Go to Tivoli Wiki Central at http://www.ibm.com/tivoli/wikis for best practices, scenarios, whitepapers and more. 

Today we have Wikis for the following products, with many more in-plan:

•  Tivoli Service Management Center for System z: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolismcforz/Home

• Tivoli Netcool/Impact: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolinci/Home
• Tivoli Distributed Monitoring and Application Management: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolimonitoring/Home
• Tivoli Business Service Manager:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolibsm/Home
• Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivoliaddm/Home
• Tivoli System z Monitoring and Application Management: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivoliomegamon/Home

• Register for a System z Seminar focused on CICS version to version upgrade considerations with CICS tools.  Visit http://tinyurl.com/mdm77f
• July 22 Teleconference:  CICS & Rational: Increase business agility innovative tooling teleconf July 22 @ 11AM EDT http://tinyurl.com/lcqhkm
• CICS TS 4.1 events webcast replay :  Turn insight into action with CICS business events. Terrific briefing on leveraging CICS TS 4.1 support for business events.  Visit:  http://bit.ly/EFn6D

• Licensed users of CICS TS V3 and V4.1 can now download and use the fully supported version of the CICS Explorer. Details http://ow.ly/g6ZF
• New redbook is now available:  CICS TG V5  - The WS Connector for CICS   Visit  http://tinyurl.com/ltyg5e

New Rational Business Partner Playbook

A new Rational Business Partner playbook has been created to assist you in goings to market with HATS to System z customers.  System z customers and facing unprecedented pressure to deliver more capabilities using fewer resources and less money then ever before.  HATS is the tool that can make it easy for them to quickly and easily bring System z applications to the web or to enable them for wireless and hand held devices.

The materials include in the playbook include:

• Brochures and data sheets
• Customer presentations
• A quick reference guide
• Links to white papers and technical articles and much more....

New Customer Presentation - System z solutions for a smarter planet

This customer presentation provides a quick look at the IBM smarter planet story and the value System z solutions can bring to customers.    Look at the "qualify and present section of this page to find this presentation).   

FYI, more details about the System z software value for a smarter planet can be found in the internal / BP Use only white paper, which was recently updated to be more consistent with the latest theme messages.

Expand your selling opportunities with the new IBM System z Soution Edition Series, providing dramatically reduced pricingthat makes us highly competitive on short-term TCA (total cost of acquisition) for a wide range of new workload solutions:

• ACI
• Application Development
• GDPS
• Data Warehousing
• SAP Applications
• Security
• WebSphere
  

The new Solution Edition offerings provide unparalleled mainframe Qualities of Service, but priced to have a TCA within 20% of competitive UNIX alternatives. 

• HW, SW, and Maintenance included:  3-5 Year “Bottom-line” prices
• Targeting new System z workload opportunities
• Pre-Approved and delegated net pricing; approved by STG, SWG, and MTS WW Execs
• Modeled on the successful “SAP Solution Edition”
• Drove 36% growth in 2008
• Opens door to $13.0B in opportunities
• Designed to help you close business quickly and profitably

• SHARE:  August 23-28 (Denver, CO)
  
• IDUG Europe 2009:  October 5-9 (Rome, Italy)
• System z Expo:  October 5-9 (Orlando, FL)
• Information on Demand Global Conference:  October 25-29 (Las Vegas, NV)
  
• IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009: 
• August 5-7 (Macau, China)
• October 12-15 (San Diego, CA)
• October 26-28 (Salzburg, Austria)
• November 2-4 (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
  

• 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

DB2 on System z: Meet the 12 requirements of PCI DSS compliance

• August 4 Teleconference
• Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn how using DB2® for z/OS® on System z® can help you meet the 12 requirements of the PCI DSS standard. We’ll discuss how you can deploy end-toend security and data governance solutions while keeping your data securely in one place. You’ll also see how System z helps you comply with the standard by protecting your stored data, and ensuring privacy through test and development life cycles, thereby enabling the highest levels of security, access and auditing available. 
• click here to register
  

IMS security in the post-SMU era — How you can benefit from RACF

• August 11 Teleconference
• The future of security in IMS is one without Security Maintenance utility (SMU). Fortunately, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF®) and equivalent products offer a much wider range of security functions than the internal security features of IMS. Join us for this complimentary teleconference as we review the security implementations possible when IMS is used with RACF. We’ll cover the general RACF facilities, and its functions that can be implemented specifically for IMS. Attendees will come away with a good understanding of how to develop a rock-solid security strategy for IMS systems.
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IMS Cloning Tool – Faster, automated IMS cloning and refresh operations

• August 18 Teleconference
• Join us for this complimentary teleconference to learn how the IMS cloning Tool for z/OS® automates, simplifies and speeds up IMS system cloning and database refresh operations while reducing administration and processing costs. Traditional IMS cloning methods are slow, use large amounts of host processing resources and require a separate LPAR to support the cloned IMS system. Today’s storage-based fast replication facilities allow IMS data to be copied instantaneously, and without using host CPU or I/O resources.
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Don’t reinvent the wheel – Pull out the reusable business rules from your legacy application portfolio

• August 26 Teleconference
• Detailed insight into how your complex applications support the core business processes would provide understanding that could increase both developer productivity and accuracy, and enable fact based application modernization decisions to be made. Application Portfolio Management products analyze source code, and therefore provide a very direct benefit to developers, analysts, and architects. Developers typically experience a significant productivity gain in analysis activities when using offerings such as Rational Application Analyzer and Rational Transformation Workbench. But there’s more - companies need enterprise-wide tools like this to support and accelerate modernization products. If one can understand code with little or no documentation and their relationships across the enterprise; discover the business rules to migrate to a new platform, create new components due to divestiture, or find duplicate/redundant code as part of a merge; then there are cost savings to the organization that can be achieved.
• This insight enables global IT organizations to identify, prioritize and execute development activities that re-align applications with business goals. Join us for this teleconference and discover hidden business logic, govern those uncovered business rules, and move towards reuse of proven business rules throughout the development lifecycle. Isolation of identified business rules into standalone programs encourages reuse and accelerates the path to SOA making your business more flexible with the ever changing demands placed on it.
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