• Facilitates compliance with security requirements and policies
• Effectively administers mainframe security and improves productivity while reducing administration time, complexity, implementation efforts, and costs
• Monitors and audits for threat incidents, audit configurations and resource usage to help detect and prevent security exposures and to report compliance
• Leverages seamless log integration with a comprehensive enterprise-wide view and sophisticated analysis of audit and compliance efforts across other operating systems, applications and databases
• Integrates RACF, mainframe security capabilities, and other Tivoli security management solutions for comprehensive identity management, access control, data protection, audit and compliance reporting

• Reduce costs with automated capabilities, simplified administration, and reduced complexity
• Manage risks with improved security policy implementation, automated audits and prepackaged compliance reporting
• Improve service with faster simpler user security administration and effective security to detect and report on threats

To help you learn more about the Dynamic Infrastructure marketing program within the Smarter Planet initiative, we have launched a number of resources:

• Dynamic Infrastructure portal on PartnerWorld which includes resources such as a Sales Kit, client presentations, whitepapers, client references, and more.

• Guide Share Europe (GSE) Nordics:  June 10-14 (Reykjavik, Iceland)
  
• Information on Demand Europe, Middle East & Africa:  June 2-5 (Berlin, Germany)
• SHARE:  August 23-28 (Denver, CO)
  
• IDUG Europe 2009:  October 5-9 (Rome, Italy)
• Information on Demand Global Conference:  October 25-29 (Las Vegas, NV)
  
• System z Expo:  October 5-9 (Orlando, FL)
• Business Partner on IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009:  October 12-15 (San Diego, CA)
  

• Don't forget about the new z101 online class!
  

• Upcoming System z Software Top Gun classes in 2009:  Schedule is still being defined for 2009, check out the System z Software Top Gun site for more information.
• IBM TGVL:  System z Software Foundation

 Open to Business Partners, customers and IBMers

IBM and Numius share customer case study on the value of running mission critical Data Warehousing and BI on System z

• June 2, 2009
  

• If Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence are top priorities for your company, don’t miss this content rich teleconference to learn how your company can benefit from the combined value of IBM System z and the Data Warehousing and BI solutions that support it, including Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z.
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Achieve Greater Cost Savings and Gain Strategic Advantage by Reducing Downtime and Leading Innovation with DB2 9 for z/OS

• June 9, 2009
  

• In this teleconference we will introduce and discuss the most important technical feature function introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS and the associated business value, and why upgrading to Version 9 makes good business sense today. Hear Univar share their experiences in upgrading from DB2 for z/OS Version 8 to Version 9 and the business benefits they are reaping since upgrading to the latest release. 
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How Business Event Processing adds value to CICS and System z

• June 10, 2009
• CICS, running on System z, has been supporting the world’s transactions for many years and has an established base with thousands of applications running billions of transactions every day. The new capability of CICS applications to emit business events in a format consumable by WebSphere Business Events opens up a whole new set of benefits to the business user by providing insight into those transactions, allowing immediate action to be taken when patterns of interest occur. Join this teleconference to see how you can transform insight into action through business event management on System z.
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 Technical update on Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS v.8.3

• June 11, 2009
• This teleconference will provide you with a technical update of Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.3. TWS value proposition, for customers with multiple workloads and composite applications spanning multiple platforms.  The teleconference will focus on new features and integrations which include:
• new web-based Operations console and integration with Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• new ability to define Critical Workloads, with analysis to automatically promote Critical Workloads, base on critical path analysis 
• enhanced planning and choreography services, including loop analysis 
• new event-triggered tracking variables for more dynamic, real time workload scheduling and execution 
• new End-to-End flexibility, easier setup and fully centralized control 
• new integration with z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) to dynamically route workloads to the best available resources 
• new integration with System Automation for z/OS 
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 Need to Lower Operating Costs and Take Control of System Performance? OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE comes to the Rescue!

• June 16, 2009
• This teleconference will bring you up to speed on the latest benefits of using IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert for z/OS to take control of your DB2 system performance, increase staff productivity, and ultimately lower total operating costs. In these uncertain economic times, gaining cost advantages is critical to the enterprise. You can take action now by learning more about how the IBM DB2 Tools for z/OS solutions can come to your rescue.
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 What’s New in IMS Database Recovery

• June 23, 2009
• IMS 10 includes many new enhancements for Database Recovery Control (DBRC), including support for fuzzy user image copies, extended timestamp precision, RECON read-only access, DBRC API update command, and parallel RECON access. These enhancements simplify DBRC access by vendor tools, and ease version-to-version upgrades for customers using tools that interface with the RECON data set. In this teleconference we’ll discuss IMS Database Recovery Facility (DBRF), a tool that does recovery, creates image copies, validates the database and rebuilds indices.
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 Application Portfolio Management: Gain business intelligence about your entire enterprise application portfolio

• June 24, 2009
• The teleconference will overview IBM tooling that provides solutions to:
• Build a common repository of application information by scanning your source code and determining their interrelationships
• Gather and manage business information to develop management intelligence about applications to help minimize risk
• Help integrate web and mainframe components together for deployment to System z and other platforms. 
• Specific products to be discussed will be WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer, Rational Asset Analyzer, Rational Transformation Workbench with Rational Asset Manager, ILOG business rule management, and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.
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 IBM Tivoli® Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS - leverage your investment in z/OS to strengthen your security of data at rest

• June 25, 2009
• At IBM we are constantly finding new ways that organizations can leverage their investment in the z/OS platform. And information security is one area where the z/OS platform is particularly suited. Now with the release of Tivoli’s Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS, we've added an additional data security capability that can be administered from the mainframe. In this teleconference learn how Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS provides a simple, easy, quick way to unleash the power of encryption in your environment, so that you can encrypt your data at rest on IBM's self encrypting tape and disk drives.
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 Datasharing Management with IMS Sysplex Manager

• June 30, 2009
• In this teleconference learn how IMS Sysplex Manager can help IMS users to manage workload balancing and data sharing issues in a Sysplex environment.
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