Minutes of the GSE UK IMS WG Business Meeting
Swallow Four Seasons Hotel, Manchester, 25^th May 2000

Chairman: Frank Fleming ( frank.fleming@barclays.co.uk) - 01565-613581

Secretary: Neil Price (neil.price@tntpost.com) - 01827-710702 - standing in for

Peter Armstrong ( peter_armstrong@bmc.com) - 0831 400154

Administration

• Introduction
  • Frank welcomed everyone at the end of a long and hard day at the joint CICS, IMS and DB2 Working Groups conference.
  • Other committee members present were Ian Tyson, Neil Price, and Niel Kenyon who is the new IBM representative - also Alan Cooper, the previous IBM representative, and Pete Sadler who arrived as Frank was speaking. He also mentioned Dougie Lawson who was to come the following day.
  • Andrew Jack has resigned from the committee, as he needs to take things easier following his long illness. The committee members need to discuss appropriate action, so Frank may be asking for volunteers for Membership Secretary at the next meeting.
  • Feedback forms for the conference as a whole, without critique of individual sessions, would be provided by James Harper of the CICS WG at the end of the conference. No attendee list was circulated, and Problems/Contacts forms had been dealt with in the initial joint sessions.

• Correspondence
  • Flyers for joint IBM/GSE Technical Conferences:
    1. e-business Application Environment 5^th-9^th June, Disneyland Paris
    2. 2. VM/ESA and VSE/ESA 26^th-28^th June, La Hulpe, Belgium

• General
  • The remaining meetings for this year will be

    7th September IBM Warwick (database only, i.e. no IMS TM presentations)

    7th December IBM South Bank

IBM What's New - Niel Kenyon, IBM

• A joint IBM Announcements session had been proposed but not adopted in the end.

• CE63 25^th-26^th September is not happening as far as Pete is concerned as it's about conversion to DBCTL, which everyone affected must have done by now. He would still like feedback from members on what should replace it - maybe DB/DC vs. DBCTL differences? Neil needs an IMS basics for DBCTL users - Alan says CA02 is about 80% relevant anyway.

• There's an IMS Systems Programming basics course, not currently run in this country (SMP, IVPs, implementation of DB/DC, storage pool setup/performance etc.) - any interest? Neil said he would be interested - his team doesn't do the SMP and are learning SMP/E basics separately but, as Ian pointed out, there are specific quirks with the IMS SMP setup. Contact Alan or Pete for further details or to register interest (alan_cooper@uk.ibm.com,peter_sadler@uk.ibm.com).

• Version 6 courses (CM60U, CM61U, CM64U) - the Web site says these are being held at Hursley, but Pete disagrees.

• Performance Analyzer Version 2 was the subject of a separate presentation by Alan on the Friday.

• SG24-5753 IMS Version 7 Release Guide is on the Web as a Redpiece (Redbook in preparation).

• Numerous copies of the IMS Newsletter were available for delegates to take away.

Handouts were provided.

AOB

• Another item from Frank - call for papers for the GSE Technical Symposium in Montpelier on October 16^th - 17^th. Frank has offered his IMS Fastpath Data Sharing presentation (already given here). Anyone who wants to present can try it out on us first.

• Thanks for coming - see you in Warwick.

Addendum

The presentation handouts for the IMS & CICS working group presentations may be accessed from http://www.harpers.demon.co.uk/gsecics/CI250500.htm while the DB2 sessions are available on http://www.gseukdb2.org.uk/. The IMS WG site at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/dougie.lawson/gse/ will be updated to reference these sites.