December 6th, 2011 Seminar Minutes and Presentation Download
We have had over 125 attendees on December 6th meeting. The meeting site was sponsored by ISO. The meal sponsor was Avada Software. Many IBM logo gifts have been given away (donated by Global WebSphere Community) via the presenters and user's Q's/A's. We are delighted to have two IBM Hursley Lab Lead Strategy and Architects, Mark Taylor and Matt Lucas, came from UK to present the major releases of MQ and Message Broker. Three user speakers are Dan Colonnese from Lighthouse, Gabriela Huaman from Verizon Wireless, and F.J. Brandelik from Direct Brands shared their real life experiences on many interesting topics.
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Introduction
MQUG president, Shobha Railkar, along with the MQUG Committee Team
(Jenny Chow, Peter Dagosta, Graham Oakes, Emily Peyton, Ben Zhou, Sasmita
Satpathy), brought the meeting to order and
thanked everyone for coming. IBM Technical Director of WebSphere Software
North America, Rob Coventry, came onsite to support the user group and kicked
off the meeting.
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Title: Message Routing
Patterns in DataPower
Presenter: Dan Colonnese,
WebSphere Managing Consultant, Lighthouse Computer Services
Dan reviewed some of his recent project work in building dynamic
routing services in DataPower. He explored message routing configuration, for
shared ports, shared services, and maintainability best practices for large
DataPower projects.
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Title: What's New in
WebSphere MQ V7.1
Presenter: Mark Taylor, MQ
Technical Strategy, IBM UK Hursley Lab
Mark discussed WebSphere MQ V7.1 as a major update to the product. It delivers
many enhancements to the manageability, security, performance and availability
of MQ, and significantly simplifies how you use it on all platforms. He
described all of these new features, and included lots of opportunity for
questions.
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Title: What lines of
business want from your MQ statistics
Presenters: Rich Schreiber, Head of Global Business Development and Strategic
Alliances, Avada Software
Rob Sordillo, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Avada Software
The presenters discussed that historically, MQ statistical documentation
referenced granular and narrowly focused performance metrics in order to tune MQ
environments. Today, however, with
less manpower and time, the focus has shifted more toward higher level
statistics that quantify business processes.
They also explained that business units want simple answers as to whether
their business systems and applications are providing the needed data, in
required volumes, within service level agreed upon response times. They reviewed
how to analyze MQ statistics in a collaborative effort with business units by
using a combination of historical data, business patterns, and real time data.
The net effect is to create a feedback mechanism that facilitates the setting of
real-time monitoring thresholds that are more meaningful to the particular lines
of business.
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Title: WebSphere
Message Broker v7 migration experiences at Verizon Wireless
Presenter: Gabriela Huaman, Lead Infrastructure Support, Verizon Wireless
Gabriela shared her experiences of how to achieve 50+ production Message Broker
migration across three data centers in less than two weeks.
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Title: Using SSL with
WMBExplorer and the toolkit to access a broker
Presenter: F.J. Brandelik
Middleware Architect, Direct Brands, Inc
F.J presented "how to" use SSL with WMExplorer to administer a broker.
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Title: What's New in
WebSphere Message Broker V8
Presenter: Matt Lucas,
WebSphere Message Broker Architect, IBM UK Hursley Lab
Matt discussed how WebSphere® Message Broker V8 is a significant release which
delivers further enhancements to productivity and ease in developing and
managing enterprise service bus (ESB) deployments, complementing its
industry-leading performance and scalability. Some of the new features include
comprehensive support for Microsoft™ .NET environments, a new Data Format
Description Language (DFDL) based parser, a new graphical data mapper for text
and binary data, enhanced auditing of data with new edit, record, and replay
functionality complemented by comprehensive graphical tooling, direct
connectivity and productivity aids for integrating with IBM® Sterling Connect:
Direct, a new Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX®, a tiered pricing model including
the new Express® Edition, and support for Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM).
Presentation materials
are available to be downloaded:
DataPower Routing Best Practices.zip
Avada_Presentation_for_MQUG_NYNJ.zip
WMB V7 administration with SSL.zip