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

Customer experiences and exploitation of TFP Hardware and Software

Joseph Kingham

Matthias Bangert
IBM
Session: 5AA

Two Useful Open Source Performance Tools

Piara Singh Bhamra

Martin Packer
IBM UK LTD.
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

Modern Data Protection Methodologies

Nigel Morton

Tim Reading
Luminex
Session: 7AB

Tales from the Dark Side - 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

William Yates
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 2AC

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

Anna Dawson

Anthony Morales
IBM
Session: 3AC

Capacity Management in a Changing World

Piara Singh Bhamra

Daniel Ruehl
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

Intro to z/OS

Lena Rosch

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 6AD

Banking Resiliency for Financial Services – new requirements need defences

Jamie Pease

Al Saurette
MainTegrity Inc
Session: 1AE

Manage your z/VM systems and your private on-prem Cloud with zPRO

David Austin

James Vincent
Velocity Software GmbH
Session: 2AE

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

Anna Dawson

Nicole Nemec
IBM
Session: 3AE

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

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

Brian Crane
Micro Focus
Session: 2AG

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

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 "at-rest" with Key Label for Db2 in z/os

Colin Knight

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

Yuliya Varonina
IBA Group
Session: 3AH

CICS Foundation update

Rob Stroud

John Tilling
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AH

Mainframe Hardware 101

Lena Rosch

Lena Rosch
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 6AH

Cyber Resiliency with GDPS and Logical Corruption Protection

Nigel Morton

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

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

Installing the Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) on the Mainframe

Anna Dawson

Marco Cardelli
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AI

Migrating to the MQ appliance - A customer's experience

Melvyn Maltz

Paul Milner
Allied Irish Bank, P.l.c.
Session: 4AI

The Journey to Tailored Fit Pricing

Piara Singh Bhamra

Steven Thomas
SMT Data
Session: 6AI

Introduction to RACROUTE

Jamie Pease

Mark Nelson
IBM USA
Session: 1AJ

Sharing is Caring:Learning about Db2 data sharing

Colin Knight

Neeraj Ahuja
BMC Software Ltd
Session: 2AJ

Millennialization of the Mainframe and Beyond

Anna Dawson

Ewan Stewart
ASG
Session: 3AJ

Coding for fun, comparing REXX and COBOL

Stuart Ashby

Henri Kuiper
zDevOps
Session: 4AJ

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

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

Ashok Mahay
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 3AK

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?

Piara Singh Bhamra

Martin Packer & Scott Ballentine
IBM
Session: 6AK

IBM TS7700 What's New for 2021

Nigel Morton

Eddie Lin
IBM USA
Session: 7AK

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

The Many Benefits of Proper Batch Initiation

Anna Dawson

Kelly Vogt
Compuware USA
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

Colin Knight

Gareth Copplestone-Jones
Triton Consulting
Session: 7AM

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

Kim Mortensen
BMC Software
Session: 3AN

z/OS Connect EE - monitoring, performance tuning and capacity planning

Rob Stroud

Mark Hiscock
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AN

Measuring the integrated accelerator for zEDC

Piara Singh Bhamra

Danilo Gipponi
EPV Technologies
Session: 6AN

Optimize z/OS Performance with Easy-to-Use, Actionable Analytics

Rui Feio

Guy Muller
Rocket Software
Session: 7AN

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

CICS Java Liberty and SpringBoot

Rob Stroud

Phil Wakelin
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AO

Managing and optimizing workloads in a consumption based world

Piara Singh Bhamra

Chris Walker
IBM USA
Session: 6AO

Where are all the user exits active?

Rui Feio

Mike FitzGerald
Fitz Software & Co.
Session: 7AO

MQ Clustering Deep Dive

Melvyn Maltz

Gwydion Tudur
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AP

Db2 Clients, Connect, gateways - what do I really need ?

Colin Knight

Christoph Theisen
Rocket Software
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

Upgrade to z/OS 2.5 Planning Part 2 of 2

Rui Feio

Marna Walle
IBM USA
Session: 7AP

What's new in IBM Z Security?

Jamie Pease

Michael Zagorski
IBM USA
Session: 1AQ

How to connect Mainframe with Jenkins pipelines using USS

David Austin

Uladzislau Kalesnikau
IBA Group
Session: 2AQ

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

Anna Dawson

Nicole Nemec
IBM
Session: 3AQ

Ansible on Z

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

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

Nigel Morton

Eddie Lin
IBM USA
Session: 7AQ

Addressing the Top 3 Concerns with Privileged Users

Jamie Pease

Brian Marshall
Vanguard Integrity Professionals Ltd
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

Lena Rosch

Toobah Qadeer
IBM
Session: 6AR

DFSMS Latest and Greatest

Nigel Morton

Barb McDonald
IBM USA
Session: 7AR

Why the Mainframe Needs Modernized Connection and Protection

Jamie Pease

Malcolm Trigg
Micro Focus
Session: 1AS

z/VM 7.2 Platform Update, News, and Recommendations

David Austin

Malcolm Beattie
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 2AS

Create a unified and collaborative AIOps experience for IBM Z

Anna Dawson

Wolfgang Schaeberle
IBM Europe
Session: 3AS

Developing and modernizing CICS applications with Ansible

Rob Stroud

Stewart Francis
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AS

Securing your MQ channels with TLS

Jamie Pease

Gwydion Tudur
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AT

Modernizing Code Older Than You Are: One Newbie’s Journey

Stuart Ashby

Gary Evans
Micro Focus
Session: 2AT

Dinosaurs, DWC and Docker

Anna Dawson

Dean Harrison
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AT

CICS resource configuration for target environments

Rob Stroud

Pradeep Gohil
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AT

z/OS Terminology

Lena Rosch

Keith Sisson
Compuware UK Ltd
Session: 6AT

Where's my z/OS message ?

Melvyn Maltz

Matt Leming
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AU

Hybrid DevOps at Scale – A Case Study in Engineering Excellence

Stuart Ashby

Per Kroll
Broadcom
Session: 2AU

10 tips to reach Mainframe Operational Excellence (or not)!

Anna Dawson

Melissa Leroy
ZETALY
Session: 3AU

Db2 z/OS housekeeping best practices

Colin Knight

Michal Bialecki
IBM
Session: 4AU

Analyzing z/OS SMF capture ratios

Rui Feio

Barton Robinson
Velocity Software GmbH
Session: 5AU

Mainframe Performance Tuning

Piara Singh Bhamra

Mary Solomon
SMT Data
Session: 6AU

A mainframer's guide to object storage

Nigel Morton

Offer Baruch
Model9
Session: 7AU

Ensuring message high availability with your IBM MQ systems

Melvyn Maltz

Jamie Squibb
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1AV

Linux on IBM Z and Linux ONE - What's New

David Austin

Stefan Raspl
IBM Europe
Session: 2AV

How can Workload Automation Intelligence provide key insights into reducing SLA breaches?

Anna Dawson

Edward Blazejewski
Broadcom Inc.
Session: 3AV

Data Gate: Current and Consistent Db2 for z/OS Data on any Cloud

Sophie Green

Sowmya Kameswaran
IBM USA
Session: 4AV

IBM z/OS on z15 Hardware

Rui Feio

Marna Walle
IBM USA
Session: 5AV

How long is too long? Multi-period Service Classes

Piara Singh Bhamra

John Baker
IntelliMagic
Session: 6AV

CICS performance, monitoring, and statistics: Making sense of all the numbers

Rob Stroud

Dan Zachary
IBM USA
Session: 7AV

Imagine How Much You Can Learn Exploring MQ Statistics and Accounting Data

Melvyn Maltz

Todd Havekost
IntelliMagic
Session: 1AW

Scripting with Groovy

Stuart Ashby

Daniel R Bruce
IBM
Session: 2AW

Roadmap to achieve full mobile-to-mainframe hybrid cloud visibility with Instana

Anna Dawson

Nicole Nemec
IBM
Session: 3AW

CICS performance and tuning 101

Rob Stroud

Ezriel Gross
Rocket Software
Session: 4AW

z/OS Container Extensions Part 3: zCX Use Cases and Demonstration

Rui Feio

Stephen Warren
IBM
Session: 5AW

Watson & Walker’s ZedRoadShow

Piara Singh Bhamra

Frank Kyne
Watson & Walker, Inc.
Session: 6AW

Why visibility and surgical recovery is needed for true cyber resiliency

Nigel Morton

Chris Walker
IBM USA
Session: 7AW

Modern Coding & Debugging Experiences Using VS Code for Mainframe Software

Stuart Ashby

Azat Satklichov

Session: 1AY

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

Colin Knight

Mark Rader
IBM
Session: 2AY

Lockdown

Anna Dawson

Dean Harrison
HCL Technologies
Session: 3AY

Producing and consuming messages in Kafka from CICS applications

Rob Stroud

Mark Cocker
IBM UK
Session: 4AY

Measuring cryptographic activities in z/OS

Piara Singh Bhamra

Danilo Gipponi
EPV Technologies
Session: 6AY

Hitachi Vantara - Whats New - VSP5000 Solutions Update

Nigel Morton

Simon Dorn
Hitachi Vantara Ltd
Session: 7AY

Data Privacy for Diagnostics - best practice challenges in data centers' daily routine

Jamie Pease

Dr. Stephen Fedtke
Enterprise-IT-Security.com
Session: 1AZ

Simplifying & optimizing Db2 end-to-end multi-platform performance analysis from a DevOps APM perspective

Colin Knight

Mike Moss
Value-4IT LTD
Session: 2AZ

Risk-free adhoc workload in your IWSz-CP by self-services

Anna Dawson

Jens Bühring
HORIZONT Software GmbH
Session: 3AZ

Refreshing CICS programs - different technologies and different skills

Rob Stroud

Russell Bonner
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 4AZ

Making sense of queues and event streams

Melvyn Maltz

Matt Leming
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 1BA

Red Hat OpenShift Multi-cluster and Multi-Architecture : x86, Power and IBM Z

David Austin

Sebastien LLaurency
IBM Europe
Session: 2BA

TBD

Anna Dawson

Anna Dawson
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 3BA

Modern UX/UI guidelines in the world of Mainframe

Stuart Ashby

Kiryl Branavitski
IBA Group
Session: 4BA

The needs for mainframe capacity management and planning in a hybrid cloud world

Piara Singh Bhamra

Chris Walker
IBM USA
Session: 6BA

Understanding PARMLIB for a successful IPL

Rui Feio

Mike FitzGerald
Fitz Software & Co.
Session: 7BA

UNIXPRIV Class

Jamie Pease

Robert Hansel
RSH Consulting, Inc
Session: 1BB

2021 Edition - Db2 for z/OS Development "SWAT Tales"

Colin Knight

Anthony Ciabattoni
IBM USA
Session: 2BB

Reduce Root Cause Problem Determination Time by Analyzing Anomalous Behavior

Anna Dawson

Daniel Wiegand
IBM
Session: 3BB

AppDev credential managem

Stuart Ashby

Craig Hartwell
CyberArk
Session: 4BB

Using open-source languages to modernize business-critical applications on z/OS

Rui Feio

Roland Koo
IBM
Session: 5BB

DFSMShsm UNIX File backup support

Nigel Morton

Andrew Wilt
IBM USA
Session: 7BB

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

Jamie Pease

Wai Choi
IBM USA
Session: 1BC

z/VM Centralised Service: Remote Service Management

David Austin

Richard Lewis
IBM USA
Session: 2BC

IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager - Spend less time Administering your OMEGAMON environments

Anna Dawson

Ashok Mahay
IBM UK LTD.
Session: 3BC

Dynamic environment provision at Lloyds Banking Group

Stuart Ashby

Reg Wilkinson
Lloyds Banking Group
Session: 4BC