The Architecture Program ... addresses the transaction processing, message flow and database management needs of Member installations and their attendees.

ADI Project
The Application Development & Integration (ADI) project showcases Application related tools and products. Featured tools include editors, compare tools, database support tools, analysis and testing tools - basically anything that helps developers create higher quality Applications. Library and Configuration Management products, right through to integrated software frameworks also fall in this area.

Each SHARE highlights tools from different vendors, who speak about their products' little known features, so attendees get in-depth technical information from the experts themselves.

If it is your job to find new tools and creative ways to manage your organization's Application environment, you've just found your project.

CICS Project
The CICS Project is chartered to provide an exchange forum for users of the IBM CICS family of products and their ancillary services. The goals of this project include providing the membership with technical education, keeping them informed of new developments within the CICS family of products, promoting dialogue between members and IBM and among the membership itself, and submitting requirements and papers to IBM on technical needs and business directions in the CICS product line.

DB2 Project
The DB2 project supports traditional topics such as: installation, tuning and performance, recovery, security, standards, tools and utilities, application and system considerations, continuous availability, automated operations, interoperability, and education. It also includes a spectrum of new and emerging topics such as: interacting with client-server systems, LAN / WAN connectivity, rightsizing, multimedia and other BLOB support, distributed processing across heterogeneous platforms, systems and network management as it relates to data availability and recoverability, object-oriented data design, GUI interfaces to DB2 data, massively parallel processing, data on the information super-highway, and data mining.

IMS Project
The mission of the IMS project is to improve members' effectiveness by fostering an atmosphere of information sharing with a focus on all aspects of IMS and its interactions with the Enterprise Information Environment.

The goals are:

• Increase the knowledge and effectiveness of member IMS technical people
• Increase members' awareness of industry trends and directions with regard to IMS connectivity and use from other platforms.
• Communicate members' tactical and strategic concerns to SHARE and IBM
• Assist IBM in improving current and future products.

SOA and eBusiness Project

The mission of the SOA and eBusiness Solutions Project is to tackle real-world issues surrounding the development and deployment of intra and inter-business services-oriented applications. IBM/s top engineers explain the SOA architecture in detail and relate "best practices" for SOA implementation garnered from some of the world's largest corporations. Besides the "do's and dont's" of SOA, we help you transition from familiar CICS and client-server coding styles to the new world of rapid services creation and deployment. These are "hands on" sessions with coding examples using the latest and greatest tools. Industry experts like Wayne Duquaine of Grandview Systems and several IBM Distinguished Engineers are associated with the SOA project, including those driving the standards for security and interoperability with other major players like Microsoft, BEA, Oracle, etc. We continue to explore the evolution of portals, the emergence of the Enterprise Service Bus, and the intersection of SOA with evolving technologies like Grid Computing and WEB 2.0. We will provide the experts - you provide the questions.

Websphere MQ Project (MQSeries)
Websphere MQ is IBM's implementation of the Messaging and Queuing tier of its Networking Blueprint. It provides messaging and queuing services on many platforms from mainframes through servers to clients. It provides support for Commercial Messaging, Message Brokering, Workflow Computing, Cooperative Processing, Mail, Mobile Messaging, and much more.

The Websphere MQ Project presents sessions on all aspects of Websphere MQ including installation, implementation, maintenance, performance, tuning, and futures.