Some upcoming sessions:

GSE-UK Conference (Guide Share Europe)

Monday 4 Nov  - Thursday 7 Nov 2024 

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

Fitz Software are attending and will have a booth in vendor section. Please call by where our partners Trident Services, Phoenix Software and Log-On Software will also be attending with us.

Post conference

See some GSE interviews on Linkedin:

  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7265639200341872641/ 

See our GSE postings on Linkedin:

  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7261357779787870208/

4 Webinars on a New World in Test Data Management

Cloud Migration - What About the Test Data?

Thursday, December 19, 3-4pm BST           Goto-Webinar Register here

Join us for a webinar dedicated to navigating the complexities of test data management during application migration to the cloud. Discover how cloud migration transforms software architecture and data management strategies, and gain insights into effective approaches for extracting and managing test data using service APIs and SQL interfaces.

Explore proven methods for extracting, copying, and generating test data, including hybrid approaches for optimal results. Benefit from real-world examples, best practices, and actionable insights tailored to enhance your cloud migration projects.

This webinar is designed for IT professionals seeking to optimize their cloud migration strategies through robust test data management practices. Whether you are in the planning stages or already underway with your migration, join us to gain practical knowledge and expert guidance that can accelerate your cloud journey with the test data management platform, XDM.

CI/CD Next Level: Realistic Test Data and Seamless Automation with XDM

Tuesday, October 8, 3-4pm BST      Goto-Webinar Register here

Achieving seamless CI/CD testing hinges on realistic test data that mirrors real-world scenarios. UBS Hainer’s test data management platform, XDM, is designed to optimize your testing processes. Implement smart data strategies and discover how to:

·       Seamlessly integrate realistic test data

·       Automatically prepare your test environment

·       Optimize your workflows

Gain practical insights and explore case studies demonstrating the efficiency and effectiveness of XDM in modern development pipelines. 

With powerful automation capabilities and built-in API clients, XDM transforms crucial data management tasks across your application stack. Experience accelerated and repeatable integration testing and confidently validate application functionality using test outcomes tailored to your application's data and objectives.

Accelerate Your Testing with Smart Data Strategies

Wednesday, October 16, 3-4pm          Goto-Webinar Register here

Complex system landscapes contain large amounts of data spread across multiple applications. This makes it hard for testers and developers to find suitable test data, especially when the databases and their structures are unknown.

Gain an overview of the entities and attributes of your business data to best understand how it is distributed to select the best data for your tests. Learn how to extract and apply data in any test environment, whether static or dynamic, including those that exist only during the application's CI/CD runs.

This webinar will demonstrate how to use UBS Hainer’s test data management tool XDM to set up smart data strategies for test data that can automatically transport individual business cases using a simple online order form or be triggered through a web service from any test automation process.

We will explain how XDM’s Masking Tool anonymizes PII data to adhere to both external and internal regulations. Additionally, when utilizing test base data in test automation, it's crucial to establish a mechanism to reset the test data following any alterations during a test. We'll delve into reusable test data and how it can streamline your test automation process.

AI-driven test data delivery

Wednesday, October 30, 3-4pm BST        Goto-Webinar Register here

Join our webinar to explore the transformative impact of AI technologies on test data provisioning. Gain insights into the advantages and limitations of leveraging AI data in your testing processes. 

We’ll demonstrate how public and private Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used effectively to generate and mask test data within the XDM framework. XDM is a test data management platform designed for agile development cycles, integrating seamlessly into any organizational structure and workflow.

Discover practical applications using GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and local models. Learn how to harness AI to automate the creation of high-quality test data code for XDM modification methods. 

Join us to discover how AI can bolster your test data strategies while prioritizing data privacy. Don’t miss this opportunity to optimize your testing processes.

Some sessions in the past:

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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