z/OS Communications Server

From archive: July 2012

z/OS CS at the Summer 2012 SHARE Conference in Anaheim

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The Summer 2012 SHARE Conference is in Anaheim, California next week (August 5th-10th). As always, there will be a good selection of content focused on z/OS Communications Server, including the following sessions from four of our team here in Research Triangle Park, NC:

z/OS Communications Server Technical Update, Part 1
z/OS Communications Server Technical Update, Part 2
zEnterprise System - Network Architecture and Virtualization
zEnterprise System - Network Design & Implementation
IPv6 on z/OS
Getting the Most Out of Your OSA Adapter with z/OS CS
Sysplex Networking and Technology Considerations
Multi-site Workload Lifeline
z/OS CS Performance Improvements
z/OS CS Network Security Overview
z/OS CS IPSec and IP Packet Filtering
Safe and Secure Transfers with z/OS FTP
Application-Transparent Transport Layer Security
z/OS Intrusion Detection Services
Modernizing SNA: APPN and HPR
EE: Concepts & Considerations
z/OS CS EE Hints & Tips

We hope to see you there! For those that can’t join us, I’ll be tweeting (IBM_Commserver on Twitter) and posting updates to Facebook (Facebook.com/IBMCommserver) throughout the week.

z/OS CS Presentations Available

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Are you looking for education related to z/OS Communications Server? We have recently posted several z/OS CS education sessions, with each session including a PDF of the charts plus an MP3 audio file:

z/OS V1R13 Communications Server Overview

This 34-minute overview covers the following topics:

Security
Simplification
Economics and Platform Efficiency
Availability
Application/Middleware/Workload Enablement
EE/SNA
Statement of Direction

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=852&context=SSSN3L&dc=DB700&dc=DA4A10&uid=swg27028559&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Leveraging z/OS Communications Server Application Transparent Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS) for a Lower Cost and More Rapid TLS Deployment

This 41-minute presentation covers the following topics:

SSL/TLS overview
What is AT-TLS?
Why use AT-TLS?
How does AT-TLS work?
Configuring AT-TLS

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=852&context=SSSN3L&dc=DB700&dc=DA4A10&uid=swg27028558&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Getting the most out of your OSA adapter with the z/OS Communications Server

This 59-minute presentation covers the following topics:

Review of the OSA hardware
A brief refresher on QDIO
OSA inbound “routing”
Overview of selected recent OSA enhancements
Network interface resilience and use of dynamic VIPAs in “flat” networks (such as the zEnterprise Intra-Ensemble Data Network)
Monitoring OSA using SNMP
OSA-Express3 dual port IOCP, TRLE, and z/OS CS Interface definitions

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=852&context=SSSN3L&dc=DB700&dc=DA4A10&uid=swg27028555&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Using z/OS Communications Server for Optimized Workload Balancing to z/OS

This 69-minute presentation covers the following topics:

Network workload balancing overview
Communications Server load balancing solutions and recent updates
z/OS Sysplex support for external load balancers

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=852&context=SSSN3L&dc=DB700&dc=DA4A10&uid=swg27028561&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Do you still think IPv6 is something you do not need to deal with?

This two-part presentation (a total of 101 minutes) addresses the following topics:

Why is IPv6 important?
What is IPv6?
IPv6 penetration
Coexistence and migration
Planning how to get there

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=852&context=SSSN3L&dc=DB700&dc=DA4A10&uid=swg27028557&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Happy learning!

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