IBM System z software

Tivoli Composite Applications Management Product Overview

Topic Synopsis

1. Composite Application Management

Transactions are at the heart of today's business, which means that high availability and rapid response times are top priorities for many IT organisation's. As transaction volumes increase and IT infrastructures become more complex ,isolating the source of performance problems can be a cumbersome and labour intensive process-one that often takes far more time than it should.

Traditional approaches to the isolation of transaction performance issues typically involve individual teams of IT employees running tests and performing checks on their individual domains. These individuals may convene-in person or electronically-to share these results and attempt to trouble shoot across the domains. Despite the time and effort put into this collaborative process, it doesn't always yield ready answers. In the meantime, valuable resources are spending time tracking down problems that may not even belong to their domain, and the organisation faces the risk of lost revenue while services are degraded.

In this session we will show you how ITCAM for Transactions offers a more effective approach to this problem by providing end-to-end transaction tracking and visualisation capabilities, allowing IT teams to more quickly and easily isolate problems and, in turn, allowing faster problem resolution.

IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Transactions offers a comprehensive end-to-end transaction management solution for IT operations that may need to track transaction flows across heterogeneous environments. It is designed to monitor, alert, and report on the availability and response time of business transactions, and deliver problem isolation through true end-to-end transaction tracking across the application infrastructure.

IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging allows you to proactively manage WebSphere MQ environment, configure WebSphere MQ for deployment, manage the WebSphere Message Broker and InterChange Server. Discover problems and automatically fix them

2. Automating workloads in the new world of composite services

Is your company concerned with delivering Service Levels on target to your customer's? Is your management concerned with reducing costs? Does your company have any "business process" initiatives, like ITIL? Then this session is a MUST for you.

Come and see how you can automate the processes of your heterogeneous business applications running on z/OS, AIX, Linux, Windows, and/or Solaris.We will also demonstrate how our offerings can automate the availability of your applications and processes end to end from a single point of control. See what is new and exciting with our offerings that will help you address business compliance challenges facing all of us in 2009 -2010. Please join us for an interactive workshop with development experts and customer's.

IBM Tivoli Workload Automation enables you to easily manage composite business and IT workloads that have complex dependencies spanning multiple applications, systems including mainframe, distributed and high-performance grid computing environments. You can dynamically trigger and dispatch workloads to the best available resources, responding in real time to changing business demands. Each product helps make service execution processes consistent, predictable and scalable. Together, the products help to optimize resource utilization, IT management costs and productivity throughout the enterprise.

John J. Campbell
Distinguished Engineer
DB2 for z/OS Development
Silicon Valley Lab, Software Group - Information Management

John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and one of the senior technical leaders inside DB2 for z/OS Development. He provides leadership to world wide customers in high-end database, transaction, and application systems - consultancy, design, performance and benchmarking.

Nigel Slinger
Distinguished Engineer
DB2 for z/OS Development and Technical Support
Silicon Valley Lab, Software Group - Information Management

Nigel Slinger is a Distinguished Engineer working in DB2 for z/OS Development. He currently leads the World Wide Technical Support team providing L2 support to customers. Nigel is regarded as one of the ultimate authorities on DB2 storage use and as one of the designers of the DB2 storage manager. Nigel joined IBM UK in 1985 and began working on DB2 in release 1. In 1995 he transferred to Santa Teresa Laboratory in California working in DB2 Development and is still based there today.