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Publish Date
08 August 2008
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Author(s)
- Paola Bari
- Mario Bezzi
- Gianmario Bescape
- Pierre Cassier
- Michael Ferguson
- Frank Kyne
- Poul Soe Pedersen
- Bart Steegmans
- Per Svensson
- David Viguers
Paola Bari is an Advisory Programmer at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. Paola has 23 years of experience as a systems programmer in OS/390, z/OS, and Parallel Sysplex, including several years of experience in WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server.
Mario Bezzi is a Consulting I/T Specialist with IBM Italy. He also works half-time as a Project Leader for the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He has 24 years of experience in MVS system programming, both as a customer and in various technical support positions. Mario's areas of expertise include system tuning; Parallel Sysplex configuration design, management, tuning and programming; System Logger, RRS, SMF, Assembler and C language programming; and system and DASD hardware technology.
Gianmario Bescape is an Advisory Software Support Specialist with IBM GTS in Italy. He has worked with the IMS Technical Support group in Milan for about 20 years, and is currently a member of the EMEA IMS second level support team. Gianmario's experience includes problem resolution support and the implementation of IMS Shared Queue environments for large customers.
Pierre Cassier is a Certified IT Specialist working for IBM France in Integrated Technology Services. He has more than 21 years of systems programming experience in mainframe environments on MVS, OS/390, and z/OS platforms. His areas of expertise include z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, WLM, and performance tuning. Pierre teaches WLM and Performance Management courses.
Michael Ferguson is a Senior IT specialist in the IBM Support center in Australia. He has 21 years of experience in the z/OS software field, including Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS. His areas of expertise include Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, and z/OS. Michael teaches and provides services for Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS and Parallel Sysplex in the Asia Pacific region.
Frank Kyne is an Executive IT Specialist at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on all areas of Parallel Sysplex and high availability. Before joining the ITSO 10 years ago, Frank worked in IBM Global Services in Ireland as an MVS System Programmer.
Poul Soe Pedersen has worked as a DB2 for z/OS system programmer for IBM for three years. He has 30 years of mainframe computer experience. Paul has been a system programmer for DB2 for the last 18 years, working with DB2 data sharing, Parallel Sysplex, and GDPS systems.
Bart Steegmans is a Senior DB2 Product Support Specialist from IBM Belgium, currently working remotely for the Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, providing technical support for DB2 for z/OS performance problems. From 2001 to 2004, he was on assignment as a Project Leader with ITSO, San Jose Center, specializing in Data Management for z/OS. Bart has more than 19 years of experience in DB2. Before joining IBM in 1997, he worked as a DB2 system administrator at a banking and insurance group. His areas of expertise include DB2 performance, database administration, and backup and recovery.
Per Svensson is a DB2 Database Administrator with IBM in Denmark. Prior to joining IBM three years ago, Per worked for Danske Bank. He has 22 years of experience in application development and database administration. For the last eight years, Per has specialized in large system database performance and DB2 sysplex data sharing.
David Viguers is a member of the IBM IMS development team at Silicon Valley Lab, working with performance, test, development, and customer support. He also develops and delivers education on IMS Parallel Sysplex. For more than 35 years, David has worked with IMS in various functions and organizations.
ISBN
0738431265
IBM Form Number
SG24-7263-00