• DIT Operating Model for the State of NC
- Innovate & Trend
- Plan and Guide
- Secure, Respond, Monitor, Detect
- Administer & Support
- Buy & House, Build & Test, Leverage & Analyze, Operate & Serve

• Innovation Center (iCenter)
- 4,500+ Device Tests
- 3 National Awards
- Savings of $1.4M Annual Digital Storage Costs
- Savings of $7M Renegotiated Contracts

• Government Data Analytics Center (GDAC)
- NC Financial Accountability and Compliance Technology System (NCFACTS)
- Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services (CJLEADS)
- North Carolina SAS Enterprise Authentication Tool (NCSEAT)
- North Carolina Early Childhood Integrated Data System (NCECIDS)

• Broadband Infrastructure Office (BIO)
- Mission
Provide guidance on policies and strategies for community and state leaders to enhance high-speed
internet access for global competitiveness, education, public safety, health care, and government
efficiency. Partner with willing communities to provide on-the-ground strategic, technical, and
planning assistance specifically aimed at expanding broadband deployment and adoption.

• Service Delivery
- What We Do:
- - The Service Delivery Division provides a wide range of information
- - technology services to State agencies, local governments, and educational
- - institutions across North Carolina. Our services include enterprise
- - applications, hosting, network, telecommunications, desktop
- - computing, and unified communications such as email and
- - calendaring. Providing IT Service Excellence through our service
- - delivery across agencies allows the State to realize efficiencies and cost
- - savings through economies of scale.
- Who We Are:
- - Product Management and Engineering
- - Enterprise Applications and Infrastructure Operations
- - Customer Service/ Service Support
- - IT Service Excellence
- Common Collaboration:
- - State Agencies
- - Local Governments
- - Educational Institutions

• IT Service Excellence
The IT Service Excellence Team oversees the development of IT Service (IT SM) policies,
processes, and procedures that govern the delivery of DIT services utilizing
Information Technology Infrastructure (ITIL).
- Service Line Management
- Release Management
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Continual Service Improvement

• Network
- Internet Connectivity
- - Citizens
- - Remote Users
- - Vendors
- DIT LAN (Secure Private Cloud)
- - Western Data Center
- - Eastern Data Center
- - Agency Applications
- - Enterprise Applications
- - Customer Sites

• DIT Mainframe System Structure - 07/10/2017 Information Technology

- Eastern Data Center
- - CPC1 - IBM 2827-504 H20, 2286 MIPS - 128 GB Memory, MSUs = 283 -- SN-5C357
- - - B SYSB - Prod . . . . . 130 MSUs
- - - E SYSE - Prod . . . . . 102 MSUs
- - - S SYSS - Secure . . . . 51 MSUs
- - - L SYSL - IFL
- - - zIIP - Processor
- - - CF CFP1 - Production
- - CPC2 - IBM 2827-505 H20, 2806 MIPS - 128 GB Memory, MSUs = 347 -- SN-5C387
- - - A SYSA - Prod . . . . . 208 MSUs
- - - N SYSN - Network . . . 69 MSUs
- - - W SYSW - Dev . . . . . 45 MSUs
- - - X SYSX - Dev . . . .. . 10 MSUs
- - - C SYSC - Test . . . . . 14 MSUs
- - - T SYST - Test
- - - U SYSU - IFL
- - - zIIP - Processor
- - - CF CFP2 - Production
- - - CF CFT1 - Test
- - - CF CFT2 - Test
- - - CF CFT3 - Dev
- - - CF CFT4 - Dev
- Sample of ProductionWorkloads
- - SYSA DHHS - ACTS
- - SYSB DOT - STARS, OSC - NCAS
- - SYSE DPS - OPUS, DES - GUIDE
- - SYSS DOR/DES - ITAS

- HITACHI VSP STORAGE PLATFORM
- - Sample Storage Workload
- - - SCCPLEX . . . (68 GB)
- - - SCCPLEXS . . (10 GB)
- - - SCCPLEXW . .(18 GB)
- - - SCCTEST . . . . (4 GB)
- - - z/VM - EDC . .148 GB, WDC -4 GB, WDC (DRS) - 152 GB
- - - zIIP - z Integrated Information Processors
- - - Coupling Facilities (Prod - 4 GB)
- - - Coupling Facilities (DRS - 6 GB)

- Western Data Center
- - IBM z/Server Configuration, Total z/OS MIPS: 697 - 11,188
- - WDC - IBM 2964-403 (N63), 697 MIPS to 11,188 MIPS -- 96 GB Memory), MSUs = 88
- - Workload
- - - KTLP Prod ktl (XRC)
- - - SDP1 Prod sdm (XRC)
- - - KTLT Prod ktl (XRC)
- - - SDT1 Prod sdm (XRC)
- - - RECB - (brs) B
- - - RECE -(brs) E
- - - RECN - (brs) N
- - - RECS - (brs) S
- - - SYSH - IFL H
- - - CFP1W - Prod CF
- - - RECA - Prod A
- - - RECW - Dev W
- - - RECX - Dev X
- - - RECC - Test C
- - - RECT - Test T
- - - CFP2 - Prod CF
- - - CFT1 - Test CF
- - - CFT2 - Test CF
- - - CFT3 - Dev CF
- - - CFT4 - Dev CF

• Hosting Services Environments - Mainframe DR
- Disaster Recovery at Western Data Center
- Full Business Recovery: size SCCPLEX and SCCPLEXS
- Business Recovery: size SCCPLEX and SCCPLEXS with LPARS capped.

• System z Applications
- STARS DOT, LITES DOT, IRP DOT, Emissions and Inspections DOT, SADLS DOT,
- ITAS DOR, ACTS DHHS, County Time Entry Systems DHHS, CNDS DHHS,
- OPUS DPS, Cash MGT OSC, EIS Lite DHHS, Vital Records DOT,
- Budget and Salary OSBM, Workers Comp. Ind Comm

• System z Environment
- Strengths
- - System z applications are stable and scalable
- - Well-defined day-to-day operational processes around System z
- - Business recovery/disaster recovery supports rapid recovery in case of an incident
- - Favorable view of System z as consolidation platform for Oracle databases by some agencies
- - Reliable and Secure
- - Houses large amount of citizen and agency data
- - - (EDC ~= 60TB out of 3.1PB and in WDC ~= 120TB out of 2.1PB)
- Opportunities
- - Newer System z technology makes getting current more compelling
- - - later software versions run better on newer hardware
- - New workload opportunities for System z
- - - new applications and server consolidation on Linux for z
- - Opportunity to modernize Vehicle Registration applications
- - - (STARS, LITES, IRP) would revitalize the applications
- - Improved billing/chargeback model could make System z more/most cost
- - - competitive shared platform
- Mainframe
- - Supports Distributed Hosting Services
- - Strong SLA's Great Transaction Capability
- - Each Year's Goal Reduce Overhead
- - Hybrid Cloud Services

• NCDIT Enterprise Integrated Incident Management Center
- Incident Management Center Integrated Event Management
- - Infrastructure Management
- - Security Management
- - Application Performance Management
- - Capacity and Performance
- - Asset and Configuration
- - IT Service Management
- - Process Automation
- - Customer Dashboards

• The NCDIT Incident Management Center
- Before Redesign picture not copied here
- After Redesign picture not copied here

• The presentation ended about 8:40 PM

• Presentation Access - See SPARTA webpage for the complete presentation

• Contact Info:
Jon Minshew
Director, Service Support
North Carolina Department of Information Technology
Work: 919 754 6282
Cell: 919 270 8514
Email: jon.minshew@nc.gov

Twitter: @NCDIT or @ncicenter
URL: https://it.nc.gov
URL: https://it.nc.gov/oneit
URL: https://it.nc.gov/icenter

• The July 2017 monthly meeting ended about 8:45 PM.

Treasurer’s Report for July 2017

contributed by Pam Tant

The balance in the account is $355.77 as of June 30, 2017.

SPARTA Financial Report
3/01/2017 through 06/30/2017

Items of Interest

SPARTA Schedule and Menu for 2017

contributed by Chris Blackshire

Aug. 1, 2017 - BarBQ

Sep. 12, 2017 - Pizza

Oct. 3, 2017 - Chicken

Nov. 7, 2017 - Subs

Dec. 5, 2017 - BarBQ

IBM Z Includes New z14 Hardware and z/OS 2.3 Software

contributed by Chris Blackshire

"IBM wants businesses to use its new z14 mainframe to encrypt pretty much everything -- an approach to security it calls pervasive encryption.

Encrypting everything, and restricting access to the keys, is one way to reduce the risk and impact of data breaches. It can reduce the threat surface by 92 percent, according to research commissioned by IBM.

To make such pervasive encryption viable, the z14 has four times as much silicon devoted to cryptographic accelerators as its predecessor, the z13, giving it seven times the cryptographic performance. ....

As well as the hardware changes, the mainframe range has undergone a discrete change of name: Instead of the awkwardly capitalized z Systems, it's now called IBM Z."

Intrigued? Read the entire article by Peter Sayer at NetworkWorld.

The IBM z14 is available on September 13, 2017. See IBM's z14 announcement here.

See IBM's z/OS 2.3 announcement here.

Updated SHARE App Now Available for iOS and Android

contributed by Ed Webb

SHARE in Providence is August 6-11, 2017. Hotel Reservations and SHARE Registration opportunities are available now. Go to the Event webpage for details.

The SHARE App for iOS and Android has been updated for the Providence conference. Already downloaded the app during the San Jose event? No need to download anything else! The SHARE Providence event should appear on your app home screen. Learn more about the SHARE App here.

Besides details on z/OS 2.3, announced to ship in late September, there are rumors of an update to z System that will be of interest in the next several months.

"SHARE Providence features over 500 educational sessions in a range of topics such as z/OS 2.3, Blockchain, Docker and new Security technologies. Plan to join us in Providence, August 6 -11, 2017 to expand your knowledge and network with hundreds of fellow enterprise IT professionals and industry vendors."

SHARE Project Manager Provides Perspective on the Mainframe

contributed by Ed Webb

"Reg: [...]you do have a certain perspective that a very large number of systems programmers don't have. A very large number of system programmers traditionally, although less and less often now, tend to be male. That must have had some impact on your career just having to approach it from a different perspective from what has been the majority [...].

Mary Anne: That's a good question. [....] There are people who just will not listen to a woman. You can tell them over and over again that they need to change this parameter and you know this is causing their performance problem and they just will not listen. [To] deal with that [...] you hand the piece of paper to somebody else [a male] and they tell them and the change is made, the customer is happy and things go on. I have quite a repertoire of profanity.

Reg: Good to have language skills."

Read more in this IBM Systems Magazine web-only interview where "Reg Harbeck talks with Mary Anne Matyaz about her unique journey as an extroverted systems programmer."

Some Handy z/OS V2.3 (and z14!) Information

contributed by Ed Webb

Our friend Marna Walle of IBM has posted important information that we need to review if we are interested in the new IBM z14 or the new /OS 2.3.

".... Because I know there's a lot of flurry about this, I wanted to provide a short list what I think might be the handiest technical information that you might need.

z/OS V2.3 PDF. And you can download any of the zipped Adobe-indexed files from here: Adobe-index z/OS V2.3 PDFs. ....

Looking for the new z/OS V2.3 Migration book? You can get the PDF directly with this link: z/OS V2.3 Migration book PDF ...BUT why would you? The Workflows for z/OS V2.3 Migration are so much better.

The z/OS V2.3 Migration Workflows are available now on github. Using github for us, is a new direction and I'm hoping that you'll find it easy to retrieve them. z/OS V2.3 Migration Workflows on github"

Read all of Marna's blog entry, including details on github, and FIXCATs for z/OS 2.3 and the z14, here .

Humor

Siri's Jokes

contributed by Ed Webb

• Hey Siri - Tell Me a Joke
• I can't. I always forget the punch line.

• Hey Siri - Tell Me a Joke
• If I told you a joke in my language, I'd have to explain it.

Membership Information

Don’t Forget the Next SPARTA Meeting

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

7 p.m.

Location: LabCorp in RTP

Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto 1912 T.W. Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Bill Johnson. Bill will escort you to the conference room. Use 1912 TW Alexander Drive, Durham, NC 27703 in your map app.

Free Food: BarBQ, Sodas and Tea, Dessert

Program:

CPU (& MLC) Savings via Optimizing Processor Cache (Webinar)

Speaker: Todd Havekost of Intellimagic

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