzsoftware.com

Manage your Test Data before it becomes a Bottleneck

Tuesday, 8 June 2023, @ 16.00-17.00 BST 

Presenter: Craig S. Mullins

Anybody who has ever been involved in software development knows that creating applications requires test data. Without the data to test your programs against, there is really no way to ensure that the programs are doing what you want them to do. 

But test data management can quickly consume a lot of time and effort. Supporting multiple programmers, multiple database environments, and making sure you have sufficient test cases is easier said than done. And we are not just talking about developing new applications, but also modifying existing ones! 

In this webinar we will look at test data management and the trends impacting application development and testing, including automation, shift-left testing, agile development, and DevOps. We will discuss the impact of these trends and how all of them drive up the speed and complexity of creating and testing applications. We’ll define the components and requirements of test data management and examine the pitfalls that can lead test data management becoming a bottleneck, slowing down your developers. 

Along the way, we will take a look at the policies and regulations that protect sensitive data. Compliance with these regulations means that you can’t just use production data without taking into account personally identifiable data, healthcare data, and other types of sensitive data that developers should not see. 

Join this webinar as IBM gold consultant Craig Mullins discusses the issues and requirements of data management and how UBS-Hainer’s XDM solution can be used to streamline and optimize your test data management efforts. (Craig S. Mullins is president & principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in data and database management consulting, research, and strategy.) 

Click this link and follow Goto-Meeting instructions to REGISTER or email us at info @ fitzsoftware.com  

GSE z/OS Work Group - Germany (DACH)

(Wed 22 to Fri 24 March 2023, in Kassel in Germany)

Thursday 23 March @ 09.45 CET 

Topic: "Sequencing of Parmlib Member events in IPL process"

Presenter: Michael FitzGerald, M.D. at Fitz Software

See full 3-day Agenda here:  https://gsemember.gse.org/GSEMb/Files/Meeting/Agenda_SOSXD_123_20230307101352.pdf 

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