Systems
Programmer Association of the Research Triangle Area
(SPARTA)
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INTERESTING LINKS
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Information about access to our virtual meeting will be sent to our e-mail list by Tuesday, December 3
Date:
Tuesday, December 3,
2024
Time:
Virtual meeting @ 3:00 PM
Please start signing on the
webinar after 2:30 PM so that the webinar can begin on time
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD
SPARTA Corporate Sponsors:
DTS
Software is proud to support the SPARTA Systems Programmer
Association of North Carolina.
DTS specializes in storage tools and solutions developed for the
IBM z/OS, Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.
We provide an integrated suite of products help you to monitor,
manage and control your storage subsystems.
Rocket Software empowers organizations to create legendary
impact in the world through innovation in legacy technology.
With deep expertise in IBM Z, IBM Power, and embedded
database systems and application servers, Rocket
solutions power
tens of thousands of global businesses, solving real
problems and making real-world impact. Rocket is a privately
held
U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with
centers of excellence strategically located in Europe, Asia,
and Australia.
SDS (Software
Diversified Services) was founded in 1982 and now supports
over 25 z/OS, MVS, VSE, and VM
mainframe systems products that focus on security,
encryption, data compression, performance monitoring,
report distribution, and client-server applications.
SDS also develops, supports, and distributes E-Business
Server
for data encryption and authentication on z/OS, Linux, Unix,
and Windows platforms. SDS designs, develops
software tools and partners with subject matter expert
companies where appropriate with complementary tools for
our solution portfolio.
Technical support works hand in hand with development at
headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, to deliver customer
satisfaction and product value. SDS is noted for having the
highest quality software and award-winning, expert service.
SDS retains more than 1,000 clients worldwide, including
many Global 500 companies in banking, finance, insurance,
and retail, as well as local, state, and national
governments.
Compuware is
changing the way developers develop. Compuware
products fit into a unified DevOps toolchain enabling
cross-platform teams to manage mainframe applications, data
and operations with one process, one culture and with
leading tools of choice. With a mainstreamed mainframe, the
mainframe is just another platform, and any developer
can build, analyze, test, deploy and manage COBOL
applications with agility, efficiency and precision.
February 18, 2024
MEETINGS
In person meetings are on hold during the
CoronaVirus NC rules.
We generally meet the first
Tuesday of each month except in January. There is no meeting
in January.
See Meeting Dates section below for dates of the meetings. Refreshments are
provided as part of the meeting.
Meeting Times when in person:
6:15 Refreshments
7:00 Meeting begins
Meetings generally last 1½ to 2
hours
Meeting Times when held via webinar:
Meetings times are either 3 or 7 PM depending on the speaker
availability.
Please start signing on the webinar 30 minutes before the
webinar.
Meeting Dates:
Jan 2024 - No Meeting
Feb 6, 2024
Mar 12, 2024 (changed from March 5 as SHARE
is March 3-7)
Apr 2, 2024
May 7, 2024
June 4, 2024
July 9, 2024 (July 4 holiday falls in
the first meeting week date)
Aug 13, 2024 (changed from August 6 as SHARE is
August 4-8)
Sept 10, 2024 (Labor Day holiday is in the first
Tuesday meeting week)
Oct 1, 2024
Nov 5, 2024
Dec 3, 2024
Directions to the SPARTA meeting
For the near future, meetings will be via
webinar with connect instructions in the monthly meeting
emails
The meeting location will be LabCorp in RTP:
The monthly
meetings usually are held at LabCorp’s Center for Molecular
Biology and Pathology (CMBP) near the Research Triangle Park.
Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto
Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into
LabCorp complex and turn left to the CMBP Building. In the
lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Bill Johnson. Bill will
escort you to the conference room.
Randy Springs - President
Retired (Truist)
Raleigh, NC
Ron Pimblett
- Vice President
MDI DataSystems
190 Guelph Private
Kanata, ON K2T 0J7
613 599 6970
Chris Blackshire
- Secretary
Retired (Dell, Perot Systems, Nortel)
Durham, NC
Randy Springs - (Acting) Treasurer
Retired (Truist)
Raleigh, NC
Ed Webb - Communications Director
Retired (SAS Institute)
Apex, NC
Our
History
SPARTA
stands
for Systems Programmer Association
of the Research Triangle Area. We
were formed in 1989 as an independent volunteer-run
information technology association that provides education and
professional networking. We were started as a way to keep
mainframe support people educated as most employers were not
supporting their mainframe support staff's skill sets. This
group is our way to keep
current with IBM hardware, mainframe software, and all general
knowledge of large
server associated skills.
Our
Mission
SPARTA
meets
the first Tuesday of each month except January. This years meeting schedule and speakers
can be found on this web site. We meet from about 6:15 PM
until about 9:00 PM. We publish a monthly newsletter of which
the last 11 issues are on this website.
Our
Vision
Our
goal
is to provide a mainframe related, valuable, and technical
presentation each month from industry professionals.
We
hope you will join the group and find the information shared
invaluable to your job growth.
Mobile
to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies by Rosalind Radcliffe of
IBM
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MVSE Introduction
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Meeting on February 7, 2017 - DevOPS and the Mainframe
Meeting on March 7, 2017 - DTS iPhone/iPad App
Meeting on April 4, 2017 - SHARE
San Jose Conference Highlights
Meeting on May 2, 2017 – Rocket Software Data Virtualization
Meeting on June 6, 2017 - RACF Essentials for System Programmers
Meeting on July
11, 2017 - NC Department
of IT Overview
Meeting on August
1, 2017 - Achieving
CPU
and MLC Savings through Optimizing Processor Cach
Meeting on
September 12, 2017 - SHARE
Providence Conference Highlights
Meeting on October
3, 2017 - Dell
EMC Disk Library for mainframe (DLm)
Meeting on November 7, 2017 - Linux on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z Capacity and Solution Planning
Meeting on December 5, 2017 - Securing
Mainframe Data
Meeting on February 6, 2018 -
Proxy
Coupling Technology
Meeting on March 6, 2018 - CorreLog's
Real-time z/OS and Windows/UNIX-based SIEM
Meeting on April 3, 2018 -
SHARE
Sacramento Conference Highlights
Meeting on May 1, 2018 - What's
New in CICS Transaction Server
5.4
Additional
Information about Topaz
Meeting on March 5, 2019 - Securing
your FTP Transmissions on z/OS
Meeting on October 1, 2019 - Z/OS Little Enhancements: Many Small Potatoes Can Make A Big Meal!
Meeting
on November 5, 2019 - Open
Source on z/OS
Meeting
on February 4, 2020 - Mainframe
Batch Maturity Model Presentation
Meeting on March 3, 2020 - SHARE
2020 Fort Worth Report
Meeting on April 7,
2020 - Security
Solutions for the Mainframe
Copy
of SIEM Events Rel 3.3 export selection
landscape
FTP
packet trace on Port 21
Meeting on May 5, 2020 - Round Table Discussion
(no formal presentation)
Meeting on June 2, 2020 - z/OS Small
Enhancements - Edition 2020A
Meeting on July 7, 2020 - OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE
Meeting on August 11, 2020 - Is a Sub-Capacity
CPC the Right Move for You?
Meeting on September 1, 2020 - z/OS
Management Facility User Experience: Workflows and
Workflow Editor (Revised Sept. 1, 2020)
Meeting on October 6, 2020 - SHARE
2020 Virtual Conference Report
Meeting on November 3, 2020 - ASG
Mainframe Offerings and Data Security
Meeting on December 1, 2020 - BMC Mainframe
Services
Meeting
on February 2, 2021 - ASG
Mainframe Offerings and
Data Security
Meeting on March 2, 2021 - Boost
the Value You Derive from CICS, Db2, and MQ
Data
Meeting on April 6, 2021 - SHARE
2021 Virtual Summit Report
SHARE 2021
Virtual Summit Notes
Meeting on May 4, 2021 - eventACTION™
z/OS Systems Management
Meeting on June 1, 2021 - Learn about
the latest innovation from NewEra Software, Inc
Meeting on June 29, 2021
- Live
demo of the IOF product
Meeting on August 3, 2021
- Ensuring
Mainframe Data is Safe in a World of
Increasing Cyber Attacks
Meeting on August 31, 2021 - SHARE
2021 Virtual Experience August 2-13, 2021 Notes
SHARE 2021 August Virtual Experience
Report for SPARTA
Meeting on October 5, 2021 - Offloading The Mainframe Into The
Cloud (or "Big Iron" Meets The Cloud)
Meeting on November 2, 2021 - IBM Z
OMEGAMON Data Provider
Meeting on December 7, 2021 - PDS, PDSE, GDG, HFS, USS and Other Strange z/OS Animals
Meeting on February 1, 2022 - SMS Storage Groups - Origins, Mysteries, Management
Meeting on March 1, 2022 - ShadowDisk/Z
Product Summary
Meeting on April 5, 2022 - z/OS Integrity
Vulnerabilities
Meeting
on June 7, 2022 - SHARE 2022 Dallas
Conference March 27-30, 2022 Report for SPARTA
Meeting on July 12, 2022 - IOF
New Features, Using REXX, and Some Lesser Known
Features Reviewed
Meeting on November 1, 2022 - zAcademy - XCF Path Usage
Meeting on December 6, 2022 - Introducing IBM z/OS Change Tracker for z/OS 2.5
Meeting on February 7, 2023 - A Practical Approach to Zero Trust Architecture
Meeting
on April 4, 2023 - SHARE 2023 Atlanta Conference March
5-8, 2023 Report for SPARTA
Meeting on May 2, 2023
- Mainframes And The Moon
Meeting on June 6, 2023
- Unlocking Performance Monitoring Data for
Analytics via Improved Observability
Meeting on July 11, 2023
- Insights
You Can Gain from Integrated Visibility
Across Types of SMF Data
Meeting on August 1, 2023 - IBM z16 Family Overview
Meeting
on September 12,
2023 - From Baffled to Amazed – My
z/OSMF Journey
Meeting
on October 3,
2023 - SHARE
2023 New
Orleans
Conference
August 13-18,
2023 Report
for SPARTA
Meeting
on March 12,
2024 - ISPF Dialogs
and OMVS Shell
Command
Interface
Agenda
ISPF
Dialogs and
OMVS Shell
Command
Interface
Presentation
Passcode for
presentation:
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Meeting
on April 2,
2024 - SHARE
2024 Orlando
Conference
March 3-7,
2024 Report
for SPARTA
Meeting on May 7, 2024 - Systems
Management Tools from Action Software
Meeting on June 4, 2024 - Database
Performance Optimization Practice (DPOP) meeting video
DPOP - A Possible
Missing Link In Your IT Dept
Meeting on July 9, 2024 - Customizing
zOSMF Using Plugins meeting video
Customizing
zOSMF Using Plugins
Meeting
on September
10, 2024
- SHARE 2024 Kansas City Conference August 4-8,
2024 Report
for SPARTA
INTERESTING LINKS
IBM eserver
zSeries
CBT Tape Home Page - MVS and
OS/390 Freeware
NaSPA home page
SHARE home page
Software
Diversified Services provides links to several mainframe
publications.
Software
Diversified Services VFTP-SSH Collaboration Archives
DTS
Software webinars