9:00 AM - General Association Business
Chaired by: Jeff Savit (MLP)
The MVMUA Board of Directors will report on MVMUA activities and will entertain questions, suggestions, and comments from the members.
9:15 AM - The Value of VM as Your Intranet Backbone
Speaker: Steve Revell, Sterling Software
An Intranet is an internal network of Web servers. VM is an ideal platform for a Web superserver that forms the backbone of your organization's Intranet. This presentation analyzes VM's Intranet strengths and provides real-world examples of sites that are exploiting VM as part of their internal information superhighways.
10:45 AM - Introduction to TCP/IP
Speaker: Jeff Savit, Merrill Lynch
This session describes TCP/IP, the communications method for the Internet and "open systems". VM has supported TCP/IP since 1987, and is an ideal partner in a TCP/IP network. TCP/IP concepts and facilities described in this talk include addressing schemes, file transfer (FTP), remote login and execution, mail, the Web, network management, security, remote procedure call and socket programming.
1:00 PM - Plumbing the Internet
Speaker: Melinda Varian, Princeton University
CMS 12 includes Pipelines support for writing TCP-based clients and servers. This session will describe those enhancements and go through examples of building both clients and servers.
2:30 PM - Bringing the World Wide Web to VM with VM:Webserver
Speaker: Steve Revell, Sterling Software
Having an intranet connection on every desktop is an idea whose time has come. Using a graphical browser, your employees simply click-and-point their way to the vital company information that they need. VM and the new VM:Webserver product from Sterling Software combine to provide you the ideal solution for establishing your World Wide Web site. This session provides you with details of Sterling Software's new VM:Webserver product. You will see how you leverage VM:Webserver to build your site and then interface to your existing applications. A demonstration of the product includes a look at the new and modern interface to OfficeVision -- like you've never seen it before.
3:45 PM - Off the router, onto the bridge, down the firewall, nothin' but 'Net!!
Speaker: Cleve Graves, OpenConnect, Inc.
Most mainframe sites have awakened to the need to provide mainframe support to the "open systems" world, and most have recognized there are performance issues associated with providing non-IBM network protocols on Mainframe systems. OpenConnect provides TCP/IP connectivity for VSE, VM, MVS, and AS/400s, offering an approach to TCP/IP which provides mainframe-class scalability, reliability, and integration with Internet routed networks.
The speaker, who founded the SHARE cluster on TCP/IP networking, will discuss OpenConnect's products and other TCP/IP technologies, and the performance impact they can have on mainframe CPU usage, availability, and users. He'll discuss mainframe users experiences with TCP/IP networks and implications for network management, availability, capacity, cost, and functionality. He will also discuss Java: "what's the BIG Deal", and how to use Java to solve your TCP/IP Internet problems.
5:00 PM - Problem Roundtable
Chaired by: Martha McConaghy, Marist College
Abstract: The roundtable offers a forum for members to ask questions and bring up problems pertaining to VM.
Cleve V. Graves, OpenConnect Inc, cvg@oc.com
Martha McConaghy, Marist College, urmm@vm.marist.edu
Steve Revell, Sterling Software, Inc., Steve_Revell@Sterling.Com
Jeff Savit, Merrill Lynch, jsavit@ml.com
Melinda Varian, Princeton University, maint@pucc.princeton.edu