May 17, 2005 Seminar Minutes and Presentation Download

 

This meeting was a great success with over 150 attendees.  Jenny Chow and Sunny Lee stressed the importance of having CUSTOMER representation on the organizing committee and there were many who responded to their call for volunteers to help with many of the tasks that go to making the user group a success.  This meeting was sponsored by MQSoftware and CommerceQuest.

 

9:00 am - 10:00 am  

Understanding the WebSphere Business Integration Architecture  

PRESENTER:  Eric Olson, Director of Training, MQSoftware

Mr. Olson reviewed basic messaging concepts and the family of IBM products that provide functionality using MQSeries as a base.  He reviewed the architecture and the role that each of the products played along with selection criteria for determining which product would best fit.  In addition, he discussed how to optimize process across the WBI components as well as strategies for the coherent, end-to-end management of such architectures.

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

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MQ Data Security and Certificate Management Considerations
PRESENTER:  Rich Schreiber standing in for John Aviles, President of RSG Ltd.

Rich discuss the Federal Agency's MQ data security and certificate management problem set, requirements, business and technical challenges.  He then reviewed technology selection criteria and rationale, and the steps leading toward a solution to meet the agency requirements. The solution highlighted the need for end-to-end security across the MQ network rather than just across individual products such as WBI Message Broker (formerly MQSI) required for routing and transformation.  Some third party products were mentioned with an indication of how they fit the requirements.

11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.   Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Process Manager for Data
PRESENTER: Honda Bhyat, Chief Architect, CommerceQuest

            This presentation provided an overview of a CommerceQuest product, Process Manager for  
            Data, which provides a file transfer capability.  Management and security of an integration solution
            were discussed along with a review of auditing facilities that help organizations bring file
transfer
            and data movement into compliance with SOX & other regulatory obligations. Honda demonstrated
            various use case scenarios and integration design patterns that can be used to rapidly create
            solutions that exploit both WebSphere MQ and WBI Message Broker. 

12:30 p.m. - 1:30  p.m.   Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
WebSphere MQ Version 6 Technical Update
PRESENTER: Wayne Schutz, Senior Solutions Architect, IBM Software Services for WebSphere

This presentation will cover what's new in WebSphere MQ Version 6.  Many of the features focused on management aspects and Wayne provided live demonstration of many new functions.  This session generated much interest and many questions that that Wayne responded to in depth.

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Triggering in the right Java environment
PRESENTER: F.J Brandelik, Bookspan

When triggering a Unix shell script, the TCMw trigger structure is not well conserved. F.J discussed problems he encountered and the shell script techniques used to maintain the TMC2 trigger structure.


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The Care and Feeding of MQSeries
PRESENTER: Ed Young, Engineering Leader, EAI, CSC

Mr. Young reviewed his team’s mission to run and maintain MQSeries for multiple enterprises, government agencies, and corporate internal use. This talk highlighted many of the lessons learned through various customer engagements and he revealed many simple secrets of how to administer MQSeries systems cost effectively.

Some presentation materials are available to be downloaded:

WBI_Architecture.zip

MQ Data Security.zip

PM4Data NYNJMQUsers.zip

WebSphere MQ V6 Overview.zip

Triggering the right Java Environment.zip

Care and Feeding of MQSeries.zip


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