November 13, 2009 Seminar Minutes and Presentation Download
Dean Keister and
MQUG Committee Team brought the meeting to order and thanked everyone for
coming.
He also passed the reigns to Shobha Railkar as the new president of the User
Group.
Title: The Future of Connectivity
Presenter: Anant Gupta, BPM Director, Prolifics
He discussed the future of connectivity and how it is driven by the industry
drivers such as business transformation, process automation & optimization,
and
business agility. He discussed industry trends and how connectivity contribute
in the new SOA and BPM focused world. He looked at pattern based
connectivity,
data handling, monitoring, security and service oriented integration to
establish an enterprise connectivity solution. He brought in a new concept of
Information
Driven Architecture showing this would be a push model instead of a pull model.
He opened up an interesting active discussion on the topic.
Title: Reusing your MQ infrastructure to deliver files (guaranteed)
Presenter: A.J. Aronoff, Infrastructure Practice Director, Prolifics
A.J went over MQ File Transfer Edition from an MQ user's point of view with
specific details on:
- Balancing high throughput and assured delivery of files while minimizing
the impact on the existing MQ infrastructure.
- Benefits of MQ 7.0.1 High Availability features for MQ FTE.
- Using MQ FTE as part of a DR Solution
- Integrating Message Broker with MQ FTE
- Updates on a free IBM P.O.T, Support Pac and an IBM url with the latest
MQ FTE info.
Title: WebSphere MQ for Outage Management at Con Edison
Presenter: Michael McGlynn, Consultant, Information Resources, Consolidated
Edison of New York
Michael presentation covered an overview of WebSphere MQ usage at Consolidated
Edison, specifically focusing on:
- Interfaces for Emergency Management for Incoming Trouble Calls
- Control Center Management use of WebSphere MQ
- Interfaces to Electric Mobile Dispatch System
- Software adapters to Network Management System
- MQ Monitoring
- Replaying with MQ for Analysis and Training Operations
- Outage Management Disaster Recovery
Title: What's New in WebSphere MQ and WebSphere File Transfer Edition
Presenter: Mark Taylor, IBM UK Hursley Lab, WMQ Technical Strategy
Mark's session covered the latest features for WMQ and FTE products. For each he
covered:
- Learning about new capabilities for availability.
- Learning how to reach into new environments.
- Understand how to make better use of existing systems.
- See how to govern your machines, applications and data.
Some notes:
- FTE can link into WSRR which can be used for Impact Analysis.
- Early access programs are being introduced for many products and you are
encourage to participate to shape the products.
Title: Collaboration and Virtualization in the Cloud - a new approach to
managing the WebSphere MQ environment
Presenter: Peter D'Agosta, Avada Software
Peter discussed that many problems and issues go unsolved in WebSphere MQ
environments because support, administrators, and business units cannot leverage
each other’s knowledge and collaborate on solutions. He went into the unique
way that Avada Software has created a different approach with Infrared360, a WAS
Cloud application, providing virtual, secure collaborative environments for
project teams, business units, or even business partners. He explained that
Secure Collaboration enables companies to leverage more staff resources,
delegate critical work to Users with the expertise to solve the problem, and
measurably increase productivity while still adhering to corporate security and
compliance policies. He concluded by saying problems are resolved more quickly;
applications run with less interruption, more work gets done, and staff is less
stressed.
Title: What’s new in Message Broker 7
Presenter: Anthony O’Dowd, IBM UK Hursley Lab, WebSphere Message Broker
Architect and Strategy
Anthony discussed all the great new features of WMBv7. Specifically he went into
detail on:
- There are major product simplifications including removal of database
requirement, configuration manger and username server components,
- full integration with and pre-req of MQ 7.0.1 including support for
+ MQ's new built-in HA,
+ exploitation of MQ's new PubSub engine for enhanced performance
and functionality.
+ a new light-weight MB Explorer for integrated MQ , MB & FTE
specifically for administration,
- the new patterns support which make it easier than ever to create a MB
solutions
- He went over the new nodes, including:
+ sequencing nodes,
+ SCA nodes for WPS integration,
+ an IMS node,
+ a PHP compute node and
+ new node facilities for connectivity to WebSphere Business
Monitor.
- He covered the enhancements to SAP (including HA SAP), SEBL and PSOFT
nodes for ERP integration.
Some Notes:
- You will not be charged for the new hot standby node
- The broker toolkit will only have one prospective for the AD
Presentation materials
are available to be downloaded:
The future of connectivity - MQUG - 11-13-09 - 2003.zip
MQ FTE Notes on the top 10 requested features .zip
Outage Managementr_WMQ at ConEd 11-17-09.zip
WMQ & FTE What is New_2009.zip