Kaiserslautern Mainframe Summit 2010

News

  • 2010-10-04 - Seminar topics assigned (more details here)
  • 2010-09-22 - Agenda available [download] (2nd. Update 2010-09-25!!)
  • 2010-05-03 - Teilnehmerzahl auf 40 begrenzt (siehe Anmeldung)
  • 2010-02-06 - Neuer Flyer verfügbar mit finalen Terminangaben
  • 2010-02-04 - Summit-Termin bestätigt, Anmeldung ab jetzt verbindlich möglich
  • 2009-12-10 - Offizielle Ankündigung per EMail und Flyer für Aushänge zum Download [Flyer]
  • 2009-12-02 - Vorstellung der Veranstaltung zum Download [Vorstellung] (Update 2010-02-08 !)
  • 2009-30-11 - The Kaiserslautern Mainframe Summit 2010 is confirmed. Vote for schedule started. Send an email indicating your preferred dates (see Schedule)

Anmeldung

Anmeldung per EMail an kschmidt@cs.uni-kl.de ab sofort möglich. Bitte Studiengang, Semester, Universität und gewünschte Form der Lehrveranstaltung angeben (siehe Schedule). Anmeldungen werden nach dem First-Come First-Served Prinzip angenommen, wobei wir bis zu 40 Plätze garantieren. Falls ein Auffrischungskurs von Datenbank-Grundlagen gewünscht ist, bitte in der Anmeldung angeben.

Update (16.09.2010) - Aktuelle Anmeldezahl: 43 (Warteliste eingeführt)
Update (02.05.2010) - maximale Teilnehmeranzahl erhöht auf 40

Introduction

A mainframe is a computing system that businesses usually utilize to host e.g. (1) large-scale commercial databases, (2) transaction servers, or (3) applications requiring a greater degree of security and availability than is commonly available on smaller-scale systems. Today, about 60% of all data available on the Internet is stored and processed on mainframe computers. Despite their predominance in business world, mainframes are largely invisible to the general public and the academic community. This circumstance is unfortunate due to the great mainframe-offered opportunities to IT professionals in a variety of technical fields.

This special summit is offered to computer science students in cooperation with IBM. The lectures of the first week will acquaint you with the technical details of the mainframe hardware and its operating system z/OS. It will also cover technologies that are built on top this platform, such as Virtualization, Linux on Mainframe, Transaction Management (CICS), and enterprise-scale Java applications (J2EE). The second focus on DB2 for z/OS and deals with the application and management of IBM’s DB2 which is one of the worldwide mostly used database management system.

DB2 for z/OS

'DB2 for z/OS', a relational database management system running on IBM mainframes, is worldwide handling the largest data volumes. Almost each larger banking or insurance company as well as many large-scale enterprises are using DB2 for z/OS to manage and keep available their data. Thus, these enterprises mainly benefit from the major advantages of Mainframe platforms, i.e., scalability, data-sharing / high-availability, security, maintainability, which are fully supported by DB2 for z/OS. Furthermore, it has to be recognized that about two-thirds of the worldwide data volumes are managed by Mainframes today, often in pre-relational management systems, e.g., IMS, Adabas, IDMS, Datacom, or even in files, e.g. VSAM or QSAM. Information Integration allows to incorporate these data into modern application environments, business processes and strategic initiatives as Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Risk & Compliance, or Master Data Management (MDM). So the goal of this track is to qualify for using and administrating DB2 for z/OS as well as corresponding information integration tools both, conceptually as well as practically (hands-on lab).

This track will deal with the following contents:

  • DB2 for z/OS
    • Overview
      • Architecture
      • Data Objects
      • DB2 for z/OS in comparison to DB2 for Linux, Unix, Windows
    • Advanced mechanisms
      • Data Sharing/High Availability
      • Security
      • Scalability
      • XML Support
    • Administration (Operations, Performance Management)
    • DB2 Utilities & DB2 Tools
  • Information Integration
    • Legacy database systems and File Structures: IBM IMS, CA IDMS & Datacom, Software AG Adabas, VSAM Clusters & CICS/VSAM, QSAM & ISAM Files
    • Concepts of Information Integration: Federation, Change Data Capture (CDC), Replication, Profiling, Cleansing, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), SOA
    • Sample Solutions: Access to Legacy Data in Web Applications, Real-time Update of Data Warehouses with Legacy-Data, Using CDC Events for Application Integration, Leveraging Legacy Data in Business Processes (BPEL), Migration of Legacy-Databases
    • During a hands-on lab, each participant will deploy the product WebSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS to provide a JSP application with federated access to IMS, DB2, and CICS/VSAM data.

Schedule

The final date is confirmed

  • 27.09.2010 - 01.10.2010 : Mainframe technology and z/OS basics
  • 04.10.2010 - 08.10.2010 : DB2 on z/OS
  • im Anschluss
    • Seminar (4 ECTS-Punkte), 15-minütige Vorträge zu Themen des Summits
    • mündliche Prüfung (3 ECTS-Punkte) der Vorlesung "Aktuelle DBS-Entwicklungen"
    • Zertifizierung durch IBM
    • Teilnahmezertifikat
    • Kombination mit dem angepassten DB2-Praktikum der AG DBIS (8 ECTS-Punkte)

Materials

System z material

Wolfram Greis (European Mainframe Academy)

Stephan Kammerer (IBM/DE)

Lutz Kühner (IBM/DE)

Thomas Schulze (IBM/DE)

Andrew Ward (CA)

ITERGO - Ansprechpartner

Ulf Heinrich (SEG - Software Engineering)


System z material from Mainframe Sumit 2009

Contact

Karsten Schmidt