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Upcoming Meetings: There is no upcoming meeting for this user group. Please check back later. Past Meetings	Virtual Websphere z/OS User Group Contact: [ Daniel Belina ] [ Annette Rossi ] Cities covered: All Group Detail: A Virtual WebSphere for z/OS User Group has been formed as a communication vehicle between customers, technical support, product development, and anyone interested in learning more about the product. All users are welcome and topics are driven by the participants. Our meetings are held via Web Conference and Phone to allow participation from users around the world. Our goals and objectives for the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Virtual User Group: Share our personal experience with the product, including best practices, lessons learned, and problem resolution techniques. Communicate release information regarding WebSphere for z/OS. Invoke discussion about product trends such as customer concern areas, common feature requests, and basic industry direction. Provide a customer driven agenda by soliciting topics from members. IBM contact: Daniel Belina IBM email: belina@us.ibm.com
	Upcoming / Most Recent Meetings: Meeting Date: Sep 18th, 2009 Meeting time: 10:00 - 11:30am EST Meeting location: Phone and Web Conference Meeting topic: Websphere sMash and CICS Transaction Gateway Agenda: Rob Nicholson, STSM from the IBM Java Technology Centre, will be presenting on Websphere Smash and CICS Transaction Gateway Directions: Call-in Information --------------------------- Toll-Free: 1-866-907-1016 Toll: 1-719- 387-8316 Participant Code: 793962 Web Conference login information --------------------------------------------------- For user group members outside of IBM: http://www.webdialogs.com/join/?schedid=2737217 For IBM employees: https://wedc.lotus.com/meeting/join/?schedid=2737217 Summary: CICS has been powering the world's transactions for forty years, continually evolving and adopting new technologies. Many customers see CICS's adoption of a technology as validation that it's ready at the enterprise level. Through WebSphere sMash, CICS brings seamless integration of rich Web 2.0 interfaces to your core CICS applications. WebSphere sMash is a new agile Web application platform for developing and running modern Web 2.0 applications. It can be used to create RESTful Web services and rich AJAX interfaces using popular Web technologies such as PHP and Groovy. This talk explores the integration of CICS and sMash and the role of dynamic scripting in the enterprise world. The talk will explain and demonstrate the SupportPac CA1S provides the ability to use PHP scripts in CICS as an option to service enable your applications in a RESTful style. Rob will also show how easy it is to create situational applications using sMash with CICS via the CICS Transaction Gateway. Rob also has Youtube video showing a web 2.0 style situational application being built using WebSphere sMash with CICS transaction Gateway. The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc39pSHHKIg Additional information: Back to top