GSE UK Virtual Conference 2021

11 RACF things worth addressing

Jamie Pease

Henri Kuiper
zDevOps
Session: 1AA

OpenShift on Z: Practical Experience, Another Year On

David Austin

Malcolm Beattie
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 2AA

Journey to AIOps and Operational Resiliency

Anna Dawson

Domenico D'Alterio
IBM Europe
Session: 3AA

3 ways to put equity at the forefront of retention & recruitment

Aileen Wynne

Claire Connor
Ensono
Session: 4AA

Customer experiences and exploitation of TFP Hardware and Software

Joseph Kingham

Matthias Bangert
IBM
Session: 5AA

Threshold Reporting

Piara Singh Bhamra

Ralph Amirtharaj
SMT Data
Session: 6AA

COBOL: How old skool became new age

Stuart Ashby

Derek Britton
Micro Focus
Session: 7AA

Data Mapping and Transformation Update for App Connect

Melvyn Maltz

Dominic Storey
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AB

Abend resolution using a modern IDE

Stuart Ashby

Tomas Cech
Broadcom
Session: 2AB

IBM Z Workload Scheduler roadmap and strategy

Anna Dawson

Marco Cardelli
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AB

Panel Discussion - We don’t want equality. We want equity

Aileen Wynne

SDSF Security – How does it work on z/OS 2.5 and onwards

Jamie Pease

Rob Scott
Rocket Software
Session: 5AB

Two Useful Open Source Performance Tools

Piara Singh Bhamra

Martin Packer
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 6AB

Modern Data Protection Methodologies

Nigel Morton

Tim Reading
Luminex
Session: 7AB

Hiding Among Bits - A Digital Forensic Saga

Jamie Pease

Cristian Coraci
Digital Forensic Examiner
Session: 1AC

Innovative, open and automated testing for your z/OS applications

Stuart Ashby

James Davies
IBM
Session: 2AC

GDPS interfaces, a modern approach for managing your HA/DR on mainframe

Anna Dawson

Anthony Morales
IBM
Session: 3AC

Creative Thinking Brainware Upgrade

Aileen Wynne

Resli Costabell
Costabell Ltd
Session: 4AC

Capacity Management in a Changing World

Piara Singh Bhamra

Butch Rambish
21st Century Software, Inc.
Session: 6AC

What's New in z/OS V2.5

Rui Feio

Marna Walle
IBM USA
Session: 7AC

RACF Update

Jamie Pease

Mark Nelson
IBM USA
Session: 1AD

The joy of joins

Colin Knight

Emil Kotrc
Broadcom Inc.
Session: 2AD

Proactively Reduce System Issues by Leveraging Machine Learning and Real Time Anomaly Detection

Anna Dawson

Daniel Wiegand
IBM
Session: 3AD

CICS Update from Hursley

Rob Stroud

Mark Cocker
IBM UK
Session: 4AD

Parallel Sysplex Update

Rui Feio

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 5AD

Mainframe Hardware 101

Lena Rösch

Lena Rösch
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 6AD

Dev Ops with IMS - Enable ROI within 1 year of adopting Dev Ops best practices

Dominic Jackson

Duane Wente
BMC Software
Session: 7AD

Z Xplore

Paul Fairbairn

Addressing the Top 3 Concerns with Privileged Users

Jamie Pease

Brian Marshall
Vanguard Integrity Professionals Ltd
Session: 1AE

Intro to z/OS

Lena Rösch

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 2AE

OpenTelemetry and Mainframe Application Performance Monitoring: How we figured out distributed tracing on Z

Anna Dawson

Aaron Young
IBM USA
Session: 3AE

From Blockchain to AI: Why Academics and Startups Should Care About the Mainframe

Dr. Herbert Daly

Prof Dr Philipp Brune
Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Session: 4AE

Automating your IBM Z environment with Red Hat Ansible

Rui Feio

Dan Jast
IBM
Session: 5AE

Building a modern app with Python and Z Open Automation Utilities

Stuart Ashby

Bill Pereira
IBM
Session: 6AE

zHyperLink New Features and Real-World Experiences

Nigel Morton

Beth Peterson
IBM USA
Session: 7AE

OMP Mainframe Open Education Project

Paul Fairbairn

Mainframe Fuzzing and Debugging

Jamie Pease

Jake Labelle
F-Secure
Session: 1AG

Driving the DevOps Pipeline:  A new approach to mainframe application delivery

Stuart Ashby

Zowe extensions in IBM Z Workload Scheduler

Anna Dawson

Federica Gari
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AG

What's New in CICS Security

Rob Stroud

Colin Penfold
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AG

Introduction to SA (Systems Automation)

Christopher Knowles

David Swift
Nationwide Building Society
Session: 6AG

Encrypting data “at-rest” with Key Label for Db2 in z/OS

Colin Knight

Manik Kainth
Broadcom
Session: 7AG

App Connect Enterprise Certified Container in CP4i

Melvyn Maltz

Dominic Storey
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AH

Squeeze Your Data with Db2:A History of compression

Marcus Davage

Jim Dee
BMC Software Ltd
Session: 2AH

Modernize and integrate the mainframe batch with a distributed platform using IBM z/OS Platform for Apache Spark

Anna Dawson

CICS Foundation update

Rob Stroud

John Tilling
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AH

Cyber Resiliency with GDPS and Logical Corruption Protection

Nigel Morton

Terry O'Connor
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 7AH

Modernization on IBM Z

Paul Fairbairn

Joris Mertens
IBM
Session: 8AH

Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste - Zero Trust in the Age of Covid

Jamie Pease

Chris Perry
BMC Software Ltd
Session: 1AI

Hybrid Cloud Strategy with IBM Z and its Use Cases

David Austin

Sebastien LLaurency
IBM Europe
Session: 2AI

Import and Deploy Workload Automation Containers on Z Container Extensions (zCX)

Anna Dawson

Marco Cardelli
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AI

Db2 Product Watch

Marcus Davage

Colin Knight
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
Session: 4AI

Nuts and Bolts of IMS Lock Management

Dominic Jackson

Kevin Stewart
IBM
Session: 5AI

The Journey to Tailored Fit Pricing

Piara Singh Bhamra

Steven Thomas
SMT Data
Session: 6AI

Reach for the Cloud but Keep Your Mainframe Connected! Why a Hybrid Approach is the Right Approach for a Modern Mainframe

Rui Feio

Introduction to RACROUTE

Jamie Pease

Mark Nelson
IBM USA
Session: 1AJ

Db2 Profiles

Marcus Davage

Roberto Cason
BMC Software
Session: 2AJ

Millennialization of the Mainframe and Beyond

Anna Dawson

Ewan Stewart
ASG
Session: 3AJ

Coding for fun, comparing REXX and COBOL

Stuart Ashby

Upgrade to z/OS 2.5 Planning Part 1 of 2

Rui Feio

Marna Walle
IBM USA
Session: 5AJ

System Recover Boost: Hitting the Turbo Button on z/OS

Piara Singh Bhamra

Scott Chapman
EPS
Session: 6AJ

Debugging CICS Storage Violations Using IPCS

Rob Stroud

Ezriel Gross
Rocket Software
Session: 7AJ

What skills are necesary for a future career?

Paul Fairbairn

Melissa Sassi
IBM
Session: 8AJ

Trust No One

Jamie Pease

Eysha Powers
IBM USA
Session: 1AK

CICStart your mainframe with Zowe and open source tooling

Stuart Ashby

Joe Winchester
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 2AK

AIOps - Monitoring and Observability: What’s New in OMEGAMON

Anna Dawson

The ABCs of IBM Z NetView IP Management

Niall Buchanan

Pamela McLean
IBM USA
Session: 4AK

z/OS Container Extensions Part 1: An Introduction to Running Containers Inside z/OS

Rui Feio

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 5AK

What's The Use?

Colin Knight

IBM TS7700 What's New for 2021

Nigel Morton

Joe Swingler
IBM
Session: 7AK

Build tomorrow's team today

Dr. Herbert Daly

What's new in MQ

Melvyn Maltz

Jamie Squibb
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AM

Introducing DevOps - CI/CD, Automated Test – mainstreaming the Mainframe

Stuart Ashby

Hans Stern
BMC Software
Session: 2AM

Statement of Direction: IBM Z JCL Expert

Anna Dawson

Ben Horwood
21st Century Software, Inc.
Session: 3AM

The Future of APIs on Z

Rob Stroud

Anthony Papageorgiou
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AM

GDPS What's New - Recent GDPS enhancements to improve your CA/DR and Cyber Resiliency posture

Rui Feio

Dave Clitherow
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 5AM

Are you wasting money because of SIIS?

Piara Singh Bhamra

Danilo Gipponi
EPV Technologies
Session: 6AM

APPLCOMPAT, NULLID and Me

Marcus Davage

What's new in MQ on z/OS - deep dive

Melvyn Maltz

Matt Leming
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AN

Why you should look at Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z

David Austin

Wilhelm Mild
IBM Europe
Session: 2AN

Streamlining Your Batch to use less time and CPU

Anna Dawson

z/OS Connect EE - monitoring and performance tuning

Rob Stroud

Mark Hiscock
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AN

Measuring the integrated accelerator for zEDC

Piara Singh Bhamra

Danilo Gipponi
EPV Technologies
Session: 6AN

Recruiting new Z talent - Lessons from the field.

Dr. Herbert Daly

Max Dahl
Mainframe Training
Session: 8AN

IBM z/OS Authorized Code Scanner (zACS)

Jamie Pease

Bryan Childs
IBM USA
Session: 1AO

How does Db2 z transform your SQL query for better performance

Colin Knight

Huong Tran
IBM USA
Session: 2AO

Fast and simple mechanics to share MF data with external applications.

Anna Dawson

Tim Reading
Luminex
Session: 3AO

Developing and Deploying Java EE and Spring Boot apps for CICS Liberty

Rob Stroud

Phil Wakelin
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AO

Is your IMS the best it can be?

Dominic Jackson

Dennis Eichelberger
IBM
Session: 5AO

Managing and optimizing workloads in a consumption based world

Piara Singh Bhamra

Chris Walker
IBM USA
Session: 6AO

New Mainframers talk candidly

Dr. Herbert Daly

MQ Clustering Deep Dive

Melvyn Maltz

Gwydion Tudur
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AP

Db2 12 for z/os and Assynchronous Systems Managed CF Structure Duplexing: Update

Marcus Davage

Mark Rader
IBM
Session: 2AP

Analyze IBM Z Operational Data Alongside Your Hybrid Cloud Data for End to End Observability

Anna Dawson

Daniel Wiegand
IBM
Session: 3AP

Software in space - what mainframers can learn from space missions !

Sophie Green

Joe Winchester
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AP

IMS CDC streaming to Modern Analytic Platforms - Lessons Learned

Dominic Jackson

Scott Quillicy
Precisely Limited
Session: 5AP

Disk storage 102 - A local real world example (with a bit of GDPS)

Christopher Knowles

Simon Fairbourn
Nationwide Building Society
Session: 6AP

Upgrade to z/OS 2.5 Planning Part 2 of 2

Rui Feio

Marna Walle
IBM USA
Session: 7AP

A more efficient use of DASD to Enable Cyber Data protection without Impact to Overall Capacity

Nigel Morton

Robin Fromm
DELL Technologies
Session: 8AP

What keyring? What certificates? All I know is TLS works only in Server Authentication!

Jamie Pease

Wai Choi
IBM USA
Session: 1AQ

How to connect Mainframe with Jenkins pipelines using USS

David Austin

Creating Unity Between your APM Application Owners and Z SMEs in a Truly Hybrid World

Anna Dawson

Taylor Donner
IBM USA
Session: 3AQ

Ansible for IBM Z. Lets get started!

Sophie Green

Bryant Panyarachun
IBM USA
Session: 4AQ

z/OS Container Extensions Part 2: Getting Started to Deploy zCX Appliance Instances

Rui Feio

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 5AQ

NetMaster Development Update and Roadmap Review

Niall Buchanan

Paul Schuler
Broadcom Inc.
Session: 6AQ

IBM z/OS Transparent Cloud Tiering - What's New and Improved

Nigel Morton

Working with Universities: Your first collaboration project!

Paul Fairbairn

Dr. Herbert Daly
University of Wolverhampton
Session: 8AQ

Banking Resiliency for Financial Services – new requirements need defences

Jamie Pease

Al Saurette
MainTegrity Inc
Session: 1AR

ISPF Master Class - Edit: from A to .ZLAST

Stuart Ashby

Dan Dirkse

Session: 2AR

Are You Truly Optimizing Resiliency on IBM Z?

Anna Dawson

Chris Taylor
21st Century Software, Inc.
Session: 3AR

Eliminating Dangerous Installation Exit Code

Rui Feio

Bob Rogers
Trident Services Inc
Session: 5AR

Cloud Pak for Data - Starter

Atul Bhovan

Toobah Qadeer
IBM
Session: 6AR

DFSMS Latest and Greatest

Nigel Morton

Barb McDonald
IBM USA
Session: 7AR