Stream: Service Management
Time: 16:45 - 17:30
One of the major challenges in Application Development is to understand the ‘Big Picture’. In one place you change a piece of COBOL or PL/I code and in another place the interfaces and the batch jobs no longer work! Cleaning up the errors can then end in tiring and costly detective work. In this talk we will show you the effective and holistic application development solution of a Swiss insurance company that operates with the benefits of having that ‘Big Picture’.
There is currently no attachment for Effective Application Management: how your programs, DBs, transactions, JCL, schedules, interconnect
Jens Bühring is an internationally recognized Consulting IT Specialist at HORIZONT for different product areas running on the mainframe. During his career he has developed expertise that spans application development on the z/OS platform, IWS z/OS administration, workload optimization and a variety of product and software trainings. Besides acting as solution architect Jens is focused in lifecycle management systems for mainframe workload objects like JCL, IWSz AD etc.. He is involved in many projects to help customers in Europe, to improve their business by taking advantage of the latest HORIZONT technology. He is a frequent speaker on these topics.
Experienced senior business professional with over 40 years in IT in both technical and commercial roles. Having started his early career in Mainframe Operations, he implemented many infrastructure software solutions going on to become a software systems engineer for a major software vendor. Since then he has worked as a trusted advisor to clients for various global software companies specialising in Workload Automation, Content Management and Mainframe Optimisation.
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