News :

13/04/10    -    Added presentation of our meeting of 18/03/10

25/11/09    -    Added presentations of our meeting of 18/11/09 + updated memberlist + new dates for next year

 05/09/09    -    Added presentations of our meeting of 23/09/09

23/09/09    -    Updated agenda for our meeting of 23/09/09 + updated memberlist

19/06/09    -    Presentations added from our meeting of 16/06/09

26/03/09    -    Presentations added from our meeting of 18/03/09 + updated memberlist

19/02/09    -    Agenda added for the meeting of 18/03/09

26/11/08    -    Presentations added from our meeting of 19/11/08 + updated memberlist
                        Added new meeting dates for 2009

04/11/08    -    Agenda added for the meeting of 19/11/08

13/10/08    -    Presentations added from our meeting of 25/09/08 + updated memberlist

21/06/08    -    Presentations added from our meeting of 18/06/08 + updated memberlist

30/03/08    -    Presentations added from or meeting of 19/03/08 + added agenda & subscription forms of the regional
                        conference in Oostende.

29/02/08    -    Date of meeting in September has changed + agenda of meeting in March has been put online

22/11/07    -    New meeting dates for 2008 are known now + presentation are online

13/11/07    -    Our hosting has changed, we need your collaboration ...

19/03/07    -    We need your collaboration !

      On our meeting of March 7th 2007 our Chairman Erik Van Roy asked the present members to complete a survey. This survey has as objective to know more about the domains of interest of our group members in order to improve the quality of the sessions. People that were not able to attend the meeting are asked to complete 1 by company. We can only maintain our quality if you help us !

If you were not able yet, please fill in the survey available on this link and send it back to franky.goethals@telenet.be

29/11/06    -    Messages of our Chairman Erik Van Roy

• The proposal to open a FORUM for exchanging experiences with the migration to z/OS V1R8 done on the meeting of september did not had a lot of respons. Only 4 members reacted. There is still time to do so.
• The Hogeschool Hogeschool Gent running a mainframe introduction course "z/OS Basics" for their 3rd-year IT students, asked through the GSE z Workgroup for internships at mainframe installations in order to give these students their first real business IT experience. Because of the short notice there was not much response, but INFOCO took an internship. We agreed with the Hogeschool Gent that for next year we would anticipate sooner to give the installations more time to prepare and plan these kind of requests. It is very important in the juvenation of the mainframe skills !!
• Our colleagues from Dolmen found a blog with interesting information on the mainframe : http://mainframe-watch-belgium.blogspot.com/
• We are still looking for user experiences for our workgroup meetings next year. Please share them with us.
• Do you have ideas for presentations do not hesitate to contact us, we will try to get speakers to present them !
• For next year we will try to get more interaction with the participants at our meetings. One of the topics would be to exchange experiences with the new workloads on the mainframe (z/OS).