IBM CM OnDemand for z/OS & Multi-platform Hamardi IT Service v/Steen Camillo Hamardi Independent IT Services Specialist

Customer Wishes ● High volume document archive ● High speed document search and retrieve ● Facilitate all types of IT documents, incl. PC types ● Integration with DFSMS/TSM automatic object management ● Integration with document retention products ● Built in document retention ● Possibility to integrate with company applications ● Print / secure print ● Integration with RACF and other security products ● Exits for special actions ● API for integration with WEB applications ● API to integrate with traditional COBOL applications ● And many, many other wishes of more special character

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● High volume document archive – Cache (DASD only) – Both high speed and high volume DASD – Transition data to Tape (ATS & VTS) with DFSMS

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● High speed document search and retrieve – Separate Index and Data archive – Online Index and Data stored in DB2 – Retrieves only the requested document not the whole load

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● Facilitate all types of IT documents, incl. PC types – As long as the input can be provided digitally OD can store it – Line Data, AFP, PDF, JPG, TIFF, Word, Excel, etc. – For AFP and PDF resources are stored separately, one time only – but as a sorted group (as output from ACIF and ISIS Papyrus) not individually … – Line Data, AFP and PDF can be stored as “Large Object” allowing storage of large documents in groups of pages

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● Integration with DFSMS/TSM automatic object management – OD uses DFSMSoam or TSM on z/OS – OD uses TSM on all other platforms

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● Retention Management – OD has a built-in retention manager – OD can integrate with IBM FileNet Retention Manager

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● Integration with customers' LOB applications – OD is delivered with a full set of Java API functions – = ODWEK (OnDemand Web Enablement Kit) – ODWEK includes 2 test browser based clients – (CGI and Servlet) – code stabilized since OD V8.4.0 – OD on z/OS is also delivered with a COBOL Structured API: – has only a subset of the functions delivered with the Java API – works in Batch, CICS, IMS and TSO

Fulfilling Customer Needs ● Integrates with RACF and other similar on z/OS ● Integrates with LDAP on all other platforms – Logon security – Folder and Application Group security – Document level security – Possible to integrate with customer's one-of-a-kind security system thru exits and sample code delivered with OD

Additional Features ● ODF – OnDemand Distribution Facility ● AFP2PDF – in the fly – Transform ● AFP2WEB Transform ● PDF Indexer

Special Questions raised up-front ● Storing individual AFP resources ? – NO! Has never been requested, and – is very expensive to implement and run ● Annotations? – YES!

Time for questions from the audience ● ???