Scheduled Webcasts
Mainstar Webcast Series: Leveraging Your Storage System
Designed to educate and inform, these webcasts are jam-packed with best-practices and sure-fire strategies to help you optimize your database administration processes and leverage the capabilites of your DB2 and IMS on z/OS systems. These are five webcasts you don't want to miss! Session 4: Automating IMS Cloning and Refresh OperationsSession 5: Implementing an IMS System Backup Methodology
New! Automating IMS Cloning and Refresh Operations
Date: Wednesday, July 15Time: 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM EDT & 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM EDTTopic Overview:
Many IMS systems and databases are cloned or refreshed periodically to create test and quality assurance environments, to stage data-warehouse loads, to offload business processes from production environments and to offload Pointer Checker utilities. Traditional IMS cloning methods are slow, use large amounts of host processing resources and require a separate LPAR to support the cloned IMS system. Today’s storage-based fast replication facilities allow IMS data to be copied instantaneously and without using host CPU or I/O resources.
This webcast describes how Mainstar’s Clone and Rename for IMS (ICR) and Rapid Database Refresh (RDR) automates, simplifies, and speeds up IMS system cloning and database refresh operations. It shows how IMS system cloning and database refresh operations can be performed fast and effectively using automation that integrates storage-based fast-replication facilities from IBM, EMC, and Hitachi storage systems. The combined use of ICR and RDR promote application and data availability while reducing administration and processing costs.
Key Points of Interest:
- Describe how ICR and RDR storage-aware database products integrate and leverage storage-based fast-replication facilities to simplify and speed up IMS system and database refresh operations.
- Discuss cloning terminology and IMS cloning use cases.
- Discuss challenges when accessing data from cloned volumes and show how volume identifiers and IMS metadata are managed to allow the data to be used by a cloned IMS system quickly.
- Describe how ICR clones IMS systems within the same LPAR using storage-based fast replication reduce CPU and I/O utilization and to support high availability.
- Describe how RDR automates refreshing IMS databases while reducing CPU and I/O utilization and promoting high availability by using storage-based fast replication.
There will be a Q&A session immediately following the presentation.
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM EDT |
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM EDT |
About the Speaker:
Kelly Smith is a Senior Product Manager for several Mainstar and Rocket products. Kelly offers a depth of knowledge honed by over 20 years of experience in the mainframe industry. Kelly has also been a product specialist and provided consulting for several fortune 100 companies. She regularly writes and speaks on mainframe topics. Kelly wrote the IBM Redbook, Mainstar MS/VCR The Tool for Efficient Device Cloning, and co-authored the first edition of DFSMShsm ABARS and Mainstar Solutions. She writes numerous White Papers and offers informative webcasts. Kelly regularly presents at the IBM SHARE conference, and at DB2 User Group meetings. 
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New! Implementing an IMS System Backup Methodology
Date: Wednesday, August 17Time: 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM EDT & 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM EDTTopic Overview: This webcast discusses IMS system backup methodologies and how storage-based fast-replication is fundamental to implementing these backup and recovery solutions. It describes system backup characteristics, requirements, uses, and advantages for IMS.
Mainstar’s Backup and Recovery for IMS (DBR for IMS) product is described to show how it implements an IMS system backup methodology that support IBM, EMC and Hitachi storage systems. The webcast explores how the type of storage-based fast-replication used for a system backup can affect backup frequency, backup uses, recovery speed, and storage utilization.
The webcast will detail how a DBR for IMS generated system level backup can be used to speed up and simplify IMS system, database, application, and disaster recovery processes.
There will be a Q&A session immediately following the presentation.| 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM EDT |
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM EDT |
About the Speaker:
Ron Haupert is a Senior Technologist at Rocket Software. With over 30 years experience in database management, Ron has developed relational database software, implemented large database systems, conducted database design reviews, and consulted with companies around the world on various aspects of relational database technology, database management tools, and integrated data management solutions. top
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