Sierra Pacific Regional User Group Meeting

November 19, 2008

Doubletree Hotel - 2001 Point West Way Sacramento, CA 95815

8:00 – 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast, networking

8:30 – 8:35 Opening remarks, User Group business

Bruce Hendrickson, President

8:35 – 8:45 Software AG News

Emmet Kinsellagh, Software AG

8:45 – 9:45  Natural Studio

Ralph Zbrog, ZZUtils

An introduction to Natural’s graphical development environment; including why you need it, configuration tips, mainframe/windows Natural incompatibilities and Tips ‘n Techniques.

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:00  What it Means to be a DBA - Best Practices

Dieter Storr, Storr Consulting, Inc.

Discussion on the basic tasks of a DBA, including: database design, ADABAS parameters, transaction design, backup/recovery, performance and tuning, data security and other important topics.

11:00 – 12:00 ADABAS - All about Caches and Buffers

            Dieter Storr, Storr Consulting, Inc.

This presentation will discuss the influence of disk cache, different buffer pools, Dynamic Caching, Fastpath buffers, as well as Prefetch/Multifetch and utility buffers.

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 Adabas in 2009:  Special Archiving and Encryption Preview

            Becky Albin, Software AG

As information grows exponentially, data security concerns rise along with it. If you use Adabas to run your mission-critical systems, you'll want to know about two new solutions: Adabas Archiving and Adabas Encryption. Learn how they help you manage database growth, meet performance goals and proactively protect your data.

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:45 Natural in Batch

Ralph Zbrog, ZZUtils

Topics and techniques related to efficient Natural batch processing, including: printing, WORK files, sorting, restart/recovery and JCL as it relates to Natural.

3:45 – 4:00 Closing remarks and drawings