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Plug into the Future of Infrastructure
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Energize Your Team's Performance – Think Like an Improv Actor
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Birds of a Feather - Resiliency is not an Accident
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Menitoring Collaboration (Lunch & Learn)
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Registration & Coffee07:30 - 09:00 |
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Morning Coffee Break - 30 Minutes10:15 - 10:45 |
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10:45 -
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Git on the mainframe, a natural fit Stuart Ashby
Anthony Anter 
AppDev
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GDPS What's New - Recent GDPS enhancements to improve your CA/DR and Cyber Resiliency capabilities TBC
Dave Clitherow
LSWG
Rui Feio |
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Observability for Managing the Modern Mainframe David Swift
Michael Kiehl
Systems Management
David Swift |
Db2 Version 13 for z/OS: Technical Overview. Colin Knight
Haakon Roberts
DB2
Colin Knight |
GSE 101 Introductions (3 Presentations) Atul Bhovan
Niall Ashley
Zuhair Munshi
101
Atul Bhovan |
Surgical recovery for your Cyber Vault Nigel Morton
Butch Rambish
Storage
Nigel Morton |
Extend and Modernize z/OS ecosystem with IBM z/OS Container Extensions for Red Hat OpenShift. Geoff Eggleston
Rakesh Krishnakumar
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
Women in the mainframe world – yes we exist and are thriving! Aileen Wynne
Michelle Harris
Dolly Popat
Women in IT
Aileen Wynne |
Evaluating Latent Demand in the M.A.D. Mainframe Environment TBC
Peter Enrico
zP&C
TBC |
Click your way through to install VIP (Very Important PTFs) to your z/OS stack! David Lea
Marna Walle
102
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15 Minute Break11:45 - 12:00 |
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DB2 understands in-memory is important, so should the application developers Stuart Ashby
Nathan Brice
AppDev
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Python on z/OS (with MQ) - WOW! Melvyn Maltz
Colin Paice
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
Leveraging z16 AI accelerator: a live demo of deploying and running AI models on Z Keith Banham
Anna Shugol
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
Moving to Open API 3 and Hybrid architectures with z/OS Connect and CICS Rob Stroud
Jenny He
CICS
Rob Stroud |
Re-imagine Managing Your z/OS Systems Using the z/OSMF Management Services Catalog! TBC
Marna Walle
LSWG
Rui Feio |
Snakes, Security and Saving Time TBC
Henri Kuiper
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
You’re only as resilient as your weakest link Dave Swift
Chris Taylor
Systems Management
Dave Swift |
Your statistics are safe with me, statistics profile revealed Marcus Davage
Nilufer Osken
DB2
Marcus Davage |
Detecting, Diagnosing, and Solving Common Network Problems Niall Buchanan
Phillip Schoen
Austin Jones
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
Mentoring Collaboration - GSE101 Paul Fairbairn
Dr. Herbert Daly
101
Paul Fairbairn |
What's New on the IBM DS8900F Storage Family Nigel Morton
Beth Peterson
Storage
Nigel Morton |
Customer Experiences Managing z/VM and Linux TBC
Tracy Dean
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
Aileen Wynne
Pooja Uppalapati
Jyotsna Chatradhi
Women in IT
Aileen Wynne |
Tips for DBAs and Application Programmers to help reduce costs TBC
Dhrubajyoti Maiti
Steve Solomon
zP&C
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Mentoring Collaboration - GSE102 Paul Fairbairn
Dr. Herbert Daly
101
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Menitoring Collaboration (Lunch & Learn) Paul Fairbairn
Dr. Herbert Daly
101
Paul Fairbairn |
Mentoring Collaboration (Lunch & Learn) Paul Fairbairn
Dr. Herbert Daly
101
Paul Fairbairn |
Mentoring Collaboration (Lunch & Learn) Paul Fairbairn
Dr. Herbert Daly
101
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Lunch ... Astons & Grand Prix13:00 - 14:00 |
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Create a z/OS instance in a coffee break Stuart Ashby
Dr. Chris Poole
AppDev
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Working title : IzWS and RestAPI Anna Dawson
Federica Gari
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
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Developing for the Mainframe the Git-native Way Keith Banham
Vaughn Marshall
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
Simplified security and compliance with CICS 6.1 Rob Stroud
Lewis James
CICS
Rob Stroud |
Do you THINK your DR / HA / Recovery works or did you TEST it? TBC
Matthias Bangert
LSWG
Rui Feio |
Ransomware, gaps in SMF records, and detection options Jamie Pease
Trevor Eddolls
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
Mobile to Mainframe Observability: Detecting hybrid application issues faster David Swift
Chris Walker
Systems Management
David Swift |
Managing DRDA clients, and more, with Db2 System Profile Monitoring Colin Knight
Mark Rader
DB2
Colin Knight |
IBM Z NetView Technical Update Part 1 of 2 Niall Buchanan
Pamela McLean
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
Appealing to the future Z pioneers - GSE101 Niall Ashley
Max Dahl
101
Niall Ashley |
zHyperLink New Features and Real-World Experiences Nigel Morton
Beth Peterson
Storage
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Simplifying the Administration of IMS with a web browser interface Dominic Jackson
Tracy Dean
IMS
Dominic Jackson |
Just Say No: A Case For Eliminating I/O Priority Management TBC
John Baker
zP&C
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The 102’s of application design for Db2 for z/OS Christopher Knowles
Patric Becker
102
Christopher Knowles |
Unconscious Bias Affects Technologies as Well as People Mark Wilson
Misty Decker
Microfocus
Mark Wilson |
15 Minute Break15:00 - 15:15 |
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How to prevent job failures through advanced JCL checking Stuart Ashby
Domenico D'Alterio
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
Automate your Workload Automation (WA) through suitable orchestration Anna Dawson
Jens Bühring
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
IBM MQ Advanced - What it Does and What it Does for You Melvyn Maltz
TBC
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
Cloud based Mainframe Application Development: Reality or a Myth? Keith Banham
Venkat Balabhadrapatruni
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
Application modernisation with Java on CICS Rob Stroud
Phil Wakelin
CICS
Rob Stroud |
Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift Cluster deployments on z/OS using zCX TBC
Stephen Warren
LSWG
Rui Feio |
Hiding Among Bits - A Digital Forensic Saga Jamie Pease
Cristian Coraci
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
Untangling Business Applications and How to Identify Them Dave Swift
Tomas Pavelka
Michal Kramaric
Systems Management
Dave Swift |
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Niall Buchanan
Austin Jones
Phillip Schoen
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
Do you have a Flexible Cloud Storage Strategy? Nigel Morton
Perry Jones
Storage
Nigel Morton |
OpenShift on Z: Practical Experience, Yet Another Year On Geoff Eggleston
Malcolm Beattie
zVM & Linux on Z
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Afternoon Refreshments - 30 Minutes16:15 - 16:45 |
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DevSecOps – Preventing Supply Chain Attacks while securing your DevOps process Stuart Ashby
Al Saurette
AppDev
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Ensuring the security of your applications with CICS 6.1 Rob Stroud
Lewis James
CICS
Rob Stroud |
More ways to manage z/OS with SDSF for z/OS 2.5 TBC
Rob Scott
LSWG
Rui Feio |
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Tuning SQL using EXPLAIN STMTCACHE Marcus Davage
Claus Ejner Mikkelsen
DB2
Marcus Davage |
Cyber Resiliency with GDPS and Logical Corruption Protection - Update Nigel Morton
Terry O'Connor
Storage
Nigel Morton |
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE TBC
Rakesh Krishnakumar
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
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Data Replication Concepts and Capabilities Christopher Knowles
Nick Clayton
102
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15 Minute Break17:45 - 18:00 |
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Evening Meal & Bar19:00 - 21:00 |
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Becketts |
Catalunya |
Chapel |
Hockenheim |
Hungaroring |
Indianapolis |
Melbourne |
Monaco |
Nurburgring |
Stowe |
Suzuka |
Vale |
Wellington A |
Wellington B |
Woodcote |
Monza |
Copse |
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Time
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Becketts TBC |
Catalunya TBC |
Chapel TBC |
Hockenheim TBC |
Hungaroring TBC |
Indianapolis TBC |
Melbourne TBC |
Monaco TBC |
Nurburgring TBC |
Stowe TBC |
Suzuka Niall Ashley |
Vale TBC |
Wellington A TBC |
Wellington B TBC |
Woodcote TBC |
Monza TBC |
Copse TBC |
Registration & Coffee08:00 - 09:00 |
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15 Minute Break10:00 - 10:15 |
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10:15 -
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If great testing is a data problem, how are you solving it? Stuart Ashby
Anthony Anter
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
What’s new in OMEGAMON to make your life easier? Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
What’s New in App Connect Enterprise 12.0.5 Melvyn Maltz
Dominic Storey
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
Accelerate Modern Development on Z with Secure Open-Source Innovation Keith Banham
Peter Fandel
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
Enhancing the foundation of CICS 6.1 Rob Stroud
John Tilling
CICS
Rob Stroud |
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Continuous Compliance on IBM Z and LinuxONE Jamie Pease
Michael Zagorski
Matthew Meck
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
Db2 for z/OS Data Sharing: Configurations and Common Issues Marcus Davage
Mark Rader
DB2
Marcus Davage |
New Mainframers Talk Candidly - GSE101 Zuhair Munshi
Earl Dixon
101
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Backup Strategies for z/VM and Linux TBC
Tracy Dean
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
Overview, usage, and best practices of IMS DEDB SDEP portion and SDEP segment types Dominic Jackson
Anshul Agrawal
IMS
Dominic Jackson |
z/OS Connect Identifying and Analyzing Failures TBC
Sean McShane
Phillip Schoen
zP&C
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Morning Coffee Break - 30 Minutes11:15 - 11:45 |
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Zowe (r)evolution with V2 and beyond Stuart Ashby
Jakub Balhar
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
How to gain x-ray vision into your workload inter-dependencies Anna Dawson
Daniel Wiegand
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
What’s New in App Connect Enterprise Certified Containers Melvyn Maltz
Dominic Storey
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
What is Data fabric for the hybrid cloud enterprise and what does it mean for your Z data? Keith Banham
Sowmya Kameswaran
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
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Ansible, our lessons from a real project TBC
William Periera
LSWG
Rui Feio |
Are You Trying Everything You Have In ACF2/Top Secret? Jamie Pease
John Pinkowski
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
Continuous Delivery - Navigating from Db2 12 to Db2 13 Colin Knight
Chris Crone
DB2
Colin Knight |
An Overview of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Niall Buchanan
Phillip Schoen
Austin Jones
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
Sustainable Decision-making in IT Infrastructure Zuhair Munshi
Liz Dore
101
Zuhair Munshi |
TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a known value, so What’s New? Nigel Morton
John Hogan
Storage
Nigel Morton |
Modernizing the Great z/VM Platform TBC
James Vincent
Rich Smrcina
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
Customer Experiences Managing the IMS Subsystem Dominic Jackson
Tracy Dean
IMS
Dominic Jackson |
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ACF2 vs RACF (not a competition) Christopher Knowles
Eamonn McGrath
102
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Lunch ... Astons & Grand Prix12:45 - 13:45 |
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Using Git As An Interface to DevOps Tools Stuart Ashby
Vaughn Marshall
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
AIOps - Using your OMEGAMON data with your visualization and AI/ML platform of choice. Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
Using MQ for z/OS Statistics and Accounting Data to Gain Insights Into Your Queue Manager Melvyn Maltz
TBC
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
Practical approach to deploying Hybrid Cloud environment on Z Keith Banham
Anna Shugol
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
CICS Performance and Tuning 101 Rob Gould
Ezriel Gross
CICS
Rob Gould |
The Latest Simplification News in z/OSMF V2.5 TBC
Marna Walle
LSWG
Rui Feio |
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IBM Z NetView Technical Update Part 2 of 2 Niall Buchanan
Pamela McLean
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
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IBM z/OS Container Extensions for Red Hat OpenShift – Hands-on Lab TBC
Rakesh Krishnakumar
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
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Best Practices for Monitoring JVMs on z/OS TBC
Sean McShane
zP&C
TBC |
An Introduction to z/OS BCPii – How to control your Z hardware programmatically Christopher Knowles
Stephen Warren
102
Christopher Knowles |
Shh! Don't Say the M-Words; How to Talk About Mainframes and Modernization Mark Wilson
Misty Decker
Microfocus
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15 Minute Break14:45 - 15:00 |
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Zigi The ISPF Git interface for the rest of us Stuart Ashby
Henri Kuiper
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
Anna Dawson
Boudewijn Dekkema
Systems Management
Anna Dawson |
An Introduction to and Comparison of the Different MQ APIs Melvyn Maltz
Jamie Squibb
MQ
Melvyn Maltz |
Our first 90 Days with IBM Telum's AI Keith Banham
David Helsley
Kirill Maiantsev
New Technologies
Keith Banham |
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IBM z16 - Building a foundation for planning z16 exploitation. TBC
Parwez Hamid
LSWG
Rui Feio |
The Path to an Encrypted RACF Data Set Jamie Pease
Mark Nelson
Security Working Group
Jamie Pease |
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Ensure the Integrity and Security of your Enterprise Network Niall Buchanan
Phillip Schoen
Austin Jones
NMWG
Niall Buchanan |
Mind-numbing vs Mind-blowing: Energize Your Next Technical Presentation - GSE101 Niall Ashley
Glenn Anderson
101
Niall Ashley |
IBM TS7700: Technical Overview and What’s New Nigel Morton
Lourie Goodall
Storage
Nigel Morton |
Installing Red Hat OpenShift on RHEL KVM on IBM Z – Hands-on Lab TBC
Rakesh Krishnakumar
zVM & Linux on Z
Geoff Eggleston |
What does IBM Z Cyber Vault Mean for an IMS environment? Dominic Jackson
Tracy Dean
IMS
Dominic Jackson |
Predicting Application Migration Workload Impact TBC
Linda Carroll
zP&C
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Afternoon Refreshments - 30 Minutes16:00 - 16:30 |
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Transforming Db2 for z/OS Application Development Experience Stuart Ashby
Katherine Soohoo
AppDev
Stuart Ashby |
Monitoring Java and z/OS Connect EE APIs: Discover, Alert and Optimize Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Systems Management
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