IBM z Systems Forum July 2020 Series
Welcome to another series of informative Webinars where you are invited to both learn from and interact with our world class SME's in zAnalytics, zHybridCloud and zSecurity.
This series will be a mix of sessions with topics that truly go 'back to basics' to explain how the legendary power of IBM Z fully participates in the hybrid multi-cloud landscape we find ourselves in today.
This series begins on Monday, July 20th at 1:00 PM Sydney time.
Register for the sessions using the links below.
For further information, please email Jennifer Nott the host of these sessions [email protected]
Jennifer Nott, Client Technical Specialist, AP Techline - IBM Z Software, IBM Australia
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Monday 20 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
A sysprog's introduction to z/OSMF - live demo
Pat Oughton - Z Client Technical Specialist, z Systems Server Solutions, IBM NZ
Let's go back to some basics. For those reluctant to step into the world of zOS GUIs, this session will cover useful features available for z/OSMF
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Tuesday 21 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
Data as a Zervice
Neale Armstrong - Certified Consulting IT Specialist, IBM Australia
Have you ever thought about packaging data as a service ?
There are many ways of delivering services and APIs to provide integration between cloud applications and mainframe systems. Most of the approaches are focused on delivering access to programs or transactions. But sometimes it can be better to access the data directly.
This session will review a number of ways to package mainframe data as a service, and provide some examples of when this is a more attractive approach.
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Wednesday 22 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
What happens when your veteran mainframe professionals retire?
Andrew Mattingly - Executive Architect, System z Software, IBM Australia
Not only do mainframe customers have applications and environments that have been around for decades, but the IT professionals that program and manage these environments are getting close to (or past) retirement age.
Hear what mitigation strategies and utilities are available to assess and manage the risks this situation presents.
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Friday 24 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
What does WAZI have to do with mainframes?
Bruce Chamberlain - Senior Z Client Architect, IBM Australia
?WAZI is a Swahili word which means 'openly' or 'clearly'.
IBM is creating a range of technologies under the 'WAZI' brand to help existing mainframe development and support teams bridge the skills chasm within organisations while simultaneously increasing both the quality and velocity of delivery of the code they deliver.
This session introduces 2 recently announced products that bring an exciting fully integrated productive development environment into any enterprise-wide standard DevOps pipeline :
- IBM WAZI for RedHat CodeReady Workspaces
- IBM WAZI Virtual Test Platform
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Monday 27 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
OpenShift in a Nutshell
George Ge - zSoftware Tech Specialist, IBM Australia
Wondering what a container really is and why your colleagues keep talking about Kubenetes and OpenShift?
In this session we will get back to the basic and discuss why Redhat OpenShift platform should be a critical component of your multi-cloud strategy. Join us to hear about the value and impact of running Redhat OpenShift on Z.
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Tuesday 28 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
Exploitation of Multiple Subchannel Sets
Paul Schouten - Technical Sales Specialist, z Systems Server Solutions, IBM Australia
Ken Hewitt - Technical Sales Specialist, z Systems Server Solutions, IBM Australia
Are you running out of Device address ?
Adding multiple channels subsets will allow you to more than double your current address range.
This session will look at the reasons for implementing multiple channels subsets and go over the operational changes once introduced.
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Wednesday 29 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
Db2 AI for z/OS - Use Artificial Intelligence for Real Performance
John McKinnon - Certified Consulting IT Specialist, IBM Australia
Db2 AI for z/OS enables organisations to reduce CPU consumption and costs through optimization for the best query access paths, helping improve Db2 application performance.
This session will provide an overview of this IBM offering and will show how Db2 on z/OS infused with Machine Learning technology can help your applications, without the need for data science skills.
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Thursday 30 July 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
z/OS Cloud Broker - integrating provisioning on z/OS and your DevOps pipeline
Edward McCarthy - AP Z Websphere Architect, IBM AP Software Group
Provisioning of key components on z/OS such as Db2, CICS and MQ can seem at times to be the domain of a secret group of wizards in your organisation, who have mastered the darks arts of 3270 green screens, ISPF and JCL. And once these wizards have agreed to set up a CICS region etc for you, you're next quest is to conquer the impenetrable maze of the dreaded change control process. Meanwhile in distributed environments, developers are using a browser based GUI to quickly provision development and test servers and resources at the click of a button.
In this session we will explain how z/OS Cloud Broker provides the capability to enable cloud based environments such as Red Hat OpenShift to quickly provision z/OS resources such as CICS, z/OS Connect EE in the same way as other cloud resources, and how this can help speed up the deployment of changes to your business applications running on z/OS.
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Friday 31 July 11:00-12.00 PM (AEST)
Transforming Batch resiliency through greater control using Analytics and Automation
Ben Thompson - Z Client Architect, IBM Australia
David Rintoul - Senior IT Specialist, IBM AP Software Group
?Are you after a smarter, better, faster recovery process that can prove your compliance and protect your business from many of the risks and threats of batch data issues?
This session will discuss use cases with sites recovering from data corruption, data deletion, automating the identification of missing or duplicated backups, enabling auditing of backups and discuss tools to help automate the roll back of batch data after a corruption. We will look at the reports which identify batch data shared between prod and non-prod environments.
Co-hosted with 21st Century Software
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Monday 3 Aug 1:00-2:00 PM (AEST)
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL on IBM LinuxONE - The fastest, most secure PostgreSQL in the world!
Anand Subramanian - Technical Specialist, IBM Z & LinuxOne Solutions, IBM Australia
Firstly, what is Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL? What makes it the fastest and most secure version of PostgreSQL database when deployed on an IBM LinuxONE?
How can it benefit your organisation?
Join us to learn about the benefits and value of deploying PostgreSQL on LinuxOne.
Co-hosted with Gary Evans from Fujitsu Software Technologies Australia
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We hope you can join us.
Regards,
Sue Eris
Technical Sales Manager - Australia and New Zealand
IBM z Software & Hardware
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/sue-eris-systems-z