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ISPF Tips and Tricks for Everyone!

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Stream: Hybrid Cloud & Networks
Time: 12:15 - 13:00


Presentation

Whether you are a systems programmer, security administrator, applications manager, production specialist, auditor, or fill any one of the myriad of other z/OS roles, there is a good chance that you are going to be spending some time with ISPF to get your job done. We use it to submit jobs, browse/edit system configuration data sets and numerous other tasks. History has taught us that there are ISPF features that are being missed by many of us. In this session, we’ll look at some of the less obvious tools and tricks that can be used with ISPF. This is an interactive session! What tools and tips do you use that could help your peers?

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  • Mark Nelson at IBM USA
  • Mark Nelson, CISSP®, CSSLP® is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM's z/OS® Security Server Design and Development Team in Poughkeepsie NY, where he has spent the past 37 years working on RACF®. Mark's focus with RACF has been on auditing and data analysis (IRRDBU00, IRRADU00, RACFICE), RACF's Health Checks, RACF/Db2, RACF's support for digital certificates, and RACF's encrypted VSAM data set support. Mark is an active speaker on RACF, having spoken to user groups and IBM field representatives on four continents, and has received several SHARE "Best Session" awards, six-and-a-half "Top Gun/Best Session" awards from the Vanguard Enterprise Security Expo, four GSE "Best Vendor Session" awards, and was the 1999 recipient of the Vanguard "Chairman's Award". Mark is a co-author of the book "Mainframe Security for Security Experts: A Introduction to RACF", has helped write several Redbooks, and has published articles in NaSPA's Technical Support, z/Journal, and IBM's Hot Topics. Mark is the director of the Mid-Hudson Valley IBM Club Chorus and a private pilot. Mark is also a world record holder in the "Hokey Pokey".


    Email: markan@us.ibm.com

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