A three day course for users of Innovation Data Processing's FDR/ABR System presented by Verity Systems, Inc. a designated provider of educational training for Innovation Data Processing products.

FDR/ABR is one of the most powerful and widely-used DASD management systems available in today's data centers. With it's extensive set of facilities for backup, restore, archiving, automatic recall, and reporting, FDR/ABR provides all of the functions required to manage storage in the complex environment of modern business data processing.

Practical Use of FDR/ABR is designed to teach storage administrators, system programmers, operations staff, and others who are responsible for storage management what they need to know to install, use, and administer the FDR/ABR system and get the most out of their storage, and their investment in FDR/ABR.

Among the topics to be covered in this three day course are:

• Principles of Effective Storage Management using FDR/ABR
• Using FDR/ABR in an SMS Environment
• Implementing Archiving and Automatic Recall
• Management of FDR/ABR Tapes with FDRTSEL and FDRTCOPY
• Disaster Recovery with FDR/ABR
• FDR/ABR Options, Tuning, and Installation Considerations
• Storage Management Reporting with FDREPORT
• Disk Volume Reorganization with FASTCPK
• Instantaneous-Copy Backup with FDRINSTANT

• MVS Storage Administrators
• DASD Storage Managers
• MVS Systems Programmers
• Data Center Managers
• MVS Operations Staff

• This class is offered either as a tailored onsite class at the customer site or as a web-based class via the Internet.
  Please contact Verity Systems for details.

Registration: You may register by phone by calling Verity Systems, Inc., at 404-210-5975, or email to fdrabr@veritysys.com. Presented by Verity Systems, Inc., a designated provider of educational training for Innovation Data Processing products. "Practical Use of FDR/ABR" provides practical, proven advice to help your company make the best possible use of this essential and powerful product.

Innovation Data Processing presents a Technical Education Seminar on FDR/UPSTREAM. This seminar is a comprehensive three-day course for both new and established users of FDR/UPSTREAM and UPSTREAM Reservoir.

FDR/UPSTREAM and UPSTREAM RESERVOIR are high speed, powerful, and feature rich products for managing distributed data in today's data centers. FDR/UPSTREAM offers unparalleled performance, reliability and automation and can efficiently operate in a lights out environment, freeing storage administrators from time consuming manual backup management chores. With its extensive set of facilities for high speed backup, restore, archiving, reporting, and online database agents FDR/UPSTREAM provides all of the functions required to manage distributed storage in the complex environment of modern business data processing.

The extensive content of the course material deals with both the client and backup server components. Among the topics to be covered in this three-day course are:

• Installation, Configuration, Implementation, and Operation
• Problem determination
• Disaster Recovery
• Database support
• Performance Tuning
• Integration and coordination of the FDR/UPSTREAM, Upstream/SOS, and UPSTREAM RESERVOIR options

• Storage Administrators or Storage Managers
• PC/SAN/LAN/UNIX/LINUX Administrators
• Data Center Managers
• Operations Staff
• System Programmers

• May 12-14, 2009 in Little Falls, NJ