Attending committee members were (by alphabetic order):  Paul Blanz, Jenny Chow,  Joe Cruz,  Maryellen Evans , Derek Hornby, Sunny Lee,  Shobha Railkar,  Gary Ward.

Much appreciation goes to Candle Corporation for providing delicious breakfast and lunch.

There were more than 100 professionals attending the seminar, in spite of the fear of the safety of NYC.

About 9:00 am , Jenny Chow from IBM got things started by welcoming everyone and reviewing the day’s agenda.  She also introduced Mr. David Disney, Vice President of WebSphere Technical Sales for IBM Americas who presented IBM WebSphere e-business view and his organization that supports NY Metro customers as well as US, Canada, and Latin America. 

Next speaker was Alan Powell, a key senior member of Strategy Planning and Development from the IBM Hursley MQ Lab.  Alan went through a preview of IBM’s WebSphere MQ Integrator’s next release and provided a demo of the eclipse tooling. The eclipse tooling allows a common GUI to be utilized when developing WebSphere MQ, Integrator applications, and other web applications.  Alan also discussed WebSphere MQ Integrator and MQ Trends and Directions.

After a short break, the next presentation was given by Peter Jenkins, Senior Systems Engineer, at Candle Corporation.  Peter spoke about how Candles products and methodologies provide security to the Complex WebSphere MQ environment.

Alan Powell then led a technical discussion of WebSphere MQ and MQ Integrator. 

Following lunch, the user topic “Too Deep and Too Wide” was presented by T. Rob Wyatt, Vice President, Differentiated Service MQ Support, Bank of America.  T. Rob spoke about the issues surrounding MQ support when queue depths were not managed proactively in the MQ environment. The presentation "Too Deep and Too Wide" asserts that the WMQ default queue depth and message length settings of 40mb for regular queues and 2.5 terabytes for the dead queue were too large.  The risks associated with these settings are explained and a tuning process was described.

The final presentation of the day was Peter Dagosta of Reconda International Corporation presented the topic “MQS Chargebacks” and outlined Reconda’s QN-StatWatch product that MQ statistics that generate a MQ and MQI charge back based upon usage.  QN-StatWatch also allows for end-to-end message tracking and SLA compliance.

At 3:00 PM the NY/NJ WebSphere committee met for a brief business meeting. Some new Committee members were gratefully welcomed by the existing team. The committee will be working on several initiatives that include updates to the website and planning for the next  seminar in October. 

 The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 PM for free discussion and interaction between the members.