RD&T Presentation

1. RD&T Presentation

2. Royal Cyber Overview • Established: • Based in Illinois (USA), serving multiple industries including many Fortune 1000+ companies since 1997 by experienced IT professionals. • To offer cutting edge IT services globally • help organizations both in Public and Private sector to improve and modernize their services • supplementing organization’s skill set with team augmentation • On-site resource deployment • Improved Return-on-Investment (ROI) by taking projects offshore Achievements: To date, Royal Cyber Inc. has grown into a reputable IT firm not only in USA but also in European, Middle Eastern and South Asian Markets.

3. IBM: • IBM Premier Business Partner • IBM Authorized Trainer for Rational Tools Royal Cyber Partners

4. Royal Cyber Services • Mainframe Modernization • E-Commerce Services • Enterprise Portal • Enterprise Modernization Services • Connectivity & Integration • Security & Compliance • Mobile Development • Business Intelligence & Analytics • Enterprise Monitoring

5. Royal Cyber Services • Rational for System z full suite support. • RDz RD&T RAA RTCz • 1 & 2 tier delivery offerings • Highly competitive rate offerings.

6. Agenda • RD&T Overview • Customer Case Study • RD&T Demo • Question & Answers (5 minutes)

7. RD&T Overview

8. RD&T Overview • IBM z/OS® on developer desktop or shared server. • It provides a test environment for mainframe applications • It uses a virtual IBM System z environment • It includes • Application development and testing tool • Mixed workload support • Software support and integration • Can have RDz run with RD&T • Execute/Run on RD&T

9. Typical RD&T Challenges • Linux and Z/OS experience • Understanding of RD&T environment • Mapping definitions between Linux & Z/OS • Network connectivity • Ongoing administration • Synchronization of programs and data with Mainframe.

10. Royal Cyber RD&T offerings • Installation Support • Configuration and Setup Support • Proof of Concept • Data migration support • Reduced startup costs with ‘Jumpstart’ • Training delivery and after sales support

11. Customer Case Study

12. Customer Information • Established in 1940’s • One of its country’s largest enterprises • Business interests in utilities, construction, insurance, IT, telecommunications, manufacturing and others. • Partner with major multi-national corporations.

13. Development Environment • 2 LPARs – Production & Development/Test • COBOL, ASSEMBLER. • Enterprise COBOL 4.2  for System z. • ~7000 CICS and ~20000 Batch applications supported by 10 developers • No SCM – Use PDS libraries with in-house procedures.

14. Customer’s Requirements • Control MIPS on mainframe • Offload development and testing activities off mainframe • Advanced features of debugging tools to assist developers and testers • Implement Source Control Management System • ROI through MIPS savings • Ability to attract young crowd to work on mainframe development

15. Initial State

16. Final Required State

17. Agreement and Approach Phase I • RD&T • Install, configure, customize, train • Move development data to RD&T for unit test • Provide RD&T user administration and support training Phase II • Implement RDz • Train on RDz and Debug Tool • Implement and train on File Manager

18. RD&T Install steps - 1 • Install and configure openSUSE Linux to run the z1090 emulator • Install and activate the z1090 emulator • Extract volumes to be used with the z1090 • create new volumes to be used with the RD&T system so as to match the customer's host environment • Configure the z/OS running on z1090. • Modify procs, parmlibs, create users, modify security as per the customer's specifications • Configure products and middleware running on RD&T (CICS, DB2, IBM Debug Tool)

19. RD&T Install Steps - 2 • Data migration from the host to the RD&T system. The following artifacts were migrated: • VSAM & non-VSAM files • CICS CSD • DB2 tables and other structures (views, synonyms ..etc) • Security structure • Train Staff on using, managing and administering RD&T • Linux commands • IPL and shutdown Sequence • Data migration

20. Problem 1 – Support for Linux on VMWARE Manual says: “Running under a hipervisor, such as VMwareor Xen or KVM, is not supported at this time. …. We do not provide specific instructions for virtual environments and you must determine how to configure a USB port (for the token) and Ethernet ports for their particular virtual hipervisor.” And the customer wanted Linux on VMware …

21. Solution 1 – Support for Linux on VMWARE • Tested VMware setup on our environment • Advised the customer on preferred configuration for performance • Initially, license USB token did not work • Configured Linux Image to use hardware port • Provided instructions for VMWARE departure from documentations.

22. Problem 2 – DASD Volume Move utility • RD&T DASD Migration Utility – zPDTMSRV, hckd2ckd • Client-server utility for moving 3380/3390 volumes from a remote z/OS or z/VM system to zPDT. • The server portion of this utility runs under z/OS or z/VM on the remote System z.

23. Problem 2 – DASD Volume Move utility

24. Problem 2 – DASD Volume Move utility Mainframe RD&T VOL001 VOL001 VOL002 VOL002 UCAT1 Proj1,proj2 UCAT1 Proj1,proj2 UCAT3 Usr1,Usr2 UCAT3 Usr1,Usr2 UCAT2 Proj3,Proj4 UCAT2 Proj3,Proj4 UCAT4 Usr5,Usr6 UCAT4 Usr5,Usr6 VOL004 VOL003 VOL004 VOL003 Usr1.pp.qq Usr1.pp.qq Proj1.dev1…… Proj1.dev1…… Proj1.unit….. Proj1.unit….. Proj3.unit…… Proj3.unit…… Proj2.aaaa.bbbb Proj2.aaaa.bbbb Usr3.pp.qq Usr3.pp.qq Usr2.xx.yy Usr2.xx.yy Proj9.xx.yy Proj9.xx.yy Usr8.xx.yy Usr8.xx.yy Orphan & unreachable Datasets

25. Solution 2 – DASD Volume Move utility • Identify Datasets needed through HLQ and dataset names • Use DFDSS utility to logically dump the datasets using filtering • Set up RD&T with USERCAT, Volumes and Alias definitions • Transfer the dump file to RD&T • Restore dump to volumes • Balance volume usage as needed.

26. Solution 2 – DASD Volume Move utility On Mainframe VOL001 VOL002 UCAT1 Proj1,proj2 UCAT3 Usr1,Usr2 VOL00Y UCAT2 Proj3,Proj4 UCAT4 Usr5,Usr6 DFDSS DUMP Flat File with data VOL004 VOL003 Usr1.pp.qq Proj1.dev1…… Proj1.unit….. Proj3.unit…… Proj2.aaaa.bbbb Usr3.pp.qq Usr2.xx.yy Proj9.xx.yy Usr8.xx.yy

27. Solution 2 – DASD Volume Move utility Mainframe RD&T FTP VOL00Y VOL00Z Flat File with data Flat File with data

28. Solution 2 – DASD Volume Move utility On RD&T System VOL001 VOL002 UCAT1 Proj1 UCAT3 Usr1 VOL00Y DFDSS Restore Flat File with data VOL004 VOL003 Usr1.pp.qq Proj1.dev1…… Proj1.unit…..

29. Problem 3 - Data Synchronization • Customer specific • Best route we provided is total refresh • Baseline can be maintained either on mainframe or RD&T depending on needs • DFDSS dump/restore with replace can be used.

30. Solution 3 - Data Synchronization • RD&T system is unit Development & Test • RD&T Data is ‘Baseline’. • Refresh mainframe ‘production’ copy with project releases • Use DFDSS dump/restore with Filtering

31. Data Synchronization Scenarios • RD&T is Unit Test only • Mainframe data is ’Baseline’ • Refresh RD&T data using DFDSS dump/restore • Customer DASD Volumes are application specific (or can make them) • Use Volume dumps. Volume to include user catalogs. • Use IDCAMS import connect

32. Live Demo

33. Royal Cyber RD&T skills • Installation and configuration of Linux based machines/servers on which RD&T runs • Installation and configuration of the z1090 emulator on Linux • Replication of the host mainframe environment on the RD&T system: • Volume and data migration from the host mainframe to the RD&T system. (VSAM, DB2, CICS) • Migration of programs and utilities from the host mainframe (ISPF, REXX, CLIST) • Complete customization of the z/OS installed on the RD&T system- user profiles, data, programs, products • Installation and configuration of various IBM and 3rd Party products on RD&T (For example, Websphere Application Server, Websphere MQ, IBM Debug Tool, Rational Team Concert, Websphere Portal, Rational Developer for System z, CA Endevor, etc.) • Maintaining the RD&T system to be current with the changes on the host mainframe – customizing solutions • Training system administration staff on RD&T installation, configuration, and maintenance.

34. Our Offerings

36. Jumpstart Complimentary Services • 40 hours of Complimentary Services for new customers • POC • Tool Evaluations (RD&T RDz RAA RTC) • Technical queries about Rational Tools for System z • … • For more information please contact Syed <basheer@royalcyber.com> Ghassan <ghassan.chami@royalcyber.com> Call (630) 355-6292