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On 10th August a new newsletter - IBM System z Advisor - was launched. 

The objective of IBM System z Advisor is to provide technical software practitioners and other people interested in System z software with up-to-date news, articles and matters of interest. 

The Advisor builds on the success of the old CCR2 newsletter and further extends this concept.  For example, the Launch edition includes 3 new sections:

• "Dear Rocky",
  
• Marti's Corner
  
• and Tool News
  

• Selling z/OS Qualities of Service to your CxO course.
• Today’s CxOs are concerned about doing more with less, meeting business needs more quickly, and complying with regulations. The mainframe is the best platform for running mission-critical workload because it has evolved to run this work extremely efficiently and economically. This course will address the two key factors that must be understood when choosing a platform for deploying new and modernized business workloads: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Qualities of Service (QoS), and will help you sell these to your CxO.
• Introduction to Contracts for System z Software course.
• This course is designed to build foundational knowledge of System z software licensing contracts, including related terminology, terms and conditions of basic IBM contracts, and the rules for using these basic contracts. The following agreements are covered in detail in this course: the IBM Customer Agreement (ICA), the International Program Licensing Agreement (IPLA), and the IBM Agreement for the Acquisition of Software Maintenance (IAASM).
• Selling the Value of System z Software Currency course.
• The purpose of this course is to help you identify the benefits of the software products for System z and how maintaining software currency is beneficial to customer operations. Upon completion of this module, you should be able to recognize and address common objections to staying current on software, explain why it is beneficial to customers to stay current with the latest release of software for System z, and identify the benefits of software version currency for several software products for System z.
• Selling IT Service Management for System z course.
• This course is designed to build foundational knowledge of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) on System z. During this course, you will learn why selling ITSM on System z is beneficial to you as an IBM seller and the value that ITSM provides to customers. This course also explains how to include ITSM in your sales opportunities and provides several job aids and help resources.
• Selling SOA Modernization on System z course.
• Many IBM System z users are actively looking to derive greater returns from their mainframe investments through the use of SOA. This course introduces participants to the Service Oriented Architecture for System z and the tools, such as IBM’s Host Transformation Services (HATS) and Rational Developer for System z (RDz), to provide our customers with greater value for their companies’ applications assets.
  

• 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: 
• 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

• Teleconference: September 1, 2009
• This teleconference will show you a REAL LIFE business case. It proves the importance of SQL tuning. It will explain how the project was started. What techniques and strategy were used? How follow up was done, what investments where made and what the return on investment was. The results were beyond expectations, resulting in HUGE SAVINGS from the start. Whether you are a DBA or a manager, this presentation will show you how you can save money in your company in times of economical difficulties.
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• Teleconference: September 2
• Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn how IBM’s popular Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) technology and tools, currently available in several Rational® products, including Rational Developer for z with EGL, enable faster creation of Web 2.0 applications without the pain of learning and using HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax. With this technology, new and existing applications—including mainframe and IBM i®—can be extended with richer user interfaces using Dojo and other Web 2.0 technologies. The tools also help you generate and deploy business processes to Java™ and JEE™ infrastructures. Finally, we’ll share details about a no-cost, community-focused edition of these tools. This special edition lets you acquire the technology easily, improve the skills of existing developers, and deliver modern processing now—all at no cost.
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• Teleconference: September 8, 2009
• Legislation has been passed requiring more focus on who is accessing corporate data assets. Key to this is being able to answer the 5 basic audit questions - who, what, when, where and how - was data accessed. IBM IMS Audit Management Expert gives auditors the insight necessary to answer those 5 questions. Learn how IMS Audit Management expert pulls together disparate data sources from different systems into a central repository and how it provides for segregation of duties without reliance on the technical personnel auditors need to monitor to prevent data tampering.
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• Teleconference: September 10
• Every day companies face the pressures of rapidly increasing changes in the business climate. The fast pace, fierce competition and demanding customers of today’s world require a continuously available environment to support the business. To meet these challenges, businesses are becoming more agile, more resilient, more competitive, and on demand by highly automating the availability and resiliency of their IT infrastructure. In this teleconference learn how they are taking steps to:
• Improve performance, availability, and resiliency of the current IT infrastructure
• Manage an increasingly complex environment while reducing IT operational costs 
• Achieve resource efficiencies based on business policies, and without incurring extra costs 
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• Teleconference: September 15
• Join us for this one hour teleconference where IBM will share how they have been able to leverage Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z to simplify the management and maintenance of their Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure within the Financial Management Services (FMS) organization. FMS was able to complete a successful migration of over 30,000 users to Cognos 8 BI in less than 4 months and plans to continue to grow their users up to 47,000 by the end of this year. Within this session we will demonstrate how you can leverage Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z to deliver a complete range of BI capabilities, quickly and efficiently while also being able to ensure the reliability, availability and security of your BI infrastructure. If you are interested in driving greater TCO out of your System z infrastructure this teleconference will provide you with compelling business examples of where Cognos 8 BI on System z can have the greatest impact.
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• Webcast: September 16
• Modernization is about making your business more responsive, applications more flexible, reusable and easy to maintain. However, rewriting them can be expensive, time consuming and risky, with no guarantee that they are any better. And replacing them with packaged solutions can also be problematic because you risk losing the intellectual capital that’s buried deep in your systems. Repurposing or modernizing existing mainframe applications is both a financially sound and a time-tested approach to modifying existing assets so they can be included as part of a service oriented architecture (SOA). By modernizing your applications, you can make them more agile, flexible and robust, increasing your organization’s responsiveness to marketplace dynamics and changing business needs. 
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• Teleconference: September 17
• Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn how your organization can take advantage of the IBM WebSphere® Portal to improve patient care and hold the line on costs by integrating data from key clinical, supply chain and financial applications. Because it runs on System z®, the most secure platform available, you don’t introduce risk to the integrity of your private data. We’ll discuss how you can implement services, in small, manageable steps that put minimal demand on your IT resources, while giving users access to information that addresses their immediate needs.
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• Teleconference: September 22
• Modern storage subsystems are nothing like the old physical cylinder/track/record devices for which IMS was originally designed. This teleconference will provide an overview of these storage subsystems for IMS users. It will explain caching, virtualization, Parallel Access Volumes (PAV), Multiple Allegiance, Extended Address Volumes (EAV), mirroring, flash copy and other storage functions from an IMS point of view. Special attention will be given to IMS support for EAV with z/OS 1.10 which has recently been added to IMS and IMS tools. This is your chance to learn how to use these functions to improve your IMS availability and performance. 
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• Webcast: September 29
• The pressure’s on and it’s staying on. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor. C level execs are just not confident with the quality of information being used to support the decision making process. Set against this backdrop CEOs are facing increasing pressure and focus to comply with more industry, legal and financial regulations. Who is using my data, how is it being used, where is it going, how accurate is it? These are all questions which keep IT and LOB execs awake at night. Join this System z webcast and learn how the IBM Data Governance entry points can help optimize your business by helping to lower costs, manage risk and increase your profitability, business insight, business growth and competitive advantage.
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• Teleconference: September 30
• Application Portfolio Management and Project Portfolio Management are tightly linked. You need to understand what adds value to the company at the same time you determine where to invest. You judge success by what you ultimately deliver. IBM APM and PPM solutions can help you drive investment improvements in your organization at the same time developing faster and understanding what you are developing and the value. In this teleconference you’ll about recent IBM deliverables and updates including Rational Focal Point, Rational Systems Architect, Rational Insight and Rational Asset Analyzer. 
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