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Speaker(s):   Chair: Michael Stack, Avri Adleman, John Melcher

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 1 (Session 8151, Sunday 4:30 pm) include:

• Binary, hex, and decimal; number representations (1s, 2s complement, unsigned), and conversions among them
• Basic hardware data types: binary, decimal, character (EBCDIC)
• Main storage organization
• Basic forms of binary arithmetic
• How to get started with ASSIST/I

Peter Rhys Jenkins from IBM will talk about the key role that WAS, WebSphere MQ and WBI Message Brokers play in building an enterprise class Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to gain IT flexibility.

Peter will talk about the highlights of WMQ Version 6, the integration with WAS Platform Messaging and will lead the usual lively question and answer session.

During the second part, Michael Connor from IBM will discuss enterprise transformation processes and tools. At its core, enterprise transformation is about taking existing IT assets and programmer skills, and cost-effectively and efficiently integrating them into the new world of SOA and e-business on demand. By enhancing existing applications for use in modern e-business on demand architectures, organizations are avoiding the risks of IT replacement strategies. And in the process, they're also reducing operating costs by enhancing applications and extending them to employees, partners and customers, while achieving dramatic IT cost savings through reuse of current software assets.
Speaker(s): Michael Connor, Peter Jenkins   Chair: Steve Ryder

Here is where you will find out what the IBM binder team has been spending its time on recently.
Speaker(s): Barry Lichtenstein   Chair: Michael Stack

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 2 (Session 8152) include:

• Basics of machine architecture and program execution
• The assembly process: Assembler Language and machine language
• Differences between data and instructions
• General Purpose Registers and addressing
• Basic instruction formats: symbolic and machine formats
• Common Assembler Language programming standards and conventions
• Program entry and exit rules
• A complete program example

The remaining sessions in this series will build on the information provided here and delve into more details about the considerations as applications are moved from older compiler technologies such as OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II, OS PL/I Version 1 and OS PL/I Version 2 to the new LE-based compilers, Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, and Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, and the associated LE run-times. The concepts described in this session also apply to the migration of C/C++ applications.
Speaker(s): Tom Petrolino   Chair: Christine Smith

• Computer Associates AllFusion product suite
• Chicago Interface Group's Breeze and Cloud 9
• Cybermation's Alchemist
• IBM's Software Development Platform: ClearCase, ClearQuest, SCLM, and more
• ISPW BenchMark's ISPW Enterprise Software Change Management product
• Serena's ChangeMan product suite

ITIL terms and practices will be mapped to traditional tool vendor and market definitions, and approaches to implementing ITIL within the existing enterprise infrastructure will be examined.
Speaker(s): Tim Currie   Chair: Christina McGill

Session of Interest: This presentation will be of value to everyone faced with the challenges of extending legacy mainframe CICS, IMS and DB2 applications to the web or to service oriented architectures.
Speaker(s): Michael Dee Hester   Chair: Reg Newbeck

Part 1 of this tutorial presentation clarifies these concepts by providing an overview and examples of the 'outer' conditional assembly language, and shows how you can use it to tailor and parameterize your Assembler Language applications for maximum flexibility and maintainability.

We then introduce the basic concepts of macro instructions, and show how they can be used to improve the maintainability and readability of Assembler Language applications. Topics include variable symbols, expression evaluation, argument and parameter association, macro nesting (including recursion), functions, macro debugging techniques, and examples of simple macros.
Speaker(s): John Ehrman   Chair: John Ehrman

Macro instructions can be used not only to extend and increase the power of the familiar 'base' or 'inner' Assembler Language, but can also createtailored languages that match application development requirements much more closely than the common 'high level' languages. Macros can providefunctional and linguistic modularity, code and storage optimization, reusability, data hiding and encapsulation, abstract data types, polymorphism, and greatly simplified programming.

Case studies will illustrate a variety of techniques.
Speaker(s): John Ehrman   Chair: John Ehrman

• Large data item support
• Enhanced Unicode Support

• Java interoperability
• WebSphere interoperation
• XML support
• CICS translator integration
• Unicode support
• Enhancements to z/OS and OS/390 UNIX System Services support for thread and asynchronous signal toleration

Industry accepted best practices and integration techniques are covered to provide guidance on integrating and transforming CICS into an SOA. Furthermore, we take a close look at some of the key CICS APIs, along with various connectivity options in respect to performance, and analyze the results.

Customer case studies are cited where we will walk through each customer business problem and discuss the decision process involved in choosing each of the architectures along with specific techniques that were used and their associated performance numbers.
Speaker(s): Charles Jones   Chair: Reg Newbeck

This session will look at both the old and the new addressing mode instructions as well as coding techniques to make your drive down the Trimodal Freeway as pleasant as possible. This includes, but not limited to, a review of changes to BSM and BASSM as well as the new SAMxx and TAM instructions.

Programmers wishing to attend this session should have at least a basic knowledge of 24 and 31 bit addressing.
Speaker(s): Avri Adleman   Chair: Avri Adleman

This session will address how Web-Based Portals, Business Process Integration and automated workflow, hosted from the mainframe, can enhance organizational effectiveness and increase employee productivity. Also covered will be new application development tools that are crossing the boundaries of procedural and object-oriented programming, enhancing productivity in both.
Speaker(s): Scott Auble   Chair: Reg Newbeck, Shannon Flynn

Among the topics to be covered are the Immediate-and-Relative Instruction Facility, the String Instruction Facility, the Compare-and-Move-Extended Facility, and others.

If you are an Assembler Language programmer or if you maintain Assembler applications, and are interested in new insights into HLASM and the new instructions, this session is for you.
Speaker(s): John Dravnieks, John Ehrman   Chair: Michael Stack

• The structure of a Rexx program and the five instruction types
• The basic forms of the most common instructions
• How to debug errors quickly and easily

Find out how to include related tables or define application relationships between dissimilar file types, such as IMS and VSAM. Come and find out how to transform or age data while copying, alter your test data format and content, create a session that can be run now or later, and much more.

In addition, learn about ways to improve your ability to test applications under differing time zone and date format conditions, and learn how you can use TICTOC to enable users to see applications displaying their own time zones regardless of where their zSeries server is located. Find out how TICTOC can enable jobs to be run at correct 'as-of' times even if their processing was interrupted and/or delayed.
Speaker(s): Bob Teter, Marsha O'Brien   Chair: Marsha O'Brien

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 3 (Session 8153, Tuesday 9:30am) include:

• A complete program: how it assembles and executes
• The Program Status Word and instruction fetching
• The USING instruction and implicit addressing
• The Condition Code
• Conditional branching: BC instructions
• ASSIST/I and its 'X-Instructions' for I/O and conversion
• A complete program that reads and converts data, and prints output

If your mixed HLL and Assembler applications have AMODE 24 dependencies, the application can take advantage of Language Environment's Favor-31 enhancements. So a strategy for converting AMODE 24 assembler routines to AMODE 31 will be discussed in detail.
Speaker(s): Christine Smith   Chair: Carl Gehr

• To create and control looping procedures
• To test and act on multiple conditions
• More built-in functions that save programming effort

File Manager offers application developers an integrated set of tools for working with QSAM and VSAM data. Its ISPF user interface for browsing, editing, copying, printing and listing data sets closely matches the look and feel of the equivalent ISPF options. For example, the File Manager editor has a similar interface to the ISPF/PDF editor, including panel layout function keys, and line and primary commands. But unlike the ISPF/PDF editor, File Manager uses templates that allow you to browse and edit data formatted according to record structures defined in COBOL or PL/I copybooks, and use field-based selection criteria to select the records you want to process. File Manager/DB2 (session 8415) provides similar tools for working with DB2 data and File Manager/IMS (session 8415) provides similar tools for working with IMS data.
Speaker(s): Kevin Cummings, Jim Hildner   Chair: Robert Iappini

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 3X (Session 8158) include:

• A Basic Look at a Computer Program
• A Detailed Look at the USING Instruction
• The Problem: To Use Implicit Addresses Everywhere!
• The Solution: We Fool the Assembler
• The Last Step: We Eliminate Overlapping USING Ranges
• The Final Last Step: We Stop Wasting Space
• Conclusions

• To issue commands to TSO, ISPF, and other z/OS command environments
• To create and access datasets
• To perform I/O operations on files
• Extract system information
• Inspect and change memory

IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS is suitable for Development, Test, and Production abend analysis. Fault Analyzer uses expert system technology to apply accumulated expert knowledge to customer application abends. Abends in applications, batch or on-line, are analyzed real time and recorded in a history file to allow applications programmers opportunity to quickly understand and resolve problems. With on-line compile listings available, this includes resolving the problems down to the program source lines in error. See the new features of Fault Analyzer that help you customize the tool to your enterprise needs. Live Demonstrations are planned.
Speaker(s): Kevin Cummings, Jim Hildner   Chair: Jim Narramore

• To issue commands to TSO, ISPF, and other z/OS command environments
• To create and access datasets
• To perform I/O operations on files
• Extract system information
• Inspect and change memory

• Quadword alignment, with extensions to CNOP, ORG, and DC, and a new SECTALGN option
• Support for external references in relative-immediate instructions
• Enhanced conditional assembly features, including longer macro arguments and SETC variables, and many new built-in functions
• Type-checking extensions to help you create more reliable and robust programs
• An option to let you suppress selected warning messages
• Greater freedom in specifying complex expressions by eliminating the need for an external utility file

File Manager for databases (IMS and DB/2) offers application developers an integrated set of tools to work with DB2 and IMS databases. Its ISPF user interface for browsing, editing, copying and printing databases matches the look and feel of the equivalent ISPF options. In addition other tools are provided to help you work with these databases. The base File Manager product provides similar tools for working with QSAM and VSAM data (session 8414).
Speaker(s): Alan Schwartz, Kevin Cummings   Chair: Robert Iappini

Specifically, these include:

• ALC, ALGC, SLB and the SLGB arithmetic instructions
• RLL and RLLG rotate type shift instructions
• SxxG, 64 bit shifting instructions
• LLxx, Load Logical type instruction
• TMxx direct register bit testing instructions
• xY, extended displacement
• As well as others

Specifically, these include:

• Halfword on register operations
• Extended data conversions between packed and binary data
• Special register pair processing
• Reverse data access
• New translate and translate and test instructions
• As well as others

• Migrating to LE,
• Upgrading to new LE conforming compilers
• Exploiting new function provided by LE, the compilers, subsystems such as CICS or z/OS
• Debugging code and system problems

During this SHARE week, you will hear of many issues or characteristics of your applications that require investigation. In this session, you will discover many interesting attributes that can be found in your load modules. While much of this information can be found using various system utilities, we will use reports from the Edge Portfolio Analyzer to show you how to both extract this information and then use exception reporting to make your migrations, upgrades and problem solving tasks easier and more accurate.
Speaker(s): Carl Gehr, Marilyn Frankel   Chair: Marilyn Frankel

Every shell in Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems has its own unique variations, but most are very similar. This session will tell you how to write simple programs in shell script to get some simple things done automatically.

Topics covered are

• Similarities and differences between Rexx and shell script
• Usage of environment and shell variables
• Working with files If-then-else and loops
• Filters and editing inside a script
• Running your script
• Parameters, background and foreground processes
• Tracing and debugging
• Return codes
• Using Regina when you really have to use Rexx

The speaker will discuss: What you NEED for Debug Tool? What you need to CUSTOMIZE for your environment and users? What DATASETS are VERY IMPORTANT?

Now that Debug Tool will 'automatically' save and restore SET statement actions, breakpoints, and monitored variables you need to know HOW. What you do TODAY you can HAVE BACK TOMORROW! LOTS of NEW THINGS with Debug Tool V6 with Enterprise Developer WD4z with the new distributed debugger (debugger only) WDDZ.

Even a LIVE DEMONSTRATION to see Debug Tool IN ACTION.
Speaker(s): Francisco Anaya, Janice Winchell, Kevin Cummings   Chair: Jim Narramore

• New messaging topologies
• Interoperation with existing WebSphere MQ networks
• Web Services support and the Web Services Gateway (WSGW)
• Message mediation capabilities (for JMS and web service messages)

The panel will include the following experts: Theresa Tai, Jezz Kelway, Ken Irwin, and Bob St. John.

In addition, the audience will have some of the 'real experts' - practicing Java developers. You might pick up a tip that will pay for your trip to SHARE many times over. Bring any Java questions.
Speaker(s): Theresa Tai, Kenneth Irwin, Stephen Pipes, Richard Cole, Bob St. John   Chair: Steve Ryder

Rules of Fare:

• Sign up sheet in session rooms
• *Must* sign up!
• Dutch Treat

This session counts towards the SCLM Certification.
Speaker(s): Robert Kennedy, David Lawrence   Chair: Marsha O'Brien

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 4 (Session 8154, Wednesday 9:30am) include:

• Multiplication and division
• The EQU directive
• Extended branch mnemonics
• Literals as 'constant constants'
• Looping
• The LOAD ADDRESS instruction
• Internal subroutines

Learn how to:

• Use the JZOS Batch Launcher and Toolkit, recently acquired by IBM
• Quickly configure and invoke Java from a batch job or started task
• Direct output from Java to JES SYSOUT datasets
• Exchange condition codes and files with non-Java job steps
• Communicate with a Java application using MVS console commands
• Use Eclipse effectively to develop, test, and 'one-click' deploy your application
• In addition, learn how to leverage the power of Tomcat, Apache's free Servlet/JSP container on z/OS:
• Install and configure Tomcat in an hour or less
• Integrate Tomcat with z/OS DB2, security facilities, and the MVS console
• Use Tomcat as an effective 'on ramp' technology to WebSphere
• Cost-effectively distribute z/OS web applications with a bundled Servlet/JSP engine

This session counts towards the ISPF and/or SCLM Certificate programs.
Speaker(s): Michael Weiss   Chair: Liam Doherty

• You can now save/restore breakpoints and monitored variables in both batch and online
• You can use TEST(SEPARATE) with Enterprise PL/I V3.5 to separate the debug data from the load module
• How about some PREFIX commands for the MONITOR WINDOW?
• How about having a choice whether to see the expanded MACRO in an assembler program (or NOT)
• You can now LOAD a program using the LOAD command either an MVS LOAD or a CICS EXEC CICS LOAD command
• Support for more code pages
• Enhanced FIND command

With Debug Tool you can interactively debug. Are you ready? COBOL, PL/I, LE-Enabled Assembler, NON-LE Assembler, OS/VS COBOL, C/C++, Batch, CICS, IMS (including IMS MPPs that do not run under LE), DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, and you can do this all via GREEN SCREEN debugging or via GUI with either WD4z (full function Enterprise Developer suite) or with WDDZ (distributed debugger only).

This session will cover the latest and greatest in features and functions, and will have a LIVE DEMO of both the green screen and the GUI interfaces but, remember, the session is 60 to 90 minutes, so we have to be FAST and FURIOUS to see what we can see.
Speaker(s): Janice Winchell   Chair: Thomas Phillips

• This lab will give students hands-on experience on a z/OS system where they will:
• Configure Tomcat to run under z/OS
• Configure JDBC DataSources for pooled DB/2 connections
• Use SAF (RACF/ACF2) for web application security
• Manage Tomcat using MVS console commands
• 1-click deploy a webapp to z/OS from a workstation running Eclipse

This session counts towards the ISPF and/or SCLM certificate programs.
Speaker(s): Liam Doherty   Chair: Michael Weiss

The session finishes by looking at the administration of the transaction service in WAS, explaining what you can do at runtime such as configuring server transaction properties and enabling last participant support.
Speaker(s): Matthew Leming   Chair: Christina McGill

This presentation will describe:

• How compilers and assemblers create object modules, and what object modules contain (old 'OBJ' and new 'GOFF' formats)
• How object modules are combined and transformed into load modules and Program Objects
• What's in loadable modules, and how they are structured
• How modules are loaded into storage
• The functions of (and differences among) the Binder, the Linkage Editor, and Program Fetch and the Program Load

This session counts towards the ISPF and/or SCLM certificate programs.
Speaker(s): Jennifer Nelson   Chair: Michael Weiss

The speaker will discuss issues and techniques for programming in HLASM in order to take advantage of Dataspaces. Attendees should have some knowledge of mainframe Assembler programming. Topics include style of programming, access register mode concepts, new hardware instructions and more.
Speaker(s): Avri Adleman   Chair: Avri Adleman

This session counts towards the ISPF and/or SCLM certificate programs.
Speaker(s): Liam Doherty   Chair: Michael Weiss

IBM delivers Enterprise Application Development tools, across the lifecycle, that meet the requirements of these diverse development groups. Enterprise development now begins with defining a Service Oriented Architecture and a framework including J2EE, Java Server faces, and Struts. The development process begins with business and application models, moves to application flows, and back end business processing connected via Web Services, JCA, and Message Queueing. Business developers create components such as HTML, JSPs, Java, COBOL, PL/I, and 4GL languages - deployable to WebSphere, CICS and IMS transaction environments.

Come hear about the latest application development tooling from IBM to help you deliver robust applications faster, with higher quality. The new IBM Application Development tooling supports a broad range of users and capabilities promoting both new development and the componentization and connection to existing systems. Finally, supporting team collaboration with differing skills, backgrounds, and business knowledge is a key part of the delivery.
Speaker(s): Michael Connor, Jim Hildner   Chair: Christina McGill

Attendees are expected to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of Assembler Language. Additionally, the 'Stalking the New Opcodes' session 8162, which introduces the instructions themselves, is recommended if the relative-immediate instructions are new to you.
Speaker(s): Avri Adleman   Chair: Avri Adleman

This session counts towards the ISPF and/or SCLM certificate programs.
Speaker(s): Liam Doherty, Michael Weiss   Chair: Clive Nealon

• 64-bit virtual system structure
• Compiler options
• Language Environment
• DLLs and Binder support
• DBX debugger

A BOF is scheduled immediately following this session to allow time for continuing discussion of user experiences.
Speaker(s): Thomas Phillips   Chair: Carl Gehr

This presentation will teach you how Software Change Management products like Cybermation's Alchemist can control and manage your production deployment process across operating environments using light weight agent technology.
Speaker(s): Ifti Din   Chair: Christina McGill

Your learning will be enhanced if you can bring a PC-compatible laptop; but if you can't, the lab sessions (8156 and 8157, 'Assembler 106A/Assembler 106B') will give you an opportunity to try out some sample programs. We will provide a diskette with the ASSIST/I assembler and host emulator you can use to write, test, and print your programs.

We will be available to help you at each session.

Topics to be covered in Part 5 (Session 8155, Thursday 9:30am) include:

• SI and SS instruction formats
• Decimal data and instructions
• Converting among binary, decimal, and character
• Instructions for logical and bit operations

ISPW BenchMark Technologies Ltd. is the inaugural winner of the SHARE Award for Excellence in Technology.
Speaker(s): Christina McGill   Chair: Reg Newbeck

Want to hear more? This session will provide an overview of WebSphere Application Server Extended Deployment and more importantly, how you can migrate from WebSphere ND to WebSphere XD.
Speaker(s): Hilon Potter   Chair: Christina McGill

XML is a way to transmit self-describing text data to applications around the Web. XML has become the preferred approach to communicate between servers and clients.

In this session we examine the support COBOL provides for Unicode then take a quick look at how to process and create XML documents using XML PARSE and XML CREATE from a COBOL program.
Speaker(s): Steve Comstock   Chair: Carl Gehr

• Selective storage to register access: IC, STC, ICM, STCM, CLM, LH and STH
• Types of bit shifting: SLL, SRL, SLA, SRA, SLDL, SRDL, SLDA, SRDA
• Data translation and verification: TR and TRT
• Dynamic instruction execution: EX

If you are an upcoming Assembler programmer or just want to brush up on some of the classic instructions, this is the session for you. Attendees will be expected to have at least some rudimentary knowledge of IBM Assembler.
Speaker(s): John Dravnieks   Chair: John Dravnieks

The speaker will provide an overview of the AllFusion Change Management Suite from Computer Associates, which enables users to manage e-business application development providing comprehensive change and configuration management for z/OS and distributed applications, as well as for web content.
Speaker(s): John Dueckman   Chair: Reg Newbeck

• Free-For-All: The project will present an open forum for discussion. Please feel free to bring your questions, comments and ideas
• Requirements: The IBM representative will review the status of the requirements submitted to IBM. New requirements will be discussed. If you would like to see new features, functions or improvements to IBM's High Level Assembler product, please bring your requirements and ideas to this session
• Planning: We will also review the activities from this SHARE meeting and develop a tentative plan for sessions at the next SHARE meeting. Please bring your ideas to the session.

WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms can help you leverage your existing investments and facilitates your journey to an on demand e-business by helping maintain and extend your existing assets, through impact analysis and application understanding.
Speaker(s): Michael Connor, Alan Schwartz   Chair: Christina McGill

This session provides a more in-depth view on Fault Analyzers existing and more recent functions with emphasis on the System Programmer viewpoint. Particular items of focus in this session are the use of CICS & System Dump support, product configuration capabilities, and the setup and use of 'user exits'. Live Demonstrations are planned.
Speaker(s): Kevin Cummings, Jim Hildner   Chair: Jim Narramore

This presentation will discuss application structure,strategies, and techniques that can be used to ensure that new or existing applications fully exploit Parallel Sysplex. In particular, it will cover such topics as application cloning, workload affinities, serialization, workload routing and balancing, application versioning and other topics of interest to the application architect and developer. An overview and checklists associated with specific considerations unique to each major application environment (CICS, DB2, IMS, MQ, etc.) will also be presented.

This session assumes the audience is familiar with Parallel Sysplex concepts and terminology.
Speaker(s): Angelo Corridori   Chair: Larry Oehler

We will discuss questions and feedback raised in those sessions -- for example, what is IBM doing in the skills arena to invigorate new application development talent? What new tools are available to modernize and simplify the application development experience? What are the business cases for building new applications on the platform? What are your needs today and for the future? We want your thoughts and ideas. Participate in discussions that will help us formulate and prioritize future tool development plans to meet your needs. We envision this as an ongoing dialog and partnership.
Speaker(s): Laurence England, Geoff Smith   Chair: Christina McGill