GSE UK Virtual Conference 2021

Virtually the best way to learn about Z


Sponsor: IBM

IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com

Sponsored Sessions

Session Code Stream Title Speaker
5AA LSWG Customer experiences and exploitation of TFP Hardware and Software Matthias Bangert
1AB MQ Data Mapping and Transformation Update for App Connect Dominic Storey
3AB Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics IBM Z Workload Scheduler roadmap and strategy Marco Cardelli
6AB zP&C Two Useful Open Source Performance Tools Martin Packer
2AC AppDev Innovative, open and automated testing for your z/OS applications William Yates
3AC Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics GDPS interfaces, a modern approach for managing your HA/DR on mainframe Anthony Morales
1AD ESWG RACF Update Mark Nelson
3AD Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Proactively Reduce System Issues by Leveraging Machine Learning and Real Time Anomaly Detection Daniel Wiegand
5AD LSWG Parallel Sysplex Update Stephen Warren
6AD 101 Mainframe Hardware 101 Lena Rösch
8AD Skills & Learning Z Xplore Joris Mertens
3AE Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics OpenTelemetry and Mainframe Application Performance Monitoring: How we figured out distributed tracing on Z Aaron Young
5AE LSWG Automating your IBM Z environment with Red Hat Ansible Dan Jast
6AE AppDev Building a modern app with Python and Z Open Automation Utilities Bill Pereira
7AE SMWG zHyperLink New Features and Real-World Experiences Beth Peterson
8AE Skills & Learning OMP Mainframe Open Education Project Yvette LeMar
3AG Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Zowe extensions in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Federica Gari
4AG CICS What's New in CICS Security Colin Penfold
6AG 102 Introduction to SA (Systems Automation) David Swift
7AH SMWG Cyber Resiliency with GDPS and Logical Corruption Protection Terry O'Connor
1AH MQ App Connect Enterprise Certified Container in CP4i Dominic Storey
4AH CICS CICS Foundation update John Tilling
3AI Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Import and Deploy Workload Automation Containers on Z Container Extensions (zCX) Marco Cardelli
5AI IMS Nuts and Bolts of IMS Lock Management Kevin Stewart
1AJ ESWG Introduction to RACROUTE Mark Nelson
5AJ LSWG Upgrade to z/OS 2.5 Planning Part 1 of 2 Marna Walle
6AJ zP&C System Recover Boost: Hitting the Turbo Button on z/OS Scott Chapman
8AJ Skills & Learning What skills are necesary for a future career? Melissa Sassi
1AK ESWG Trust No One Eysha Powers
2AK AppDev CICStart your mainframe with Zowe and open source tooling Joe Winchester
3AK Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics AIOps - Monitoring and Observability: What's New in OMEGAMON Ashok Mahay
4AK Network The ABCs of IBM Z NetView IP Management Pamela McLean
5AK LSWG z/OS Container Extensions Part 1: An Introduction to Running Containers Inside z/OS Stephen Warren
7AK SMWG IBM TS7700 What's New for 2021 Joe Swingler
K5 Keynote Infrastructure and Application Modernization on IBM Z with Red Hat OpenShift Marcel Mitran
1AM MQ What's new in MQ Jamie Squibb
4AM CICS The Future of APIs on Z Anthony Papageorgiou
5AM LSWG GDPS What's New - Recent GDPS enhancements to improve your CA/DR and Cyber Resiliency posture Dave Clitherow
1AN MQ What's new in MQ on z/OS - deep dive Matt Leming
2AN Linux on z Why you should look at Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z Wilhelm Mild
1AO ESWG IBM z/OS Authorized Code Scanner (zACS) Bryan Childs
2AO DB2 How does Db2 z transform your SQL query for better performance Huong Tran
4AO CICS Developing and Deploying Java EE and Spring Boot apps for CICS Liberty Phil Wakelin
5AO IMS Is your IMS the best it can be? Dennis Eichelberger
1AP MQ MQ Clustering Deep Dive Gwydion Tudur
2AP DB2 Db2 12 for z/os and Assynchronous Systems Managed CF Structure Duplexing: Update Mark Rader
7AP LSWG Upgrade to z/OS 2.5 Planning Part 2 of 2 Marna Walle
1AQ ESWG What keyring? What certificates? All I know is TLS works only in Server Authentication! Wai Choi
3AQ Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Creating Unity Between your APM Application Owners and Z SMEs in a Truly Hybrid World Taylor Donner
4AQ New Tech Ansible on Z Bryant Panyarachun
5AQ LSWG z/OS Container Extensions Part 2: Getting Started to Deploy zCX Appliance Instances Stephen Warren
7AQ SMWG IBM z/OS Transparent Cloud Tiering - What's New and Improved Lourie Goodall
2AR AppDev ISPF Master Class - Edit: from A to .ZLAST Dan Dirkse
6AR 101 Cloud Pak for Data - Starter Toobah Qadeer
7AR SMWG DFSMS Latest and Greatest Barb McDonald
7AS IMS Dev Ops and IMS (title TBC) Haley Fung
2AS Linux on z z/VM 7.2 Platform Update, News, and Recommendations Malcolm Beattie
3AS Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Create a unified and collaborative AIOps experience for IBM Z Wolfgang Schaeberle
4AS CICS Developing and modernizing CICS applications with Ansible Stewart Francis
1AT ESWG Securing your MQ channels with TLS Gwydion Tudur
3AT Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Dinosaurs, DWC and Docker Dean Harrison
4AT CICS CICS resource configuration for target environments Pradeep Gohil
1AU MQ Where's my z/OS message ? Matt Leming
4AU DB2 Db2 z/OS housekeeping best practices Michal Bialecki
1AV MQ Ensuring message high availability with your IBM MQ systems Jamie Squibb
2AV Linux on z Linux on IBM Z and Linux ONE - What's New Stefan Raspl
4AV New Tech Data Gate: Current and Consistent Db2 for z/OS Data on any Cloud Sowmya Kameswaran
5AV LSWG IBM z/OS on z15 Hardware Marna Walle
2AW AppDev Scripting with Groovy Daniel R Bruce
3AW Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Roadmap to achieve full mobile-to-mainframe hybrid cloud visibility with Instana Chris Walker
5AW LSWG z/OS Container Extensions Part 3: zCX Use Cases and Demonstration Stephen Warren
7AW SMWG IBM TS7700 as a DS8000 Object Store: New features and deep dive Lourie Goodall
3AY Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Lockdown Dean Harrison
4AY CICS Producing and consuming messages in Kafka from CICS applications Mark Cocker
3AZ Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Risk-free adhoc workload in your IWSz-CP by self-services Jens Bühring
4AZ CICS Galasa Half Full: Bring back the optimism to integration testing James Davies
1BA MQ Making sense of queues and event streams Matt Leming
2BA Linux on z Red Hat OpenShift Multi-cluster and Multi-Architecture : x86, Power and IBM Z Sebastien LLaurency
5BA IMS IMS and the Relational Database Robert Recknagel
6BA zP&C The needs for mainframe capacity management and planning in a hybrid cloud world Chris Walker
2BB DB2 2021 Edition - Db2 for z/OS Development "SWAT Tales" Anthony Ciabattoni
3BB Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Reduce Root Cause Problem Determination Time by Analyzing Anomalous Behavior Daniel Wiegand
5BB LSWG Using open-source languages to modernize business-critical applications on z/OS Roland Koo
7BB SMWG DFSMShsm UNIX File backup support Andrew Wilt
2BC Linux on z z/VM Centralised Service: Remote Service Management Richard Lewis
5BC LSWG Protecting data through encryption of Coupling Facility Structures Stephen Warren
7BC SMWG What's New on the IBM DS8900F Storage Family Beth Peterson
K10 Keynote TBD Meredith Stowell
3BE Batch/Workload Scheduling or System Automation, Monitoring and Analytics Z System Automation for APP Developer & Operation by Young Professionals Bernd (Josi) Jostmeyer
4BE CICS CICS transaction-level testing with IBM Z Virtual Test Platform Steve Foley
6BE 102 All of the old with all of the new - Mainframe automation, scripting, orchestration, and devops with Zowe Joe Winchester
1BF MQ What's new in App Connect Enterprise 12 Alison Lucas
4BF CICS CICS Q and A - Ask the experts AKA Chump the Chimp Nick Garrod
7BG LSWG Introducing REST-enabled BCPii: A whole new way of controlling your Z hardware! Stephen Warren
5BH LSWG How can I use open source languages to modernize business-critical applications on z/OS? Jennifer Rowan
7BH IMS Good, Better, Best - are you Buffering IMS Efficiently? Suzie Wendler
8BH Skills & Learning IBM Z Global Skills Accelerator Shelly Meierarend
1BI ESWG What's New in z/OS Crypto Eysha Powers
5BI LSWG Ansible for SysProgs Bill Pereira
6BI Network Resolving User Problems with the Z NetView REST Server Pamela McLean
8BI IBM AI Identify insights from your data using AI on IBM Z - Making Realtime Insight a Reality Elpida Tzortzatos
4BJ 101 Parallel Sysplex Basics Stephen Warren
5BJ LSWG JES3plus I/O Improvements Ed Jaffe
7BJ SMWG New Ways to Protect Your Data at Rest with z/OS Data Set Encryption Cecilia Lewis