IBM System z Technical University 2014 - Budapest - Sessions and Abstracts

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Application Infrastructure: WebSphere MQ, App Server and IMS

All attendees WebSphere MQ for z/OS Performance Marcel Amrein One million messages per second. Yes, that's one million messages per second on a z/OS queue manager. Lecture Inter They were small and non-persistent, but with WebSphere MQ V7.1 and z196 hardware, performance has improved again. In this session, we'll talk about the new performance numbers and some of the tuning you can do to improve your queue manager's performance--or squeeze more work into it.

All attendees WebSphere MQ for z/OS Security Marcel Amrein More than ever, security issues are on the top of everyone's list. Find out about the approach taken by Lecture Inter WebSphere MQ for controlling access to MQ resources and the recommended best practices. This session will introduce the authentication features of WebSphere MQ, including SSL/TLS and channel authentication rules; how MQ uses profiles for authorisation of objects; audit and event messages and how message content can also be secured with WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security.

All attendees A Hitchhiker's Guide to Java Marc Beyerle Undoubtedly, there are still many misconceptions and stereotypes when it comes to Java Performance on Lecture Inter Performance on System z System z. This session will start with a short summary of the most common myths and will try to bust them during the course of the presentation. The focus will be on practical information (approaches, tools, etc.) and real-world examples, so the audience will walk away with new knowledge of what and where to look for, where to get more information and who to contact in order to get support. In addition to this, a set of common pitfalls will be presented, including how to avoid them.

All attendees Porting Java applications to System z Marc Beyerle While the "write once, run everywhere" mantra in Java is widely known to the public, not many people have Lecture Inter actually been involved in porting Java applications to the IBM mainframe. Reality shows that sometimes there are subtle things to take care about and porting is not as straightforward as desired. This session summarizes the speaker's experience in this area and gives tips what to watch out for, where the easy-to-change things are and how to get help in case the porting gets stuck. The presentation will not be based on theoretical exercises, but on practical, hands-on experience from past projects.

All attendees SAP Solution on System z – Business Philippe Deverge, Franz This presentation is both an overview, an update of SAP on System zEnterprise. Covering the SAP database Lecture Inter Value, Technical Overview Update and ludwig Voelker (DB2 for z/OS), The Application Servers (on Linux for System z, AIX, Windows & zBX) - with a Business roadmap emphasis with customer examples. It will discuss the latest technical and product information, solution sizing as well as where to get help.

All attendees WebSphere App Server for z/OS Peter Enrico Lecture Inter Performance Health Check All attendees 45 Years Strong: IMS Introduces Its Thomas Esser Welcome to IMS 13! In this session we will walk you through the spectrum of technical enhancements for IMS Lecture Basic Most Innovative Release Database, Transaction Manager, System Services, and Connectivity delivered with IMS 13. Whether your business focus is reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), taking advantage of IMS open access capabilities to support growth, reducing outages, improving connectivity, all of which are made even simpler in this release, you are sure to find a ton of useful information to ignite the spark for your migration plans.

All attendees IMS and the new front-ends Thomas Esser GUI and IMS? Here you will get the latest information about how to administrate IMS with the new front-end Lecture Basic the Administration console. All attendees Securing your MQ messages with AMS Carl Farkas This session will explain why you should be considering WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (AMS) to Lecture Basic protect your MQ messages. This product has been available for a few years and offers non-intrusive end-to- end security for your MQ messages with integrity checking and encryption leveraging a PKI infrastructure with X.509 certificates. You'll learn how it works and how to implement it, both on your z/OS as well as your Distributed environment.

All attendees Discover MQ z/OS features Carl Farkas, Marcel Amrein This series of hands-on labs will give you the opportunity to discover several features of MQ on z/OS including Lab Basic Shared Queues with SMDS, File Transfer with MQ and Pub/Sub and Channel Authentication. Each lab is independent and typically takes 45 minutes; you can do as many as you'd like.

All attendees Discover the Integration Broker on Carl Farkas, Carsten Mai This session will allow you to discover latest version of the IBM Integration Broker (IIB), formerly known as the Lab Basic z/OS WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). This series of hands-on labs allows you to configure and start your own Broker on z/OS, and then additionally do a bit of quick development to understand how the Broker allows you to easily integrate z/OS corporate data on CICS, DB2, VSAM, QSAM, etc. The various labs generally take about 60 minutes and can be combined as you find appropriate depending upon your specific interests.

All attendees WebSphere Application Server for David Follis We like to say that WebSphere Application Server on z/OS is the same as WebSphere on distributed platforms, Lecture Inter z/OS Hidden Gems 2014 only better. Some of what makes it better is integration and exploitation of z/OS itself. But sometimes there are just features and functions that only exist in WAS running on z/OS. The WAS on z/OS development team has a long history of including little 'gems' in the product which have been documented in a series of whitepapers on the IBM Techdocs website (WP101138, WP101464, WP101992, and WP102371). In this session the author of those papers will talk about some of the more recent 'gems' and happily take your suggestions for future gems.

All attendees WebSphere Application Server for David Follis WAS z/OS customers continue to adopt the optimized local adapters support to solve real world problems. Lecture Inter z/OS Optimized Local Adapters (WOLA) The technical overview presentations show how WOLA is designed to work, but how are people in the real - Real World Scenarios world using WOLA? This session will provide an overview of the latest capabilities of WOLA and then walk through several customer implementations, explaining the business motivation behind WOLA adoption and showing how the implementation was architected.

All attendees WebSphere Liberty Profile - David Follis Liberty is the brand new application server that is part of the WebSphere Application Server product. In this Lecture Inter Embedding, Exploiting and Integrating session we will discuss: what Liberty is and why it is generating so much interest, how it integrates with and with z/OS exploits the z/OS platform, how you it might fit into your own z/OS infrastructure, and how other products such as z/OS MF are making use of Liberty. This session will leave you with a solid understanding of Liberty and how you can include Liberty in your System z architectural decisions.

All attendees Assimilating WebSphere Application David Follis Whenever IBM talks about WAS on z/OS (either Traditional Full Profile or the new Liberty Profile) we always Lecture Inter Server into your z/OS WLM go on and on about integration with z/OS and with WLM. In this session we'll look at how that actually Configuration happens. What does WebSphere actually do to integrate with WLM? What things in your WLM policy need to change or adjust? We'll spend most of our time on the Traditional Full Profile WAS server (because there's a lot more to cover) but we'll also get into Liberty and how it interacts with WLM. Whether you're an old hand at WLM who would like to know more about this WAS thing or a WAS administrator who wants to understand how decisions you make in your server affect the rest of the system, you'll find something of interest here.

All attendees Rational Development and Test for John Gates IBM Rational Development and Test Environment for System z (RD&T) provides an environment for mainframe Lecture Basic System z V.9.1 - Update application development and testing where the operating systems, middleware, and software can run on Intel and Intel- compatible platforms without the need for System z mainframe hardware. RD&T is based on the IBM System z Personal Development Tool (zPDT), providing an emulated System z architecture with virtual I/O and devices. Now in its 6th iteration, RD&T V9.1 provides several unique improvements and enhanced capabilities. This session will outline these capabilities and explain how they can be used to expand the reach and scope of mainframe application development on Intel and Intel- compatible platforms. All attendees Considerations for RD&T in a Parallel John Gates IBM Rational Development and Test Environment for System z (RD&T) provides an environment for mainframe Lecture Inter Sysplex application development and testing where the operating systems, middleware, and software can run on Intel and Intel- compatible platforms without the need for System z mainframe hardware. Any system z operating system that complies with the z/OS architecture and instruction set may run on RD&T. A z/OS Parallel sysplex (SYStems comPLEX) is a collection of z/OS systems that cooperate, using certain hardware, software, and microcode, to process workloads, provide higher continuous availability, easier systems management, and improved growth potential over a conventional computer system of comparable processing power.

All attendees Mainframe Development and Test on John Gates IBM Rational Development and Test Environment for System z (RD&T) provides an environment for mainframe Lab Inter Intel with RD&T application development and testing where the operating systems, middleware, and software can run on Intel and Intel- compatible platforms without the need for System z mainframe hardware. This lab session will explore the requirements for deploying RD&T, configuration, provisioning and test of a simple COBOL CICS appliacation using RDz and the Integrator Debugger.

All attendees Business agility through IBM's Mike Johnson Operational Decision Manager gives agility to organizations to improve responsiveness and precision of their Lecture Inter Operational Decision Manager Business decisions. Come and find out how exciting the ODM technology is and how it can help your business Business Rules Engine All attendees Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) Yann Kindelberger, Daniel Financial Transaction Manager simplifies a banks complex financial transaction management processing Demo Basic Using IIB on z/OS - A live Kohen landscape by providing industry solution that have been developed as an integration layer on top of IBM demonstration! middleware software for payments processing. This session will introduce the FTM solution on z/OS. We will present its key components such as the IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and DB2. We will also highlight the value of the solution on System z. Finally, we will illustrate through a demonstration how to manage and monitor financial transactions and payment processes with FTM on System z.

All attendees Reducing operating cost of business Roland Koo Many development organizations are challenged by tight budgets and are looking for ways to improve Lecture Basic critical applications with Enterprise efficiency. IBM's new Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v5.1 has modern, leading-edge optimization technology that COBOL for z/OS v5.1 is specifically designed to work with IBM zEnterprise®architecture (including zEC12). It can significantly improve the performance of your business critical applications, reducing both CPU utilization and execution time. In this session, Roland Koo, the product manager for IBM Compilers, will take you on a quick tour on the new COBOL compiler and share with you early customer experiences. He will also discuss strategies and best practices to help you plan your upgrade to Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.1

All attendees IBM Installation Manager Introduction Stephane Loth Starting with Websphere version 8, the IBM installation manager on zOS is mandatory for installing and Lecture Basic and Update For WebSphere maintaining Websphere product code. This highly interactive session will include several demonstrations of the product functionalities operating on a live service system. We will describe the concept of local and online product repositories for Websphere on zOS and the mode of operation of the Installation Manager. We will cover the best practices for using the tool, as well as common mistakes often made by new adopters; We will demonstrate how to use local or remote online repositories by accessing a live service environment hosting Websphere and other software packages . The presentation and demonstrations have been updated to cover WAS V8.5 features installation such as Liberty profile and the possibility to fully bypass any smpe processing. We will also show how other software products such as IMS are now exploiting Installation Manager functionalities for building their administration console code.

All attendees ODM and IIB maximize performance Subhajit Maitra In this session, customers will discover how to integrate the new Decision Service node with the latest IBM Lecture Inter and reduce latency in message Integration Bus (IIB) (previously known as the WebSphere Message Broker). The Decision Service node is a processing on your mainframe subset of the well known Operational Decision Manager (ODM) technology which is included in IIB. These are both key technologies for any customer that can take advantage of the powers of the mainframe. IIB can now perfectly leverage the strengh of ODM. We will show the capabilities with transformation, dynamic routing and validation in our solution. Capabilities demonstrated are the following (a)“smart dynamic routing” : Business Decisions to provide business level routing based on message content and (b)“Business Based Message Validation” : Business Decisions to provide centralized business level validation of message content etc. All attendees WebSphere MQ for z/OS: Latest Jamie Squibb WebSphere MQ for z/OS makes use of many system features and facilities to provide a very high level of Lecture Inter Features Deep Dive availability and performance for your messages. Come along to this session to learn the detail behind all the new features and enhancements in the latest release of WebSphere MQ for z/OS.

All attendees WebSphere MQ for z/OS: Performance Jamie Squibb How can you get the best performance out of your z/OS Queue Manager, and also determine who is doing Lecture Basic and Accounting what? Come along to this session to hear about the performance and accounting measurements that can be taken, and also how to understand them so that you can make the best use of your queue manager resources.

All attendees WebSphere MQ for zOS: Shared Jamie Squibb This session will take a deep dive into the new features of Queue Sharing, including shared message data sets Lecture Basic Queues (SMDS) and the new resilience features added in V7.1. The performance gains and Coupling Facility storage use provided by SMDS and the new offload rules are discussed in detail. This session is not for beginners to queue sharing, but for those already familiar with the concepts and use of queue sharing groups

All attendees Java Batch z/OS overview & news Susann Thomas This session gives an overview about the Java Batch z/OS technologies which means native Java Batch, z/OS Lecture Inter Batch Runtime, Java in CICS & IMS and WebSphere Batch.

All attendees What's new in WebSphere V8.5.5 z/OS Susann Thomas This session is about news in WAS V8.5.5 including Liberty on z/OS, new features like WebSphere Batch, Lecture Inter Virtual Enterprise, Extreme Scale and other items of V8.5 and V8.5.5 like Java improvements on z/OS, the Installation Manager and WOLA new features in V8/V8.5 f.e. development mode, remote EJB call, connection fail-over, request routing, SMF 120- 10, WAS CICS request correlation, 64 bit API support, IMS/WAS 2PC, IID tooling support.

All attendees Introduction to WebSphere Liberty Hendrik Woerner, Carl The objective of this lab exercise is to introduce you to configuring and running the latest WebSphere Liberty Lab Inter Profile on z/OS Farkas Profile on the z/OS platform. WebSphere Liberty Profile is an exciting new version of the hugely popular WebSphere Application Server (WAS) which provides support for the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) "Web profile". It doesn't offer all of the breadth and sophistication of the full WAS, but it provides more than enough for development, and often for many types of production applications. It is of particular interest to those on the z/OS platform due to its extremely low memory and CPU consumption. In this lab, you will do the basic configuration for your own Liberty web server on a z/OS partition.

All attendees Industrializing your WebSphere Hendrik Woerner, Carl This lab introduces several of the key advanced features of WebSphere Liberty which are specific to z/OS. This Lab Inter Liberty on z/OS Application Server Farkas lab assumes that you have some basic knowledge of Liberty profile configuration. It demonstrates how to exploit the latest WebSphere Liberty Java application server in a z/OS production environment. You will learn how to organize and configure a Liberty environment using "best-practices". You will configure and implement security with SAF (eg. RACF) authentication, as well as SSL. Additionally, you will configure Liberty for DB2 direct access via a JDBC Type 2 connection. You'll also have the opportunity to learn basic problem determination techniques for Liberty. All attendees Enabling Enterprise Mobile Hendrik Woerner Compared to traditional web applications, mobile apps have greater demand for security and dynamic Lecture Inter Applications on System z workload management on System z. That is because mobile users are always online and the app runs on potentially less secure devices. The IBM MobileFirst portfolio is a reference and ideal starting point for developing your own mobile strategy. IBM Worklight, which is part of IBM MobileFirst, features Worklight Studio for mobile app development, Worklight Server as runtime environment and Worklight Adapters to connect to back-ends, like for example CICS, IMS and DB2. This presentation will provide an overview about MobileFirst from a System z perspective. All attendees What's new with zPDT and RD&T V9? Klaus Goebel, Martin The IBM System z Personal Development Tool (zPDT) and the Rational Development and Test Environment Lecture Basic Ziskind (RD&T) now support zEC12 and zBC12 architecture, in addition to many other enhancements. While zPDT is for ISVs only, RD&T is for commercial customers. It enables a virtual System z architecture environment on an Intel compatible platform and can be used for application development, test, internal education & training, and proof of concept. In this session, we will discuss the most recent enhancements to both, zPDT and RD&T.

All attendees Tuning and Optimizing IBM Dave Gorman Lecture Inter Integration Bus on System z All attendees Intro and What's New with IBM Dave Gorman Lecture Inter Integration Bus on System z Back to Basics

All attendees Introduction to WebSphere MQ Marcel Amrein BM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) is our market-leading messaging product that enables anywhere-to-anywhere Lecture Basic application integration, from the simplest pair of applications requiring basic connectivity and data exchange, to the most complex business process management environments. Come to this session to understand the value and rationale of message/queuing and the IBM Messaging family of products, its key features and functions and how it can be used to build a secure, flexible, and scalable messaging backbone for your business. All attendees Disruptive Technology: Let's Upset Glenn Anderson Ready for a break from the detailed bits and bytes of IT? Come join long time conference speaker and Lecture Basic Your Quiet IT Life instructor Glenn Anderson as he explores the world of disruptive technologies – new ways of doing things that overturn traditional business methods and practices. Some you have heard of; others probably not. Augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, likeonomics, digital curation, cognitive computing, the internet of things, and more. Exciting, challenging, entertaining and career enhancing. Come let Glenn through a wrench in your idea of the future.

All attendees Experiences and Recommendations of Christian Bourne Session on my experiences as a new System z professional, how I learnt about the platform, challenges I Lecture Basic a Junior Mainframer experienced, and how I've planned for the future. The session will develop from my experiences into that of other junior mainframers within the UKI including customers and business partner employees. The session will conclude with a recommendation regarding the training of new mainframers.

All attendees Recruiting for the Mainframe: To Christian Bourne Session covering the desirable skills and backgrounds which should be considered when looking for a new Lecture Basic Millenial or Not To Millenial mainframer. Discussion of modern employment trends, how this applies to the mainframe space, with consideration of degree disciplines, experiences and other desirable factors. Inclusive of anonymised on- going UK recruitment projects.

All attendees Mainframe Skills - the Myth and the Alan Fellwock People unfamiliar with zEnterprise think that you need different skills to work with the mainframe and that Lecture Basic Reality mainframes are all about “green screens.” Nothing could be further from the truth! Today’s mainframes embrace the latest DevOps, GUI and Eclipse-based tools and methodologies for development and operations. If you’re worried about finding mainframe personnel, worry no more!

All attendees Where's the Fiber Going? Gary Fisher (given at Munich, well received, asked to repeat) Lecture Basic Communication through Fiber Optics is small, fast, and fascinating. This session explains how fiber optics communications works, how we use it in our data centers and beyond, and where it is going in the future.

All attendees Introduction to REXX Hands-On Lab John Franciscovich, Brian The Rexx Language has been with us for more than two decades. z/OS and z/VM system programmers and Lab Basic (Part 1 of 2) Hugenbruch administrators find Rexx to be very useful in doing their jobs, and use it for everything from simple tools to complex applications. If you would like to learn the basics of the powerful Rexx language, this two-part hands- on-lab is for you. We'll begin with basic syntax and expressions, continue with class exercises, and progress to more advanced topics and exercises. The focus will be on Rexx on z/VM but the language constructs apply to all Rexx platforms. If you are new to z/VM, don't worry, we'll get you started and help you navigate your z/VM session to do the exercises. This lab continues with Part 2.

All attendees Introduction to REXX Hands-On Lab John Franciscovich, Brian This is a continuation of Part 1. Lab Basic (Part 2 of 2) Hugenbruch

All attendees GM, zGM, XRC, PPRC, MM, FC, CC, VCC: Lisa Gundy Understanding the vast world of replication technologies available today requires a decoder ring. This Lecture Basic Understanding the alphabet of soup of session will provide that decoder ring, with an overview of the different copy services technologies provided by IBM Copy Services IBM on z/OS. All attendees On-demand labs (System z HMC) Brian Hatfield, Maurice Up to three on demand HMC exercises are available. Exercises can be done in sequence or selected Lab Basic McCullough individually depending on your experience. System z HMC Tree UI Fundamentals - Basic skill level System z HMC Classic UI Fundamentals - Basic skill level System z HMC UI (Classic and Tree) comparison - Intermediate skill level

All attendees On-demand labs (z/OS Fundamentals) Brian Hatfield, Maurice Up to four on demand HMC exercises are available. Exercises can be done in sequence or selected individually Lab Basic McCullough depending on your experience. System familiarization - Basic skill level ISPF editor primary commands - Basic skill level ISPF editor line command - Intermediate skill level JCL exercises - Intermediate skill level

All attendees Project Execution Readiness Louise Hemond-Wilson Transformation typically involves successfully executing complex business / IT projects. However, numerous Lecture Basic studies indicate most IT-related projects significantly exceed budget, are late or downright fail. With increased blurring of lines between business and IT projects, the potential impact and exposure for IT projects also increases. How do you organize and focus your team to deliver IT projects on-time and within budget? This session reviews critical success factors for IT project success. It also overviews a methodology for aligning IT staff resources to support on-going operations and new projects. Multiple client examples will be shared.

All attendees DB2 z/OS for Beginners Georg Kistenberger DB2 z/OS provides a very special architecture, which is the foundation of extraordinary availability and Lecture Basic scalability capabilities. The presentation also covers all aspects of local and remote application usage.

All attendees The Truth about Mainframe Economics David Rhoderick The economics of mainframe computing are poorly understood – multi-million dollar platform decisions are Lecture Basic often made based on hearsay, anecdote, prejudice and inaccurate accounting systems. For any platform decision, a company's stakeholders are best served by a comprehensive understanding of the true costs – and the economic ramifications of the alternatives. We explore the reality and dynamics of the true Total Cost of Ownership of enterprise servers and the mainframe. Real-life customer will be used to illustrate. We'll discuss how IBM’s zEnterprise system is optimized to enable hybrid computing, and conclude by examining the potential of the system to save money through the optimization of hardware, software, labor and facilities costs. All attendees The Reality of Rehosting David Rhoderick In this session, we will describe how an incorrect assessment of hardware and software costs, migration costs, Lecture Basic replacement application development costs, dual operations costs, and more, can all lead to situations where a rehosting effort can go awry. Additionally, not accounting for all the reasons why "deconsolidation" of servers occurs can result in significant cost increases. Thus, it’s crucial to understand the reality and true costs of rehosting workloads off the mainframe.

All attendees DFSMShsm Basics Glenn Wilcock Whether you are new to DFSMShsm or you just need a refresher course, this session will walk you through the Lecture Basic basics of DFSMShsm. The session will cover how DFSMShsm fits into the overall DFSMS product, how it is plays an integral part of policy-based storage management, and how it provides a broad array of solutions for both your space management and backup/recovery needs.

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 1: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic Intro to Mainframe Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 2: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic Hardware and I/OMainframe Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 3: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic z/OS Components Mainframe Academy All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 4: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic TSO and Batch Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 5: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic Transactions and DataBase Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 6: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic Parallel Sysplex Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 7: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic UNIX, JAVA and WebSphere Mainframe Academy

All attendees Mainframe for Beginners Session 8: Wolfram Greis, European Lecture Basic z/VM and Linux on System z Mainframe Academy

All attendees Oracle on IBM System z for dummies: Helene Grosch, Armelle Are you Oracle user? This session will give an overview of the Oracle solutions that are available on System z. Lecture Basic what you need to know Cheve You will discover the latest features of IBM and Oracle technologies (including Oracle 12c database), and best architectural design practice mixing the two environments. Through IBM Oracle Center projects, you will see how to meet the needs of customers in terms of performance, high availability, resource optimization, and simplification of infrastructure and maintenance processes. The IBM Oracle Center will share its experience of building the right solution architecture with Oracle and IBM technologies through real life examples.

All attendees The Basics of Using z/VM Brian Hugenbruch If you are new to z/VM, with either a Linux and/or z/OS background, or if you had simply stepped away from Lecture Basic z/VM for a while and want a refresher, this is the session for you! We will show you how to log onto a z/VM system, which commands to use, how data is stored, what the file system looks like, how to edit files, and introduce some of the many tools available for you to be productive in this new environment.

All attendees z/VM Virtualization Basics Emily Hugenbruch This presentation will give you a strong understanding of what the industry buzzword ""virtualization"" means Lecture Basic in the context of System z processors and the z/VM operating system. Key topics will include System z computing concepts, the virtual machine model, commands and facilities for configuring virtualized resources, virtual machine scheduling and dispatching, methods for virtualizing memory and I/O devices, and ways z/VM's virtual machine model transcends mere hardware virtualization.

Business Analytics and Big Data for System z

All attendees What’s new about buffer management Jeffrey Berger This session explains some buffer pool tuning considerations when using DB2 11 for z/OS. We will discuss Lecture Inter using DB2 11 for z/OS some changes that affect the performance of DB2’s deferred writes and castout processing. We’ll discuss improvements to DB2 buffer metrics that improve your ability to tune your buffer pools. We’ll explain how to better manage real storage and minimize CPU consumption. Finally, we’ll discuss some synergy with z/OS 2.1 and changes related to data set open, as well as synergy related to DS8000 storage and High Performance FICON.

All attendees Performance Overview of DB2 11 for Jeffrey Berger DB2 11 for z/OS continues the trend of strong performance improvements began in DB2 10 by focusing on Lecture Inter z/OS further CPU savings and performance improvement through innovations within DB2 and the synergy with System z hardware and software. DB2 11 CPU reduction can potentially provide significant total cost of ownership savings depending on the application mixture and type of transactions. In this session we will discuss some of the changes that are documented more fully in the IBM redbook SG24-8222 (by the same title), including IBM internal measurement results of DB2 11. All attendees Business Analytics with Cognos on Olivier Boehler, Christophe Through an interactive "Online BookStore" environment composed of DB2 for z/OS, IBM DB2 Analytics Lab Inter Linux on System z and IBM DB2 Menichetti Accelerator and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence for Linux on System z, you will have the opportunity to catch Analytics Accelerator the basic principles of designing a Business Intelligence Application with Cognos Framework Manager and integrate the baselines of building reports with Cognos BI. You will also get a first-hand look at the breakthrough capabilities of the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator - high-speed query accelerator, exclusive to System z - on our BookStore massive sales data mart!

At the end of this session, you will better understand the value of System z in the Business Analytics area.

All attendees Optimizing database performance and Olivier Boehler, Philippe Accessing the data efficiently is more and more critical as volumes are exploding and real time analytics is Lecture Inter software costs using latest DB2 for Bruschet becoming one of the major needs for today’s business. Another major constraint a company must face is cost z/OS: a real customer example savings. IBM Montpellier client center ran a study for a Swiss customer where we compared in a real production environment the DB2 cpu consumption when running version 9 and then after having migrated to DB2 10 for z/OS.

At the end of this session, you will understand how latest versions of DB2 for z/OS can help you achieve “Out-of- the-box” cpu savings by leveraging zIIP usage and trading virtual memory to reduce general purpose cpu usage. All attendees SAP BW and Business Suite Query Philippe Deverge, Franz Business Analytics generates high loads on databases and servers. This includes SAP Business Intelligence Lecture Inter Acceleration and super fast Nearline ludwig Voelker (BI) and the SAP Business Warehouse (BW) solutions. IBM DB2 with the Analytics Accelerator option now fully Storage solutions with DB2 for z/OS supports SAP BI, BW and dramatically improves Analytics speed at affordable resources. This IBM DB2 for z/OS and the DB2 Accelerator (IDAA) solution is transparent to the SAP user and applicable for SAP and non-SAP applications. The solution also expands to a very fast and attractive Near Line Storage sale offering for long term storage of SAP BW business data. Learn about the implementation, the endorsement by SAP and how business users can benefit of it.

All attendees A Unified Framework for Mining Huge Alan Fellwock Analytics is hot but IT Operations Analytics is even hotter! In the era of Smarter Computing, where every IT Lecture Inter Data on IT Operations Generated shop is striving to save cost by doing more with less, mining IT operations data will provide insights to better within System z optimize resource sharing across workloads, monitor for bottlenecks and performance issues and provide intelligent resolutions. Based on sampling rate of the operations data, it is not just “Big” but rather quite huge in size! Being sensitive data, managing its security and governance is key. We will discuss a unified framework to stream this data into a best-fit IBM Hadoop cluster. credentials.

All attendees z/OS Hybrid Batch Processing and Big Stephen Goetze, Kirk Wolf There are several well understood hybrid computing models used withing the zEnterprise ecosystem. This Lecture Inter Data session demonstrates how to extend traditional z/OS batch to exploit non z/OS computing resources via "Hybrid Batch Processing". This specialized form of hybrid computing can be particularly effective when interacting with Big Data clusters. Several case studies are examined which implement "z/OS Hybrid Batch and Big Data" using the Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit.

All attendees Leveraging Operational and Analytical Yann Kindelberger, Alain This session will demonstrate the value and the complementarity of operational and analytical decision Demo Inter Decision Management on System z - A Roessle management. First, the session will introduce the Operational Decision Manager (ODM) on z/OS solution and live demonstration! the real time predictive analytics capabilities provided by SPSS. Then, we will illustrate through a demonstration how to manage and govern rules-based decision logic separately from application code in order to provide better visibility, understanding, and maintainability compared to traditional application development. The session will also highlight the value to integrate ODM on z/OS and SPSS to provides the ability to add predictive analytics to On Line Transaction Processing applications.

All attendees DB2 Analytics Accelerator: Version 4 Klaus Maruschka, Frank The new Version 4 of IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS was shipped end of last year. Lecture Adv News and Live Demo 'High Availability Neumann It is further expanding the value of High Speed Analytics on System z with new functionality like Static SQL & Workload Balancing' support and true workload balancing for multiple attached accelerators. This session gives an overview about the new capabilities and includes a live demo for High Availability and Workload Balancing. All attendees DB2 Analytics Accelerator - Frank Neumann Deployment of DB2 Analytics Accelerator in an existing customer environment requires planning and Lecture Inter Operational Aspects and Advanced understanding of available options. Architectures This session covers aspects such as security, high availability and disaster recovery, network and integration into existing data load and monitoring processes.

All attendees DB2 Analytics Accelerator - Frank Neumann DB2 Analytics Accelerator can be more than acceleration of existing SQL queries. Lecture Inter Architecture and Use Cases This session discusses concepts, typical and expected customer user cases and also technical capabilities to support these.

All attendees Saving Money with the IDAA ? Fabio Massimo Ottaviani, The IDAA is a high performance solution designed to work with DB2 on z/OS to deliver faster query responses Lecture Inter Danilo Gipponi transparently to the user. The IDAA can be considered as a virtual DB2 component controlled by the DB2 Optimizer which will dynamically decide to “offload” or not a query to it.

Before introducing this new technology in the current architecture, every manager need answers to questions such as: which components of the DB2 workload are eligible to the IDAA, which performance benefits can be obtained, how much will the overall CPU consumptions be reduced, how can be measured what the IDAA is doing ?

In this presentation we will discuss the metrics available in the SMF records which can help you answering these questions.

All attendees Big Data Analytics Fundamentals Stéphane Winter, Romain All of us are hearing a great deal about Big Data Analytics and Hadoop. System z IT Specialists, Architects and Lab Inter utilizing System z Hadoop & data Pochard, Yannick Barel Managers are no exception. How can System z data take advantage of this new era of analytics? integration After attending this lab, not only will you get a clear answer to this essential question, but you will walk through and play with the different components of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, Hive – all of this on System z. This lab will be based on the first validated Hadoop-based platform for Linux on System z: zDoop, delivered by IBM Partner VERISTORM.

All attendees Big Data Drives Enterprise Analytics. Christopher Spaight Companies that embrace and use real time insights have been shown to dramatically out perform their Lecture Inter industry peers. They are using analytics to improve revenue, reduce costs and lower risk, all while making overall better overall decisions. Industry indicators show a desire to apply business analytics processing against transactional data augmented by insights from big data. This session will explore not only the customer and market demands driving today's business analytics, but the technical requirements and infrastructure best practices. All attendees Leverage your assests to outperform Joy Spohn Companies that embrace and use real-time insights have been shown to dramatically outperform their Lecture Inter your competitors with real time industry peers. They are using analytics to improve revenue, reduce costs and lower risk, while making better operational analtyics on zEnterprise decisions overall. As the use of analytics continues to accelerate, companies are looking for better ways to integrate key insights from increasingly larger data volumes into the operational processes of their business. This session will present the latest solutions that businesses are integrating into their business infrastructure to become information led enterprises. Learn the unique capabilities on zEnterprise to derive value from their operational data and leverage insights from Hadoop and the Big Insights platform. All attendees Information Governance: Key to Theresa Tai With the complexity of today's information ecosystems, organizations must improve the level of trust users have Lecture Inter Business Optimization with zEnterprise in information, ensure its consistency, and establish safeguards over it. IBM Information Governance is the framework for managing data growth, quality, security and privacy protection across the lifecycle of information, with enforced processes and standards to ensure a single trusted data source in real time. When information is trusted, businesses can be confident in their analysis of that information, optimize outcomes and gain competitive advantages.

All attendees Using zEnterprise as a Hub for Theresa Tai With increased awareness and focus on business critical analytics, organizations are looking to transform their Lecture Inter Business-Critical Analytics business and gain competitive insight through single truth of relevant information. In this session, we will look at the key attributes and requirements on corporate decision support in real time. Why System z infrastructure matters and how it is designed to provide security, right-time availability, resiliency, scalability, and IT economics. That are best suited in serving both operational and transactional data analytics with accuracy and confidence at the speed of business.

All attendees Capacity Management Analytics for Lecture Inter zEnterprise CICS V5.2 Planning, Implementation and Usage All attendees CICS V5 Performance Overview Anna Bridgen CICS TS V5.1 introduces a number of runtime enhancements to reduce CPU usage, improve response times, Lecture Basic reduce resource usage, while providing additional insight into transaction performance. During this session the speaker will explore in detail performance figures from the CICS TS V5.1 report, while also looking at how performance can be monitored and analyzed using CICS Tools. System programmers will benefit from this session through the sharing of performance management best practices, along with an understanding of the newer performance capabilities and enhancements in CICS V5.

All attendees Managing Large Scale CICS Anna Bridgen In this session Ian Mitchell, CICS Portfolio Architect and System z Middleware CTO, will discuss deployment and Lecture Basic Environments exploitation of CICSPlex SM capabilities which enable you to manage your CICS platforms and application in a simpler and more robust way. CICSPlex SM is the key component of CICS TS which forms the foundation for the version 5 Cloud enablement. Ian has worked with many customers who utilize the many different features which CICSPlex SM offers and will provide guidance on easy ways to build deployment and operational value so you realise maximum pay-back.

All attendees Improving the Integration between Anna Bridgen With distributed systems integrating more and more with CICS services there are additional challenges to Lecture Basic Distributed Security and CICS ensuring the security of transactions as they pass through these multi-platform environments. In this session you will learn about different ways to integrate securely with CICS web services, including new improvements in CICS to support SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), using WebSphere DataPower as a web services gateway and the recently announced support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 which provide stronger cryptographic keys and more robust algorithms. Several projects are used to illustrate how customers are using these capabilities to secure their CICS services.

All attendees Best practices for CICS SOA Anna Bridgen CICS provides a rich set of connectivity options for SOA integration including CICS web services, JCA and CICS Lecture Inter Connectivity sockets. The best choice depends on your application architecture, existing middleware environment and required transport protocols. Other considerations include development languages, client server coupling and whether requests are to be synchronous or asynchronous. This session outlines key SOA deployment scenarios used by customers today and best practices. Also covers recent enhancements to CICS web services. Data mapping for SOAP and JSON now supports UTF-16 data types, as well as additional COBOL data clauses. Also CICS web services definitions can now be managed through CICS bundles and deployed as part of a cloud workload. All attendees CICS and Java: A tale of Liberty Anna Bridgen It is well known that Java is one of the most popular programming languages in use. In this session we'll look Lecture Basic at how CICS allows you to make use of OSGi, the service orientated approach to Java. We'll also look at the fast and lightweight Java web container that is provided in CICS TS V5. Liberty Profile technology in CICS provides the rich features of Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications, and fast local access to your existing CICS applications and data. Add the CICS VUE and Java on CICS just makes sense!

All attendees An introduction to the CICS Explorer Inderpal Singh Looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practice to the next generation of Lecture Basic and z/OS Explorer technical staff/experts? The CICS Explorer provides task-oriented views, powerful context-sensitive resource editors, and integrated access to broad range of data and control capabilities for CICS TS. The z/OS Explorer is the tooling integration platform that underpins IBM z tooling such as CICS Explorer, PD Studio and IMS Explorer. It provides facilities for managing your z/OS resources such as jobs and data sets, and allows the tooling built on it to integrate to become more than the sum of the parts. In this session we'll introduce these two products and show you how you can benefit from their use.

All attendees Achieve more with CICS Tools Inderpal Singh This session discusses how CICS Tools extend the value of CICS. It shows how the CICS Explorer forms an Lecture Basic integrated suite of tools that together deliver end to end management & control of your CICS applications & resources. You understand how CICS PA, CICS CM and CICS IA are a key part of every CICS ecosystem to ensure optimum performance, efficient control of CICS resource definitions & deep understanding of complex CICS applications.

All attendees Mobile on CICS Made Simple with CICS Inderpal Singh Hear about how IBM intends to provide new capability in IBM CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) for the Lecture Basic Transaction Gateway mobile enablement of existing CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) and IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms deployments, with minimal or no change to existing business logic. Learn how this new capability is intended to complement and extend CICS TS support for mobile applications, and how IBM intends to provide a preview of this capability in CICS TG as part of an open beta program.

All attendees Building Hybrid Application Interfaces Inderpal Singh, Fraser This session will describe how CICS TS v5.1 can quickly and simply support the creation of modern Mobile Lecture Basic using JSPs, Servlets, and PHP with Bohm Ready interfaces to existing applications. The session will introduce the key technologies including the use of CICS TS Version 5 Liberty technology in CICS TS. We will work through a simple scenario to demonstrate the key points. The session will cover the core supporting technologies included in CICS TS v5.1 as well as the Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack and content included in the CICS TS v5.2 Open Beta.

All attendees Improve the Efficiency of Your Sysplex Marcel Amrein CICS has been helping workload management of your z/OS workloads for many years, but in recent times it Lecture Inter Using Improved Workload has been enhancing this support to take advantage of improvement made in the operating system.? In CICS TS Management V4.1 Sysplex Optimised WLM was introduced and this was followed with new routing algorithms in CICS TS V4.2.? In this session you will hear about the advances made in recent releases of CICS to optimise workload flows and make your CICS environment more efficient and effective. All attendees CICS Track Opening and Portfolio Nick Garrod In this session, Danny Mace, Director of CICS Development will open the CICS track with all the recent news Lecture Basic Update around the CICS portfolio of products. You will hear the key themes and highlights around the next release of CICS and the associated tools as well as a whistlestop tour of what to expect from the sessions in the CICS track. The talk will focus on the value CICS support for mobile and cloud brings to customers and Business Partners.

All attendees CICS Transaction Server Version 5: A Nick Garrod CICS TS V5 delivers technical innovation and significant business value, satisfying in excess of 150 customer Lecture Basic Technical Overview and user group enhancement requests. The result is a powerful new release with a huge amount of value for all stakeholders - delivering a smarter transaction processing experience for CICS users and their customers in turn.

All attendees Architecting Your Application for Nick Garrod As a greater number of applications extend their reach to mobile devices, additional demands are being Lecture Inter Mobile Workloads placed on the scalability and performance of core CICS transactional workload. CICS has continued to improve vertical scalability of applications through threadsafe enablement. Latest updates to the CICS Portfolio, make identifion and elimination of throughput constraints easier than ever. Other runtime improvements provide an enhanced range of connectivity options, allowing you to leverage existing assets as part of your mobile strategy. In this you will hear how with CICS tools you can analyze performance, and where enhancements to the CICS runtime can be exploited to deliver value to the mobile client from new and existing applications.

All attendees Java, OSGi and JEE - Back to the Tobias Leicher In this Session we will learn about the Java Technologies that are in CICS and how they are positioned in a Lecture Inter Future wider IBM Context. There will be also some Samples of real live use cases of CICS Java Technology.

Linux on System z

All attendees High Availability with IBM System z for Armelle Cheve, Romain To run your critical applications with Oracle databases you need a robust and reliable infrastructure. In this Lecture Inter Oracle database Pochard presentation we will go through the components you can put in place to build this highly available architecture. As an example, do you know the Live Guest Relocation feature on z/VM? Here you will find out how this capability can help you to meet your SLA for High Availability when you run Oracle workload on Linux on System z. The team will present you a live demo for relocation of a Linux guest running Oracle database, single instance and even with Real Application Cluster!

All attendees Software Licensing for Distributed David Chase Many people understand how Sub-Capacity software licensing works for z/OS and z/VSE. But did you know that Lecture Inter Linux Middleware on System z IBM also offers Sub-Capacity licensing for Distributed Linux Middleware when it runs on System z? Attend this session to understand how the Passport Advantage virtualization and sub-capacity licensing rules work in a Linux on System z environment, especially when you are using IFL engines running under the control of z/VM. All attendees Using linux on system z as central Elisabeth Puritscher practical experiences showing the possibility to do backup of all system z disks (linux, z/VM, zVSE and even Lecture Inter backup Server for ECKD disks to SCSI z/OS) to a SCSI tape library with a linux system using FlashExpress as temporary media tapes

All attendees Technical Preview: Linux Virtualization Elisabeth Puritscher, Frank showing the possibility to manage a virtual server farm on system z Lecture Inter with KVM Hypervisor on System z Heimes

All attendees Linux on System z and POWER - A view Frank Heimes, Michael Linux is Linux is Linux ... but what is the difference for running Linux on IBM's high-end platforms ? Lecture Inter on IFL on System z, Power IFL and Storzer Benefits, typical workloads and application areas for these cases are given as well as several decision criteria. PowerLinux The material provides decision support on when to use which of our high-end Linux platforms.

Linux All attendees Centralized Linux auditing to comply Guillaume Lasmayous, Most of today's security regulations - PCI, SOX - also require also strong auditing policies. To comply with Lecture Inter on with Common Criteria Manfred Gnirss those regulations, Linux systems administrators will rely on Linux built-in auditing capabilities. This session will Syste provide an overview how the Linux Audit Framework can be used to enable auditing for a Linux servers to be m z in compliance with Common Criteria requirements. We will also discuss how to protect the audit trail from fraud by shiping it to an different protected server. This additional protected server can be another Linux system or a z/OS SMS database, where zSecure can help to analyze the content of the consolidated logs of your whole Linux environment.

Linux All attendees Devops your Linux on System z Guillaume Lasmayous, IBM investments in OpenSource projects are not new: Linux, Eclipse, now Openstack as a foundation for our Lecture Inter on environment! Romain Pochard Cloud Computing products. To embrace the increased pace required by the new cloud-based deployment Syste models, systems administrators had to adopt new work methodologies, often refered to as devops (Developers m z / Operations). These devops are re-inventing the way Linux machines are managed: from physical boxes and image deployments to VMs and automated installations. This session will demonstrate how opensource devops tools can support an application development lifecycle on Linux on System z: from provisionning systems using xCAT, application deployment and configuration management with Ansible to logs and audit management using Logstash.

All attendees Hints and tips for Oracle database Helene Grosch, Armelle Oracle 12c is now available on Linux on z! In this session you will have a technical overview on the Oracle Lecture Inter (including 12c) on Linux on IBM Cheve Database on Linux on System z : how to install it properly, how to tune it and how you can improve the System z performance of your system with CPU, memory, I/O, disk layout, etc...The IBM Oracle Center will share real customer experiences on performance issues resolutions. We will also explain the latest features on Oracle 12c and how you can leverage them on System z. All attendees Oracle database cross platform Helene Grosch, Armelle You want to consolidate Oracle workload on Linux on System z but you don't know how to do it? This session is Lecture Inter migration on IBM System z Cheve for you! You'll learn about the different techniques available to migrate an Oracle database on System z such as Export/Import with Datapump, transportable tablespaces, Streams... You'll have the advantages and the constraints for each of them. We'll also share best practices for a successful cross platform migration project. Then some of our real customer cases will be presented, and we will show you a demo for Oracle database migration on Linux on z with near zero downtime thanks to IBM Infosphere CDC.

All attendees System z Consolidation, sizing, and Ivan Dobos Why many clients are consolidating their infrastructure to Linux on System z? Understand the reasons and the Lecture Inter Total od Cost of Ownership basic concepts involving this consolidation, how to plan for it, how to size it, and how to see its economic value (TCO).

All attendees CSL-WAVE orientation. Ivan Dobos Feel at first hand the powerful interface and capablilities provided by CSL-WAVE and navigate its screens, Lab Inter while executing meaningful tasks with no need to use a green screen nor deep z/VM skills.

All attendees CSL-WAVE Introduction, architecture Ivan Dobos In this session we will introduce CSL-WAVE and review how capabilities such as Intelligent Visualization, Lecture Inter and value. Simplified Monitoring, and Unified Management would reduce operational costs, reduce risks and speed up time to value. We will do a high level overview of the architecture and discuss some of the capabilities offered by CSL-WAVE that simplify the deployment of Linux on System z enabling application owners and/or authorized users to manage applications without the need of deep System z specific skills.

All attendees How To Surprise By Being a Linux Mustafa Mesanovic This session is dedicated to more advanced Linux performance tools. These tools can enable you to debug Lecture Inter Performance "know-it-all" more issues on your own and provide better data in case you still need support, reducing service response times. The presentation will give an overview about some of the more advanced tools available in Linux to do a performance related system analysis like blktrace, hyptop, valgrind, ss, perf and so on - allowing you to better analyze, summarize or fix your issues.

All attendees A Hitchhikers Guide through Mustafa Mesanovic Don't Panic! This session "takes you by your hand" and leads you how to find and solve performance issues, no Lecture Inter Performance Issues matter if its disk, network or computing performance. Within this session you will have some simple to complex scenarios with performance degradation - with the right use of tools and the right look for the performance numbers/counters you can help yourself to find these problems and give yourself performance relief. All attendees Dynamically Provisioning Resources Richard Young In this session we discuss the details of dynamically provisioning memory, network, process, and storage Lecture Inter with Linux Virtual Servers resources to your running Linux virtual servers. The materials includes dynamically adding, removing, altering, and automating resource changes. Material includes situations relevant to both native LPAR and z/VM hosted virtual servers. Whether planning a Cloud deployment or your next Linux master image you will find the material relevant.

All attendees Exploiting System z Hardware Richard Young This session details the steps necessary to exploit both the CPACF and Crypto Express hardware on System z. Lecture Inter Cryptographic Acceleration on Linux Topic areas include WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, OpenSSL/OpenSSH, and file system encryption with the kernel cryptographic APIs. This is great content to include in your next Linux master image or Cloud deployment. Why wouldn't you want to reduce your CPU consumption and increase transaction throughput.

All attendees IBM Wave for z/VM Use Cases and Richard Young This session will explore IBMs latest Systems Management tool for System z Linux virtual servers. We will Lecture Adv Field Experiences review the some of the functions you can use IBM Wave for and how to extend that function with your own short scripts. We will also discuss lessons learned in the field by our System z Lab Services team.

All attendees IT Optimization Scenarios with the Siegfried Langer Linux on System z is successfully used by many customers for various applications, including consolidation of Lecture Inter Enterprise Linux Server WebSphere and Oracle. This session will address questions like: What is the difference to a distributed environment, what are the advantages and practical experience? What makes the business case for consolidating on System z? How is Linux on System z positioned against other potential consolidation platforms? What are the advantages of Linux on System z and z/VM?

All attendees Linux File Systems - What is Butter FS Stefan Reimbold In the last years btrfs has matured to an enterprise file system and some distributions are changing to btrfs as Lecture Inter default file system. This presentation will explain the features of btrfs and highlight differences as well as advantages compared to other file systems. The presentation is also about the history of Linux file systems and will give an overview of the local and remote file systems available in Linux.

All attendees Linux on System z - What's New Stefan Reimbold This presentation will give an overview of the Linux on System z project. It will show Linux as an very active Lecture Inter open source projects and gives you an insight what makes Linux so special. During this session you will learn about the newest and the upcoming features of the Linux kernel. You'll get a broad view of the next features of the kernel for Linux on System z and what these features can do for you. All attendees Linux on System z - Networking Stefan Reimbold Linux on System z offers a lot of possibilities to get your system connected to a network. Lecture Inter This presentation will give an overview of the network devices supported by Linux on System z. Examples will show OSA, VSWITCH and HiperSockets configurations. You will learn about the differences between VSWITCH and HiperSockets and the presentation will cover more advanced network topics such as channel bonding and VLAN.

All attendees SCSI over FCP for Linux on System z Susanne Wintenberger The Linux zfcp device driver adds support for Fibre Channel attached SCSI devices to Linux on System z. The Lecture Inter Fibre Channel protocol is an open, standard-based alternative and supplement to existing ESCON or FICON connections and becomes more and more important. The intention of this presentation is to give an introduction to the SCSI world on a System z mainframe. This presentation will cover hardware and software requirements, configuration, IPL and dump.

All attendees Linux on System z Installation Hands- Susanne Wintenberger, Linux for System z has generated a lot of excitement among System z customers. However, for many this is a Lab Inter on Lab Wilhelm Mild new and strange environment. This workshop will provide an opportunity to install and configure Linux for System z in a z/VM virtual machine. The goal is to equip each attendee with the skills required to return home and install Linux for System z using the latest distributions from SUSE.

All attendees Linux on System z Monitoring Wolfgang Taphorn This presentation is about Monitoring in Linux on System z it covers where statistics of several componants such Lecture Inter as DASD, zFCP, etc. can be found and how to interpret these.

All attendees Problem Determination with Linux on Wolfgang Taphorn This presentation is about problem resolution in Linux on System z running with or without z/VM. You learn Lecture Inter system z about some tools that can help you when your Linux system has a problem. In addition, we explain the usage of debugging tools to collect important system data and basics of performance data.

All attendees Hints & Tips for Solving Linux Wolfgang Taphorn This presentation is about problem resolution in Linux on System z on the basis of real customer stories. You Lecture Inter Problems - Real Customer Stories learn about tools that can help you when your Linux system has a problem and we will show what tools to use for collecting important system data and basics of performance data. You will see real world examples of customer problems, how we did the debugging and provided the solution. Storage Systems

All attendees How Recent Storage Innovations Can Jeffrey Berger In this session we will talk about recent storage innovations that can help improve the performance and Lecture Inter Help Improve Performance and reliability of your DB2 subsystem. Among the topics discussed are solid state disks, High Performance FICON, Reliability For Your DB2 Subsystem HyperPAV and EAV. Particular focus will be on IBM’s DS8000 storage and how IBM’s DB2 Performance department configures its storage in a way that allows it to minimize single points of failure, while also allowing us to more easily manage DB2 performance.

All attendees Deep Dive: Understanding IBM's Point Lisa Gundy Point in time copies can be critical to maintaining business recovery capability. This session will cover the Lecture Inter In Time FlashCopy many different flavors of point in time copy that FlashCopy can provide to meet your business needs. In addition, it will show how these functions are exploited in the z/OS DFSMS environment.

All attendees Deep Dive: Understanding IBM's Peer Lisa Gundy Different mirroring technologies and a myriad of configuration combinations can meet every business's Lecture Inter to Peer Remote Copy requirements for high availability and disaster recovery. IBM offers both synchronous and asynchronous peer to peer mirror and copy technologies that can be combined to provide both short and long distance copies of data for continuity and out of region disaster recovery. This session will break down the different techniques and then show how they can be used to meet your business's mission critical needs.

All attendees IBM Disk and Tape Encryption for zOS Maurice McCullough In this session we will cover the pros and cons of encryption, in this session will explain IBM data encryption Lecture Inter concept differences between tape and disk, we will cover the terminology used in encryption and take a high level view of just how the encryption process works.

All attendees DS8870 Overview and update for zOS Maurice McCullough The System Storage DS8870 is IBM's enterprise storage flagship, featuring the most advanced functions we Lecture Inter offer to the market. This session discusses the new deliveries which we get with the latest R7.x code releases, along with a look at the internal architecture and most recent feature enhancements. A special emphasis lies on the new additions to the Easy Tier optimization algorithm and the options that the usage of SSDs gives us in conjunction with IBM Easy Tier.

All attendees TS7700 VTS overview and update Maurice McCullough This session will cover the TS7700 VTS for mainframes only. We will take a high level look at the subsystem Lecture Inter itself, and then primary focus on the recent updates and take look at the new GUI based on IBM's legendary mid-range XIV disk system. All attendees TPC for Replication 5.2 and z/OS Alexander Warmuth With Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, your Disaster Recovery configuration is just a few Demo Inter Hyperswap mouse-clicks away. z/OS Basic Hyperswap adds a high availability component and protects you from storage system outages.

We briefly introduce TPC for Replication and z/OS Hyperswap and their benefits. Then we explain the enhancements that came with the latest relase TPC-R 5.2. They simplify the implementation and management of z/OS Hyperswap significantly. We complement the lecture with live demos that illustrate the ease of use and value of the solutions.

All attendees Multi-tenant Copy Services Alexander Warmuth There is a trend to consolidate multiple storage systems to fewer, larger ones. Acquisitions, mergers, or Demo Inter configurations with DS8000 Copy outsourcing activities create the need to accommodate different organizations on the same storage system Services Scope Management with a clear separation of administrative access to certain resources and functions. (Resource Groups) In this presentation we explain how the DS8000 family allows to handle multi-tenant Copy Services configurations using the Resource Groups feature. We discuss the ideas and concepts behind it and show how to implement it with several live demo examples.

All attendees IBM System Storage DS8000 and IBM Alexander Warmuth By no means! We continously introduce improvements and new features to the DS8000 storage system family. Lecture Inter System z: old hat? In this presentation we'll go through the major enhancements of the latest releases, with a focus on System z.

We discuss the latest hardware upgrades, updates to EasyTier, as well as new Copy Services and System z synergy features. We explain how all these work and how they help to increase the productivity of your environment.

All attendees What's New in z/OS DFSMS V2R1 Glenn Wilcock In this session, the speaker will introduce the exciting new V2R1 DFSMS enhancements. The significant Lecture Inter enhancements include a new Storage Tiers function that enables you to fully utilize all of the tiers of storage in your hierarchy, RLS Access for Catalogs, improvements to space management throughput for small data sets, exciting enhancements to fast replication, virtual storage constraint relief, significant PDSE enhancements, and many more! Don't miss this as there is something new for everyone!

All attendees DFSMShsm Storage Tiering Glenn Wilcock After the advent of System Managed Storage (SMS), we went decades without much change in the landscape of Lecture Inter space management processing. We became very comfortable with the standard three tier hierarchy of Primary Level 0 and the two Migration tiers, Migration Level 1 (disk) and Migration Level 2 (tape). But, recent advances in both tape and disk technologies have dramatically changed that landscape and have provided exciting new opportunities for managing data on the System z platform. In this session, the speaker will present the details on implementing the z/OS V2R1 DFSMS Storage Tiers solution.

All attendees DFSMShsm Best Practices Glenn Wilcock The speaker will cover DFSMShsm Best Practices that have been collected over the years by the DFSMShsm Lecture Inter development team. By attending this presentation, you may discover some helpful hints and new functions that will aid you in optimizing your DFSMShsm environment

System z Strategies for Security, Cloud, Mobile and Social All attendees How to create a Mobile Application Aymeric Affouard The demonstration shows how to create a Mobile Application with Worklight, deploy it on a WebSphere zLinux Demo Inter accessing my Legacy Backend System z plateform and connect it to the legacy backend system z simulating a Customer Information System. Once the Mobile App is created in Worklight Studio, I deploy it on a Worklight Server running on a zLinux with WebSphere Liberty : attendees can see the Worklight Console and the Entreprise Application Store. The next step is the download and the run of the app on a mobile device. Last step, I go back to the development environment to enhance the Mobile App with the connection to a backend server simulating a Customer Information System running on system z. The upgrade is Direct Downloaded on the mobile to show the backend connection.

All attendees Worklight Performance on System z Aymeric Affouard Based on the "Worklight on Linux on z tests" realised in Dec 2013, what can be the figures and measurements Lecture Inter we can expect from different Worklight configurations using WebSphere Liberty or WebSphere ND, native LPAR or running in second level z/VM, ... Depending on the hardware configuration and architecture of the solution, how the Integrated Facility for Linux processors supports the load and the Mobile workload behaves.

All attendees What's Happening to the Mainframe? Glenn Anderson If you have been too busy applying PTFs and updating PARMLIB lately to notice where our beloved mainframe Lecture Inter Mobile? Social? Cloud? Big Data? is headed, then this session is for you! Join long-time instructor and conference speaker Glenn Anderson and get a quick fix update on how z/OS now plays in the world of mobile computing, social business, cloud computing, big data, and any other new buzzwords that have popped up in the last year. Leave this session smart enough to carry on an intelligent conversation with your peers and management on keeping System z connected and relevant in the modern world.

All attendees System z Security Strategy for IBM Jean-Marc Darèes This session provides a technical look at the business reasons for System z security. Speaker will explain how Lecture Inter System z security is implemented in various z operating systems and selected IBM middleware. Always referring to the IBM Security framework, layer by layer the speaker illustrates security strengths of the System z by using some pertinent examples. Latest hot topics including EKMS, QRadar... will be covered.

All attendees Introduction to Cryptography and Jean-Marc Darèes This session cover the basic concept of cryptography and its application on the zEnterprise. Lecture Inter zEC12 Crypto It also focus on high level overview of cryptography operations that can be performed on zEnterprise environment. zEC12 and its new cryptographic features will be introduced also. During the session, we will address cryptographic algorithms, modes of operation, Crypto Key Protection Profile, hardware security module and System z cryptography big pictures customer can claims on IBM System z platform. All attendees How Companies are Using System z Alan Fellwock Companies are building secure and robust private clouds on System z to deliver their critical IT services with Lecture Inter for Cloud agility and at lower costs. Join us as we examine the unique capabilities of zEnterprise as a platform for private cloud computing - providing the ultimate in virtualization, security, scalability and reliability. Gain an understanding of how the newest IBM SmartCloud technologies can automate and optimize the deployment and management of services in the cloud. We'll discuss specific real-life examples and use-cases to show you how a private cloud built on zEnterprise and SmartCloud provide flexible IT service delivery at the lowest cost. Live demonstrations of the latest IBM SmartCloud tools will also be included.

All attendees Opening up z/OS assets to the Cloud David Follis Providing a consistent, secure, high performing way to integrate z/OS business and infrastructure assets with Lecture Inter and Mobile Worlds the Cloud and Mobile worlds is key. Virtually all z/OS back end assets, including those in CICS, IMS, batch, and Unix System Services should be able to be discovered and reached using simple RESTful calls from Cloud and Mobile platforms. This session will provide an overview of an approach to using Liberty and connector technology to hide the complexity of calling applications on z/OS.

All attendees Fulfilling Business Expectations with Richard Gamblin As the world's second largest retailer, Tesco serves millions of customers a week in stores and online. A key Lecture Inter Mobile on System z: A Customer area in which Tesco differentiates itself is its distribution centers, which use advanced technology to support a Experience modern, efficient supply chain. Underpinning its fulfillment process is the CICS Denver Warehouse Management System and running on System z. This session provides an overview of the challenges and benefits of mobile-enabling the Denver application. It covers the business value identified in exposing CICS through a Mobile interface plus the design for implementing the solution on System z. The indicative results demonstrated cost savings of about $2.45 million per year, equating to an approximate ROI of only 16 days.

All attendees Architectural Considerations for Mobile Louise Hemond-Wilson Many companies' mobile and social computing efforts occur in disconnected silos. This increases vulnerability Lecture Inter and Social Computing and decreases benefits derived from social computing. This session examines basic architectural considerations for successfully implementing mobile and social computing.

All attendees Accelerate IT Transformation with Louise Hemond-Wilson, Liv What is needed for System z to support cloud, mobile and social computing? Issues regarding process, Lecture Inter System z Infrastructure Optimization Samuels governance, business alignment, and organization must be addressed simultaneously with technical matters -- (zIO) and all while supporting current business needs. This presentation reviews the System z Infrastructure Optimization (zIO) assessment, a planning methodology and execution approach to help businesses align their IT initiatives with their business strategy. zIO is an IBM Systems Lab Services Executive Consulting offering that helps companies create a fact based approach to promote IT transformation, and identify prioritized initiatives that maximize business impact while balancing new projects with existing business commitments. All attendees Intelligent Operation Center running Guillaume Hoareau Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities provides an executive dashboard to help city leaders gain Lecture Basic on IBM System z helps city leaders to insight into all aspects of the city. The executive dashboard spans agencies and enables drill-down capability make their cities smarter. into each underlying agency such as emergency management...

During this deep dive session; presenter will cover some of the IOC running on IBM System z key features. During this presentation, IOC components will be described in more details : what are systems requirements, what are main components related to IOC, how to administer it, how to syndicate datasources to the solution. Presentation will be illustrated with demos showing both business scenarios and System z infrastructure scenarios. All attendees Dynamic Business Rules and Mobile Mike Johnson This sessions takes the user through a tour of Integrating Business Rules into a mobile application using IBMs Lab Inter Applications Operational Decision and IBM Worklight mobile application development environment

All attendees Device Based Encryption using SKLM William Johnston Encrypting data at the device level helps protect data in transit between datacenters and data at rest within the Lecture Inter for z/OS - an overview of key datacenter. Managing keys is an essential part of the processes and procedures involved with encryption. management considerations IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS provides central management for keys for device based encryption. This session overviews the implementation if SKLM for z/OS.

At the completion of this topic, attendees will have been introduced to the basics of device based encryption; SKLM deployment; encryption key creation, sharing, and protection; data sharing with business partners; and the disaster recovery considerations surrounding device based encryption.

All attendees Roles Based Access control - It's not William Johnston Managing access to resources on z/OS can be time consuming, confusing, and incomplete. Multiple users Lecture Inter just Security Theater performing similar functions can be groped into roles. This session explains how, using RACF groups, roles are then given access to only the resources they need. Individuals are assigned to the roles they perform. The resource owners can stop worrying about access control lists, At the completion of this topic, attendees will have been introduced to Roles Based Access Controls using RACF.

All attendees Enterprise Key Management William Johnston The Advanced Cryptographic Service Provider (ACSP) component of EKMF is a solution for providing remote Lecture Inter Foundation - Remote access to System hardware based cryptographic services to your applications. z cryptography This session discusses how the Common Cryptographic Architecture services provided by z/OS and ICSF can be accessed by applications running on distributed platform such as Linux and Windows. The discussion ranges from an overview of the need for remote cryptographic services to implementation of those services through Java interfaces. All attendees Enterprise Key Management William Johnston IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation powered by DKMS (Distributed Key Management System) Lecture Adv Foundation - Centralized encryption provides a centralized management system for cryptographic keys and certificates on any number of servers — key management using EKMF mainframes as well as distributed servers. The emphasis is on high security, high availability,and recovery of all key material, even in disaster situations.

All attendees DB2 z/OS Security Update Georg Kistenberger Data Security is more and more a important aspect. This requires a increasing challenge on current database Lecture Inter systems. DB2 z/OS does provide a significant amount of security functions embedded in DB2, RACF, z/OS, IP, HW encryption facilities. This presentation covers the security capabilities up to DB2 V11.

All attendees No cloud-Z-in the sky ? It's a good time Sebastien Llaurency A new trend for cloud is emerging, an evolution is on track and it is not about private or public cloud. It is Lecture Inter to plan for Hybrid Cloud Fireworks! about Hybrid Cloud Computing. Getting best of both worlds, the cost efficiency of public cloud with the security & the flexibility of a private cloud environment. System z already have a strong presence in Hybrid Cloud Computing, particularly in Community Cloud. In this session I will explain the role of System z with this growing type of cloud, and how you can leverage your existing IT capabilities to build those Hybrid Cloud Computing services. Use System z Cloud as your long term Enterprise Cloud Hub to manage current & future cross-platform services. I will share my experience working with Managed Service Provider & System z.

All attendees Think it ! Build it & Tap into it in 20 Sebastien LLaurency, This year, you heard about IBM-Wave for z/VM, Openstack initiative and several IBM SmartCloud offerings Lecture Inter minutes with System z Cloud ! Sylvain Carta available for System z. This session will help you better understand the current System z Cloud ecosystem. What others customers are doing with Linux System z & Cloud ? Which workloads are eligible to cloud services on System z ? In a nutshell, what can you do today with System z Cloud ?! This presentation is including a 20 minutes of live demonstration, reusing an existing System z service. We will think our cloud service and discuss required architecture components, we will build it using IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and we will tap into it. So if you have never seen a cloud service built on System z, this session is for you.

All attendees How to deal with new security Martina Schmidt Mobile brings new security challenges to your enterprise. These challenges include: Lecture Inter challenges using mobile and System z - mobile device and application management - data separation and data privacy - secure connections - identity, access and authorization - development of secure apps - policy management and security intelligence. This session will guide you through the different aspects of mobile security and architectural patterns how to solve the new challenges in a System z environment. All attendees How to deal with keys, signatures and Martina Schmidt Beginning with the zEC12 IBM supports hardware and secure key cryptography for PKCS#11, an open crypto Lecture Inter certificates - a System z crypto standard used for digital signatures. In this session we will show you how to use System z hardware crypto solutions demo capabilities from remote, providing "crypto as a service" for your enterprise and leveraging System z investments. In addition we will guide you through key and digital certificate management.

All attendees The Basics of Enterprise Mobile Theresa Tai This is an introduction to IBM Mobile Computing initiative and strategy, plus insights into the IBM MobileFirst Lecture Inter Computing platform. We will look at the mobile industry trends, challenges, and new possibilities. How IBM Mobile Foundation is designed to integrate back office solutions that will transform the front office. In this presentation we will discuss the ability to take real time interactions and transactions and turn them into insights that drive new business opportunities. The session will also cover the IBM Mobile foundation, a software-based technology innovation. This includes IBM Worklight, a Mobile application platform, Security, design and test tools all aimed to help companies go mobile. We’ll wrap up with a live demo.

All attendees Security and Audit Management Jan Thielmann, Guenter In today’s business environment, the challenge of protecting sensitive corporate data can seem both Lecture Inter update - What's new in zSecure Weber technically overwhelming and prohibitively costly. A balance must be found between unreasonably rigid access controls and too generous access to data by your business users. And when you've done all that make sure to integrate your Mainframe into the enterprise-wide security. This session explains, also using live Demos, how IBM Security zSecure suite can deliver an integrated solution that addresses these security challenges facing your organization today using the latest features of the product.

All attendees z/OS auditing and reporting for Jan Thielmann Security is not only RACF - there is a lot of security relevant information in your subsystems like IMS, CICS and Demo Inter subsystems and RACF DB2 but als in UNIX System Services and your TCP/IP configuration. This session will show how subsystems and the RACF database can be audited from the IBM Security zSecure compliance framework interface.

All attendees User’s Experience: Implementing an Jack Jones, Danske Bank This session is a user’s experience of implementing an enterprise log management system. It will go through Lecture Inter Enterprise Log Management System the business and security reasons that justified the cost such as PCI-DSS requirements and current security events. The initial implementation phase and some thoughts on future plans will be examined with some of the good points as well as some of the wishlist items being discussed. The presenter will also comment on the results and security gaps that can now be understood and filled once we have a more complete vision of events that are happening in our network. This will not be a product description session but the presentation will mention RACF, z/OS, Windows, and Unix/Linux as well network devices especially Cisco logging to QRadar. It will identify the difference between network flows and event flows and why both are needed. All attendees A User’s Lessons Learned of a Forensic Jack Jones, Danske Bank We all know the System z is the most securable IT system. But sometime we have grown complacent and forget Lecture Inter Analysis of ‘z Hack’ that we still have to do work to secure the System z environment. So what happens when things go terribly wrong and you are left with determining what went wrong, how to fix it, and what architectural and operational decisions to implement to make sure that it does not happen again. This session will be a high level review of such an experience; with a philosophical analysis of what was required to allow it happen; how were the specialists able to adjust to misconfiguration to determine where the errors were; and some of the results that were recommended to close the attack vectors. Note: there will very little in-depth technical details to the nature of the events. This will be a review of recommendations for securing your System z that we all should remember.

All attendees Social networks and the daily profit for Wilhelm Mild Today Social Networks can to keep you current with important news, product updates in z/OS and Linux and Lecture Inter your System z business help you enhance your professional network, exchange information, gain from other customer experiences and have a direct contact with development teams. Come and see how you can take advantage of Twitter and other Social networks in your daily business.

All attendees A Reference architecture for a Mobile Wilhelm Mild Take advantage of a Mobile environment on System z. This session will illustrate a Reference solution Lecture Inter environment on System z architecture and use cases for Mobile on system z. It shows why you should not ignore the trend and grow your business with Mobile on System z.

All attendees Mobile computing with Linux on z - Lab Susanne Wintenberger, Mobile devices are the interfaces present and future. You can build a Mobile environment on Linux on System Lab Basic basic Wilhelm Mild z. If you are familiar with Linux on z, the lab will guide you to build and test a Mobile environment on Linux on System z based on the IBM Worklight Server.

All attendees Mobile computing with Linux on z - Lab Susanne Wintenberger, Mobile devices are the interfaces present and future. In this session you can build your Mobile App that Lab Inter advanced Wilhelm Mild connects to external resources. If you are familiar with Linux on z and Worklight Studio, you will create Worklight adapters and exploit them using the IBM Worklight Server on Linux on System z.

All attendees Angry Birds and Half Words - Mobile Nick Garrod Mobile and the Mainframe, two technologies that most people think have nothing to do with each other, and Lecture Inter and the Mainframe yet millions of smart phones access mainframe data sand services everyday. Come along to get a overview of the modern enterprise mobile application and the technologies that can help you with everything from development and deployment to connectivity and security. Find out how to make your mainframe accessible to mobile and what to expect from the changing workloads this can bring.

All attendees Integrating CICS with Worklight to Nick Garrod Enterprise systems offer integrity, rollback, durability and thousands of other characteristics that make your Lecture Basic deliver Modern Mobile Apps that business run without error 24/7, but enterprise systems also have a reputation of 'hiding' their data from the extend your Business mobile platform. This session demonstrates how to integrate Worklight, IBM's mobile platform for application development and application management with CICS allowing your business to expose your 'hidden' data to the mobile platform so that your business can start to exploit its hidden value. Learn how and why connecting CICS to a mobile world is essential. Learn how the CICS makes it easier and an ever more powerful place to handle mobile related workload. All attendees Enterprise Modernisation of CICS Nick Garrod Tesco PLC serves millions of customers a week in stores and online. One of the key areas in which Tesco Lecture Basic through Mobile Enterprise - a differentiates itself is its network of distribution centers, which use advanced technology to support a modern, customer story efficient and cost-effective supply chain. Underpinning its fulfillment process is a system, based on CICS and running on System z. This session provides an overview of the challenges and benefits of mobile-enabling a CICS application for Tesco. It explores the technical options available to architects wishing to mobile-enable a CICS application; and the approaches that can be taken. The session will also cover the key proof points and test scenarios demonstrated with Tesco's Denver CICS application.

z/OS and Parallel Sysplex Implementation and Performance Management

All attendees Top New z/OS Performance Functions Glenn Anderson Have you lost track of the most recent z/OS announcements that affect performance? Or have you heard about Lecture Inter Every Sysprog Should Understand them, but never had time to dig in and understand them? Never fear! Join long-time z/OS instructor Glenn Anderson for this session and come away a little smarter and better prepared. Topics covered will include SMF logstream mode and the Enterprise Data Compression feature, pageable large pages and Flash Express, using z/OSMF with WLM and RMF, Warning Track, IDAA, and more!

All attendees RMF – The Latest and Greatest! Harald Bender RMF is IBM's strategic product for z/OS performance management. It collects performance data of z/OS Lecture Inter systems it provides reporting capabilities for sysplex-wide monitoring, performance analysis and capacity planning. In this session the latest functions provided with z/OS V2R1 RMF will be reviewed. With the new release, RMF comes along with quite a number of substantial highlights: • Exploitation of System z Integrated Information Processors. • Monitoring FPGA and PCIe function activity. • Support of Storage Class Memory paging statistics. • Cross Platform Monitoring support for Windows systems. • SMF Recording Facility for AIX, Linux and Windows performance data. • Additional Postprocessor reports in XML format.

All attendees Mining Gold from RMF Monitor III – Harald Bender Do you frequently use RMF Monitor III reports for your performance analysis and problem determination? Lecture Inter The XML Batch Reporting Facility Then it’s time to discover the new XML batch reporting facility for multiple reasons: • Generate Monitor III XML formatted reports automatically in batch mode. • Store the reports persistently for each reporting interval. • Create an archive for your favourite reports in the USS file system. • Convert the report XML documents to alternate formats (e.g. CSV, JSON). • Parse the report XML document and extract key metrics. • Take advantage from the state-of-the-art reporting GUI. • Avoid cumbersome downloads to the workstation. Take 75 minutes of your time and get ready to work with Monitor III batch reports efficiently. All attendees Forget about Dowloads! Setup the IBM Harald Bender Should you take a closer look at RMF Postprocessor reports in a web browser? Lab Inter HTTP Server for RMF Postprocessor Absolutely, because there are quite a number of good reasons: Reports • The web browser is perfectly suited to display RMF XML reports in a state-of-the art fashion. • The IBM HTTP Server can be used as gateway to the RMF Postprocessor reports. • You can forget about cumbersome downloads, the reports can remain on your z/OS system. In this lab you will learn how to create RMF Postprocessor XML reports. Then you will review a couple of parameters for the IBM HTTP Server. Finally just restart your HTTP Server and enjoy the reports in your browser window. Navigate through the reports, expand and collapse individual report sections and explore the built-in sort capability.

All attendees Getting Started with z/OSMF Resource Harald Bender The IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) provides system management solutions for z/OS in a task- Lab Inter Monitoring oriented, Web browser based user interface. The Resource Monitoring application introduced with z/OSMF V1R12 allows you to monitor the performance and resource consumption of the z/OS, AIX, Linux and Windows images in your installation. In this lab you will learn how to use the z/OSMF Resource Monitoring application efficiently: • Exploit the pre-defined dashboards. • Add your own dashboards with your favourite metrics. • Get the best out of the advanced filtering capabilities. The lab will also cover two features which have been added quite recently: Navigate back and forth through historical data and export the data to spreadsheets.

All attendees System z Software Pricing Overview David Chase This session will introduce the software pricing options available to IBM's zEnterprise and System z servers. We Lecture Inter will discuss a variety of Monthly License Charge (MLC) metrics, including the newest ones: Advanced Workload License Charge (AWLC) and Advanced Entry Workload License Charge (AEWLC). We will also introduce IPLA "one-time charge" pricing and how it differs from MLC. Although the primary focus will be on z/OS pricing, these pricing concepts also apply to z/VSE and z/TPF.

All attendees What's New in System z Software David Chase Keep up with the most recent announcements in the world of System z software pricing. This session will focus Lecture Adv Pricing on the new Technology Transition Offering (TTO) enhancements to AEWLC pricing for the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12) servers, and updates for z/OS V2.

All attendees System z Sub-Capacity and the SCRT David Chase Sub-Capacity pricing for System z software is the way most customers achieve the optimal price performance Lecture Inter Report available to them. But this means that the way your system is configured and used is very likely to have an impact upon the software charges you pay, and use of the Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) will be required. Attend this session to understand how SCRT works beyond the introductory level, how to use it, how to interpret the output of the tool (the Sub-Capacity Report), and what options you have to tune your system to influence your monthly software charges. All attendees z/OSMF V2.1 Configuration and Gregory Daynes z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) 2.1 is the latest release; it provides a web-based graphical interface for Lecture Inter Implementation system programmers on z/OS. It now uses the Liberty profile in WebSphere Application Server for z/OS 8.5 as its web serving environment. Configuring a web serving environment doesn't have to be complex. Come see how z/OSMF uses scripts and override files to set up the required environment for new users, users installing with a ServerPac, or users migrating from a prior release. The session will also explain how to add z/OSMF functions to an existing environment and authorizing users to z/OSMF. This session will be useful to systems programmers and their managers who will be using (or are considering using) the z/OSMF.

All attendees z/OSMF Software Management Hands- Gregory Daynes The Software Management function is an exciting new function that provides new viewing and reporting Lab Inter on Lab capabilities for software instances. This hand on lab will give you an opportunity to use the new z/OSMF Software Management functions first hand. Attendees will use z/OSMF to display the products, features, and FMIDs for a software instance. They will use the software management reports to identify any installed software that will be going out of support, as well as get to try each of the other new capabilities. Each participant will use the new function without having to install or configure z/OSMF on their own system.

All attendees z/OSMF Software Managment Gregory Daynes z/OSMF Software Deployment was introduced in z/OSMF V1.13 and throughout 2012 this function has been Lecture Inter Capabilities enhanced. In this session, the speaker will highlight recent enhancements to the Software Deployment function. In addition, he will highlight an exciting new function planned to be available in the future that will provide new viewing and reporting capabilities for software instances. For example, you will be able to view product and service information for any software instance in your enterprise, and you will be able to produce valuable software management reports that are exclusive to z/OSMF.

All attendees What New in z/OSMF V2.1 Gregory Daynes The z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) provides a web-based graphical interface for system programmers Lecture Inter on z/OS. This session will provide an overview of the capabilities of the new release of this product, explaining how it will fit into your z/OS environment. It will include recent improvements and enhancements now available in z/OSMF 2.1.

All attendees System z Processor Consumption Peter Enrico The first step to any processor analysis is to understand your processor configuration and settings. The second Lecture Inter Analysis, or What is Consuming All the step is to understand what workloads, address spaces, and transactions are consuming the fixed processor CPU? resource. It is only after understanding what and how the processor is being consumed can you conduct any sort of processor tuning or optimization exercise.

During this presentation Peter Enrico will show you how to conduct a processor resource consumption analysis. You will be provided with a top down approach to better understand processor measurements available to help you gain a drilldown insight into how the CPU resource is being consumed, and by what LPARs, Workloads, and transactions. Shown is what is known as a drill down approach for a processor performance analysis. All attendees Performing a WLM Review - Part 1 of 2 Peter Enrico Conducting a WLM controls review should be done on a regular basis. As environments and workloads change, Lecture Inter so does the potential for adjusting the WLM controls. During this 2 part session Peter Enrico will walk the attendees through a cursory review of their WLM Goals and Importance Levels. In particular, during this session Peter instruct the attendees to do the following reviews. Peter will also provide the necessary background on each of these areas, so the session will not just be how to conduct the review, but also about the WLM control being discussed, and recommended guidelines. - Importance Level Review - Velocity Goal Review All attendees Performing a WLM Review - Part 2 of 2 Peter Enrico Conducting a WLM controls review should be done on a regular basis. As environments and workloads change, Lecture Inter so does the potential for adjusting the WLM controls. During this 2 part session Peter Enrico will walk the attendees through a cursory review of their WLM Goals and Importance Levels. In particular, during this session Peter instruct the attendees to do the following reviews. Peter will also provide the necessary background on each of these areas, so the session will not just be how to conduct the review, but also about the WLM control being discussed, and recommended guidelines. - Response Time Goal Review - Multiple Period and Duration Review

All attendees Brand-new: IBM NetView for z/OS 6.2 Uwe Gramm Here it is--IBM's new NetView solution on z/OS. Come and learn exciting news on network management, Lecture Inter & IBM NetView Monitoring for GDPS automation, sophisticated Canzlog logging, and business continuity for your System z environment. NetView for 6.2 z/OS 6.2 supports the GDPS Active/Active continuous availability solution by providing monitoring of workload status and other managed elements in the Active/Query configuration. In this presentation you get new and valuable insights in NetView's state-of-the-art capabilities to manage a robust and business-critical mainframe environment.

All attendees Policy based management of On/Off Michael Groetzner Today's processing environments are very dynamic and require fast responses to unexpected workload Lecture Inter CoD and Defined Capacity situations. WLM is the z/OS component that manages that within your defined constrains. Sometimes, these contains are to tight to handle the business requirements. z/OS Capacity Provisioning helps you to manage additional processing capacity on your system z server. With this component, you define which, when, and how many temporary capacity may be added in a policy. Capacity Provisioning then monitors your systems and adapts the capacity according to your policy. This lecture provides an overview of z/OS Capacity Provisioning.

All attendees Realtime demonstration of z/OS Michael Groetzner Capacity Provisioning is the z/OS component that manages temporary processor and defined capacity for your Demo Inter Capacity Provisioning system z server. This demo will show the steps to define a policy using z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF), activate it, and perform an activation of temporary capacity.

All attendees On-demand labs (Parallel Sysplex) Brian Hatfield, Maurice Up to five on demand sysplex exercises are available. Exercises can be done in sequence or selected Lab Inter McCullough individually depending on your experience. Parallel Sysplex operations - Basic skill level Working with Couple Data Sets - Intermediate skill level Working with XCF Signaling Paths - Intermediate skill level Managing Structures Within and Across Multiple CFs - Intermediate skill level Working With Structures and Structure problems - Advanced skill level

All attendees IBM System z performance and Gerard Laumay IBM has made available a set of productivity tools designed to provide performance and capacity sizing Lecture Inter capacity planning tools update insights for IBM System z processors. They can help accurately estimate the capacity sizing impact from configuring System z processors. This session will introduce the latest capabilities of IBM System z tools like zPCR, zCP3000, zTPM, zBNA, zSOFTCAP, and will give recommendations on how to use the tools to estimate the impact of capacity sizing challenges, while utilizing the latest versions and advanced functions available in the tools. All attendees CPU Overhead: Necessary Evil or Fabio Massimo Ottaviani, The term overhead is usually used when grouping expenses that are necessary to the continued functioning of Lecture Inter Mistake ? Danilo Gipponi the business but cannot be immediately associated with the products or services being offered (Wikipedia).

You can easily apply these business concepts to any IT resource but especially to the most important overhead to worry about: the CPU overhead. CPU overhead is a necessary evil: it can’t be eliminated completely. However you have to fight, every day, to keep it as low as possible. The reason is very simple: z/OS hardware and software costs are mostly influenced by the CPU usage. In this presentation we will discuss the most frequent CPU overheads you can find in a z/OS environment providing suggestions on how reducing them.

All attendees New Metrics to Tune z/OS Applications Fabio Massimo Ottaviani, Performance analysts know that having complete statistical measurements is an essential pre-requisite to Lecture Inter Danilo Gipponi being able to tune systems, subsystems and applications. This is why every z/OS site regularly collects millions of statistical records.

Unfortunately this information is not always complete and is sometimes even misleading.

The three major impediments are: the need to keep data collection overheads as low as possible, delays in IBM subsystems in updating the available metrics to cater for new Technologies and the requirement for customers to make system changes to implement the new metrics.

During this presentation we will discuss the most crucial new performance metrics which can be used to tune z/OS applications.

All attendees zIIP Capacity Planning Martin Packer zIIP Capacity Planning tends to be neglected - in favour of General-Purpose Engines (GCPs). With recent Lecture Inter enhancements to DB2 allowing you to offload critical CPU to zIIPs, and to get the most out of zAAP-on-zIIP, it's time to take zIIP Capacity Planning seriously.

This presentation describes how to do zIIP Capacity Planning properly - with instrumentation and guidelines.

All attendees Parallel Batch Performance Martin Packer With the laws of physics providing a nice brick wall that chip builders are heading towards for processor clock Lecture Inter Considerations speed, we are heading into the territory where simply buying a new machine won't necessarily make your batch go faster. So if you can't go short, go wide! This session looks at some of the performance issues and techniques of splitting your batch jobs into parallel streams to do more at once.

All attendees Life And Times Of An Address Space Martin Packer A typical z/OS system has a wide variety of address spaces. So much so that managing their performance can Lecture Inter be difficult.

This presentation prepares you to handle this diversity, discussing what's common to all and what's different. Centred around SMF Type 30 records, it guides you in deciding when to rely on common instrumentation, and when to go to more specific data, such as CICS instrumentation or data set records. All attendees z/OS Communications Server Sam Reynolds z/OS Communication Server combines TCP/IP and VTAM support to better address the needs of today's Lecture Inter Technical Update, Part 1 complex networks. This two-part session provides an overview of features in the upcoming z/OS V2R1 Communications Server. Features to be discussed include:

Enhanced fast path sockets QDIO acceleration coexistence with IP filtering A TCP/IP profile syntax check command User control of ephemeral port ranges A completely rewritten IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS CS Application-instance DVIPA affinity support Enhanced security configuration options …and many more features related to areas such as network management, FTP, and Enterprise Extender.

All attendees z/OS Communications Server Sam Reynolds z/OS Communication Server combines TCP/IP and VTAM support to better address the needs of today's Lecture Inter Technical Update, Part 2 complex networks. This two-part session provides an overview of features in the upcoming z/OS V2R1 Communications Server. Features to be discussed include:

Enhanced fast path sockets QDIO acceleration coexistence with IP filtering A TCP/IP profile syntax check command User control of ephemeral port ranges A completely rewritten IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS CS Application-instance DVIPA affinity support Enhanced security configuration options …and many more features related to areas such as network management, FTP, and Enterprise Extender.

All attendees z/OS V2R1 Communications Server: Sam Reynolds z/OS V2R1 Communications Server -- along with zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise BC12 systems with the 10 Lecture Inter Shared Memory Communications - GbE RoCE Express feature -- support a new communications protocol called Shared Memory Communications - RDMA (SMC-R), Part 1 of 2 RDMA (SMC-R), where GbE is Gigabit Ethernet, RMDA is Remote Direct Memory Access, and RoCE is RDMA over Converged Ethernet. This new protocol is designed to provide highly efficient, low-latency data transfer between z/OS systems over RoCE in a manner transparent to socket applications. In Part 1 of this two-part session, we will look at how SMC-R works, its benefits and requirements, and some early performance benchmarks.

All attendees z/OS V2R1 Communications Server: Sam Reynolds z/OS V2R1 Communications Server -- along with zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise BC12 systems with the 10 Lecture Inter Shared Memory Communications - GbE RoCE Express feature -- support a new communications protocol called Shared Memory Communications - RDMA (SMC-R), Part 2 of 2 RDMA (SMC-R), where GbE is Gigabit Ethernet, RMDA is Remote Direct Memory Access, and RoCE is RDMA over Converged Ethernet. This new protocol is designed to provide highly efficient, low-latency data transfer between z/OS systems over RoCE in a manner transparent to socket applications. In Part 2 of this two-part session, we will look at the details associated with implementing SMC-R.

All attendees The New Face of z/OS Sam Reynolds z/OS V2R1 will feature a completely rewritten IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server. In Lecture Inter Communications Server this session, we will look at the improvements delivered by the new Configuration Assistant, and will provide a demonstration of its new user interface. All attendees HMCS - the new z/OS operator console Philippe Richard In z/OS V2R1 a new type of operator console has been introduced: the HMCS. It will provide enhanced Demo Inter interface flexibility and useability, and allows to access to a z/OS operator console when existing consoles are not available. This new console is provided through the Hardware Management Console (HMC) supporting an "Integrated 3270 Console" interface HMCS is what z/OS calls this type of console. Come to this session to learn the details of the implementation and use of this new console interface. The speaker will alternate his presentation with a demo on a live native z/OS 2.1 system and HMC to illustrate this new facility.

All attendees z/OS Ver 2.1 Sysprog Goody Bag Bob Rogers After covering two versions of MVS/ESA, ten releases of OS/390, and thirteen releases of z/OS 1, the famous Lecture Inter goody bag continues into a new version of z/OS with Bob Rogers back again to educate and entertain us. z/OS 2.1 is the first z/OS release on the two-year cadence, so Bob will have no problem filling the session with goodies delivered in the release. But there still should be time for digressions into history and mainframe lore.

All attendees z/OS 2.1 IBM Print Products Latest Elizabeth Smith Infoprint Server for z/OS 2.1 adds a number of new features, including managing configuration file attributes Lecture Inter Status and New Features in the Printer Inventory from the ISPF panels, support for dynamic configuration changes for most options, additional job accounting information in SMF Type 6 records, and support for using System Logger for the Common Message log. The speaker will discuss how to configure and use these and other enhancements to Infoprint Server, as well as recent enhancements to the z/OS Transforms to and from AFP products, and to PSF.

All attendees Configuring and Exploiting the New Elizabeth Smith IBM’s Print Transforms from AFP V1.1 product was released in 2011 and has since added significant new Lecture Inter Infoprint Server FromAFP Transforms function. This session will detail configuration and migration from the original Transforms. It will also discuss the new functions added and how you can use them to convert a much wider range of AFP file to PDF, PCL or PostScript. The speaker will answer questions about any of the InfoPrint Transform products.

All attendees WLM Update for z/OS 1.13 and z/OS Irene Stahl This session is intended to bring you up to speed about recent enhancements in Workload Management up to Lecture Adv 2.1 the most current z/OS Release V2.1. You will hear about the changes for zEC12 and zBC12, new extensions to the WLM policy, flash memory support, and enhanced reporting capabilities for WLM.

All attendees WLM Defined Capacity and WLM Group Irene Stahl WLM provides different soft capping mechanisms. This session will differentiate between these capping Lecture Adv Capacity methods and give some deeper insights in "WLM Defined Capacity" and "WLM Group Capacity".

All attendees z/OSMF Workload Management Hands- Irene Stahl The Workload Management application was introduced with z/OSMF 1.12. It allows administering and Lab Inter On Lab operating WLM, and managing and editing WLM service definitions. Apart from a state-of-the-art graphical user interface, it supports creating and modifying service definitions by best-practice checks and recommendations, and an integrated policy repository with serialization and operation history. This hands-on lab will give you an opportunity to use the z/OSMF Workload Management function first-hand. Attendees will use z/OSMF Workload Management to create and edit service definitions, observe and implement various best-practice recommendations, and monitor WLM status in the sysplex. All attendees What you need to know about System Raimund Thielker Do you need transparent automation in your Sysplex environment? Lecture Inter Automation for z/OS Are you spending way too much time with maintaining your hand-written automation? Would you like to draw a report from your automation on a click? See how simple it is to action upon a message. These and other highlights of 'IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS' will be presented in this session. A policy-based and goal-driven automation management ensures that you have everything under control with full transparency. This session does not require any SA z/OS knowledge.

All attendees Keep ahead with System automation Raimund Thielker IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) 3.4 comes with a full bucket of new and improved Lecture Inter for z/OS V3.4 functionality, with other enhancements following through service updates. Whether SA z/OS is used as the basis for GDPS, you want to manage zEnterprise zBX systems, or you like to run your z/OS in distinct operational modes -- these and other enhancements and new functions to facilitate daily operational tasks will be presented in this session. This presentation assumes SA z/OS knowledge.

All attendees Cut Your Teeth on System Automation Raimund Thielker, Uwe This is your chance to work with the latest version 3.4 of SA z/OS in a sandbox environment. In this lab, you'll Lab Inter in a Hands-on Lab Gramm learn how to work with SA's system operations component. - Define a new application using the application class concept - Create an application group to manage multiple applications as a whole - Setup relationships to existing applications - Exploit the reporting capabilities of SA z/OS to see what the automated environment looks like - Test the new policy on the live system. For additional background on the basic concepts used by SA z/OS, the session "What you need to know about System Automation for z/OS" is recommended.

All attendees Migrating to z/OS V2.1, Part 1: It's Marna WALLE This is part one of a two-part session that will be of interest to system programmers and their managers who Lecture Inter here! are migrating to z/OS 2.1 from either z/OS 1.12 or z/OS 1.13. It is strongly recommended that you attend both sessions for a complete migration picture. In part one, the speaker will focus on preparing for your z/OS 2.1 migration. She will discuss the changed content of z/OS 2.1. She will cover ordering and delivery options, and will explain the coexistence, migration, fall back, and service policies. Driving and target system requirements for both software and hardware will be highlighted along with some migrations actions you can perform now on your current z/OS release.

All attendees Migrating to z/OS V2.1, Part 2: Marna WALLE This is part two of a two-part session that will be of interest to system programmers and their managers who Lecture Inter Digging Into Details are migrating to z/OS 2.1 from either z/OS 1.12 or z/OS 1.13. It is strongly recommended that you attend both sessions for a complete migration picture. In part two, the speaker will focus on specific technical migration actions from selected elements.

All attendees Using z/OSMF for a z/OS V2.1 Marna WALLE Want help with planning your z/OS V2.1 migration? Now, you can have z/OSMF V2.1 workflows help you! Yes, Lab Inter Migration there's a bit of a chicken-egg problem, but there is some new assistance here - especially with the post-IPL migration actions. All attendees Small Stuff You May Want To Use in Marna WALLE Over the past several releases of z/OS, there are many smaller enhancements that you may not know about. Lecture Inter z/OS Many of them are a result of customer requirements! The speaker will cover several of them, and comment on her experience using them. You should be able to exploit these enhancements after attending this session, as none of them are difficult to implement!

All attendees What's New in z/OS V2.1 Marna WALLE Come hear an overview of the latest functions and features in z/OS V2.1. The newest release of z/OS is Lecture Inter chocked full of new items and has been available since 30 September 2013.

All attendees The Latest in z/OS UNIX and zFS Marna WALLE z/OS UNIX and zFS have some important new enhancements in z/OS V2.1. Lecture Inter

z/OS and Parallel Sysplex Implementation and Performance Management All attendees Virtual Security Zones Alan Altmark In multi-tier network applications, there is usually the concept of "zones" that each contain a set of servers. Lecture Inter Each zone separated from others by firewalls and by access policies to ensure that there is no unwanted user access or flow of data. Learn in this presentation how to properly build and evaluate virtual zones and to integrate virtual servers into your existing zones. We will also discuss using the RACF Security Server on z/VM to prevent a "red zone" server from connecting to a "green zone" network or "green zone" data.

All attendees z/VM Security Essentials Alan Altmark System security is on everyone's mind. How do you know your z/VM system is secure? In this session we will Lecture Inter discuss the z/VM security controls available to ensure that virtual machines access only the data they require, and have access only to the system functions they need. This session will help you to establish a security policy for z/VM that is safe, effective, and auditable.

All attendees z/VM Virtual Switch Alan Altmark The z/VM virtual switch is a powerful option for connecting your virtual machines to an external network. We'll Lecture Inter discuss the various deployment options and use cases, including IEEE VLANs, link aggregation, port isolation, and RACF protection. We'll also discuss the HiperSocket VSWITCH Bridge, as well as the latest enhancements for z/VM 6.3.

All attendees z/VM 6.3 "News and How To's" Brian Hugenbruch Security risks and threats are always adapting. Fortunately, so is z/VM. This presentation covers the latest Lecture Inter information in z/VM security features, including technical functions new to z/VM 6.3, as well as in-depth explorations of popular z/VM security topics such as CryptoExpress4S virtualization, the z/VM SSL-TLS Server, and the use of RACF in a z/VM Single System Image cluster.

All attendees Managing the z/VM SSL-TLS Server Brian Hugenbruch Protecting connectivity to the hypervisor layer is an integral part of maintaining an end-to-end security policy, Lecture Inter whether the number of sessions incoming is limited to three people or three thousand people. This presentation explores the z/VM SSL-TLS Server, which encrypts and decrypts traffic to and from z/VM. Topics will include server configuration and management, the intricacies of protocol selection, and details about certificate management. All attendees Measuring Your z/VM Security Brian Hugenbruch How do you know if your hypervisor is secure? It depends ... on how we define "secure." This session explores Lecture Inter the concept of "proving" security on your z/VM system. Topics will include the z/VM Security and Integrity statement, security certifications, the handling of security-related service, and gathering audit records. The z/VM options used to meet particular industry standards will also be discussed.

All attendees Defense in Depth: z/VM Security Brian Hugenbruch An external security manager for z/VM extends the security capabilities of the base product -- but what exactly Lecture Inter Features is it extending? This session digs into z/VM Control Program to uncover the native features that allow for role- based access controls and auditing, and discusses how this foundation allows the ESM to do its job.

All attendees Installation & Configuration of z/VM Elisabeth Puritscher showing the setup (configuration) of a z/VM system to use the WAVE GUI and the installation and configuration Lab Inter with GUI IBM WAVE for z/VM of IBM WAVE for z/VM (formerly known as CSL-WAVE)

All attendees z/VM 6.3 HiperDispatch Emily Hugenbruch One of the major changes in z/VM 6.3 is the new HiperDispatch facility. HiperDispatch can help increase Lecture Inter processor efficiency through improved dispatching affinity and dynamic usage of Vertical CPU Management. This session will take a closer look at the implementation of HiperDispatch, the available tuning options, and new performance metrics. It will help you understand which workloads may benefit the most from this enhancement.

All attendees Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit Emily Hugenbruch Cloud computing is a hot topic in today's IT industry, with multiple cloud computing solutions offered by the Demo Inter on z/VM Overview and Demo commercial and open source communities. However, most of these solutions revolve around x86. Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT) is the first open-source cloud solution that supports System z and z/VM. Moreover, it is the only open-source solution supporting Systems x and p as well. xCAT is now a part of the z/VM product, as of z/VM 6.3. Come see what it can do for you!

All attendees z/VM Single System Image & Live Emily Hugenbruch, John z/VM 6.2 provides multi-system virtualization capability, allowing up to four instances of z/VM to collaborate as Lecture Inter Guest Relocation Overview Franciscovich members of a Single System Image (SSI) cluster. In addition, Live Guest Relocation provides the ability to relocate running Linux guests from one member of a cluster to another. Come to this session for an overview of these exciting new capabilities in z/VM.

All attendees z/VM Single System Image & Live Emily Hugenbruch, John Interested in clustering your z/VM systems, but not quite sure how? Have questions about how z/VM's Live Lecture Inter Guest Relocation Planning and Use Franciscovich Guest Relocation support works? Want to see just how systems are combined into a Single System Image cluster? This is the session for you! Topics include configuration and directory changes, recommendations from the lab, and hints and tips for relocating your guests. All attendees What's New in the z/VM 6.3 Hypervisor John Franciscovich In z/VM 6.3, new features have been added to the z/VM Hypervisor to increase scalability limits and improve Lecture Inter performance for large virtual machines. These include enhancements to memory management as well as utilization of hardware resources. This session will provide an overview of these features as well as other enhancements in z/VM 6.3.

All attendees z/VM 6.3: Changes in Memory John Franciscovich By now you have probably heard that z/VM 6.3 has increased the supported limit for real memory to 1 TB. How Lecture Inter Management did we do that? What changes are there to configuration? How does it perform? You might have these questions, and this session has answers. Whether you need 1TB or only 16GBs, this session will help you understand what has changed in z/VM 6.3 and how those changes will affect your systems.

All attendees z/VSE Trends and Directions Klaus Goebel This session provides an overview of where z/VSE will be going in the future. We will review relevant changes Lecture Inter and additions introduced since the last conference. We will cover z/VSE status, contents, strategy, modernization, and the benefits of a hybrid environment incorporating the best of z/VSE and Linux on System z on a zBC12 Enterprise Server.

All attendees New announcements for z/VSE V5 Klaus Goebel Did you hear about the newest announcements made by IBM for z/VSE and related middleware as part of the Lecture Inter 50th mainframe anniversary celebrations? If not, this is the session for you. It will provide an update on the features and functions of zEC12 and zBC12 that are tolerated and exploited by z/VSE V5. A special focus is on the software pricing metric and on new growth offerings for z/VSE clients.

All attendees z/VSE Product Futures - Platform Klaus Goebel, Wilhelm Mild Meet with Klaus Goebel and some of his team mates to discuss the future of z/VSE and related middleware. Birds of a feather Inter Manager Direction and Discussion Share your requirements, concerns, and plans with IBM and with other z/VSE users.

All attendees Operational Monitoring and Tracy Dean Continuing from Part 1, this session will focus on live demonstrations of operational monitoring & automation Demo Inter Automation Scenarios for a System z- scenarios, including how to: Based Cloud Part 2 * Automatically take action based on messages on z/VM service machines, on Linux guest consoles, & in Linux syslog data * View & interact with live consoles, for both monitoring & debugging purposes * Monitor and manage spool file usage * Send alerts to a central alerting system, such as IBM Netcool/OMNIbus or other systems that accept SNMP traps * Send alerts via email * Automatically clean up a disk that is approaching full by archiving files

The demos will use IBM Operations Manager for z/VM, but the materials provided can help you implement the scenarios using other software. All attendees Operational Monitoring and Tracy Dean There are many areas of monitoring and systems management for System z-based cloud environments Lecture Inter Automation of a System z-based Cloud running on z/VM and Linux on System z: Environment, Part 1 - performance monitoring and management - resource management - operational monitoring - automated alerting and recovery.

This session will give an overview of what each of these areas encompasses and the solutions available to help you.

It will then go into more detail about operational monitoring and automation, including IBM's solution in this space: Operations Manager for z/VM.

Attend the separate Part 2 session for live demos of monitoring and automation scenarios that use the IBM solution. All attendees Backup and Recovery of a System z- Tracy Dean Backup and recovery are critical to a System z-based cloud environment running on z/VM and Linux on System Lecture Inter based Cloud Environment z.

This session will review the advantages and disadvantages of each of the various approaches to backup and recovery for z/VM and Linux on System z: - backing up from z/OS - backing up from z/VM - backing up from Linux

The speaker will then discuss and demonstrate one of the IBM solutions that fills one piece of the puzzle: Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM.

All attendees z/VM Systems Management Overview William Bitner The term "Systems Management" is frequently used, but what does it really mean? What is OpenStack and how Lecture Inter does it fit into the z/VM System Management strategy? Who should be using the Systems Management APIs (SMAPI)? What is xCAT and how does its integration into z/VM change the Systems Management landscape? What solutions are available to you for augmenting and extending the z/VM hypervisor management options? All these questions will be answered in this session as we take a look at high level aspects of managing z/VM systems.

All attendees Finding Your Way - The z/VM Website, William Bitner How many of us get a little nervous trying something new? Maybe the first day of school or first day at a new Lecture Inter Documentation, and Other Hints for company? Was it a confusing day or did you have someone help you out? Pointing the way and orienting you in the New User the right direction? This session is meant to keep the person that is new to z/VM from having those same butterflies on their first day at the keyboard. The session will help you understand the various channels for information and help on the z/VM product. This will include some examples of the HELP facility in z/VM, a brief tour of the z/VM library and utilities to access the library, as well as pointers and discussion about various web sites and mailing lists that have proven helpful over the years.

All attendees Understanding z/VM 6.3 Through New William Bitner z/VM 6.3 had some of the most significant performance related changes of any recent z/VM release. With Lecture Inter Performance Toolkit Reports these changes, IBM enhanced Performance Toolkit for VM with 30 updated reports and over 20 new reports. This session will survey those new reports. The focus will be on enhancements related to HiperDispatch and Memory Management, but we'll also look at some changes for reporting on Live Guest Relocation. All attendees z/VM Platform Update William Bitner No time to read official IBM announcement letters and statements of direction? You have the time, but you Lecture Inter have questions on what the marketing material means? This fast moving session will survey all the latest news on z/VM. The focus will be on z/VM 6.3, the newest release of z/VM that became available on July 26,2013. z/VM 6.3 brings improvements in scalability, efficiency, and systems management. We will also take a brief look back at z/VM 6.2 in case you missed news on it as well. And a look to new announcements since z/VM 6.3.

All attendees The Business of z/VM William Bitner, George z/VM has been the primary catalyst for a very successful "Linux on System z" business for more than a decade. Lecture Inter Madl In taking on this catalyst role, z/VM has evolved from both its operating system roots and its "stand-alone business" roots to become a hypervisor and growth enabler. The speaker will share information and business insights as these relate to z/VM's past, current, and future business value to IBM. Time will be available for discussion and Q&A.

All attendees z/VM Product Futures - Platform William Bitner, George The future doesn't have to be an unknown... at least not a total unknown when it comes to z/VM. Come and Lecture Inter Manager Direction and Discussion Madl learn what's (likely) in store for your favorite virtualization product in the months and years to come. And since technology futures should never be "cast in stone" there will be ample discussion and Q&A time for you to share your ideas to help shape future enhancements to, and investments in, z/VM.

zEnterprise System Planning and Implementation All attendees Exploring the World of zEnterprise Glenn Anderson The IBM zEnterprise hybrid system introduces the Unified Resource Manager, allowing an IT shop to manage Lecture Inter Hybrid: How Does It Work and What's a collection of one or more zEnterprise nodes including any optionally attached BladeCenter Extensions (zBX) the Point? as a single logical virtualized system using a Hardware Management Console (HMC). For the typical mainframer, that sentence is quite a mouthful! The HMC now provides a single point of control through which data center personnel can deploy, configure, monitor, manage and maintain the integrated System z and zBX blades based on heterogeneous architectures in a unified manner. Let’s explore this new world of blades and virtual servers - how to manage them and what all this does for your shop, in this exciting session!

All attendees GDPS Overview Nathalie Arlhac In a world which is more and more connected, interruption of service is not an option for most of the Lecture Inter companies. IT Infrastructures must reach higher and higher level of resilience in order to meet these new objectives.

Here is exactly where GDPS plays a key role. GDPS is a multisite and multiplatform solution for system z environment that can automate the management of your IT from a continuous availability and disaster recovery point of view. It was developed with a main objective, to increase the level of resilience of IT infrastructure. During this overview session, you will learn about the GDPS family, what is covered by the different flavours of the solution and how it's implemented by the customers.

All attendees GDPS Labs Nathalie Arlhac, Ivan GDPS solutions are designed to keep your IBM System z server and distributed systems and applications Lab Inter Deleuze available when outages occur. GDPS Solutions are already used by hundreds of company around the globe to secure their IT and drastically reduce the time it takes to restore operations after an unplanned event. In this lab session you will have the opportunity to see how you can manage your complete system z infrastructure from the GDPS/PPRC interface. You will learn how to create your disk definition, control your environment and validate if you were able to protect your IT with the simulation of an unplanned event! This lab will give you the assurance that you can have a total confidence of GDPS to manage your infrastructure ! All attendees GDPS/Active-Active - The future of Ivan Deleuze GDPS/Active-Active is the last generation of GDPS solution and a fundamental paradigm shift to near Lecture Inter continuous availability on system z continuous availability solutions.

It's a new way to protect your IT infrastructure with a solution that allow you to have multiples sites, separated by unlimited distances, and having the same data, with cross-site workload monitoring and balancing.

During this session you will have the opportunity to learn more about this solution and its implementation. We'll also cover the most recent features that were added by the lab to this solution which is growing quickly!

All attendees System z FICON and Open Systems Gary Fisher (given at Munich, well received, asked to repeat) Lecture Inter Fibre Channel Protocol Similar but Mainframes use FICON, open systems use Fibre Channel. What happens when you mix them? zLinux on zVM is Different doing that. zBX blades are doing that. This session explains what both mainframe and open systems I/O implementers need to know.

All attendees zBX Connectivity Options Gary Fisher The zBX has been installed in hundreds of installations and there are now several different themes of Lecture Inter connectivity options available. This session will describe the basics, and expand to show different networking, I/O, and system configurations.

All attendees What's new with HCD V2.1 Michael Groetzner z/OS V2.1 HCD introduced several new capabilities. This lectures concentrates on the support for the new Lecture Inter processors announced end of last year, especially the support of PCIe functions and the updates in the System z Discovery and Auto-Configuration (zDAC) process.

All attendees IBM zAware - Overview and Michael Grossmann IBM System z Advanced Workload Analysis Reporter (IBM zAware) is an integrated, self ‐learning, analytics Lecture Inter Implementation solution for z/OS that helps identify unusual system behavior in near real time. IBM zAware is designed to help IT personnel improve problem determination so they can restore service quickly and improve overall availability.

In this session we will give you an overview of the functions and values IBM zAware provides, as well as the Implementation steps to create the IBM zAware Host, and the customization steps that need to be done for the monitored clients. All attendees On-demand labs (zManager) Brian Hatfield, Maurice Up to five on demand zManager exercises are available. Exercises can be done in sequence or selected Lab Adv McCullough individually depending on your experience. HMC tree UI ensemble navigation - Basic skill level HMC classic UI ensemble navigation - Basic skill level Ensemble operational tasks - Intermediate skill level Provisioning network and virtual server resources (Blades only) - Intermediate skill level Provisioning storage resources - Advanced skill level

All attendees Hardware Configuration Definition Brian Hatfield, Maurice Up to two on demand HMC exercises are available. Exercises can be done in sequence or selected individually Lab Inter (HCD) for System z McCullough depending on your experience. Coding a 2817 - Basic skill level Use the CHPID Mapping Tool (CMT) - Intermediate skill level All attendees IBM zEnterprise zEC12 & zBC12 Gerard Laumay This session will introduce the latest news & technology innovations about the IBM zEnterprise EC12 GA2 Lecture Inter hardware innovations (zEC12), and BC12 (zBC12) servers recently announced. It will include technical details on zEC12 and zBC12 designs, functions and architectural enhancements, overall system structure (processor, memory, I/O infrastructure) and the most recent information about the latest driver levels and newly announced features: zEDC Express, Flash Express, 10GbE RoCE Express and IBM zAware. An update of the zEC12 and zBC12 performance will also be included.

All attendees System z Flash Express introduction, Gerard Laumay System z Flash Express introduces non-volatile memory in a disk-like package on an I/O card that can be used Lecture Inter uses and benefits by operating systems like z/OS. In z/OS, flash memory has been integrated within the memory hierarchy to provide higher levels of system availability and speed. In this presentation, we will describe how IBM has incorporated this technology into the new zEC12 and zBC12 servers, how its design should provide superior System z levels of reliability, availability, resiliency and security, and the major steps for setup, management and monitoring. In addition, this presentation will cover z/OS customer use cases and performance results to demonstrate when this function is best used and what the benefits might be.

All attendees The HiperDispatch feature : Deep dive Alain Maneville This technical presentation is intended to explain why IBM designed HiperDispatch, how to implement it in Lecture Inter in the latest technical informations various configurations (including eventual WLM impacts) and how to tune it for performance and flexibility. (zEC12) on why this feature is a "must" Configuration hints, tips and recommandations will be provided up to eventuals impact on the WLM policy. A and how to implement and tune it new version of the tool that helps tuning HiperDispatch configuration for performance and flexibility will be demonstrated - this tool has been updated with an "Expert System" to provide advices on how to optimize the LPAR configuration. Warning Track Interruption, the new feature implemented on zEC12 will be explained with the associated RMF overwiew control statement Report

All attendees Introduction about the new Native Frank Packheiser With zEC12 at GA2 and zBC12, System z introduces two new features, 10GbE RoCE Express and zEDC Express, Lecture Inter PCIe Adapters in zEC12 (GA2) and with industry standard PCIe adapters. This session explains the advantages about this new features and how zBC12 they are integrated into the zEnterprise System.

All attendees CBU, OOCoD, CPE, FOD - nice Frank Packheiser All the world leading onDemand features on the zEnterprise System, designed to ensure Continuous Lecture Inter abbreviations, but what does it really Operations in the modern challenging IT environment will be described in this lecture. means? An introduction about all the onDemand features for the All attendees Hybrid Computing and the zEnterprise - David Rhoderick With the introduction of the zBX, IBM ushered in the new era of hybrid computing with a comprehensive Lecture Inter Deploying New Workloads on zBX with capability to deploy new workloads that have an affinity with the zEnterprise CPC (i.e. z196 or z114). In doing Real Examples so IBM ensured that mainframe qualities of service are maintained as much as possible, thus leveraging economies of scale. This presentation will focus on real-life examples of zBX use as more and more customers deploy. We will also position zBX and IBM's new PureSystems, discuss its future direction and examine the economic benefit of this "system of systems". All attendees How Do You Do What You Do When Bob Rogers The IBM zEC12 has the fastest commercially available general purpose processor at 5.5 GHz, and is the first to Lecture Inter You're a zEC12 CPU implement Transactional Execution in hardware. Bob Rogers will once again give us a look under the hood of the latest mainframe processor, this time showing how the engineers managed to outpace even the already screaming z196. He will also give an overview of transactional execution (called transactional memory in academia) and how its use can improve scalability and performance. Far from being dead, the mainframe leads the pack in technology, some of which you'll see in this presentation. All attendees The Rime of the Ancient Mainframer Bob Rogers Bob Rogers, who admits to witnessing only 45 of the 50 years of the mainframe, would like to unburden Lecture Inter himself of some stories about what he has witnessed and heard from reliable sources over these many years. He started as an operator for IBM in 1969 where the core of OS/360 was developed. He had early experiences with CP67, the predecessor of zVM and witnessed the transition to virtual systems with SVS and MVS. He lead development teams of ever enlarging scope for the addressing architecture advances to XA, ESA and z/Architecture. z/OS is filled with thing that he helped to create - or was unsuccessful in preventing from being created. There probably won't be a script, but we doubt Bob will be lost for words.

All attendees To z or not to z? That is the question... Liv Samuels, Louise We (STG Lab Services Executive Consulting - "Scorpion" team IT Optimization) were approached by ClientX to Lecture Inter Hemond-Wilson provide a methodology that would enable new workload platform hosting decisions based upon cost effectiveness. Additional criteria stated that the methodology should also enable assessment of existing z/OS workload costs versus an alternative platform. After the inevitable "hmmmmm", we took the challenge on. This session will outline our approach, our findings and conclusions. If you have questions about the cost effectiveness of your z/OS platform, or its viability for new workloads, this will help you develop an objective evaluation of mainframe versus distributed and a way to level the playing field in comparing IT infrastructures

All attendees Detailed zBX HW Description by a Martin Ziskind An extremely detailed zBX hardware definition will be presented. Photos of all the parts and graphics Lecture Inter Developer describing every cable will be shown

All attendees Step by Step Deep Dive into Martin Ziskind Starting with a product overview of zBX, I will explain all the rules of being in an ensemble from a hardware Lecture Inter Ensembles and zBX configurations point of view. Many configurations will be presented, from "What do I need for this ensemble"

All attendees zBX Updates and Lessons Learned for Martin Ziskind, Richard The presentation will start off with a description of what is new on the zBX MT 2458 and proceed to a "Lessons Lecture Inter the zBX Young Learned" from our customers

All attendees Network patterns for optimized Wilhelm Mild Networking on zEnterprise between z/OS and Linux on System z offers multiple possibilities how to connect Lecture Inter solutions with z/OS and Linux on z on and interconnect the heterogeneous workloads and take the advantage of z/VM. Linux on System z and z/OS zEnterprise network connections are dependent on the requirements of security, High Availability and DR scenarios. This session will guide when to use which network setup in your solution.