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Paul Kettley is CICS® Technical Planning and Strategy manager and is also an IBM Master Inventor. He is based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory.

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New home page for "Did you say Mainframe!?" podcast series Link here to the new homepage for the 2008 entries in the "Did you say Mainframe!? podcast series.	11 Mar 2008 New series home page
WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS: What it is and how to use it as an ESB Mark Verplaetse talks about WebSphere® Message Broker for z/OS®, its advantages on the z platform and its role as an enterprise service bus. He also discusses the recently announced WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS V6.1. Verplaetse is the product manager for WebSphere Message Broker and is based in Minneapolis. For more information, check out the WebSphere Message Broker.	10 Jan 2008 LISTEN (12:51)
CICS tools and governance John Knutson and Steve Wood talk about how CICS Tools, such as CICS Performance Analyzer and CICS Interdependency Analyzer, support the increasing requirement for good governance of resources and assets in today’s business systems. Knutson is System z product marketing manager for the CICS Tools. Wood is product line manager, and strategy and planning marketing manager for CICS Transaction Server. Both are based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory in the United Kingdon. One key opportunity for learning more on this subject is the IBM Impact 2008 event in Las Vegas in April. Find more information and register.	2 Jan 2008 LISTEN (10:43)
CICS WUI for CICS system management Dan Donnelly talks about the CICSPlex® System Manager Web User Interface (WUI) and how it helps users perform operational tasks and workload management, do real-time analysis and manage CICS resource definitions. Donnelly is lead developer working on the CICSPlex System Manager WUI and is based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory. Check out the IBM Impact 2008 event in Las Vegas in April.	10 Dec 2007 LISTEN (11:32)
What's new in WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6.1 — The SOA platform for business process orchestration Sherrie Abshire talks about the new WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6.1 product and its enhancements. Abshire is program management marketing manager for WebSphere and Enterprise Platform Software.	13 Nov 2007 LISTEN (6:44)
Thread-safety and CICS file control applications John Tillling takes a look at how mainframes that run high levels of CPU and multiple processes in parallel benefit from thread-safe applications that run correctly and give the correct result. He is a senior software engineer and CICS Technical Planning and Strategy specialist based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory.	12 Nov 2007 LISTEN (7:34)
CICS Tools and IT Service Management John Knutson talks about how the IBM CICS Tools help customers perform IT service management more effectively. He is System z product marketing manager for CICS Tools and is based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory.	12 Nov 2007 LISTEN (10:23)
Connectivity and Business Process Orchestration on System z Elena Wood takes a look at a host of important new announcements on SOA, business connectivity, and business process management that IBM made in early October 2007. Wood is an AIM Enterprise Software Platform marketing manager and is based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory.	11 Nov 2007 LISTEN (14:17)
CICS and Web services Will Yates looks at using CICS transactional applications as Web services and what Web services can do for program-to-program interactions between CICS and other applications. Yates works within the CICS test group and is based at the IBM Hursley Laboratory.	11 Nov 2007 LISTEN (5:12)
Extend and enrich the value of your most critical transactions and data with WebSphere Process Server for z/OS and CICS Transaction Server Sherrie Abshire looks at how companies are exploring reuse of selected parts of existing IT assets to achieve their business goals, rather than constantly expanding or rewriting complex infrastructures. Abshire is IBM WebSphere System z product marketing manager.	24 Oct 2007 LISTEN (8:27)
Problem Determination Tools V8 Marty Shelton talks about how the IBM Problem Determination Tools V8 provide a high-function and cost-effective set of tools for application performance analysis, source code debugging, application-abend analysis, data management, and workload test. Shelton is IBM product line manager for Problem Determination Tools.	22 Oct 2007 LISTEN (10:58)
CICS Transaction Server V3.2 –- Continuing to put the 'S' in SOA Nick Garrod talks about this latest release of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS. He discusses the superb range of new capabilities of the product that fall into CICS application connectivity, CICS application reuse, and CICS application service management. Check out CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2 for more information.	22 Oct 2007 LISTEN (8:10)
New deployment to Eclipse Rich Client Platform and improved development capabilities with WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services V7.0 Ron Craig takes a look at how this new version of HATS helps users deploy to the Eclipse Rich Client platform. He also discusses additional development capabilities provided by HATS V7.0.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (7:55)
Connecting core applications in a highly available, scalable, and secure way Dermot Flaherty talks about one of the ways to connect core applications hosted on IBM System z (CICS applications, for example), to other distributed applications. He also explores why many organizations are under increasing pressure to do this, and he discusses one solution: IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS. For additional information, listen to the IBM software for System z teleconference.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (7:55)
TXSeries like you have never seen it before — The next generation of distributed CICS Wen Lu talks about IBM TXSeries®, the version of IBM CICS for distributed platforms. Wen also discusses why TXSeries is of interest to mainframe CICS users — in particular, how they can use TXSeries to test newly developed mainframe applications by running them on a desktop machine. TXSeries for Multiplatforms has more information.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (7:18)
Using IBM discovery tools to understand existing and composite applications Daniel Moul talks about how IBM discovery tools, such as IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer and Asset Transformation Workbench, help users discover and understand mainframe applications and composite applications, (applications with components on both the mainframe and distributed platforms). Be sure to read the IBM Redpapers titled "Faster Application Change and Reuse with WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer," which looks at preparing applications for reuse in an SOA.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (8:41)
WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS Snehal Antani looks at how customers are using IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6.1. He also discusses the considerable benefits the product delivers and the possible areas for future enhancement. For additional information, check out WebSphere Extended Deployment.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (12:55)
An introduction to z/TPF Bill Supon talks about IBM Transaction Processing Facility products — IBM's unparalleled high-end, high-volume operating systems and transaction processors. As well as TPF, he looks at z/TPF — the latest version of the TPF system, enhanced to include many state-of-the-art technologies, including a 64-bit architecture. Visit IBM TPF Education for more information.	02 Aug 2007 LISTEN (6:28)

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