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Conference Opening
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Mark Anzani - A look back at 38 years in IBM
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COBOL in its 7th decade
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Mainframes and the Moon
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Conference Opening - 2nd Week
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Opening Up Mainframe to Empower Digital Innovation
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IBM eco System
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Quiz hosted by Macro 4
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Quantum
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Conference Wrap Up & Close
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New to z
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New to z
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Keynotes Mark Wilson |
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Keynote: Mark Anzani - A look back at 38 years in IBM
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Virtual Room 3 |
Virtual Room 4 |
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Virtual Room 1 Aaron Gashi |
Virtual Room 2 Tatsiana Ihnashchenka |
Virtual Room 3 TBC |
Virtual Room 4 TBC |
Virtual Room 5 TBC |
Virtual Room 6 TBC |
09:00 -
10:00
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GDPS Update - GDPS V4.3 and recent SPEs - What's New? Anna Shugol
Dave Clitherow
Dave Clitherow
Dave Clitherow
LSWG
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![]() Jamie Pease
Andy Coulson
Andy Coulson
Andy Coulson
ESWG
Jamie Pease |
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Daily monitoring is the first line of defense Piara Singh Bhamra
Carsten Rasmussen
Arne Nilsen
Audun Faaberg
Carsten Rasmussen
Arne Nilsen
Audun Faaberg
Carsten Rasmussen
Arne Nilsen
Audun Faaberg
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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Marco Cardelli
Marco Cardelli
Marco Cardelli
Batch Workload Scheduling
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Collaborate Better with Eclipse Che: The Kubernetes-native IDE for Dev Teams Phil Howard-Knight
Dejan Milinkovic
Lukas Zima
Dejan Milinkovic
Lukas Zima
Dejan Milinkovic
Lukas Zima
BROADCOM
Phil Howard-Knight |
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Modernising the Mainframe: the What, How and Why of Zowe Paul Fairbairn
Steven Horsman
Robbie Avill
Steven Horsman
Robbie Avill
Steven Horsman
Robbie Avill
Mainframe Skills & Learning
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30 Minute Break10:00 - 10:30 |
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10:30 -
11:30
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OpenShift: Practical experience David Austin
Malcolm Beattie
Malcolm Beattie
Malcolm Beattie
Linux on Z
David Austin ![]() |
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IBM Cloud Tape Connector and DFSMShsm Advanced Archive Nigel Morton
Paul Carruthers
Paul Carruthers
Paul Carruthers
SMWG
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Is treating everyone the same the same as treating everyone equally? Aileen Wynne
Sharon Moore
Sharon Moore
Sharon Moore
Women in IT
Aileen Wynne |
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Title: Introducing the IBM Z Service Management Explorer on Zoweâ„¢ Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Ashok Mahay
Ashok Mahay
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Marcus Davage
Marcus Davage
Marcus Davage
DB2
Colin Knight ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break11:30 - 12:00 |
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12:00 -
13:00
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Relevancy of CICS in chapter 2 of the journey to cloud and what's the latest for CICS Rob Stroud
William Yates
William Yates
William Yates
CICS
Rob Stroud |
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Rob van Hoboken
Rob van Hoboken
Rob van Hoboken
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() |
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Using Zowe for mainframe DevOps with open source tools, SDKs, APIs and more Stuart Ashby
Joe Winchester
Joe Winchester
Joe Winchester
AppDev
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Zoweâ„¢ Overview and IBM Z Workload Scheduler Zowe extensions Anna Dawson
Domenico D'Alterio
Domenico D'Alterio
Domenico D'Alterio
Batch Workload Scheduling
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101 Intro to Mainframe Hardware Harvi Singh
Lena Rosch
Lena Rosch
Lena Rosch
101
Harvi Singh |
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Georgi Stoychev
Andre Otto
Georgi Stoychev
Andre Otto
Georgi Stoychev
Andre Otto
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Paul Fairbairn ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break13:00 - 13:30 |
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13:30 -
14:30
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Data Mapping and Transformation Options in App Connect Melvyn Maltz
Dominic Storey
Dominic Storey
Dominic Storey
MQ
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Recovery challenges in Db2 for z/OS Marcus Davage
Patric Becker
Patric Becker
Patric Becker
DB2
Marcus Davage ![]() ![]() |
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Ransomware on Mainframes? You bet Jamie Pease
Al Saurette
Al Saurette
Al Saurette
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() |
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An Exploration of CA OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation Alert Center Anna Dawson
Michal Hotovec
Michal Hotovec
Michal Hotovec
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Reached the IMS Database 4/8gig line, Now What? Dominic Jackson
Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin
IMS
Dominic Jackson ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break14:30 - 15:00 |
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15:00 -
16:00
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zCX Performance considerations Niall Buchanan
Nick Matsakis
Michael Fitzpatrick
Nick Matsakis
Michael Fitzpatrick
Nick Matsakis
Michael Fitzpatrick
NMWG
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Enhancing the Foundation of CICS Rob Stroud
Jenny He
Jenny He
Jenny He
CICS
Rob Stroud |
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Protection and Compliance for Today's Connected Mainframe James Harper
Stuart McIrvine
Stuart McIrvine
Stuart McIrvine
BROADCOM
James Harper |
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Transforming Your Batch Resiliency Strategy through Analytics and Automation Anna Dawson
Chris Walker
Chris Walker
Chris Walker
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
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Lessons on Optimizing Processor Cache From z15 Upgrade: Case Studies Piara Singh Bhamra
Todd Havekost
Todd Havekost
Todd Havekost
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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SQL assurance - A new perspective Stuart Ashby
Steve Solomon
Steve Solomon
Steve Solomon
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
30 Minute Break16:00 - 16:30 |
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Keynote: COBOL in its 7th decade
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30 Minute Break17:30 - 18:00 |
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Virtual Room 1 |
Virtual Room 2 |
Virtual Room 3 |
Virtual Room 4 |
Virtual Room 5 |
Virtual Room 6 |
Time
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Virtual Room 1 Aaron Gashi |
Virtual Room 2 Tatsiana Ihnashchenka |
Virtual Room 3 TBC |
Virtual Room 4 TBC |
Virtual Room 5 TBC |
Virtual Room 6 TBC |
09:00 -
10:00
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Are you wasting money because of SIIS? Piara Singh Bhamra
Danilo Gipponi
Danilo Gipponi
Danilo Gipponi
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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How we ran it - z/OS data set encryption project Jamie Pease
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() |
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Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler with REST API Anna Dawson
Federica Gari
Federica Gari
Federica Gari
Batch Workload Scheduling
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Panel Discussion - Women should be heard and not obscene Aileen Wynne
Resli Costabell
Jessica Ball
Mary Solomon
Mary Russell
Resli Costabell
Jessica Ball
Mary Solomon
Mary Russell
Resli Costabell
Jessica Ball
Mary Solomon
Mary Russell
Women in IT
Aileen Wynne |
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AIOps: Automation at its Finest: An Exploration of Alerting Phil Howard-Knight
Mohamad Joni
Mohamad Joni
Mohamad Joni
BROADCOM
Phil Howard-Knight |
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Creating a New Generation of Practical Mainframers Paul Fairbairn
Michael Carey
Michael Carey
Michael Carey
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Paul Fairbairn |
30 Minute Break10:00 - 10:30 |
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10:30 -
11:30
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Is my z15 performing as expected? Piara Singh Bhamra
Danilo Gipponi
Danilo Gipponi
Danilo Gipponi
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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OpenShift on Z - DevEx Workshop Walk through and Demo David Austin
Adrian Keward
Adrian Keward
Adrian Keward
Linux on Z
David Austin |
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A Guided Visualisation to Increase Creative Thinking Aileen Wynne
Resli Costabell
Resli Costabell
Resli Costabell
Women in IT
Aileen Wynne |
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Automatic Detection of Performance Degradation and Analysis as Part of CI/CD Pipeline Phil Howard-Knight
Ekaterina Tumanova
Ekaterina Tumanova
Ekaterina Tumanova
BROADCOM
Phil Howard-Knight | |
30 Minute Break11:30 - 12:00 |
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12:00 -
13:00
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John Butterweck
John Butterweck
John Butterweck
IMS
Dominic Jackson ![]() ![]() |
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Why Automated Testing on The Mainframe is a Strategy You Can’t Refuse Stuart Ashby
Steen Brahe
Steen Brahe
Steen Brahe
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
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z/OS 2.4 exploitation - retiring assembler modifications Geoff Eggleston
Mike Shorkend
Mike Shorkend
Mike Shorkend
LSWG
Geoff Eggleston ![]() ![]() |
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What is AIOps? And How Can It Help Me Manage the Mainframe? Phil Howard-Knight
Michael Kiehl
Arun Vijayaraghavan
Michael Kiehl
Arun Vijayaraghavan
Michael Kiehl
Arun Vijayaraghavan
BROADCOM
Phil Howard-Knight |
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IBM Z Skills Programs & Resources - what's new, free and digital! Dr. Herbert Daly
Paul Fairbairn
Paul Fairbairn
Paul Fairbairn
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Dr. Herbert Daly |
30 Minute Break13:00 - 13:30 |
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13:30 -
14:30
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Kurt Acker
Kurt Acker
Kurt Acker
Linux on Z
David Austin |
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DevOps Value Stream Management with ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator Anna Dawson
Jeff Cherrington
Jeff Cherrington
Jeff Cherrington
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson ![]() ![]() |
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Visualizing CICS performance data in Splunk using CICS Performance Analyzer Rob Stroud
Ezriel Gross
Ezriel Gross
Ezriel Gross
CICS
Rob Stroud ![]() |
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Quick wins with In-memory data optimization for Tailored Fit Pricing Piara Singh Bhamra
Larry Strickland
Andrew Bowker & Larry Strickland
Larry Strickland
Andrew Bowker & Larry Strickland
Larry Strickland
Andrew Bowker & Larry Strickland
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
![]() Melvyn Maltz
Jamie Squibb
Jamie Squibb
Jamie Squibb
MQ
Melvyn Maltz ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break14:30 - 15:00 |
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16:00
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Java Update for CICS TS 5.6 + UK Customer Java CICS Experience Rob Stroud
Phil Wakelin
Phil Wakelin
Phil Wakelin
CICS
Rob Stroud ![]() |
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Gain visibility into workload interdependencies Anna Dawson
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Understanding TS7700 Object Store for z/OS data Nigel Morton
Eddie Lin
Lourie Goodall
Robert Gensler
Eddie Lin
Lourie Goodall
Robert Gensler
Eddie Lin
Lourie Goodall
Robert Gensler
SMWG
Nigel Morton |
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How to Defy Gravity: Overcoming Challenges of Integrating the Mainframe in Multi-Cloud IT Piara Singh Bhamra
Daniel Saunders
Daniel Saunders
Daniel Saunders
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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Yes, And: How Collaboration Energizes Your Team's Performance Anna Shugol
Glenn Anderson
Glenn Anderson
Glenn Anderson
LSWG
Anna Shugol |
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REST APIs and MQ - What choices do you have ? Melvyn Maltz
Matt Leming
Matt Leming
Matt Leming
MQ
Melvyn Maltz ![]() ![]() ![]() |
60 Minute Break16:00 - 17:00 |
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Lunch & Learn New to z
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Virtual Room 1 |
Virtual Room 2 |
Virtual Room 3 |
Virtual Room 4 |
Virtual Room 5 |
Virtual Room 6 |
Time
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Virtual Room 1 Aaron Gashi |
Virtual Room 2 Tatsiana Ihnashchenka |
Virtual Room 3 TBC |
Virtual Room 4 TBC |
Virtual Room 5 TBC |
Virtual Room 6 TBC |
09:00 -
10:00
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![]() Harvi Singh
Eamonn McGrath
Eamonn McGrath
Eamonn McGrath
101
Harvi Singh |
![]() Anna Shugol
Colin Knight
Ian Hartley
Colin Knight
Ian Hartley
Colin Knight
Ian Hartley
LSWG
Anna Shugol ![]() |
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Mental Rehearsal: Visualizing failure to ensure you are ready and prepared Anna Dawson
Ian MacDonald CITP FBCS
Ian MacDonald CITP FBCS
Ian MacDonald CITP FBCS
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson |
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What Would it Look Like if we Migrated to Git for z/OS Applications Stuart Ashby
Joseph Taffe-Atkins
Joseph Taffe-Atkins
Joseph Taffe-Atkins
AppDev
Stuart Ashby ![]() ![]() | ||
30 Minute Break10:00 - 10:30 |
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10:30 -
11:30
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![]() David Austin
Adrian Keward
Adrian Keward
Adrian Keward
Linux on Z
David Austin |
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The history of containers and what this means for IBM Z Paul Fairbairn
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Paul Fairbairn |
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Streamline mainframe production with the right Key Performance Indicators Anna Dawson
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson |
![]() Piara Singh Bhamra
Martin Packer
Martin Packer
Martin Packer
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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Enabling your mainframe to take part in your end-to-end application observability journey Sophie Green
New Technologies
Sophie Green ![]() ![]() |
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Protecting your MQ messages with encryption Melvyn Maltz
Jamie Squibb
Jamie Squibb
Jamie Squibb
MQ
Melvyn Maltz ![]() ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break11:30 - 12:00 |
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12:00 -
13:00
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Automation and Measurement makes the DBA job easier Marcus Davage
Marcin Grabinski
Marcin Grabinski
Marcin Grabinski
DB2
Marcus Davage ![]() |
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IMS User Experience with a DevOps CI/CD Workflow Dominic Jackson
Harshit Vijay
Harshit Vijay
Harshit Vijay
IMS
Dominic Jackson ![]() ![]() |
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Spend less time Administering your OMEGAMON environments! Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Ashok Mahay
Ashok Mahay
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Mainframes & Malware, an impossible combination? Jamie Pease
Henri Kuiper
Henri Kuiper
Henri Kuiper
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() |
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Easy start in zOS with one of the most popular IDEs Stuart Ashby
Kiryl Branavitski
Viktar Mushtsin
Kiryl Branavitski
Viktar Mushtsin
Kiryl Branavitski
Viktar Mushtsin
AppDev
Stuart Ashby | |
30 Minute Break13:00 - 13:30 |
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13:30 -
14:30
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Better MQ z/OS Performance Through Understanding the Internals Melvyn Maltz
Gwydion Tudur
Gwydion Tudur
Gwydion Tudur
MQ
Melvyn Maltz ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Still manually managing Batch workloads to completion? A risk too far? Anna Dawson
Kelly Vogt
Kelly Vogt
Kelly Vogt
Batch Workload Scheduling
Anna Dawson ![]() |
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Life in the fast lane: zHyperlink Piara Singh Bhamra
John Baker
John Baker
John Baker
zCMPA
Piara Singh Bhamra |
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101
Lena Rosch | ||
30 Minute Break14:30 - 15:00 |
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15:00 -
16:00
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Minimising HSM CPU and elapsed times Nigel Morton
Shannon Gallaher
Shannon Gallaher
Shannon Gallaher
SMWG
Nigel Morton ![]() ![]() |
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Efficiently manage your mainframe storage with Mainframe Operations Analytics Anna Dawson
Roberto Pacheco
Roberto Pacheco
Roberto Pacheco
System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics
Anna Dawson |
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7 Super secrets of a Systems Programmer Paul Fairbairn
Chris Van Wagner
Chris Van Wagner
Chris Van Wagner
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Paul Fairbairn ![]() ![]() |
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about RACLIST and WAY, WAY More! Jamie Pease
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Db2 12 SQL - Including Function Levels 501-507 Colin Knight
Chris Crone
Chris Crone
Chris Crone
DB2
Colin Knight ![]() ![]() ![]() |
30 Minute Break16:00 - 16:30 |
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16:30 -
17:30
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zPRO V4 - Turbocharged Management for your Linux on Z Private Cloud David Austin
James Vincent
James Vincent
James Vincent
Linux on Z
David Austin ![]() |
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Getting insights from your mainframe data with Model9 and AWS BI & Analytics Portfolio Geoff Eggleston
Eyal David
Offer Baruch
Jonathan Preston
Ashley Mitchell
Eyal David
Offer Baruch
Jonathan Preston
Ashley Mitchell
Eyal David
Offer Baruch
Jonathan Preston
Ashley Mitchell
SMWG
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Julie Bergh
Julie Bergh
Julie Bergh
ESWG
Jamie Pease ![]() ![]() |
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Costs to enable TLS or IPSec for different workload patterns Niall Buchanan
Michael Fitzpatrick
Michael Fitzpatrick
Michael Fitzpatrick
NMWG
Niall Buchanan ![]() ![]() |
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How TDMF works, how to use it, and day-to-day uses for TDMF with Dev Ops Nigel Morton
John Hogan
Rebecca M Levesque
John Hogan
Rebecca M Levesque
John Hogan
Rebecca M Levesque
SMWG
Nigel Morton ![]() ![]() |
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