About Us

Contents

• Our Mission
• Who Belongs?
• How can you benefit from ASAP?
• To Join Today
• Canons of Conduct
• IBM & Tivoli Workload Scheduler
• Where can you contact ASAP?
• Board of Directors

Our Mission

To provide a world class organization that promotes knowledge, idea sharing, and creates an atmosphere where our membership can leverage learned best-of-breed practices to better manage their enterprise automation systems.

ASAP - TWS User Education is an independent entity established for businesses holding a TWS license to share ideas on TWS installation, applications and problem solving discoveries.

ASAP - TWS User Education is a volunteer, user supported, not-for-profit organization which is managed by a volunteer board of directors (representatives of member companies) and administered by MeetingWorks. User and vendor sessions are presented at the conference through the generous donation of time, resource and talent of the TWS user community and their respective organizations.

Formerly established as a membership organization in 1992, ASAP - TWS User Education has a two-fold purpose:

1. To exchange and disseminate information relative to TWS, global systems management and the IBM suite of automation products
2. To influence the direction, design and enhancement of the TWS product through a formal requirements process

To accomplish its purpose:

• ASAP - TWS User Education publishes a quarterly newsletter
• Executes a formal product requirements process
• Holds an annual technical and informational user conference.

Members derive the great benefits through the formal and informal exchanges of information about TWS implementation and management experience at the conferences. Since each installation is unique, the conferences focus on common interests and opportunities in the areas of training, education, application, conversion, recovery, scheduling and management. Informal discussions of the various solutions provide members insight as to how these problems/opportunities might be approached and overcome. The members share those extremely important approaches which have led to the successful solution of problems.

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Who belongs?

Membership is comprised of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit corporations, educational institutions and government agencies. More than 1200 TWS schedulers, managers and programmers have attended ASAP - TWS User Education seminars since its inception in 1990.

How can you benefit from ASAP - TWS User Education?

Membership Matters
Membership in ASAP - TWS User Education -
offers an array of BENEFITS to the organizations that join:

Education and Training: One major educational training seminar per year is held in various cities within the continental United States. Membership in ASAP - TWS User Education entitles each attendee of a member company to a discount on registration fees.

TWS Product Enhancement Requirements: As a member of ASAP - TWS User Education, the official user group for distributed and mainframe TWS, an organization has the right to participate in the ASAP requirements process. The requirements submitted and voted upon by ASAP members are submitted to IBM on an annual basis and influence with the IBM development team on the future of the product(s).

Company Profile Directory: The ASAP - TWS User Education Company Directory, updated annually, is to the voting representatives of member companies. Inclusion in this guide is voluntary and is open to members only. This guide is a valuable resource to users of TWS products for locating similarly configured systems.

Newsletters: Published quarterly are newsletters containing articles submitted by members, letters from Board of Directors and other items of interest and value to users of TWS products. Upon request ASAP provides research of TWS related resources. ASAP programs provide networking opportunities for informally sharing TWS related information and issues.

Specialty Mailings, Notices & Invitations: Members receive specialty mailings of particular interest to TWS users of TWS products which have been approved by the Board of Directors. Members receive direct notification of IBM webcams, Redbooks, conferences and other TWS related information.

TWS Related Downloads including: ASAP Cookbook containing user routines, exits, & examples include codes written by users is available via the "members only" page of the ASAP web site; CysToys3, a collection of utilities, jobstreams, REXX programs, and OPC USERMODS Cy Atkinson installed on his test systems in RTP; technical presentations from past conferences.

Member Handbook & Web Site: Mission Statement, Canons of Conduct, Board of Directors, Bylaws, Member Services, Company Profiles, Annual Timeline and organizational forms are included in the ASAP Member Handbook and in the "Members Only" section of the ASAP web site.

TWS Customer Advisor Council (CAC): As members of ASAP you have a voice at IBM TWS Customer Advisory Council through the ASAP Board of Directors. The ASAP board of directors is invited to participate in the TWS CAC which meets on-site during the first day of the conference and throughout the year via conference calls. All members are invited to express their concerns and opportunities to members of the ASAP board for consideration at the CAC.

To Join Today

Follow these two easy steps:

1.) Complete the two page ASAP 2010 Membership Data Sheet and forward it to MeetingWorks. (The completion of the Membership Data Sheet is required to complete the membership process.)

2.) Register your voting representative as a new member at ASAP 2010 Membership & User Education Registration. Please be sure to follow these important instructions:

- If the voting representative will NOT be attending the annual TWS USER EDUCATION conference, then please select "Non-Conference Attendee: New Memberships, Renewals, Sponsorships" option when prompted for registration type. Complete the required fields and proceed to "Other Fees" and select "ASAP New Member Initiation Fee & Annual Membership Dues" then proceed to checkout to complete the payment process.

- If the voting representative WILL be attending the annual TWS USER EDUCATION conference then please select "Member Conference Registration" when prompted for registration type. After completing the conference registration process proceed to "Other Fees" and select "ASAP New Member Initiation Fee & Annual Membership Dues" then proceed to checkout to complete the payment process.

New! Consultant Membership --

The board of directors of ASAP announced the establishment of a consultant membership effective February 1, 2009.

As a consultant member, TWS professionals are invited to attend ASAP at the member rate and are eligible for the presenter discount. In addition, all consultant members are invited to participate in the new Consultants’ Corner featured at ASAP 2010 and in the quarterly ASAP: TWS User Education Training Newsletter.

Applicants for the consultant membership must be certified in TWS for distributed or TWS for z/OS and must provide a minimum of one reference prior to membership approval. The annual consultant member dues of $150 is waived for charter members who register by December 31, 2009.

To apply for a Consultant's Membership please go to the Merchandise tab, select Consultant Charter Member and complete and forward the ASAP Consultant Member Data Sheet.xls (along with one letter of reference) to MeetingWorks for board approval.

Canons of Conduct

In order that ASAP may better achieve its purpose, the following Canons of Conduct are adopted and shall govern the conduct of all ASAP members, member representatives, vendor sponsors and attendees. All such members, member representatives, vendors sponsors and attendees in connection with all ASAP activities: