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This is installment 3 about the 1992 VM Workshop.  I will not
interrupt you again this year.  I've included several of the
talks scheduled for this year.  (If I haven't included yours,
its not because it isn't interesting, but its somewhere on
my desk.  We have yet to turn down a talk because it was
uninteresting, and I have yet to see a speaker talk to an
empty room.) We have a lot of talks on networking,
and many on VM/ESA.  This should be an exciting year, as VM/ESA
will be coming into many shops, and it will be the first chance
in a long time for us to have common experiences.  I'd also like to
highlight the opportunity to take an IBM class in Fayetteville
on Tuesday before the VM Workshop.  Details are provided below
about course EM925 - VMPAF.  While we are open to talks on all
topics associated with VM, I'd like to really seek out some more
VM/ESA experience talks.  In addition, if you are running AIX on
a S/370 or above, that is a topic I have received several requests
to obtain talks about.

We've had additional information from Dan Martin of U of Arkansas
about the weather and planned activities you might find interesting.

It looks like we will be having the longevity raffle again, so
don't plan on leaving early.  Gabe Goldberg has promised to donate
some interesting prizes again, maybe even a copy of his book again.


I'd like to highlight a comment Mark Stevens put on VMSHARE:

>Having made presentations at a couple of workshops and having talked to
>people who have and have not made presentations, I can finally tell you
>only how I feel/felt ;->

>I wonder if what I will present will be useful to someone else, when
>it seems I'm the only one with that problem.  Will the room be empty?
>Even worse, will they laugh at me?

>When those problems are surmounted, I've got to make the time around
>all the other projects I'm supposed to be working on for the users of
>my system, learning new things, etc.

>Finally, I have a "thing" I can talk about.  How long? Handouts?
>Overheads?  Mac/PC/Online demo?

>Best "thing" to do is volunteer to talk about your latest solution.
>Make copies of your overheads as handouts and talk 1/2 hour.  No one
>will laugh.  People will attend.  And you will save at least one
>person from the grief you went through.

I encourage you to attend, and consider giving a talk.

Harry Williams
Co-Chair Program
1992 VM Workshop
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From Dan Martin - University of Arkansas

The "early registration discount" deadline is 1 June.  Price goes up by $50
after that.  Also, I believe that the hotel rooms we have blocked out over at
the Hilton will be released (not booked immediately, but released for use by
others) after the first.  The conference room rate will still be available, but
you may wind up playing hotel-room-roulette if you defer past the deadline.

For those who are contributing items to the tools tape, it would simplify
my life if we can again encourage them to make arrangements to ship their
contributions ahead of time on either mag tape or via InterNet/BITNet.  They
should contact me (as WORKSHOP@UAFSYSB or @UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU, or at 501-575-2901)
to make arrangements for network delivery; tapes should be sent to:

       University of Arkansas - Computing Services
       155 Razorback Road
       207 ADSB
       Fayetteville, AR  72701
       Attn: 1992 VM Workshop

I'd prefer that contributions on tape sent ahead of time be sent on round tape
(800/1600/6250 bpi) since we're going to have to process square tapes off-site.

People can also ship copies of their handouts, vendor literature, or other
printed materials to the above address.  We won't be able to provide bulk
copying services at the conference itself, but there is a Kinko's copy center a
few blocks from the conference site that will be glad to take peoples money in
exchange for copying services.

Plan on having warm weather.  The average high temperature for June is about 87
degrees; the average low is around 68.  This is fairly variable; with luck,
we'll enjoy the same wonderful conditions we experienced at Kentucky last year.
Evenings usually cool down fairly rapidly, but I don't expect "sweater weather".
We'll be outdoors two nights out of three (yes, we do have rain sites arranged
for...), so leave the tuxedo at home. I refuse to make promises about the
weather; we just closed the MIDNet conference here, for which our director
assured everyone the weather would be wonderful, and it rained or drizzled from
Sunday when everybody arrived, through about 3:00 yesterday afternoon -- when
the conference closed and the sun came out.

I'm working on the confirmation letter to be sent out to people who have
registered thus far.  This should go into the mail within the next few days.

As we mentioned in the original announcement, pre-registration is required.  If
you're coming, take the time to call the Center for Continuing Education (501-
575-3604) and place your registration in advance.  The announcement states that
we will be unable to accept walk-in registrations; while I doubt we'll turn away
anybody that shows up with cash in hand, we do have a limited number of seats
available and when they're full, that's it.

There are bound to be other things that I haven't thought of, but I never
promised utter perfection :-) .  Feel free to edit, revise, condense, and
digestify anything in the above.

-dan.
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David Avery of Dartmouth will give a short talk on LISTVIEW, a Rexx
and Xedit application that searchs and displays the list-of-lists on
Bitnet and the Internet.  It uses the list-of-lists data file available
from Dartmouth.  It's a trivial but useful application, a 15 minute
time slot would be more than adequate.
The application and May database file will be included on the tools tape.
---
Gabe Goldberg:
IBM Information Network Services, Especially IBM Mail Exchange
Painless VM/ESA Enhancements with Service Virtual Machines
IBMLink -- What is it and Why Would I Want One?
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Mark A. Stevens

Having said all that, I would volunteer to talk about: uh, who me?
Okay, RSCS printing through TCP/IP and Getting VMSECURE and SFS to
worker together, well at least not against each other.  Abstracts
when I can make the time. ;-)

Mark (Who me?  Talk?) Stevens
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Arty Ecock:
   "RXSOCKET - A TCP/IP Socket Library for REXX"
   It shouldn't last longer than an hour.  Details for the abstract
will follow.

Arty will also run his Ugly Hawaiian Shirt contest.
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John Kinne - Miami U will talk about a Report Distribution Facility
on VM.  It's purpose is to receive Reports, files, listings, and
other things that MVS used to print on paper.  (It can receive files
from anything that is connected to our VM - but most of the things
are from MVS.)  Instead of printing the reports, they are
electronically distributed.  In some cases the whole report is
distributed to a list of users.  Other times the report needs
to be burst into sub-reports.  The distribution is not limited to
VM users.  A target account can be anything that VM can e-mail to!
As I said - this thing is being built.  I've got it doing some
production distribution right now.  What I've got was easy to
put together - and boy oh boy do I have some happy users.  The
only thing that gripes me is that we didn't do this a few years
ago.  (But then a few years ago I don't think I would have been
allowed to engage in this kind of end user support.  Things are
changing.  Progress is pityless.)

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Jeff Savit:
Right now we're looking at having two people attend.  We'll
certainly provide talks!  Tentatively (pick N from the following):
  - A TCP/IP Socket interface for APL2 (based on RXSOCKET!)
  - Caring for and feeding SFS, (and why you might want to)
  - (If desired) A Strategic Viewpoint for VM (I did this last year,
    but I've added a lot more material)
  - TCP/IP V2R2 experiences (if we have any by then!)
  - How to run a VM user group
  - Experiences with APPC/VM LU6.2 applications in VM
  - VM/ESA maintenance
  - VM/ESA performance
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Romney White - Velocity Software:
I expect to talk about using VM Data Spaces.  The presentation will
take about an hour and will cover how the interfaces work, experience
using them, and some performance measurements.
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Martha McConaghy:
I'm planning on doing a new and improved version of my talk on creating
a second level system for testing.  I may also throw something together
on installing VM/ESA using the SDO, while that's still fresh in my mind.
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David Boyes:

a) Intro to RiceMAIL

   What is RiceMAIL? Why would I want to use it? Where can I get it?
   RiceMAIL is a RFC822 compatible mail user agent written by Richard
   Schafer (my current boss) that allows users of VM systems to compose,
   read, and manage electronic mail. I'll have an example session on
   our system, and (maybe) a preview of the CUA/SAA RiceMAIL.
b) Care and Feeding of LISTSERV
   What is LISTSERV? What does it do, and specifically, what do you as
   a maintainer need to do to keep it running smoothly.
   This should be part talk/part discussion.
c) It's How You Play The Game: How to be a Good BITNet Citizen
   Lots of folks newly connected to BITnet aren't really sure about
   what to do and when/how often it needs to be done with all the
   piles of software and configuration files. Here's a distillation
   of all the junk I had to figure out how to do the hard way on
   playing in the BITnet sandbox.
d) BOF: VM Survival Tactics in a World Headed for Workstations
   This was a good BOF last year on how to keep VM viable in
   your shop in an increasingly personal computer and Unix workstation
   environs. I hope it follows Jeff Savit's killer talk on VM tactics, so
   we can maybe discuss that stuff in more detail. I chaired last year, and
   I'm willing to do it again.

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Paul Russell / Indpls Life Ins Co
I've received the official blessing to attend this year's Workshop, and
will plan to do a presentation on "How to build an SVM".  I'll need an
overhead projector and about an hour.  I'll provide some generic REXX
code that we use as the basis for almost every CMS-based SVM that we put
up, as well as some example of some specific functions implemented with
that code.
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Daniel P. Martin - U of Arkansas:
Avard Hart, IBM regional VM specialist for our area, will be
presenting two topics at the Workshop.
(1) "VM in the Client/Server Arena -- To play, or not to play"
(2) VM Server Tasking Environment (PRPQ P81089)

Also, please refer to the contents of MEMO VMWK92ED -- Paul Van Leer,
developer of VM/PAF, will be available to provide a seminar on
this product on Tuesday, 16 June and one-on-one consultation
to participants in the seminar during the rest of the Workshop.
Several individuals from local VM installations have already indicated
plans to participate in this seminar in addition to the Workshop.
If you are interested, see MEMO VMWK92ED for further details.
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Phil Unger - Rijnhaave Info Svcs:
I can do a sort of repeat of my Share 78 talk 'CMS Windows Revisited'.
However, I can go into a little more detail on 'how to'.
The focus is on two 'imaginative' applications of CMS Windows:
    1) A cut-and-paste XEDIT macro
    2) A CMS Windows interface to RSCS, as opposed to SMSG commands
       and MSG responses.
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Eric Bitterman of TIAA will give a talk on their GCS profiler
and one on their minidisk manager.
----
Laurel Brey of Johnson Controls will give a talk on converting to
SneakerNet to a TCP/IP networking from the VM perspective.
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                     Scott Nettleship
Abstract #1:
VM/ESA: Everything you wanted to know about the Shared File System
This presentation will discuss the Shared File System (SFS) in
VM/ESA.  If you've heard about it in the past but don't know
much about it now, this will get you up to date on where it's
been, where it's going and why it can be important to your
installation.  Topics to be discussed are:

  - Some overview and structure of SFS
  - Benefits to customer installations
  - Performance aspects and considerations
  - Functional enhancements since introduced in SP/HPO Release 6
  - Implications to System Managed Storage (DFSMS) strategy on VM/ESA
Abstract #2:
VM/ESA: All the latest in CMS
This presentation will discuss what is currently available using
CMS.  CMS has under gone many changes in the past year or two and
continues to evolve.  This session overviews areas from segments
to file system to pipes and beyond.....
Biography:
Scott Nettleship is an internationally known (relatives in Europe)
and multi-talented (walk/chew gum) speaker.
Scott is a Staff Programmer working in CMS file system
development in Endicott N.Y.  He has been part of the VM Development
team since 1983.  Scott has a B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers
University and a M.S. in Computer Science from State University of New
York (SUNY) at Binghamton.  Scott has also authored a recent article
on SFS in the IBM Systems Journal (Vol. 30, No. 1, 1991) and is
the IBM representative to the CMS File System Committee at SHARE.
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There will be a demo and talk about Personal/370 Adapter/A OEM card
from IBM.  This is a card for the PS/2 marketed to VADs that turns
the PS/2 into a fully functioning VM system running vanilla VM,
that software vendors can easily port their 370 application from
the mainframe to a workstation environment.  There has also been
an application using TSAF to extend the DASD farm(?) of a 9370.
----
Melinda Varian of Princeton will give her "Plunging into Pipelines"
and "Plunging ON" talks about CMS Pipelines.  If you want to learn
more about this native CMS 8 facility,(also available as a PRPQ),
this is the talk.
----
Don't know who is going to lead it yet, but we will also have
the Second Annual Plumber's Convention.
----
Neil Erdwien, Kansas State University:

I'll give a talk on building service machines with CMS Pipelines.
Anatomy of a CMS PIPELINES Server
   CMS PIPELINES provides a high-productivity and high-performance
   programming environment.  This environment can be used to build
   service machines with a minimum of effort.  This presentation dissects
   a service machine that uses CMS PIPELINES' interfaces to respond to
   E-mail, spool files, messages, SMSGs, and timer interrupts.
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       FYI, here's the schedule of evening events.  This is not *quite* set in
concrete yet, but it's all done except for having folks at the conference center
sign contracts:

16 June (Tuesday) - Evening conference check-in 5:00-7:00.  Munchies provided
during the check-in, but folks are on their own for dinner.  Several restaurants
within walking distance, so should be no problem.

17 June (Wednesday) - Dinner at "The Old Post Office".  Good food, and a dessert
bar that is not to be believed.

18 June (Thursday) - Conference sessions will break a bit early (around
3:30-4:00) this afternoon.  We have a chartered rail excursion on a couple of
restored turn-of-the-century passenger cars through the mountains to a small
town called Rudy, where a picnic-style barbecue will be offered.  Return to
Fayetteville on the train after we eat.  Should be a good setting for the Ugly
Hawaiian Shirt contest.

19 June (Friday) - The Shiloh Museum, about 25 minutes north of campus, has
volunteered to open the exhibit hall and grounds after hours to attendees.
Dinner will be catered in to the museum grounds.

       I'm working on getting stuff together for confirmation packets, which
should be mailed out within a couple of weeks.  I'm going to try to get this
ready to go by the middle of next week, but will be out of town on personal
business for the last half of that week so I may not complete them until the
following week.

        The only potential "coffee stain" that I see for any of this is that
this will be an almost entirely alcohol-free event.  There should be a cash bar
available at dinner on Wednesday, possibly cash beer on Thursday, and the Friday
site will be dry.  Given the current mood of several different groups in the
State Legislature and the University administration to audit anything that
breathes, and the rather provincial stand of state law on use of state monies
for booze, we aren't going to be able to do open bar at anything.  We can feed
you and pass out soft drinks until people puke -- as long as it isn't booze that
they get sick on :-) .  There's a fairly good bar in the Hilton (or so I'm told)
and several other places around the conference site where beer and wine can be
had.  Some folks are probably gonna feel like they're back at BYU, but this is
the best we can do.

-dan.

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<<< MEMO VMWK92ED - 61 lines >>>

Possible educational opportunities around the 1992 VM Workshop

There is a very good possibility that Paul Van Leer of IBM Kingston
will be available to conduct a one-day seminar on VM/PAF on 16 June.
The seminar would confer VM/PAF and analysis techniques, and would also
provide an opportunity for participants to bring their own monitor
data to Fayetteville and do "PAF things" to in a hands-on setting.

In order to pull this off, we would need at least 20 participants
who could commit to the seminar.  The seminar would be administered
through IBM education, and not officially affiliated with the
Workshop - except for the happy coincidence that it's scheduled
at the same place, on the day before.  There would be a registration
fee for the seminar, over and above the Workshop registration fee;
this amount has not yet been determined.

This would be a great opportunity for all of us to learn about VM/PAF
directly from Mr. Van Leer.  If you believe that you would be able
to come to the Workshop a day early and participate in the seminar,
please indicate so below.  If we're going to do this, we need to
have a reasonably firm "head count" within another two or three
weeks.

*** APPENDED 03/13/92 16:48:08 BY ARK/DPM ***

Append on 04/01/92 at 17:29 by Daniel P. Martin - DMARTIN@UAFSYSB:

No doubt you have all been waiting anxiously for more concrete
information... :-)

The IBM course ID for this will be EM925.  Registration for the
seminar will be $95.00, and will provide participants with

(1) A one-day tutorial on Tuesday, 16 June, on VM/PAF from the
    developer.
(2) For those who want to bring copies of their own data to
    the workshop for analysis, access to Mr. Van Leer and
    VM/PAF on the UA computing facilities for hands-on analysis
    of said data during Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the
    Workshop.

Registration for the seminar goes to IBM; the Workshop receives
no funds from this.

The course ID should be known to the IBM education folks on
and after 04/03/92.

In order to give me a feel for the level of interest in this,
and so we can prepare facilities for the seminar, please drop
a note to WORKSHOP@UAFSYSB

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The University of Arkansas invites you to attend the 16th Annual VM Workshop!!

This year's conference will be held June 16-19 at the UA Center for Continuing
Education in Fayetteville, Arkansas.


REGISTRATION

Registration is $225 (US) and includes lunches and dinners on June 17 through
June 19.  Registration does not include lodging or breakfasts.  Conference
check-in will be Tuesday, June 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.  A morning check-in will be
held on Wednesday, June 17.

We will be able to accommodate only 250 attendees this year, so early
reservations are strongly encouraged.  The conference registration deadline is
June 1, 1992.  Late registrations will be accepted at $275 (US).  We regret that
we will be unable to accept walk-in registrations, so *PLEASE* get your
registration in prior to the start of the conference.

A spouse registration fee of $100 (US) is available for family members who wish
to participate in evening events.

Payment of registration fees may be made by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or
Discover), purchase order or check (made payable to the University of Arkansas).
Note that the University does not accept American Express.

Please fill out the registration form below and send to:

University of Arkansas
Division of Continuing Education
#2 University Center
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA

For further information, contact:  Sherri Watson, Conference Coordinator, at
501-575-3604 (voice) or 501-575-7232 (FAX).


TRANSPORTATION

Fayetteville Drake Field airport is served by American Eagle, Atlantic
Southeast, Northwest Airlink, TW Express and US Air.  Easy connection should be
available from most major carriers through these commuter airlines.

Arrangements have been made with Delta Airlines for a 35 percent discount of
their domestic round-trip full coach fares for travelers coming from points
within the United States.  Travel dates for this arrangement are June 13-22,
with ticket purchase at least seven days prior to departure.  Reservations on
Delta may be placed by calling 1-800-221-1212; refer to Delta file reference
number L42004 when placing your reservation.

The Hilton, Park Inn, and Mountain Inn hotels all provide free transportation to
and from Drake Field.  Transportation is also available from Airport Limousine
for $5/person, one-way.

During the conference, bus service will be provided to and from the evening
meals, but we will not be able to provide transportation to the sessions.


LODGING

Arrangements for conference accommodations have been made with the following
hotels:

Fayetteville Hilton -- This is the recommended housing site for attendees since
the Hilton adjoins the University of Arkansas Center for Continuing Education.
A conference rate of $49/night (single occupancy) or $57/night (double
occupancy) is available.

Phone:  501-442-5555 -or- 1-800-HILTONS
Address:  70 N. East Avenue, Fayetteville AR 72701

Fayetteville Park Inn -- Located approximately 1.75 miles from the conference
site, but offers good accommodations for those traveling with family members.  A
conference rate of $44/night (single) or $47/night (double) is available for
conference participants.

Phone:  501-521-1166 -or- 1-800-223-PARK
Address:  1255 S. Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville AR 72701

Fayetteville Mountain Inn -- The Mountain Inn is an older hotel which offers an
economical alternative for those who usually stay in dormitory lodging for the
workshop.  Conference rates of $27/night (single) or $29/night (double) are
available.  The Mountain Inn is located in the block adjacent to the Center for
Continuing Education, easily within walking distance of the conference site.

Phone:  501-521-1000 -or- 1-800-336-7133
Address:  21 S. College Avenue, Fayetteville AR 72701

To receive conference rates at any of these hotels, you need to mention the VM
Workshop when you place your reservation.  All of the above hotels accept Visa,
MasterCard, Discover, American Express and Diners Club credit cards.
Reservations must be placed no later than June 1, 1992 to receive conference
rates.


PRESENTATIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Every installation represented at the workshop is encouraged to make a
presentation.  The workshop is informal, and presentations of any length can be
accommodated.  If you're doing something new at your installation, then please
share it with the rest of us!

MEMO VMWKABS2 on VMSHARE contains tentative abstracts of presentations.  Put
your presentation information there or contact us directly if you don't have
access to VMSHARE.  We need to know your audio-visual requirements in advance.
We will be able to provide chalk boards, overhead projectors, slide projectors,
and VHS VCRs.

Terminals and projection equipment can be made available for demonstrations.  A
pool of userids will be available during the workshop.  If you have software
that you would like to demonstrate or make available during the workshop, please
make arrangements with us in advance.


TOOLS TAPES

Contributions to the Tools Tape are not required, but are encouraged.  Programs,
modifications, EXECs, documentation or anything else that might be of interest
to someone is welcome.  In the spirit of open technical exchange, we encourage
you to provide source code whenever possible.

You can send your contributions in advance by non-returnable reel or cartridge,
via network, or you can bring them with you.  Tapes (6250 BPI only) and
cartridges for the Tools Tape will be provided and will include the latest
Waterloo Library and the VMSHARE and PCSHARE databases.

We can make only one set of tapes per installation represented, but please make
copies for anyone interested when you return home.

Tools Tape contributions (but please, not registrations) may be mailed to:

University of Arkansas
Computing Services
155 Razorback Road
ADSB 207
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Attn:  1992 VM Workshop Tools

To arrange for contributions by either BITNET or InterNet, please send E-Mail to
WORKSHOP@UAFSYSB (BITNET) or WORKSHOP@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (InterNet).


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1992 VM WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM
JUNE 16-19, 1992

Name:________________________________________________________


Installation:________________________________________________


Address:_____________________________________________________


City/State/Zip:______________________________________________


Telephone:___________________________________________________


E-Mail:______________________________________________________




Registration Fee:  $225 (US Funds)

Credit card information:  __ Visa __ MasterCard __ Discover


Account Number:______________________________________________


Expiration Date:_____________________________________________


Signature:___________________________________________________



Tools Tape:  __ 3480 __ 6250 BPI


T-Shirt Size:  ______ (S, M, L, XL, XXL)



Please mail form and check (made payable to the University of Arkansas) or
credit card information to:

VM Workshop
University of Arkansas
Division of Continuing Education
#2 University Center
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

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