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Publish Date
21 May 2009
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Author(s)
- Chris Rayns
- Isabel Arnold
- Trevor Clarke
- Mark Cocker
- Graham Hannington
- Ivan Hargreaves
- Mick Harris
- Dieter Hechtberger
- David Knibb
- Christopher Law
- Anna Maciejkowicz
Chris Rayns is an IT Specialist and the CICS/Security Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively on all areas of z/OS security. Before joining the ITSO, Chris worked in IBM Global Services in the United Kingdom as a CICS IT Specialist.
Isabel Arnold is a CICS Technical Sales Specialist in Stuttgart, Germany. She has six years of experience in the Information Technology field, of which one year was focused on mainframe technology. She holds a German Diploma from University of Corporate Education Stuttgart and a BSc with Honours degree in Information Technology Management from Open University London. Her areas of expertise include CICS application transformation and integration and development tools, Java, and J2EE.
Trevor Clarke is a CICS Performance Specialist in Hursley, England. He has 30 years of experience in the IT industry, working both for IBM and as a customer. For most of this period he has worked with CICS in technical support, application development, and performance roles, and also as an educator. His areas of expertise also include DB2 and networking. He holds a BSC Mathematics degree from Southampton University.
Mark Cocker is a Senior Software Engineer working at the IBM Hursley Laboratory in England. He has 17 years experience working in CICS development, the Change Team, the IBM Design Center, and now in CICS Technical Strategy. He holds a degree in Information Systems Management from Bournemouth University, England. His areas of expertise include communication methods such as Web services. Mark has written extensively on and presents regularly the latest CICS TS capabilities and product strategy.
Graham Hannington is a Technical Writer at Fundi Software, in Perth, Western Australia, where CICS CM and CICS PA are developed. He has 18 years of experience in information development. He wrote the CICS CM user's guide and has developed a SupportPac for CICS PA. His areas of expertise include technical writing and illustration; XML-related technologies such as XSLT, XML schema, and XML DOM programming; and VBScript and VBA programming.
Ivan Hargreaves is a CICS Developer in Hursley, England. He has 15 years of experience in the IT industry; this includes running his own company, as well as working as a Software Developer for various UK companies. Ivan has spent the last eight years at IBM. For most of this period he has worked in CICS, initially as a tester before becoming a developer of CICS Tools and eventually a CICS Web Services developer. His areas of expertise include Web Services (particularly WS-Security), C++, and Java. He holds an M.Eng (hons) degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Wales (Bangor).
Mick Harris is a Senior Software Engineer in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has 25 years experience in the IT industry. He worked as a customer involved in systems programming before going on to a software development role with IBM and Candle. He worked in the CICS change team and has held both development and change team roles for a number of OMEGAMON and Tivoli products; primarily the CICS monitoring products, OMEGAMON II for CICS and OMEGAMON XE for CICS.
Dieter Hechtberger is a Certified IT Specialist at IBM, working as a Tivoli Technical Sales team leader on the CEMAAS System z SW team based in Vienna, Austria. He has 26 years of experience in mainframe computing. His areas of expertise include availability and performance management with a focus on data center management tools like Omegamon and ITCAM. Dieter holds a Masters degree in Mathematics from the Technical University in Vienna.
David Knibb is a Software Engineer at the IBM Hursley Laboratory in England. He has two years experience working to support the CICS software testing team within IBM, where his primary field is Automated Test Execution. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Durham.
Christopher Law is a CICS System Tester in Hursley, England. He has nine years experience in the IT industry, all working for various areas in IBM. He started with four years in the support organization, firstly on Z/OS, then progressing to Linux support. Since then, he has worked on MQ, WebSphere Application Server (messaging) and now most recently on CICS. He graduated from Loughborough University with a BSc in Mathematics and Computation.
Anna Maciejkowicz is a Software Engineer at IBM Hursley Laboratory, England. She holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University, England. Since joining IBM as a graduate two years ago she has worked in CICS interoperability testing, specifically Web services, CICS Tools and J2EE technologies.
ISBN
0738432490
IBM Form Number
SG24-7687-00