iSeries Labs Roadshow

November 9, 2006

Speaker : Alison Butterill (IBM Toronto Lab)
Alison is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist working for the eServer iSeries ISV WebSphere Enablement Team. She has worked in the mid-range area for more than 20 years holding a wide variety of positions at IBM, from field support to Technical Education to Technical Marketing of WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries. During her career, Alison has continually specialized in the areas of application development and database. In her present position, Alison provides worldwide technical support to ISVs and customers on programming languages and WebSphere Development tools for the iSeries. Developing and promoting one of the iSeries key initiatives, the iSeries Developer Roadmap is a key component in her current responsibilities. Alison is a regular speaker at technical conferences and COMMON conferences around the world and holds numerous Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON North America.

9:00 to 9:30 Welcome Coffee
9:30 to 10:50 SOA and the System i - Alison Butterill.
There are a lot of misconceptions about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Many think that SOA is just about web services, some think it is a new thing the software industry giants have created and are using to sell products. The reality is that SOA is a new way to look at your business, allowing you to better adapt to the fast pace of change in business. The technology behind SOA is not new and is based on mature industry standards. The purpose of this session is to explain the basic concepts of SOA, covering the business value, the industry support, and most importantly, how to start with SOA on the System i.
10:50 to 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 to 12:30 Moving RPG to an SOA Framework - Alison Butteril.
SOA is architecture. It has become an industry standard allowing business function to be located in the most appropriate place - distributing as business requirements dictate. It can be implemented using a variety of languages and a variety of techniques. Learn how to exploit the strengths of existing applications, while creating agile applications and positioning your business for the future. This session will demonstrate a step-by-step approach for taking existing applications and implement a Services Oriented Architecture 12:30 to 13:30 Lunch
13:30 to 14:50 High availability for decision makers - Steven Finnes.
Steven Finnes has spent several years in IBM spanning research and development in electron optics, to basic product design including the first AS/400 processor, memory and I./O processors. As the chief engineering manager for I/O and storage he and his team brought the first Raid5 product offering to market in the early 90s. He's been involved in the iSeries High Availability core leadership team for 10 years and is currently the System i Business Continuity product manager.
High Availability for the decision maker works on a process that will help to guide you in developing a strategy that has broad support across your business. A high availability solution is by definition about customer satisfaction. Its about developing requirements as well as about setting expectations. There are multiple technologies in the market that address different and overlapping aspects of the HA equation and there are organizational needs and requirements that go beyond simple technology matters. A successful solution implementation is a win for everyone. What we're going to do in this session is to build a methodical approach that you can emulate to create your own successful HA strategy and solution deployment and give you peek into the future of the System i HA strategy. 14:50 to 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 to 16:30 Backup and recovery strategies - Debbie Saugen.
Debbie Saugen is the Technical Owner of i5, iSeries and AS/ 400 Backup and Recovery in the Rochester,MN Development Lab. She is also a Senior Business Recovery Architect/ Consultant with IBM's Business Continuity and Recovery Services. Debbie ensures the Backup and Recovery Solution meets the customer's requirements in capability and usability. She does actual Backup/ Recovery testing using the new functions, products and publications. As a recognized expert on Backup and Recovery worldwide, Debbie enjoys sharing her knowledge by speaking at Common, Technical Conferences, Business Continuity and Recovery Conferences, User Group Conferences and writing for various magazines, books and websites.
Ensuring a complete backup and recovery strategy is key to any business. Learn what you need to know to update your backup and recovery strategy for Logical Partition (LPAR) systems, Hardware Management Console (HMC), Lotus Notes and Windows Servers, Linux and AIX in a partition, and the use of Independent ASPs. New support for backing up spooled files and performing a backup of the system data in a non-restricted state will be covered. This session also takes you through example backup strategies and the steps needed to recover your system after a system failure or disaster.

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