iSERIES OPERATIONS NAVIGATOR, IFS AND MESSAGING BRIEFING
26 June 2003

 

9:30 - 10:00 Reception

10:00 - 10:05 Introduction
Matthew Ashton, IBM Computer Users’ Association, Edexcel

Welcome and overview of the days briefing and content.

10:05 - 11:30 iSeries Navigator (part 1)
Richard Shearwood, MITL

Richard will cover the main features available through the new iSeries Navigator, with the emphasis being on functions that are only available through the GUI. He will show you the key components of Management Central and explain how the components of that Systems Management application can help you day-to-day. He will also cover how the iSeries Access family can allow you to manage your system remotely via Web and WAP. Securing the iSeries is a key part of this briefing.
Richard Shearwood is a Senior Technical Consultant with MITL, an IBM Premier Business Partner. Richard began working on the System/36 in 1985 and moved rapidly through System/38 to AS/400, AS/400e and now iSeries. Accredited for e-business solution design and a participant in IBM’s beta programs for V5R1 and V5R2, he has a long familiarity with the subjects of this briefing. He has worked for several banks and finance companies and now designs and implements technical solutions to the diverse business issues that MITL’s customers bring forward.

11:45 - 12:45 iSeries Navigator (part 2)
Richard Shearwood, MITL

The second half of the above presentation.

13:30 - 14:15 Get a grip on Systems Management
Lorraine Cousins, Halcyon Software

Lorraine will take you through some real “disasters” and the reasons why they happened. She will talk about why systems management is now so important, why you need to protect yourself and tell you about the biggest causes of disaster – and how to avoid them. Finally there will be some useful hints and tips (including one she calls “IBM’s best kept secret”) to keep you one step ahead.
Lorraine Cousins is Managing Director and co-owner, together with her husband John, of Halcyon Software Limited. Lorraine started out as a “Computer Assistant” on the System 34 back in 1980 and saw the arrival of a System 38 in 1981. She became Data Processing Manager at Sodastream in 1983 and designed and wrote most of their in-house systems. In 1995 Halcyon Software was formed to develop systems management software and it quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality and feature-rich software.

14:15 - 15:00 IFS
Richard Shearwood, MITL

In this briefing Richard will introduce the IFS, discussing the history of this technology within OS/400, where and why it is used today and the fundamental ways in which the IFS extends the capability of the iSeries platform. He will also discuss the issues of security, backup and recovery on the IFS.

15:00 - 15:45 SMTP, FTP, QNTC - iSeries in a connected world
Stephen D. Way, COMMON UK, Johnson Matthey

The development of OS/400 to allow TCP/IP standards has bought with it a whole new world of utilities. This presentation will show how and when to use some of these, such as using FTP for manual and automatic data transfer, SMTP to enable e-mail on your iSeries and QNTC to access documents on your Microsoft servers directly from the iSeries, and how they make live easier for the iSeries shop in a multiple platform environment.
Stephen Way has worked in computing for over twenty years, on IBM mid-range machines for the last fifteen years, and is currently a Divisional IT manager with Johnson Matthey plc. He is responsible for the development and maintenance of production iSeries systems on three continents, IT strategy and infrastructure planning for the company and is in charge of e-business applications. Stephen is Director of COMMON-UK, the UK’s largest iSeries user group, part of both the UK IBM Computer Users Association (of which he is a Council Member) and of COMMON Europe. He is a contributor to iSeriesNews.uk.

15:45 - 16:00 General Questions