General Track

AP, OPS, SYSVIEW Demo This session will demonstrate how the integration of these CA products can benefit your environment.

MIM r11.5 and Beyond This session will focus on the new and enhanced features of MIM r11.5 and provide additional insight into what is being planned for MIM beyond this release.

opsXchange Opening Session Welcome to opsXchange 2006. Come and hear from various CA speakers as they cover what to expect from this years conference.

User Group General Business Session Come and speak with your peers at the opsXchange User Group General Business Session.

New Age Autonomic Computing - Linking Performance Monitors and Automation Solutions In many of today’s complex data center environments, customers are refining their workload manager service policies, implementing Intelligent Resource Director (IRD), and investigating enterprise WLM (EWLM), to help enhance their continuous availability and high performance environments. But, utilizing just these tools may not be enough to achieve the desired results. This session looks at some autonomic processes to link your currently installed performance monitors and automation solutions to increase the effectiveness for self-monitoring, self-configuring, and self-healing of critical business applications.

New Age Performance Monitoring In today’s complex data center environments, monitoring performance is still an important function. How we performed this function in the past, was good for those old environments. Today, we must adopt new concepts and methodologies to provide effective resource usage, and take the necessary corrective actions to protect these precious resources. This session will look at some of these New Age Concepts.

Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation Track

Using OPSLOG and Understanding its future direction This session will show the many ways in which OPSLOG can be used to increase productivity in your data center. We will also discuss what our outlook for OPSLOG is as we move forward.

Introducing OPS/MVS r11.5 and Moving Ahead with r11.6 This session will focus on the new and enhanced features of Unicenter OPS/MVS r11.5 and provide additional insight into what is being planned for Unicenter OPS/MVS beyond this release.

OPS/MVS Automates Enterprise-Wide Events Attend this session for a discussion on how the integration capabilities of OPS/MVS provides value in meeting your organizations enterprise-wide automation objectives.

Achieving GDPS Objectives with CA's automated solutions This session will discuss what IBM's GDPS service offering is and how you can effectively achieve your business continuity objectives, including creation of automated DASD mirroring solution, with Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS and Unicenter Automation Point.

New health check automated applications available with OPS/MVS This session will cover the automated applications that the OPS/MVS team has created that enhance the functionality of the new IBM Health Checker technology.

The need to eliminate one-byte Console ids from OPS/MVS automation scripts Starting with z/OS version 1.4.2 and continuing with the next few z/OS releases, IBM is shipping a series of enhancements to console services under the umbrella title of "Console Restructure" enhancements. Attend this session to learn more about the impact of these "console restructure" enhancements and how your automation REXX code can be prepared for these coming changes.

Configuring and Using OPSLOG WebView with SSL Communications - Lab Obtain an overview of the technology that makes digital certificates work, followed by a hands-on lab in which we will create a certificate, install it in an OPSLOG WebView client, and see it work.

Migrating from SSM to the New SSM Global Application - Lab Learn how to turn your existing MSF-connected SSM systems into an SSMplex by using this new packaged solution available in Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS r11.5. SSMGA provides a single point of control, capable of handling prerequisite definitions and movement of resources across systems in the SSMplex. New and existing customers both can benefit from this detailed overview, discussion, and demonstration of the capabilities of SSMGA.

Collecting OPS/MVS Alerts in a Remote Console Session - Lab Observe how Unicenter CA-Remote Console can be used as a mainframe “closest to the source” alert console for alerts identified through Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS. We’ll demonstrate how Unicenter CA-Remote Console, a TSO/VTAM based application, allows you to customize the message view including through colorization of messages and creating quadrants or zones. For example, separate zones can be defined to segregate severity 1 from severity 2 alerts, or allow tape operators to have a profile that receives tape related alerts and system tape mount messages only and CICS programmers to have a profile for CICS related alerts. Finally you’ll see how you can collect messages from across the sysplex with Unicenter CA-Remote Console, thus creating a focal alert view.

APGTRACK: Tracking Availability via OPS/MVS A customer implementation of availability tracking using OPS/MVS functionality.

Disaster Recovery Flexibility with SSM Mellon Financial Corporation's implementation of System State Manager designed specifically for disaster recovery flexibility; incorporating system failover, application moves and tertiary site recovery. This application makes heavy use of RDF tables and generic REXX routines eliminating the need to replicate SSM resource information across multiple LPARs while still allowing near instantaneous intra-SYSPLEX recovery.

Unicenter Automation Point Track

Integration Possibilities with Automation Point This session will show both our built-in integration with other products and potentially show other custom integration ideas (such as integrating with Service Desk, etc.)

Choosing the right Remote Viewing Tool This session will describe both Remote Viewer and Web MV, including when to consider using each tool.

Automation - Lab This lab will walk the user through setting up different types of automated and non-automated sessions.

Notification - Lab This lab will walk the user through the configuration of different notification techniques (alphanumeric paging, 2-Way paging, e-mail, etc.). We will also include the setup of the Notification Website and defining notification policy using this website.

AP Features and Futures This session will focus on the new and enhanced features of Unicenter Automation Point r11.1 and provide additional insight into what is being planned for Unicenter Automation Point beyond this release.

IPLing a CMOS console Unicenter Automation Point can manage a wide variety of systems critical to your enterprise, including the HMC console for CMOS based mainframe processors. This session will show you how to use Unicenter Automation Point to automate activities such as IPL/IML and the dynamic addition of processors using the new CBU functionality.

Automation Open Forum This session will provide the attendees with the opportunity to discuss mainframe and distributed automation issues and concerns in an open forum with their peers and CA technical staff.

Unicenter CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management Track

What's New - Where are we Going This session will focus on the new and enhanced features of SYSVIEW r11.5 and provide additional insight into what is being planned for SYSVIEW beyond this release.

SYSVIEW as the data gatherer for OPS/MVS used to intelligently drive automation This session will address how SYSVIEW can be used to gather data for OPS/MVS so that automated decisions can be made with real time data.

How to address "?" using SYSVIEW SYSVIEW can be used to address many different issues within your data center. This session will discuss the many ways that SYSVIEW can be used and also allow for thoughts from the audience on how they would like to use SYSVIEW.

Using Event Capture Option as a tool to gather Information This session will go over the use of the SYSVIEW Event Capture Option as a tool to gather information so that you can make informed decisions about the performance of your systems.

Migrating to SYSVIEW - Top 10 Reasons We will discuss the top 10 reasons that you should migrate from your current Performance Management product to SYSVIEW.

Usability features coming in the next release This session will cover new features that will be available with next release of SYSVIEW.

SYSVIEW as an SDSF replacement This session will cover how SYSVIEW can be used as a replacement for SDSF. We will discuss how SDSF is currently used by most systems folks and go over how the same tasks can be accomplished using SYSVIEW.

Setting up security and modifying profiles This session will discuss how to set up SYSVIEW security and how to modify profiles to better customize them to fit your environment.

SYSVIEW Open Forum This session will provide the attendees with the opportunity to discuss performance management issues and concerns in an open forum with their peers and CA technical staff.

Unicenter NetMaster Network Automation Track

Best practices for managing your network with NetMaster This session will offer guidance on how to make the most of your investment in Unicenter Netmaster IP Management products. We will discuss best practices and highlight some of the newer functionality.

Understanding Network Response Time In this session we will discuss some of the common reasons for slow response time with network connectivity to z/OS. We will highlight some of the important indicators that can be used to identify and diagnose network response time issues. Finally, we will review some of the z/OS TCP/IP configuration parameters that can influence network response time.

NetMaster r11.5 and Beyond This session will focus on the new and enhanced features of Unicenter NetMaster r11.5 and provide additional insight into what is being planned for Unicenter NetMaster beyond this release.

Monitoring your File Transfer Environment The assurance of your data transport environment is paramount to meeting many of your service commitments. This session will show you how Unicenter NetMaster File Transfer Management can help you better manage this environment.

Overview of eHealth and Spectrum Network Management products This session will offer an introduction to CA's network management solutions for managing distributed (non-mainframe) environments. For many of you these will be products that you know little about as they came from the CA acquisition of Concord in 2005. Come along and learn more about the products and how they may fit in your organization.

NetMaster Open Forum Come along and discuss your use of Unicenter NetMaster or just network management in general. This open forum will present you with the opportunity to discuss topics of your choice with CA network management representatives and your peers.

Using SmartTrace for real-time network packet tracing - Lab This is a sneak preview of SmartTrace, our realtime network packet trace function. This hands on lab will provide you with a foundation for understanding the full capabilities of SmartTrace and provide you with a valuable insight into how it may be best used in your environment.

Using REXX with NetMaster - Lab Come along to this hands on lab and learn about using REXX with Unicenter NetMaster.

Integrating OPS/MVS and SYSVIEW with NetMaster - Lab For customers running one or more of these products this session will provide you with useful information and experience in successfully integrating these solutions. Come along and gain some practical experience in achieving better integration between Unicenter NetMaster and our systems management solutions.