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Own Your Origin Story: Embracing Diversi... Aileen Wynne
Richelle Anne Craw
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Women in IT
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Unlocking the Power of Mainframes: A Beg... Elitsa Popova
Meena Chand
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WAVEZ 101
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Diving into z/OS Open Source Development... Donna Hudi
Igor Todorovski
Harithamma D
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Acting on Near Real-Time SMF Data: Proac...
Steven Thomas
Frank Tidemand
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zP&C
Nathan Appleby |
Storage update from Hitachi Vantara, Cyb... Mikhael Liberman
Alain BEAUREGARD
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Storage
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My Mainframe Honeypot - A week of consta... Rui Feio
Kevin Milne
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Security Working Group
Rui Feio |
Unlocking the Power of IMS Shared Queues... Dominic Jackson
Vaibhav Sharma
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What's new in Security for CICS TS 6.2 Robert Stroud
Mark Pocock
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CICS
Robert Stroud |
Easier than you think: Mainframes and Li... Elitsa Popova
John Baker
VR2
WAVEZ 101
Elitsa Popova |
Seamless MQ Upgrades: Leveraging Ansible... Raminta Raguckaite
Dragos Gheorghe
Klaudiusz Konieczka
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MQ
Raminta Raguckaite |
Embracing Modern Open Source tools on z/... Donna Hudi
Igor Todorovski
Harithamma D
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Open Mainframe Project
Donna Hudi |
Java shared classes and other corners of...
Colin Paice
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zP&C
Nathan Appleby |
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Db2 for z/OS Data Sharing Performance Tu... Colin Knight
John Campbell
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Db2
Colin Knight |
Defragmentation in IMS Databases – Myths... Dominic Jackson
Sahil Gupta
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Dominic Jackson |
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Developing CICS applications your way, u... Robert Stroud
Andrew Twydell
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CICS
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Lightning Strikes, Mainframe Resiliency... Elitsa Popova
Ben Davis
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WAVEZ 101
Elitsa Popova |
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Turning the tables on Cyber Criminals Sue Parsons
Allen Saurette
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Security Working Group
Sue Parsons |
Securing the monster under the bed with... Marcus Davage
Keziah Knopp
VR9
Db2
Marcus Davage |
The Final Countdown: Preparing for the I... Dominic Jackson
Anshul Agrawal
VR10
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Dominic Jackson |
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Is it time to exchange CICS Web Service... Robert Stroud
Andrew Smithson
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CICS
Robert Stroud |
Wowee it's Zowe opening up the mainframe... Elitsa Popova
Joe Winchester
VR2
WAVEZ 101
Elitsa Popova |
Basics on using Python with z/OS Maemalynn Meanor
Steven Pitman
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Open Mainframe Project
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z/OS Communications Server Technical Upd... Niall Buchanan
Sam Reynolds
Michael Fitzpatrick
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Network Management
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Tackling Insider Threats Before They Str... Rui Feio
Johnathan Crossno
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Security Working Group
Rui Feio |
How to write non-noobie assembler Eddie Roe
Rob Scott
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LSWG
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Unsung Heroes of the Db2 for z/OS Applic... Colin Knight
Emil Kotrc
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Db2
Colin Knight |
Personal IMS – expanding ZXP hands-on ca... Dominic Jackson
Ross Cruickshank
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Exploring Future Directions with AI on I... Henri Kuiper
Stephen Warren
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AI
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Developing CICS applications your way, u... Tom Baskerville
Dave Nice
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WAVEZ 102
Tom Baskerville |
Building a Zero Trust and Secure IBM MQ... Raminta Raguckaite
Gwydion Tudur
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MQ
Raminta Raguckaite |
The Next Generation of Mainframers Maemalynn Meanor
John Mertic
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Open Mainframe Project
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z/OS Communications Server Network Secur... Niall Buchanan
Navya Ramanjulu
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Network Management
Niall Buchanan |
Nines All the Way Down: Resiliency for L... Sue Parsons
Brian W Hugenbruch
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Security Working Group
Sue Parsons |
Recent Highlights in z/OS 3.1 and a Snea... Eddie Roe
Stephen Warren
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IMS OTMA Use of Virtual Storage Dominic Jackson
Stephen Nathan
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New products, features and functionaliti... Stuart Ashby
Roland Koo
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From Skills Shortage to Skills Accelerat... Alzares Stephens
Vineet Dumir
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Unlocking Efficiency: A Deep Dive into I... Tom Baskerville
Anshul Agrawal
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WAVEZ 102
Tom Baskerville |
IBM MQ and Kafka, what’s the difference... Raminta Raguckaite
Gwydion Tudur
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Improve your RTO & RPO with a multi-site... Mikhael Liberman
Nathan Brice
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Best Practices for Securely Bypassing z/... Rui Feio
Emil Kotrc
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Enhancing z/OS Resiliency and Security:... Eddie Roe
Joshua Stiles
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Platform Engineering Use Cases: The Self... Stuart Ashby
Per Kroll
Venkat Balabhadrapatruni
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Breaking Barriers: The Power of Diversit... Aileen Wynne
Jessielaine Punongbayan
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Women in IT
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Where does your Ansible code come from? Ricki West
Fabio Alessandro Locati
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WAVEZ 102
Ricki West |
Stop Agonizing & Start Virtualizing Keith Banham
Jim Wankowski
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New Technologies
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Unlocking DB2 Performance: Key Metrics f...
Mary Solomon
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IBM Z Workload Scheduler - What's new wi... Anna Dawson
Marco Cardelli
Cecilia Baglioni
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Service Management
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Securing FTP - What's all the Fuss about Sue Parsons
Colin van der Ross
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Security Working Group
Sue Parsons |
X'6А'(BCPii) integration with OPS/MVS Eddie Roe
Ravi Gaur
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Taming Page Splits: Reduced Stress for D... Colin Knight
Saurabh Pandey
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Colin Knight |
Git Branching: Moving to recommended mod... Stuart Ashby
Ian Mitchell
Dennis Behm
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Improving resilience and scalability wit... Robert Stroud
Jenny He
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Integrating with the mainframe - you hav... Ricki West
Andrew Smithson
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WAVEZ 102
Ricki West |
The diminishing returns curve...or audit... David Ahearn
Colman O'Carroll
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Mainframe Audit
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Observability 2.0 - Much more than just... Keith Banham
Neel Shah
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Quantum Computer Hybrid Cloud SOC Analyt... Rui Feio
Casimer DeCusatis
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Security Working Group
Rui Feio |
Defend yourself against Logical Data Cor... Eddie Roe
Nathan Brice
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Metrics in DevOps: Buckle Up for a Rolle... Stuart Ashby
Atul Bhovan
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Unveiling the Ways to Audit Resources an... David Ahearn
Rogerio Eugenio Malaquias Camargo
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Optimising IBM IMS Buffer Pools for Enha... Dominic Jackson
Amar Verma
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CICS Banking Sample Application: Our CI/... Robert Stroud
Justin Taylor
Tom Slattery
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Robert Stroud |
Unsung Hero of z/OS Mainframes - JCL Ricki West
Prema Jogdand
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WAVEZ 101
Ricki West |
What are RACF "Industry Best Practices"? David Ahearn
Daniel Burk
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Mainframe Audit
David Ahearn |
Bring The Proven Power of Ansible Softwa... Keith Banham
Jan Prihoda
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New Technologies
Keith Banham |
Customising IzWS Panel EQQAJCLE a.k.a. A... Anna Dawson
Anna Dawson
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Service Management
Anna Dawson |
RACF Update: z/OS 3.1 and More! Rui Feio
Mark Nelson
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Security Working Group
Rui Feio |
Best Practices for managing distributed... Colin Knight
Anthony Ciabattoni
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Db2
Colin Knight |
Addressing Enterprise Pain Points in IBM... Stuart Ashby
René De Vleeschauwer
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CICSPlex SM - A Minimalist Approach Robert Stroud
Ezriel Gross
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Robert Stroud |
The Evolving Landscape of Database Admin... Ricki West
Sameer Satyavolu
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WAVEZ 101
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Configuring the z/OS Container Platform Keith Banham
Paul Gartman
Ben Hicks
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IBM Z Operations Unite streamline mainfr... Anna Dawson
Domenico D'Alterio
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Service Management
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Using Wireshark to look at networking da... Niall Buchanan
Colin Paice
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Network Management
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Preparing to Pass Your Db2 for z/OS Admi... Colin Knight
Emil Kotrc
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Colin Knight |
Semeru (Java) on z/OS: Key Updates & Why... Stuart Ashby
James Tang
Jon Furminger
Thaksena Rangarajan
Sean Kelleher
Emily Popovic
Kevin Cho
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Accelerate mainframe application moderni... Ben Davis
Suman Gopinath
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AI
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z/OSMF workflows automation with Zowe Ricki West
Pavel Zlatnik
Marketa Muzikova
VR2
WAVEZ 101
Ricki West |
An IBM Champion's Guide to Advocacy Chris Knowles
Niall Ashley
VR3
WAVEZ 102
Chris Knowles |
Effective strategies for Git and source... Maemalynn Meanor
Igor Todorovski
Harithamma D
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Open Mainframe Project
Maemalynn Meanor |
(Primer to) The IBM Z Processor Optimiza...
David Hutton
VR5
zP&C
Nathan Appleby |
Getting Started with NetMaster’s SmartTr... Niall Buchanan
Phillip Schoen
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Network Management
Niall Buchanan |
zParms: Overview, Best Practices, and Re... Marcus Davage
Emil Kotrc
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Who is Afraid of the AI Big Bad Wolf Alzares Stephens
Gatien Dupre
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AI
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IMS Managed ACBs: Real world customer pa... Dominic Jackson
Subhasish Sarkar
VR2
IMS
Dominic Jackson |
Your Journey to Conscious inclusion Chris Knowles
Joanne Lockwood
VR3
WAVEZ 102
Chris Knowles |
The Secret to Open Source on the Mainfra... Donna Hudi
John Mertic
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Open Mainframe Project
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Unlocking z/OS Data to Streamline System... Anna Dawson
Rachita Issar
Zaid Alattar
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Service Management
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IBM Watson Code Assistant and DevOps Sto... Stuart Ashby
Joseph Taffe-Atkins
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Simplifying CICS Configuration: Harnessi... Robert Stroud
Tom Baskerville
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CICS
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Testing Mainframe applications as a newb... Chris Knowles
Jade Carino
VR3
WAVEZ 102
Chris Knowles |
Top 5 open source mainframe powerups no... Donna Hudi
Joe Winchester
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Open Mainframe Project
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Building Effect Mainframe Vulnerability... Rui Feio
Cynthia Overby
Johnathan Crossno
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Security Working Group
Rui Feio |
Claims, Drains and Automobiles Colin Knight
Marcus Davage
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Db2
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How a software developer thinks about RA... Stuart Ashby
Rob Scott
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Bridging the gap between Auditing and RA... James Harper
Niall Ashley
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James Harper |
0-to-PyPI - Developing Open Source z/OS... Donna Hudi
Chad McIntyre
VR4
Open Mainframe Project
Donna Hudi |
The Pervasive Encryption Journey: Data S... Sue Parsons
Gregg Arquero
VR7
Security Working Group
Sue Parsons |
Yes, it's possible! You can achieve true... Eddie Roe
David Petersen
VR8
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Db2 for z/OS Development all new "2025 S... Marcus Davage
Anthony Ciabattoni
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Achieving Resiliency in CICS with CPSM Robert Stroud
Aleksandr Charcikov
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Mastering SQL Performance on IBM Z: Anal... Chris Knowles
Saurabh Pandey
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IBM Z Cyber Vault Explained - Soup to Nu... Mikhael Liberman
Nathan Brice
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WAPL Calculations beyond JCL Directives Anna Dawson
Adrian Angelov
Federica Gari
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Service Management
Anna Dawson |
What It Means to Measure IBM Z Security Rui Feio
Brian W Hugenbruch
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Security Working Group
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World-class High Availability and Disast... Eddie Roe
Tanya Buchanan
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CICS Technical Introduction for non CICS... Robert Stroud
Ezriel Gross
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Look Beyond Slides: The Secret to Engagi... Niall Ashley
Sujit Neb
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WAVEZ 101
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Empowering Mainframe: Modern Full Stack... Chris Knowles
Hizir Cagin Bektas
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WAVEZ 102
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Bang for your z/OS buck with Go! Maemalynn Meanor
William O'Farrell
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Open Mainframe Project
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Using Your OMEGAMON Data With Your Visua... Anna Dawson
Daniel Wiegand
Ashok Mahay
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Service Management
Anna Dawson |
Transforming Security Automation: Revamp... Rui Feio
Elijah Swift
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Security Working Group
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All Aboard the Network Express! Niall Buchanan
Myles Pearson
Aparna Vankamamidi
VR9
Network Management
Niall Buchanan |
Operations: The last mile of DevOps Stuart Ashby
Anthony Anter
Jeremy Hamilton
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Mainframe Data Wrangling: Preparing Your... Henri Kuiper
Joshua Powell
Miroslav Strnad
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AI
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Making Observability Work: User Insights... Maemalynn Meanor
Ruediger Schulze
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Open Mainframe Project
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Integrating cloud objects in z/OS Batch... Mikhael Liberman
Andrew Wilt
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Storage
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Modernization of OMEGAMON with key enhan... Anna Dawson
Ashok Mahay
Daniel Wiegand
Ashok Mahay
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Service Management
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Vivat REXX: The Danger of Executing REXX... Sue Parsons
Jake Labelle
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Security Working Group
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How to help IBM AND YOU Quickly Resolve... Dominic Jackson
Stephen Nathan
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IMS
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Network Segmentation Mechanisms on z/OS Niall Buchanan
Michael Fitzpatrick
Navya Ramanjulu
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