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2025 - Mainframe Infrastructure

2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track

S400 - Mainframe Responsibles

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Jamie Squibb
  • Jørgen Malmstrøm

S401 - The Sky’s the Limit: Seamless Connection Between z/OS and Hybrid Cloud

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
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  • Rebecca Levesque

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Adopting hybrid cloud strategies can reduce costs, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of losing data accessibility. With IBM's new solution, cloud storage no longer means relinquishing control, availability, and accessibility of data. Learn how to take advantage of cloud solutions while maintaining robust mainframe governance and data availability.

S402 - What's new in MQ

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
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  • Jamie Squibb

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Enterprise messaging and IBM MQ is a critical part of any system. This session shows you how MQ is rapidly evolving to meet your needs. Irrespective of your platform or environment, this session introduces many of the recent updates to MQ, whether that's in administration, building fault tolerant and scalable messaging solutions, or securing your systems.

S403 - What's new in Z/Os 3.1

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  • Steve Warren

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Join us for a whirlwind tour to explore the latest enhancements available inz/OS 3.1 to learn how you can leverage the very latest z/OS has to offer,including the very latest continuous deliverable enhancements!

S404 - IBM MQ channels and distributed queuing

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
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  • Neil Johnston

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This session discusses how IBM MQ channels can be used to build a network of queue managers that provide a messaging backbone for business applications. It explains the different types of MQ channel and how MQ clusters can be used for high availability and workload balancing. This session also explains how to monitor and secure channels, and it discusses some channel best practices.

S405 -Kafka on the Mainframe? Surely Not!

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
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  • Anthony Papageorgiou

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In an era where real-time data processing is essential, the integration of Apache Kafka on Mainframe systems might seem impossible. This session explores the feasibility and advantages of integrating with Kafka from z/OS. This includes exploring the technical intricacies of integrating Kafka's distributed streaming capabilities with the robustness and transactional integrity of mainframes. Plus, configuration strategies, performance optimizations, and practical use cases that demonstrate how Kafka can modernize legacy systems, enhance data throughput, and drive real-time analytics on mainframe architectures. Let's learn how to uncover the surprising synergy between Kafka and Mainframes, transforming data processing paradigms.

S406 - GenAI powered Development - a new era in Mainframe Industry

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Ekaterina Tumanova

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Using Large Language Models for augmenting developer experience for traditional mainframe applications is presenting a unique opportunity for the industry to revitalize the application development. We will showcase our approach to coding assistance, which is based on our customer feedback as well as on practical insights from COBOL experts. We will also discuss other use cases where GenAI and modern tools can bring value to your development projects and how it can help business agility.

S407 - Drawers, Of Course

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Martin Packer

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When we do capacity planning we don't often question the number of processor drawers, nor what's in them. But we really should.
This presentation discusses why drawer configuration is important - and how to use your machines' drawer configuration wisely.
Topics covered include drawer capacity, resilience, and LPAR locations.
The presenter has been sensitised to this over quite a few recent customer interactions.

S408 - Client User Experiences using z/OS Container Extensions (zCX)

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Steve Warren

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In this session, various client use cases leveraging both zCX for Docker and zCX for OpenShift will be shared and how they benefited from the z/OS co-location and operational benefits.

S409 - Fortifying the Future Enhancing Storage Cyber Resiliency with Cloud Solutions

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
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  • Mikhael Liberman

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In today's digital landscape, ensuring the security and resilience of mainframe data storage is paramount. Join us for "Fortifying the Future: Enhancing Storage Cyber Resiliency with Cloud Solutions," a comprehensive session dedicated to exploring cutting-edge strategies for safeguarding your mainframe data against cyber threats.

S410 - IBM MQ triggering

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Jamie Squibb

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This session discusses how IBM MQ triggering can be used to start applications automatically when messages are available for them to process. Triggering applications can be more efficient than having long-running applications consume system resources waiting for messages to arrive. This session discusses why and when you might want to use triggering, the different options that are available, and how to design applications that use triggered queues.

S411 - Hidden treasures, advanced features, and administrative tips for Zowe API Mediation Layer

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Parent Category: 2025 Gothenburg
Category: 2025 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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  • Jamie Squibb

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What are the Administration expectations for the Zowe API ML? Generally known as providing a single point of access for mainframe infrastructure APIs to enable interoperabiity, Zowe's API Mediation Layer offers a host of features. Join this session to understand the day-to-day upkeep in addition to the art-of-the-possible for hybrid integrations. We will include the what, why, and how capabilities like dynamic discovery, high availability, multifactor authentication, single-sign-on, OIDC integration, personal access tokens, and multi-tenancy work and the value they may provide for your organization.

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