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Publish Date
30 March 2009
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Author(s)
- Gary Wicks
- Egide Van Aerschot
- Omar Badreddin
- Knut Kubein
- Kevin Lo
- Daphne Steele
Gary Wicks is an IBM Certified I/T Specialist. He has 34 years of experience with IBM in software service and is currently on assignment as the Team Lead for the IMS development technical specialist group. He has a degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include IMS enablement in Parallel Sysplex environments and he wrote several IBM Redbooks publications over the last twelve years. His role for this book is as Team Leader.
Egide Van Aerschot has an Engineering degree in Electricity and Nuclear Physics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He joined IBM in 1967 and was responsible for many computer installations related to tele-processing and database management in Belgium. In 1997, he moved from IBM Belgium to IBM France, where he works as an Architect and Consultant at the IBM Program Support Center in Montpellier. Since 1997, he specialized in Java and WebSphere applications, mainly on z/OS systems, and participated in many projects that are related to the Internet. Egide is co-owner of the patent "Methods, systems, program product for transferring program code between computer processes". Currently Egide is a contractor for the Zinteg Corporation.
Omar Badreddin is a researcher at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Ottawa and a member of Complexity Reduction in Software Engineering research group (CRuiSE). Omar has five years of work experience with IBM as a Software Engineer and has delivered a number of ITSO workshops. His area of expertise includes virtualization, modeling, BPM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and software globalization.
Knut Kubein is a Senior Advisory I/T Specialist with IBM Global Services in Germany. He has 36 years of experience with IBM large systems products working as a Technical Support Specialist, with 26 of those years devoted to IMS. He leads the IMS Support Team in EMEA. His areas of expertise include IMS data sharing, shared queues, and the Parallel Sysplex architecture. He supports large banking clients and other industrial IMS users. He co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications on parallel sysplex and performance with IMS.
Kevin Lo has a Master of Science degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. As a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California, he has five years of experience in the IMS SOA on-demand field and is currently a Development Lead of IMS Message Format Service (MFS) Web Solutions, which includes MFS SOA Support and MFS Web Enablement.
Daphne Steele has a computer science degree from Tennessee State University. She is a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. She has five years of experience at IBM, and is the Function Test Team Lead of the IMS SOA Integration Suite. Daphne has expertise in test automation using test automation tools, such as Rational Functional Tester. In addition, she was instrumental in redefining the function and system test process for the IMS test organization by unifying its test plan and process.
ISBN
0738432385
IBM Form Number
SG24-7662-00