Agenda 2026

2025 Gothenburg

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S300 - IMS Responsibles 5443
S301 - Best Practices for IMS Managed ACBs 5261
S302 - Java in IMS - Our journey 5438
S303 - IMS Database Reorganization: Why, When, and How 4704
S304 - An overview of IMS Connect and OTMA 5391
S305 - IMS Common Service Layer (CSL) Introduction 5648
S306 - IMS Java, a building block of IMS Modernization 5299
S307 - IMS transaction orchestration for IMS Connect and MQSeries 5313
S308 - Innovative Solutions to IMS Challenges, Tomas Sjöstedt 4455
S309 - Introduction to WLM Management of CICS and IMS Workloads 4252
S310 - Operational Best practices for flood prevention with OTMA 3644
S311 - Finding your way around IMS 3.0 4340
S400 - Mainframe Responsibles 3701
S401 - The Sky’s the Limit: Seamless Connection Between z/OS and Hybrid Cloud 3530
S402 - What's new in MQ 3864
S403 - What's new in Z/Os 3.1 3249
S404 - IBM MQ channels and distributed queuing 3286
S405 -Kafka on the Mainframe? Surely Not! 3813
S406 - GenAI powered Development - a new era in Mainframe Industry 3615
S407 - Drawers, Of Course 3903
S408 - Client User Experiences using z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) 3577
S409 - Fortifying the Future Enhancing Storage Cyber Resiliency with Cloud Solutions 2805
S410 - IBM MQ triggering 2805
S411 - Hidden treasures, advanced features, and administrative tips for Zowe API Mediation Layer 2813
S500 - General Interest Responsibles 5688
S501 - Demystifying Mainframe Architectures: Transaction Flows and Connectivity Explained 6012
S502 - Empowering mainframe developers to innovate 5780
S503 - Ansible on Z 101 5552
S504 - Terminate the terminal 5522
S505 - NoSQL on z/OS? Are you kidding me? 5581
S506 - Demonstrating the possible with IBM z/Os container platform 5576
S507 - On a mission to the planet Jupyter 5513
S508 - Cover Your A$$ 5573
S509 - How to save loads of CPU when using Tailor Fit Pricing (TFP) Contract with IBM 4458
S510 - Regulations, Costs, and Insights: Why Mainframe Storage Monitoring Still Matters 4619
S511 - Parallel Sysplex Performance Topics 4308
S600 - Application Development Responsibles 5359
S601 - It is still worth shouting about COBOL 5399
S602 - Open DevOps with AI 5483
S603 - Tooling makes perfect - how SEB is enhancing developer productivity 5367
S604 - The state of the API Economy 5268
S605 - App modernization with generative AI 5414
S606 - A Treasure Trove of Undocumented IPCS Commands 5323
S607 - Hybrid Integration is Inevitable – APIs and Events from z/OS is the answer 5457
S608 - Build End-to-End Automation in Just 3 Days with Ansible and Open Source Tools – No Problem 4759
S609 - DORA Metrics on the Mainframe: Measuring Developer Productivity and Accelerating Deliveries 4695
S610 - Turbocharge Development with DevOps-style Unit Testing 5369
S611 - Optimizing Mainframe Applications: Success Stories in Performance Tuning 4275
S700 - Skill Track Responsibles 1905
S701 - Mainframe customer success stories using The Open Mainframe Project Zowe and an open source tooling stack 1954
S702 - Top 5 open source power ups no mainframer should be without 2037
S703 - Mainframe 101 2025
S704 - Mainframe Security 101 2031
S705 - Db2 for z/OS Catalog Queries for Beginners 2051
S706 - Introduction to asynchronous messaging and IBM MQ 2060
S707 - CICS 101 1910
S708 - Mainframes, movies and me. A journey through Hollywood, computer, aliens and mainframe computing 1887
S709 - SDSF Tips and Techniques 1975
S710 - How is Integration Testing on z/OS Possible? 1847
S711 - Hands-on Lab - E2E Mainframe Developer Experience with modern tools. Bring your Laptop! 1917
Conference Agenda Overview 4775
S200 - Db2 Responsibles 5156
S201 - JC War Stories, Greatest Hits and Best Practice 2025 – Part 1 5388
S202 - Db2 13 Application Development Topics 5122
S203 - Introduction to dashboards for Db2 for z/OS DBAs 5045
S204 - Db2 13 for z/OS : Performance Monitoring Update 5134
S205 - JC War Stories, Greatest Hits and Best Practice 2025 – Part 2 5241
S206 - Db2 by the back door 6080
S207 - Final Push to get you over the UTS Finish Line! 5316
S208 - Understanding DB2 Usage and Measurement of WLM Enclaves 5211
S209 - When you know where to look, diagnosing Db2 performance problems is easy peasy 4330
S210 - Monitoring your distributed workload for Db2 for z/OS 5124
S211 - Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Environments 3850
S100 - CICS Responsibles 6283
S101 - CICS 6.2 Technical Overview 5179
S102 - Developing CICS applications in Visual Studio Code a very interactive system productivity facility 5634
S103 - Practical Approaches to Testing COBOL CICS Applications 5796
S104 - Using CICS security discovery to enforce Zero Trust and implement resource security Speaker 5958
S105 - Resource override and resource builder 5686
S106 - Introduction to Open Telemetry in CICS 5651
S107 - Provisioning a CICS Region using Python and Ansible 5187
S108 - Automating CICS Testing with Galasa: There's a Better Way? 5388
S109 - Is It Time to Exchange CICS Web Services (SOAP and JSON) for z/OS Connect? 5281
S110 - Achieving Resiliency in CICS with CICSPlex SM 3846
S111 - Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) and creating AI Tools for CICS Transaction Server 4280
A002 - Conference Opening 2025 3477
A003 - Navigating AI Adoption: Overcoming Challenges and Unlocking Innovation 3128

Subcategories

2025 IMS/MachineLearning Track 12

2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track 12

2025 General Interest/Performance Track 12

2025 Application Development/Cloud & Containers 12

2025 Skill Track 12

2025 Conference Agenda Overview 1

2025 Db2/DevOps Track 12

2025 CICS/Security Track 12

2025-Opening Sessions 2