The CA-IDMS Database and Applications User Association http://iuassn.org EdOp 2004, Number 66 SPECIAL EDOP EDITION IS EDOP 2004 EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT IDMS? By Bob Currie, EdOp Chair “Overheard in the Hallway” Department: We must plan for tomorrow night. Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night? INSIDE THIS ISSUE The same thing we do every night. (In an evil, sinister Is EdOp 2004 Everything ? 1 voice) Try to take over the world. Message from the International Chair 2 Two DBAs talking about IDMS over-throwing Oracle? White Paper Available 2 No, it’s typical dialog from “Pinky and the Brain”, the popular TV cartoon show. (Go to http://duryea.org/ EdOp Biographies 3 pinky/ for everything — and more — that you ever wanted to know about this diabolic duo.) French 101 6 If you follow the series, you know that, despite a great Canadian 101 6 deal of creativity, the duo never quite succeed: they always Special Events 6 seem to be “a day late and a dollar short”. But why? This failure of theirs is certainly one of the burning issues of Important Notice to Americans 7 our time. And since candidates Bush and Kerry seem What are the IUA Guides? 7 determine to gloss over it, I asked local experts (my unemployed construction worker neighbor, my three cats, Then and Now 7 and my mother-in-law) what they thought. The unanimous answer: Preparedness. Or rather, the lack of it. The EdOp Blog 9 Whether you’re modestly going for a raise or a promotion, 9 Important Notice to Drivers or ambitiously going for Lord of the Universe, Education Important Notice to Pedestrians 9 is the Key, Knowledge is Power. And in the IDMS world, EdOp is the Way to strengthen your synapses so you can Things to do in Montreal 10 swim with the sharks. Share your Digital Pictures 11 Below is a breakdown of EdOp’s power-building sessions. And while they may not encompass everything you need to know about IDMS, they’re a good start in that direction. (continued on page 2) Overheard in the Hallway cont’d from page 1 MESSAGE FROM 1) The “Where’s IDMS Going” Thread: INTERNATIONAL CHAIR IDMS Status and Plans - Judy Kruntorad, CA By Laura Rochon 2) The r16 Thread: Compuware Corporation of Canada r16 Overview - Judy Dillman, CA 2-Phased Commit - Judy Dillman, CA r16 Panel Discussion - Rundle, Rochon, and Schwartz I am really honored to be hosting the IUA EdOp2004 in TCP/IP - John Siraco Montréal on October 4th-5th. It is the first time the IUA TCP/IP: a user’s Perspective - Terry Schwartz has ventured into the province of Quebec, and I am very proud to show off my hometown. Montréal is truly a very beautiful and multi-cultural city where English and 3) The DBA Thread: French merge alongside Italians, Asians, Spaniards, Greeks Recovery Techniques - Laura Rochon and so many other cultures to create a city of many faces. CV Tuning - John Siraco, CA The IUA has put together a curriculum with many faces: Visual DBA - Cal Domingue, CA we have sessions for new DBAs, for experienced DBAs, DARs - Tom Hebert, Objex, Inc. and for developpers. We are very proud of the agenda Scratch Manager - Laura Rochon that packs 2 days of CA-IDMS Education Opportunity. Buffer Management - John Siraco CICS and IDMS - Dan Hall Venez apprendre et vous amuser avec nous! Utilities - Bob Wiklund Introduction to Journaling - Laura Rochon (read article French 101 for translation) 4) The Programmer Thread: Rapid Application Development with ADS/O - Brock Shaw, UKIUA ADS/O - Cal Domingue, CA WELCOME TO MONTREAL Online Debugging - Jacques Dumouchel IDD for Programmers, Kay Sussmann from the IUA Education commission. IDMS Navigation, Parts 1, 2, 3 - Brock Shaw, There are a lot of resources available to everyone here. UKIUA Besides all the information you can learn at the sessions, IDMS and InnerAccess - Deni Guerrera there is a lot of IDMS experience walking around this conference. Are you running into a difficult problem at 5) The SQL Thread: work? Are you getting ready to update an application with SQL Features - Cal Domingue, CA a new (to you) feature and you have a question on how it SQL Table Procedures - Cal Domingue, CA works? Talk to the Computer Associates personnel, to the IUA board members, or to your fellow conference 6) The “Be a Genius In Your Own Lunchtime” mini- attendees. There are good odds that one of these people series: have already done what you are trying to do. Getting the We use IDMS Because... - Steve Rundle answer to your question could easily cost justify the entire Manage Your E-Mail Overload with Bloomba, et al conference! If you don’t know who to talk too, start with - Bob Currie the IUA Board members. We will be glad to point you in the right direction. I hope everyone enjoys the In addition to these sessions, and equally important, is conference. your chance to talk to Judy Kruntorad, who oversees IDMS development; and to John Siraco, Cal Domingue, and Judy Dillman, who actually develop, maintain and support the IDMS software. Plus, you’ll also have a chance to meet the peers of the IDMS community and exchange ideas and war stories with them over the WHITE PAPER AVAILABLE luncheon provided by Neon Systems or at the reception A white paper, ‘Promoting IDMS’, on the subject of provided by ObjJex, Inc. IDMS survival in the IT world is now available for anyone Don’t be a Wily E. Coyote always missing the to download from the website or by emailing Roadrunner; or a Tom never quite catching a Jerry. [email protected]. EdOp 2004 is the secret password to success. This may help you in realistically positioning IDMS in your organisations strategic plans. 2 EDOP BIOGRAPHIES Cal Domingue, CA Call it Star Power. Or call it Brain Power. Whatever it is, as these biographies below show, Edop 2004 is an Cal works for Computer Associates as a Senior Technical amazing gathering. What makes it even more special is Support Representative in Mainframe Database Solutions. the willingness of these talented individuals to share their He earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Vocal knowledge and help others in the field. Performance in his native Louisiana, and later an M.A. in Psychology in his adopted home state of California. He For background info, check out these links: began work in the information industry as a computer CA session abstracts are available at: http:// program and systems analyst. In 1985, he was hired by home.mho.net/bobcurrie/ca_sessions_and_abstracts.html Cullinet and he first supported ADS/O, OLQ, and MAPC, then branched into ASF and the Logical Record IUA, vendor, and user abstracts are at: Facility. http://home.mho.net/bobcurrie/ When Cullinet was acquired by CA in 1989, Cal remained iua_sessions_and_abstracts.html with the product and continues to provide Advantage CA- The session schedule and list of special events is at: IDMS technical support from the West Coast. As such, he often covers the phones later in the work day, and tries to http://home.mho.net/bobcurrie/Montreal-Agenda-Bob- give special attention to clients in the Mountain and 8-29-04.htm Pacific Time Zones. Always eager to practice his very rusty French, Cal also tries to give special attention to our If you haven’t registered yet, you can still do so at: French-speaking Canadian clients, who are always tres http://www.iuassn.org/english/ gentils in tolerating his efforts. Read up on these folks and then come meet them in Currently, Cal spends the majority of his time at CA person. See ya’ in Montreal! supporting the Advantage CA-IDMS SQL Option; Advantage CA-IDMS Visual DBA; Advantage CA-IDMS ————o0o———— Server; and Advantage CA-IDMS Quick-Bridge. He also Judy Kruntorad, CA continues to support the database itself (recovery, Judy Kruntorad is Vice President of Development at performance, etc.), and the application products that he Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) where she is first learned. He is often called upon for special projects, responsible for development and technical support of such as QA and webcasts, and to learn additional CA’s Advantage™CA-IDMS® products. products. He began offering classes at CA-World and to various user groups in 1992, and has done so almost every Judy has more than 28 years of experience in database year since. Cal always enjoys meeting with clients at management product development including 25 years conferences or on-site visits, and finds particular joy in with the Advantage CA-IDMS family of products. Prior having the opportunity to teach. to CA, Judy worked for database vendors MRI Systems Corporation and Sperry Univac. At Sperry Univac, she ————o0o———— was the principal investigator for a US Department of John Siraco, CA Defense research project in database technology. I began my journey in the Judy joined Cullinane Corporation in 1979 to help design “Data Processing” field at and develop the ADS/Online 4GL product for IDMS. the National Fire During the 1980s, she managed the development of ADS Protection Association in as well as several other products for Cullinet Software. June of 1975 working the When Computer Associates acquired Cullinet in 1989, night shift as a Computer Judy became the Product Owner for the entire CA-IDMS Operator trainee in a family of products. She managed the development of CA- DOS/VS Release 27 IDMS release 12.0 (which introduced the SQL Option) shop. The machine was a as well as all subsequent CA-IDMS releases including 370/125 with 128K of memory.