Upcoming GSE working group meetings in Belgium

It's a bit short notice but due to circumstances you know, I didn't have the time to mention them earlier. But here they are, four GSE meetings all taking place next week.

Summary

• Wednesday December 9 - GSE z/OS Working Group
• Thursday December 10 - GSE DB2 Working Group
• Thursday December 10 - GSE CICS Working Group
• Friday December 11 - GSE Enterprise Systems Security Working Group

More details below.

Let do them in sequential order and start with the GSE z/OS working Group on Wednesday December 9, 2015. It's an all day event taking place at our own RealDolmen headquarters in Huizingen and here's the agenda :

09:00 - 09:30 Coffee
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome by Renaud Colin (Chairman – Euroclear S.A.)
09:35 - 10:30 z/OS 2.2 by Jan T. (Client Technical Specialist - z Systems IBM)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Anonymize your system dumps and logs BEFORE …! Dr. Stephen Fedtke, Enterprise-IT-Security.com
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Analytics Accelerator V5 by Dirk Coomans (IBM)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00 Recent HW features (zEDC, RoCE, Crypto, ...) by Jan T.
16:00 - 16:05 Closing by Renaud Colin (Chairman – Euroclear S.A.)

You can register over here.

Next in line is the GSE DB2 Working Group meeting. This is on Thursday December 10, 2015 at Colruyt, Halle. The general subject is DB2 11 Mugrating User Experiences. Here's the agenda :

13:00 – 13:30 Registration
13:30 - 14:00 "11 Experiences migrating to DB2 11", Mattia Michelazzo - Euroclear
14:00 - 14:40 “DB2 V11 Migration@Colruyt”, Steven Goedertier - Colruyt
14:40 – 15:10 Q&A about DB2 11 : zparm settings, new features, performance measurements LRSN Conversion
15:10 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 DB2 Enhancements Requests : how to deal with them, Bart Steegmans - IBM
16:15 – 17u15 “System tuning : Resetting your Pain thresholds”, Andy Ward – CA Technologies
17:15 – 17:30 Planning next year
17:30 - 19:00 Networking & Drinks sponsored by CA Technologies

Registration over here.

But you will have to chose on that same Thursday December 10, 2015 because we also have the GSE CICS Working Group Meeting at the IBM Client Center Brussels (formerly IBM forum). The agenda looks extremely promising :

13:00-13:15 Welcome and Coffee
13:15-13:30 Introduction by Chairman Dirk De Schutter
13.30-14:15 Session 1 : CICS TS V5 Technical overview (IBM Hursley Labs)
14:15-15:00 Session 2 : Modernise your CICS applications (Syspertec)
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-17:15Hr
Session 3 : CICS cloud (IBM Hursley Labs)
Session 4 : CICS Cloud Deep Dive: Reducing Risk with Multi-versioning (IBM Hursley Labs)
Session 5 : CICS mobile and RESTful services (IBM Hursley Labs)
17:15-18:00 Closing and Reception

For registration, please send a mail to the chairman Dirk De Schutter.

And finally we have the Enterprise Systems Security Working Group meeting on Friday December 11, 2015 at the IBM Client Center Brussels (formerly IBM forum). The topic is z/Secure and apparantly the zSecure topic is an annualy recurring event. Here's the agenda :

09:00 – 09:30 Registration – Coffee
09.30 – 09.40 Introduction - Frank Ternest - Chairman GSE BeLux ESS Group
09:40 – 10:20 State of the Union of security on z Jamie Pease - Worldwide Product Manager for zSecure
10:20 – 11:20 What’s new in zSecure 2.2 part 1 - Hans Schoone, zSecure Chief Architect - In these sessions, the Chief zSecure Architect will share details of what is planned for the next release.
11:20 – 11:35 Coffee
11:35 – 12:30 What’s new in zSecure 2.2 part 2
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch offered by IBM
13:15 – 14:00 zSecure Alert Update & Demo - Jamie Pease
14:00 – 14:45 What’s new in zSecure 2.2 part 3 - Compliancy / Governance
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 16:00 A trip down memory lane - Jamie Pease
16:00 – 16:30 Tell us your requirements - Hans Schoone
16:30 – 16:40 Wrap up and close - Simon Caus - Secretary GSE BeLux ESS Working Group

Registration over here.