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Publish Date
27 July 2007
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Author(s)
- Frank Kyne
- Stephen Anania
- Paola Bari
- Gianmario Bescape
- Jim Grauel
- Hiram Neal
- Andrew Sica
- Bill Stillwell
- David Viguers
Frank Kyne is a Senior IT Specialist at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide in all areas of Parallel Sysplex. Before joining the ITSO five years ago, Frank worked in IBM Global Services in Ireland as an MVS Systems Programmer.
Stephen Anania is an Advisory Programmer in Poughkeepsie, NY. He has 20 years of experience in z/OS. He joined IBM in 1983 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics. Stephan spent the first ten years at IBM in JES2 development, and then worked for several years in MVS System Test. He transferred to his current position in pre-sales technical marketing support in the beginning of 2002.
Paola Bari is an Advisory Programmer in Poughkeepsie, NY. She has 20 years of experience as a Systems Programmer in OS/390, z/OS and Parallel Sysplex, and a few years of experience in WebSphere MQSeries and WebSphere Application Server.
Gianmario Bescape is an Advisory Software Support with IBM GTS in Italy. He has been working in IMS Technical Support group in Milan for about 20 years, and is currently a member of the EMEA IMS second level support team. His experience includes support in solution of problems and in the implementation of IMS Shared Queues environments for large customers.
Jim Grauel was an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member. He joined IBM in 1965 as a Hardware Customer Engineer, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1972 he transferred to Software as a Program Support Representative, supporting OS R21.7 and CICS (Release 2.3). In 1980 he transferred to the CICS Support Center in San Jose, California, and later to Raleigh in 1984 and has been working as Level 2 Support in the CICS Support Center.
Hiram Neal is s an Advisory Software Engineer with the IMS Performance Group at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, CA. He has been a member of the IMS Performance team for 9 years, conducting pre-release IMS performance tests and customer support for IMS versions 6-10.
Andrew Sica is a Software Engineer. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Western New England College and has four years of experience working in System Logger development and service.
Bill Stillwell was a Senior Consulting I/T Specialist and has been providing technical support and consulting services to IMS customers as a member of the Dallas Systems Center for 21 years. During that time, he developed expertise in application and database design, IMS performance, Fast Path, data sharing, shared queues, planning for IMS Parallel Sysplex exploitation and migration, DBRC, and database control (DBCTL). He also develops and teaches IBM Education and Training courses, and is a regular speaker at the annual IMS Technical Conferences in the United States and Europe. He recently co-authored a book for IMS Version 8 implementation and several IMS Parallel Sysplex Redbooks documents.
David Viguers is a member of the IBM IMS development team at Silicon Valley Lab working with performance, test, development, and customer support. Dave also develops and delivers education on IMS Parallel Sysplex. He has spent over 35 years working with IMS in various functions and organizations.
ISBN
0738489433
IBM Form Number
SG24-6898-01