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Our first meeting of 1997 was held next to Columbus Ohio's famous French Market.
The Harley Hotel is located on the north side of Columbus just west of I-71 (Exit 117) on state route 161. A block of rooms was reserved for Thursday night and we "thank" everyone who came early and allowed us to take advantage of the hotel discount. The Thursday night "dutch-treat" dinner was held at the "Elephant Bar" where we enjoyed good food, great jokes and many laughs.
John Hall of Safe Software addressed the topic of "Safe SFS", Romney White represented Mirasoft with a review of the "Year 2000" problems, Will Roden of IBM discussed "Pipeline Stalls" as well as introducting a "VM GUI Interface" and Paul Hanrahan of Hanrahan Computer Consulting showed us how to create "Our own System Service". An abstract of each topic is presented below. The recaps of each session will be available within a few days.
8:00 a.m. Registration
A continental breakfast was provided.
8:30 a.m. MVMRUG Administrative Business Session
9:00 a.m. Are you practicing safe SFS?
John Hall - Safe Software
MVMRUG's Recap
The Speaker's Abstract
The VM/ESA Shared File System (SFS) is growing rapidly in
popularity. VM Webservers encourage the use of SFS and the
rumored OfficeVision SFS A-Disk support is supposed to be
arriving soon. Is your company prepared for the change in
security and administration needs?
In this discussion, the speaker will cover SFS security
requirements and what CMS does and doesn't do to address
them.
Safe Software, Inc. has recently introduced a product,
SafeSFS, that provides a complete, robust security solution
for the Shared File System. The speaker will also relate how
the use of SafeSFS addresses the SFS security requirements.
Attendees should expect to come away from this discussion
with a better understanding of the benefits of using SFS, a
list of security requirements for SFS, and ideas and
techniques for addressing these requirements.
Return to Introduction
10:00 a.m. Avoiding Pipeline Stalls
Will Roden - IBM
MVMRUG's Recap
The Speaker's Abstract
Avoiding Pipelines Stalls eludes several Pipelines
programmers and is sometimes the most feared Pipelines bug.
That is because of the large depth of knowledge that is
needed to understand stalls. During this presentation, I
will build the base of knowledge required to understand
stalls. This base will include "Multistream Pipelines",
"Writing Your Own Stage Commands in REXX", and "Delaying the
record". Then I'll discuss how stalls happen, what hints
Pipelines gives you to deal with them, and how to solve them.
When we are finished, Pipelines stalls will no longer be a
problem. If time permits, I will also discuss other advanced
pipelines topics such as "Premature Termination" and some not
well known, but useful stage commands.
Return to Introduction
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. CMS Applications have a year 2000 problem too!
Romney White - Mirasoft
MVMRUG's Recap
The Speaker's Abstract
A lot of attention is being paid to the problems that PCs,
mainframes, IBM operating systems, and MVS and VSE
applications can anticipate when 2000 arrives. However, many
organizations have CMS applications that face the same kinds
of problems. This session reviews some of these issues and
describes facilities for identifying CMS applications that
have year 2000 sensitivities, detecting where their
dependencies are, and testing applications for correct
behavior after changes have been made to remove the
limitations.
Because CMS runs in a virtual machine, some of the techniques
used by this approach are unique to the VM environment.
Return to Introduction
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. FREE - FOR - ALL
2:00 p.m. A GUI Overview
Will Roden - IBM
MVMRUG's Recap
The Speaker's Abstract
The GUI interface was introduced for VM in March 1996. It
provides a unique way for VM application programs to enjoy a
GUI interface. The CMS Desktop was also provided as a useful
example of what the GUI interface can do. During this
presentation, I'll present an overview of how interface works
and I'll demonstrate part of the CMS Desktop. When we are
finished, you should be able to assess where the CMS GUI
interface can be used in your shop.
Return to Introduction
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Create your own system service from the ground up
Paul Hanrahan - Hanrahan Computer Consultng
MVMRUG's Recap
The Speaker's Abstract
There are a number of *xxx userids in VM that are known as
system services. You can create your own system services and
even have them communicate with other VM's at other sites
using appc. Paul will supply a practical example of what
this can be used for by way of a system service that collects
performance data and then ships it to a central site VM so
that many smaller VM's in a net can be monitored for meeting
service level agreements from a single point
Return to Introduction
4:15 p.m. Closing/Wrap-up/Q & A/Social time
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