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What is platform readiness?
In order to take full advantage of the On Demand Operating Environment, handle new workloads, better manage today's increasingly complex infrastructure and fully exploit the capabilities of the zSeries® platform, platform readiness is essential. Are you running the latest zSeries z990 and z890 along with z/OS 1.6? Doing so enables you to take full advantage of sub-capacity pricing, the IBM zAAP (zSeries Application Assist Processor) facility to run Java™ workload with no additional software costs, the enhanced performance capabilities which drive down the effective cost of running the zSeries platform while driving up throughput.
IBM continues to provide the most comprehensive information management solutions in the industry, just as it has for the past 36 years and will do so, far into the future. These solutions span the entire spectrum of enterprise information requirements from extraordinarily high volume, iron clad transaction driven systems, through universal storage and retrieval of diverse unstructured content, to deep-dive, introspective business intelligence analysis and ad hoc rapid-response inquiries that can help you make better business decisions. Staying current on the latest versions of the key middleware— IBM CICS®, IMS™, DB2®, WebSphere MQ® and NetView® enable optimum interoperability of the middleware. All of this world class middleware is available with sub-capacity pricing - allowing you to only pay for what you use.
Are you ready? Check out the platform readiness resources available to you, today.
Jax Shawley, Editor
IBM eServer™ zSeries and S390® software marketing
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BMO Financial Group leveraging its IT infrastructure to generate revenue and lower costs
Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is the oldest financial services provider in Canada and one of the largest. With total assets of $265 billion at October 31, 2004 and more than 34,000 employees,it is intensely focused on two key objectives: generating revenues by having more and higher-quality conversations with its customers and reducing expenses. Read the article to find out what "Helen" is, and why "she" is doing cartwheels and making executives at Bank of Montreal very happy. |
The wait is over: CICS joins the SOA revolution
The growth in complexity of development platforms and integration needs forces organizations to turn away from code-centric development practices in exchange for more efficient development paradigms. If you're looking to redefine applications quickly and effectively to meet customer demands, you need rapid business process adaption and reshaping. CICS Transaction Server (TS) V3.1 and its ecosystem provides a complementary set of technologies, which can meet your ongoing requirements— enabling you to meet the competitive pressures in the marketplace with confidence. If you're looking for open, reliable, low-overhead business to business (B2B) connectivity over the Web, with flexibility being the overriding characteristic of success, you need your CICS applications to be part of your service integration strategy. With application maintenance consuming 60-80% of IT budgets and staff turnover or retirement lessening individual programmer familiarity with existing systems, application maintenance efficiency is key driver. With day-one availability, you can get better tooling solutions that deliver more effective and efficient development processes using your existing resources. Build an ecosystem that can respond to any market opportunity or competitive threat.
Find out what IBM CICS TS V3.1 can do for you. Read our feature article, "
The wait is over: CICS joins the SOA revolution.
" Then, visit
The Mainstream's download page* to download the new Arcati analyst report on CICS and the CICS White paper.
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IBM, SOA and Web Services: Our leadership is showing
By Dr. Bob Sutor, VP IBM, Open Standards
"SOA." It's more than the latest acronym to make its way around IT circles. SOA, or service oriented architecture, is also one of the most critical topics in technology today. With good reason. Service oriented architecture isn't technology for technology's sake. In fact, as the word "architecture" implies, it is a set of patterns and best practices to help you implement a flexible IT infrastructure that integrates your systems with those of your customers, partners, and suppliers. What exactly are the needs in question? Find out what Dr. Bob Sutor has to say about SOA.
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Information integration: Helping companies become on demand businesses
Information integration offers significant business value in a variety of ways. In controlled lab tests, we found that using the built-in federation functions in WebSphere® Information Integrator can save an average of 40 to 65 percent of the hand coding necessary-and therefore 40 to 65 percent of the development time-as compared to building the integration coding by hand. Federation also helps companies extend their current mainframe investments by leveraging the information in new applications.
Read the complete article and get the low-down on three integration styles: federation, placement and publish.
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A single sign-in lets you access The Mainstream's download page  where you can retrieve a selection of resources including these new white papers:
- Analyst Report: The Dinosaur Myth - 2004 update
- TCO Study: Scorpion Update
- Strategy paper: Oriented Architecture: A Introduction to SOA for Business Managers
- Analyst Report: The Sageza Group: A to zSeries for System Integrators Opportunities for Business Success, Clay Ryder
- White Paper: Integrating WebSphere Application Server and CICS using the Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector Architecture
- White Paper: Manage both the users and the devices that connect to the enterprise to maximize security (IBM and Cisco)
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 CCR2 provides fresh and high-value content from leading zSeries IT professionals and experts that will help in the day-to-day management of their zSeries applications and environments. Don't miss CCR2's current issuue.
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Strategy paper: Oriented Architecture: A Introduction to SOA for Business Managers.
From a purely technical perspective SOA is a superior form of application integration or middleware. However the restructuring of systems capabilities into services presents a much broader opportunity for restructuring of business responsibilities and processes around the service concept. In this report we present the business case and argue that SOA is a powerful tool for business reengineering, and that it is essential for senior business managers to become engaged in this critical activity.
White Paper: Integrating WebSphere Application Server and CICS using the J2EE Connector Architecture
How can a new J2EE application connect to CICS? In many cases, the answer is to use the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA), which defines a standard architecture for connecting the J2EE platform to heterogeneous Enterprise Integration Systems (EISs), such as CICS.
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Optimize IT through infrastructure management
As you deploy new workloads and add servers to your environment, transaction volumes can explode, management complexity can increase and unpredictability become the norm. You need to identify, react and ensure the entire infrastructure is adaptive enough to maintain Service Level Agreements. This can only be done with an end to end infrastructure management approach. With the acquisition of Candle and Cyanea, IBM is the only company in the industry to now provide a complete view of your environment and an integrated way of managing end to end within a heterogeneous environment.
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The Dinosaur Myth - 2004 update
With all the recent announcement activity, and the anticipated push from IBM to extol the virtues of the mainframe once again, we can expect many users to re-visit the platform choice issue. In response, Arcati maintain that, in comparing the TCO of the competitive platforms, what really matters is the number of users that a computer can support, performing whatever functions are necessary to the organization with a reasonable level of service.
The key yardstick of a computer's cost-effectiveness is not TCO (total cost of ownership) but TCU (total cost per user), measured over a reasonable time-span to even out any high up-front costs.
Scorpion Update
An Evolving Method of Analyzing and Optimizing the Corporate IT Server Infrastructure
Rick Schoenmann, IT Infrastructure Consultant and John F. Ryan, Senior IT Consultant.
The Sageza Group: A to zSeries for System Integrators
Opportunities for Business Success, Clay Ryder
In this paper, Sageza examines the role of Systems Integrators in helping organizations benefit from their technology investments, examining the capabilities of IBM's eServer zSeries and reflect on how this platform provides opportunity not only for the end customer, but also for the Systems Integrators who play an invaluable role in delivering IT solutions in the marketplace.
White Paper: Manage both the users and the devices that connect to the enterprise to maximize security (IBM and Cisco)
To address today’s competitive On Demand Business challenges, organizations leverage their IT investments in networks, systems and applications to efficiently connect with customers, suppliers and partners. While enabling more users and organizations to connect to many parts of the
IT infrastructure drives immense benefits, it also can yield corresponding risks. The recent spate of viruses, worms and Internet attacks caused significant IT infrastructure damage and a massive loss of productivity within enterprises. Businesses have been forced to spend more to combat these evolving threats, yet their security capabilities often have not risen to meet these challenges.
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IMS V9 Technical Seminar Series
February through April
WebSphere Live! 2005
Delivering Flexible, Integrated Infrastructure
Teleconference technical clinics
It's All About Performance (Optimizing your performance in DB2 for z/OS environments)
View teleconferences for replay.
Take a little time to learn a lot!
Download the 2005 Webcast calendar today. (PDF)
Visit anytime to find out how to attend these sessions live or view the replay from the archives.
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