• S101 - CICS TS - What's new

    Session Evaluation

    Overview of all the new features in the latest CICS TS release including what we have delivered as part of continuous delivery. This will also signpost to all the other talks on the CICS track.

  • S102 - CICS TS - Security enhancments

     

    Session Evaluation

     CICS TS 6 introduces new security discovery tooling to easily adopt Zero Trust best practices, including role-based definitions in combination with CICS transaction, resource, and command security protection.

  • S103 - CICS TS - Performance update

    Session Evaluation

    Each release we focus on the performance of CICS. Hear how advances in the CICS runtime and in the hardware change the performance of your applications and how you can tune CICS to give better performance.

  • S104 - Implementing Resource Security in CICS with Security Discovery

    Session Evaluation

    For decades, boundary or perimeter security was seen to suffice within enterprise security. Not anymore - Zero Trust is here! CICS TS 6 introduces Security Discovery, a tooling with a purpose of building a picture of the users and security being used within your current environments. In this presentation we will show how Resource Security is integral to a Zero Trust security strategy within enterprise security and why Security Discovery is a necessity to getting your CICS environments conforming with it.

  • S105 - Best practices for Java in CICS

    Session Evaluation

    Java in CICS is constantly improving, this session with look at Java 11 and how recent changes can optimise your experience with Java on the platform.

     

  • S109 - Building a CI-CD pipeline for CICS applications

    Session Evaluation

    Zowe, Ansible, Maven, Gradle, IBM DBB, UCD, Galasa… these are all technologies that can be used in constructing a pipeline for your CICS application. But how do you pull all these elements together to create a compelling, rock-solid architecture? In this session, we will show how these technologies can be used to construct a pipeline based on the good practices and experience of our technical field experts, using a sample program.

  • S111 - Building your first automated tests for z/OS

    Session Evaluation

    Always wanted to build automated tests but not know where to start, In this session we will start with just a laptop and by the end of the session will have built a set of automated tests for z/OS using just open source tooling that you can access today.  All the source code and configuration that is created for the session will be shared so you can use this as a starting point and start building your own tests!

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