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The Mainframe in 2006

Wednesday 6th December 2006 18:30 (Light refreshments from 17:45)

Venue: Hotel Metropole, Leeds

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Speakers: Paul Carruthers, IBM Software Group

Achievements British Computer Society at Chartered IT Professional level ( 2004 ), Co-authored an IBM Redbook for ‘CICS Performance Monitor version 1.2’ ( 2003 ), BTEC HND in Computer Studies ( 1987 - 1990 ), BTEC OND in Computer Studies ( 1985 - 1987 )

Work History

He has work for IBM since Jan 1998 working in their Outsourcing section & Software group. Prior to that he has worked for Freemans Mail Order ( Headingley ) and Co-operative Wholesale Society & ICI ( Manchester ). While in IBM Outsourcing Paul worked on accounts such as Asda, Bradford & Bingley, Equifax and Certegy

Currently role within IBM

Involves working with the CICS development lab in Hursley to develop and enhance the IBM CICS tools suite. He also works with customers ( both outsourced & non-outsourced ) to assist them from a technical level in migrating from their current ISV software to the appropriate IBM CICS tool.

He has worked within zSeries CICS Technical Support teams at various companies ( not just IBM ) since 1990. gaining a large amount of experience in installing, customizing and rolling out base CICS and associated software tooling. Although, he is based in Leeds, he travels around the UK & Europe to give technical presentations, demonstrations & proof of concepts for the IBM’s CICS tool suite Brief Outline of zSeries Presentation

"The Mainframe in 2006" ( or System Z as it is now known ), Paul plans to discuss the huge amount of investment within the platform, what is does best and where it is going. For example, as well as MVS ( known as z/OS ) & VM operating systems and COBOL, Batch, IMS, DB2 & CICS that have been around for decades there are also the 'newer' technologies Unix ( USS ), Linux, Web Services and the latest in cryptographic security for data. ie, using zVM on a single mainframe can support 100's, if not 1000's of Linux images as well as servicing other z/OS images running the more traditional workloads.

Paul will also talk about IBM's 'Mainframe Charter' Community Innovation & Value which was designed to demonstrate the mainframe is far from Dead or Dying.

If you are planning to attend, it would be helpful if you could email malcolm@malcolmgeorge.co.uk so that we can provide an appropriate level of refreshments.