The System z software team has pulled together a significant set of announcements from Information Management, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere.   These announcements were highlighted at the IOD conference October 25-29 and will be followed by analyst briefings and a press release in early to mid-November.  Key products include:

• IMS 11
• IMS Enterprise Suite 1.11
• IMS Tools
• Rational Team Concert for System z v2
• Rational Developer for System z v7.6
• WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS v7
• WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for z/OS v7 (and many other WebSphere on z/OS v7 products)
  
• Problem Determination Tools v10
• Tivoli zSecure Suite v1.11
• Tivoli NetView for z/OS v5.4
  

An enablement session was held on October 22 - if you were not able to attend, please feel free to view the replay.   Materials for the replay as well as other materials to help you in your selling efforst are available on our Fall Launch page on PartnerWorld.

1. Register Now to Save $500.  Early Bird registration saves you $500 on Pulse registration, but it ends on November 15th.  So Register Now!
2. Sponsor at Pulse and Exhibit in the Expo Hall to Reach an Estimated 5000 Clients!
3. Register and Attend Business Partner Summit!  Hear about Tivoli's strategy and direction across the portfolio directly from Tivoli execs and Subject Matter Experts; network with other partners and experts; participate in workshops and sessions.

Get Maximum Exposure: Exhibit at Pulse 2010!

• Conference Expo Hours Extended to 20.5 hours
• An estimated audience of over 5,000 attendees drawn to hear the latest in thought leadership and see YOUR solution in the Expo
• All Lunches and breaks strategically located within the Expo hall to drive more traffic
• Exciting updated sponsorship opportunities to add more value to your Pulse experience
• Stress-free exhibiting with all-inclusive, specially priced “Turnkey” Exhibitor pedestals
• Huge, bright, 92,000-square-foot, pillarless Expo Hall provides more booth visibility and ease of navigation
• More conference sessions dedicated to the IBM Business Partner

To speak with someone about Sponsorship today contact:  Bob Melton, Pulse Expo Manager- bmelton@us.ibm.com or +1-770-804-1162

Plus, you'll want to visit the new Business Partner Café, where you can meet with subject-matter experts in the Expo hall.  Another added bonus is the complimentary, exclusive Business Partner Summit on Sunday, February 21st with more compelling content and sessions than ever before!

WHY YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS PULSE 2010!

Bigger, Better, and More to See and Do

Business Partner Summit provides you with exclusive, executive insights to Tivoli’s strategy and direction, along with many sessions designed to help you maximize performance and solidify how you and IBM can go to market together to drive business results

• Enjoy unmatched opportunity to network with peers, customers and new prospects
• Benefit from access to top subject matter experts, visionary leaders and executives one-on-one
• Attend multiple tracks offering the best in education, including tracks for service providers, plant operations, IT, business leadership and numerous client-driven tracks
• Generate revenue by closing and developing existing deals with managers, directors, C-level executives and other decision makers
• Generate leads and increase sales
• See real-world demonstrations of our latest solutions at our largest ever Expo Hall
• Attend confidential disclosure sessions where future product road maps will be outlined
• Learn about best practices of industries from around the world! 

Complete Selling Information on Demand on System z course.
IBM is uniquely positioned to help customers optimize business value by integrating, delivering, and efficiently managing all forms of information assets throughout their life cycle. Information on Demand (IOD) is IBM's unrivaled approach to providing a broad portfolio of flexible product capabilities that enables customers to assemble, analyze, integrate, and secure information so that they can get the most insight from it. This course is designed to build foundational knowledge of selling Information Management software on System z.

Complete Selling Application Modernization on System z course.
One of the first steps in any successful modernization of a company's applications is to document or inventory the existing applications, providing a company with the deep analysis and insight into those existing applications and allow them to leverage those investments. Rational Application-portfolio management tools can read the source-code artifacts from across the enterprise, record relationships between them in a repository, and can then augment this information with business information with business information to develop management intelligence about the applications.

Complete Selling Eclipse Based Development Tools in a System z Environment course.
Today companies are deploying composite applications that include portions that run on platforms other than the mainframe. A common developer workbench like Eclipse which allows developers to add application construction tools, as well as other productivity enhancing functions, can provide several benefits to a mainframe development group. These benefits can include common tools for all cross platform components, easier communications among developers, and improved ability to attract the next generation of developers. In this session we'll explore these and other benefits of a common developer workbench and processes. This overview will include Rational products that fit this definition, specifically, products like Rational Developer for System z (RDz), ClearCase, ClearQuest, etc. 

New Demos

• IBM Enterprise Modernization Demos- Host Access Transformation Services (HATS): Web Services
  
• IBM Enterprise Modernization Demos- Rational Developer for System z (RDz)
  
• IBM Information Management Demo - DB2 pureXML Demo
• WebSphere MQ for System z
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
  
• ational - Accelerating Software Innovation on System z
• Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA
• Tivoli - Green Energy Efficiency In Datacenters
  

Live Code Access for Demonstrations and Skill Building
You can demonstrate the power of System z software using a portfolio of demonstrations running on a System z. This opportunity provides you with remote access to an IBM System z and all of the latest z/OS products, and provides an environment that you can use for individual skill building. Check the System z Software Portfolio page to see the products available for you to access, including CICS, DB2, IMS, PD tools, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere software.
 
To use a System z Demonstration System for live code demonstrations or skill building you must have a unique User ID.

To obtain this User ID send a request email to RobertJ@us.ibm.com.  Include the following information in your email:

•    Business Partner Name, Address, Telephone
•    Requester Name, Email:
•    Requester Geography: <Asia Pacific, Japan, Americas, or Europe>
•    Local IBM System z Representative:
•    Requested System Access:  Select Austin, TX or Montpellier, France
•    Product Set(s): <state the product set(s) you mainly work with. List them with the main product set first, from the list below: >

•  z/OS PD Tools
•  CICS and CICS Tools
•  DB2 and DB2 Tools
•  IMS and IMS Tools
•  Rational
•  Tivoli
•  WebSphere
•  WPLC

The local IBM System z Business Partner Representative will only approve your request if you have the necessary skills (system + product) to access the system.

• IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009: 
• November 2-4 (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
• Pulse 2010:   February 21-24 (Las Vegas, NV)
• Impact 2010:  May 2-7 (Las Vegas, NV)
  

• Annual System z Technical Update Roadshow - Five One-Day Seminars.   Please don't miss the one-time-a-year-opportunities  and enroll now together with your customers and partners.  
  
  IBM International Technical Support Organization is sending their most experienced subject matter experts and practitioners to your country.
  You can expect the same excellent quality you find in IBM Redbooks: the most up-to-date technical content based on the latest software and hardware releases, information based on best practices in the industry, relevant and focused topics. Learn from our experienced instructors
  
  Customers & Business Partners
  
  • System z Hardware Update
  • z/OS Latest Release Level V1R11
  • Parallel Sysplex and High Availability Topics 
  • System z Virtualization (z/VM and Linux)
  • System z Networking Technologies
  
  IBMers:
  
  • System z Hardware Update
  • z/OS Latest Release Level V1R11 
  • Parallel Sysplex and High Availability Topics
  • System z Virtualization (z/VM and Linux)
  • System z Networking Technologies
    

• 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: November 3
• DB2 X has a lot for everyone. Your organization needs to lower operating costs thru CPU cycle reductions while still building a strong foundation for SOA and XML initiatives. Database Administrators (DBAs) will find improved database performance, scalability, and availability. Memory management is dramatically reduced, so growth is much simpler. DBAs also get more flexible security to help with regulatory compliance. A wide range of enhancements improve ERP application and data warehouse functionality and performance. Large object (LOB) performance and flexibility are improved. Many DBA tasks are simplified. 
• Application developers will be most excited by the second release of pureXML, which improves the SQL and XML interface to access XML data stored in a native format. Application developers need powerful new SQL enhancements. Improved SQL and data definition compatibility with other DB2 platforms makes porting much easier
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 5
• Effective monitoring, alerting, and notification is an important component of fast and efficient problem isolation. OMEGAMON XE for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, Storage, Mainframe Networks, zLinux, and WebSphere MQ all include powerful alert and problem isolation capabilities. This teleconference will cover the various alert and problem notification capabilities of the OMEGAMON solution. The discussion will consider the variety of alert and notification alternatives supported by Tivoli and OMEGAMON, including 3270 interface alert options, alerts using situations with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, alert considerations with NetView and System Automation, and alert management integration and consolidation with Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus. The discussion will cover the pros and cons of the various alert options, and proven best practices for how to optimize alert management and monitoring in your environment.
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 10
• This overview of the major enhancements in IMS 11 covers the new features in the areas of Database and Transaction Management. Focus is on increased availability, scalability, connectivity and ease of use. 
• Many features make IMS 11 easier than ever. Direct SQL access to IMS data from any distributed platform and easier connectivity through TCP/IP significantly simplies (and in some cases eliminates) the data replication and change capture processes. With JAVA support, IMS 11 helps you leverage a larger number of developers to build IMS applications. Reduced complexity of creating database recovery points, reduced CPU time for online database reorganization processing, and easier capacity optimization all add up to easier operations. 
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 11
• IBM Rational compilers are designed to work with IBM processors. These processors offer many advanced features to deliver high execution performance. However, most applications are not designed to take full advantage of such features. In this teleconference, we will provide an overview on C/C++, COBOL and PL/I compiler products on System z. We will also provide a high level view on ways to leverage advanced compilation technology to improve programmer productivity, application performance and return on hardware capital investments.
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 12
• Organizations are facing challenges to improve their security posture while reducing costs in today’s dynamic infrastructure. Mainframe shops are looking to leverage their mainframe as their “enterprise security hub” with effective security administration, consistent security policy enforcement, automated audit analysis for compliance reporting, and threat detection and prevention. In this teleconference you’ll learn about recent product updates that exploit the latest mainframe security enhancements, enhance usability and productivity, and extend product integration.
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 17
• In this teleconference you’ll learn how DB2 Cloning Tool copies entire DB2 systems within the same or shared LPAR using storage-based fast replication, and how volume identifiers and DB2 metadata are managed to allow the data to be used by a cloned DB2 system quickly. You will also learn how table and index spaces can be refreshed quickly and how DB2 Cloning Tool automatically translates the object IDs that differ between source and target subsystems. 
• click here to register
  

• Teleconference: November 18
• Join us and see how the new capabilities from Rational Developer for System z and the Problem Determination tools provides a single interface to all of an application developer’s needs to create and maintain workload on CICS 4.1, while lowering development MIPS costs and increasing productivity and quality. In this session, you’ll also see how IBM is enhancing the CICS debugging experience so developers can collaborate, automatically share information like breakpoints, and even swap debug sessions with other developers using the same solutions using Rational Developer for System z, Debug Tool, and Rational Team Concert for System z.
• click here to register
  

• Webcast: November 12
• Attend this complimentary webcast to learn how Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions can help your organization make better decisions faster by managing all forms of content, including document images, PDFs, e-mails, statements and more. This suite of solutions not only delivers content intelligence, but also optimizes business processes and supports compliance requirements. IBM now provides more ECM capabilities than ever for the System z® platform, by leveraging the legendary strengths of the mainframe to support the latest robust ECM technology. We’ll discuss how IBM customers are already lowering their operating costs with ECM on System z solutions, while improving availability, security and scalability.
• click here to register
  

• Webcast: November 4
• Join IBM for this complimentary webcast to learn how mainframe transaction costs are being reduced and new mainframe application workload costs have been driven down. IBM is introducing new System z Solution Editions that are designed for specific business needs, from Data Warehousing to ACI, Security and Application Development. With the IBM System z Solution Edition Series, you can rethink this premise. By leveraging the System z Application Development Solution Edition, you can free up existing mainframe capacity and concurrently improve maintenance efficiency. This Solution Edition will also help your development team leverage your existing core business applications to create new services when economic growth returns.
• click here to register