Conference Agenda

GSE Nordic & Be/Lux OPC/TWS Group

 

 

Monday, June 07, 2004

 

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11.30

 

Check-in for delegates from Denmark & Gothenburg

15.15

 

Check-in for Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish delegates

16.00

 

Short City-Tour by coach for approx 1 hour. Short tour through Brussels City Centre (Maneken Pis, Town Hall, GrandPlace etc.) ending up with some activities at the Grand’Place

19.00

 

End of tour

20.00

 

Dinner at Hotel Bedford

 

 

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

 

Joint session GSE Nordic & Be/Lux participants at Dexia Bank

 

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09.00

03

Welcome and Presentation of the two groups by the two Chairmen

Guy Verschueren, SIDMAR Arcelor Group, Belgium

Anders B. Carlsson, Volvo IT AB, Sweden

09.20

04

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2

-           Latest news for this current release

-           IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS 8.2

-           IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

-           IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications

-           Job Scheduling Console

Antonio Gallotti, IBM Rome, Italy

10.15

 

Coffee break

10.45

05

Next release of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler – trends and directions

-           What are the plans for next release?

-           What will be in it?

-           Name and version etc.

-           Demo, show case etc. if possible

Antonio Gallotti, IBM Rome, Italy

-          Grid Scheduling

Terri Buchanan, IBM US

 

 

Short break

 

05

Next release of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (continued)

Antonio Gallotti, IBM Rome, Italy

12.15

 

Lunch

13.30

06

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 end-to-end scheduling

-           New possibilities and functions compared to 8.1

-           How to customize and use these functions

-           How to migrate from 8.1 end-to-end environment

-           Tips and hints

Finn Bastrup Knudsen, IBM Danmark A/S

14.15

 

Short break

14.30

07

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 end-to-end scheduling (continued)

-           Migrating from Tracker Agents

-           Using the “object loader”

Finn Bastrup Knudsen, IBM Danmark A/S

15.15

 

Coffee break

15.45

08

Alerts, Deadline, Latest Start Time, Critical Batch

-           How to optimize usage of these parameters

-           How to do “Critical Job Scheduling”

Anna Dawson, IBM Ltd.UK

17.00

 

End of days meeting

20.00

 

Dinner at the Brasserie Chez Leon in the city centre of Brussels

 

 

Wednesday June 09, 2004

 

GSE Nordic Conference sessions at Hotel Bedford

 

Be/Lux Delegates are welcome to attend if they register on beforehand

special price for the attending members from Be/Lux.

 

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09.00

09

Restart and Cleanup in IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2

-           Tivoli OPC Catalog Management and Step restart has been totally redesigned in IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS 8.2

-           How does it work after the PQ79507 “re-design” APAR?

-           Tips and hints on how to use Restart and Cleanup the best way.

Anna Dawson, IBM Ltd. UK

10.00

 

Coffee break

10.30

10

Restart and Cleanup in IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 (continued)

Anna Dawson, IBM Ltd. UK

 

 

Short break

 

11

Products with interfaces to TWS

-          IBM Output Manager

-          IBM Tivoli Supervisor

Hans Peder Thomsen, IBM Danmark A/S

12.15

 

Lunch

13.30

12

ESP – Early Support Program

-          What is this and how to register and attend

-          What is the result from TWS 8.2 ESP

-          ESP – about the new ongoing or just finished ESP of TWS OnDemand

Rudy Segers, IBM Belgium

14.15

 

Short Break

14.30

13

Tips and tricks

-          Usage of file dependencies (filewatch) in end-to-end environment

-          How to rerun an operation every 30 minutes (using OCL)

-          Other tips and tricks

Rudy Segers, IBM Belgium

15.15

 

Coffee Break

15.45

14

ASAP US Meeting

-          Brief information from the ASAP Users Conference

Anders B. Carlsson, Volvo IT AB, Sweden

-          Experiences and news from the meeting in Scottsdale

Anna Dawson. IBM UK Ltd.

16.30

15

How we have solved problems using OPC variables

Torkild Busk, IBM Denmark

17.00

 

End of days program

20.00

 

Dinner at the Brasserie Le Roy D’Espagne at Grand’Place

 

 

Thursday June 10,2004

 

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09.00

16

XINFO - The Comprehensive XInformation System for batch production and Application Development.

Conceptual recap and experience from some Nordic XINFO implementations.

Jørgen Nordvig, MainSoft International A/S

09.45

 

Coffee break and check-out from hotel rooms

10.15

17

Problems in zOS 1.5 with the Automatic Operator feature

Juha Vanonen, KELA, Finland

11.00

18

Business meeting, elections

Anders B. Carlsson, Volvo IT AB, Sweden

11.30

19

Evaluation of this conference and planning of the next conference

Closing of the 2004 TWS Nordic Conference

Anders B. Carlsson, Volvo IT AB, Sweden

12.00

 

Lunch

 

 

Time for shopping

15.00

 

Coaches leave from Hotel Bedford for the Zaventem airport

17.20 &

17.45

 

Departure for Stockholm and

Departure for Oslo, Helsinki, Gothenburg and Copenhagen