Compuware Mainframe Events

Take IT Security One Step Further—Investigating Internal Data Breaches Chances are, you have taken steps secure your mainframe data by installing a host of anti-intrusion technologies that keep unauthorized parties from accessing your critical data. But that’s not enough. Join this Compuware webcast as Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, and Compuware discuss you can take IT security one step further than traditional approaches by capturing authorized internal application activity.

Compuware is committed to offering ongoing events that provide IT professionals with valuable information on mainframe topics including automated analysis, debugging and testing; test data management; and application performance management.  Browse the following events:

• Tradeshows  
• Webcasts On-Demand
• Product Spotlights: online product trainings 

Tradeshows

IAPP Privacy Summit 2008
March 26-28
Washington DC

IDUG 2008 - North America
May 18-22
Dallas, TX

Webcasts On-Demand

	Show me the metrics: Gain deeper visibility into your IT process When undertaking a major IT initiative such as outsourcing, application modernization or process improvement, it’s essential that organizations benchmark their assets so that they can later measure and validate ROI. During this webcast, you’ll learn how Compuware Metrics-based Management offers unparalleled insight through technology, methodology and metrics that allows you to control your complex and dynamic IT initiatives, ultimately mitigating risk and helping you to realize your desired cost savings.
	Take IT Security One Step Further—Investigating Internal Data Breaches With the onslaught of media attention on exposing privacy breaches, you know you need to secure your mainframe data. Chances are, you have taken steps to do so by installing a host of anti-intrusion technologies that keep unauthorized parties—both internal and external—from accessing your critical data. But that’s not enough. Join this Compuware webcast as Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, and Compuware discuss the many costs of a data breach, regulatory compliance and how the Compuware Solution for Application Auditing takes IT security one step further than traditional approaches by capturing authorized internal application activity.
	Deliver Applications with Confidence: Automated Performance Testing for the Mainframe Testing technologies such as WebSphere MQ, CICS Transaction Gateway and DB2 Connect can be a very complicated process. Making matters more complicated, you know that you should performance test prior to production where problems will be easier and more inexpensive to resolve. Join this Compuware webcast to learn about Application Performance Assurance, our mainframe solution for a pre-production performance testing that will enable your organization to build performance excellence into your applications while meeting project deadlines and cost constraints.

Protecting Sensitive Information: A Practical Solution for Test Data Privacy With all of the media buzz surrounding compliance, you know that it is critical to protect your data--in test as well as in production--but you may not know where to start. Learn about Compuware's customizable, four-step, best-practices approach to ensuring data privacy in test.

	Stored Procedures, UDFs and Triggers-Common Logic or Common Problem? Internationally recognized DB2 experts Susan Lawson and Daniel Luksetich of Yevich, Lawson and Associates discuss proper ways to write and use DB2 Stored Procedures, including how SQL statements, program logic, WLM, user-defined functions and triggers fit in.
	Code Coverage: A Better Way of Testing to CYA (Cover Your Assets) What are you willing to risk when deploying an application? Quality? Cost? Performance? Your job? Unless you've implemented code coverage into your business, you're gambling against the odds. Learn how Xpediter/Code Coverage can help you validate your testing performed on an application's underlying business logic. You'll also hear how many Compuware customers are using Xpediter/Code Coverage to measure and improve the effectiveness of their testing efforts, while providing management with test-coverage statistics and risk-assessment reports.
	When is Enough "Enough?" Automated End-to-end Testing With QACenter It's no surprise that testing can be a tedious task, especially when you don't have a comprehensive view into your complex systems and you can't determine when you have tested enough. Hear how large organizations are performing realistic, economical and thorough testing across their multi-tier environments. Learn how you can improve your ROI by streamlining your testing process.
	Compuware presents: "Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Using Abend-AID to Diagnose DB2 and WebSphere MQ Problems" Don't miss this opportunity to hear performance specialist Gary Deneszczuk discuss the need for a good fault management tool.  Learn how Abend-AID Fault Manager can help you monitor, measure, control and improve the fault resolution process.

Product Spotlights

Product Spotlights increase the value of the products you own by providing you with live 20-30 minute customer only online training sessions that are designed to teach intermediate to advanced level features of your Compuware licensed mainframe products.

Compuware currently offers Spotlight Sessions for the following products:

• Abend-AID
• File-AID
• QACenter
• Strobe
• Xpediter