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Welcome to GSE Nordic Region Conference 2026 with a presentation of the conference, the Logistics, Networking Opportunities and how to get the most out of the Conference.

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IBM Z raises the bar again with z17 - the most scalable, scalable and efficient, general purpose computing platform on the planet. The Large System Performance Reference (LSPR) ratings of the z17 will be discussed along with its hardware performance drivers; topics include processors, cache and memory topology, SMT, subcapacity models, product offerings and workload variability. Join Dave as he reveals the highlights of this technical marvel, and learn how you can measure the impact of z17 on your workloads.As AI rapidly evolves, enterprises face key challenges such as data quality, security, integration with existing systems, and ethical concerns. This keynote will outline the most critical obstacles and trends shaping AI adoption, offering actionable insights for enterprises to effectively integrate AI technologies while maximizing their potential for innovation and growth.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Session 1 Deepak Kohli

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Managing IMS is challenging on its own, but when regulations and external expectations stack up, the day‑to‑day upkeep can quickly become complex and exhausting. In this presentation, I’ll give you a glimpse into the realities of IMS housekeeping and what it takes to keep a 4 IMSplex running smoothly in a banking environment. We’ll look at the practices, routines, and safeguards that help us maintain stability, compliance, and performance in such a demanding setup.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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 Navigating the Nuances of IMS DDL: A Beginner's Expedition

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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What does IBM Z Cyber Vault mean for an IMS environment.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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NRB - IMS Java, a building block of IMS Modernization - Episode 2

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Session 2 Deepak Kohli.

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Whilst the technical implementation of IMS Managed ACBs is not overly difficult, there are many other issues that need to be understood to make this a successful conversion.

In this session we will touch on why you need Managed ACBs, and cover many of the other issues that need to be considered.
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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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BoF.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Securing IMS Connect Workloads.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Mining the IMS Catalog: Practical SQL for Metadata Insight.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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From IMS PA to Analytics Platform using Opentelemetry & GRAFANA.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Use System Recovery Boost for your Capacity Benefit.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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The latest and greatest z/OS: what's in 3.2!.stepStephen Warren

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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What's new in IBM MQ

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Radically Changing z/OS ConfigurationFrank De Gilio.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Agentic AI with IBM MQ.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Zero Trust in People and Machines – It’s not just AI we need to fearMichael FitzGerald.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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IBM MQ Observability with Open Telemetri.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Using SMF with IBM MQ for z/OS doesn't have to be scary.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Move Beyond Silos: Unify Your MF Observability and ServiceNow for Effective Mainframe ITSM.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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IBM MQ High Availability.

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Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Real-time AI Insights on z/OS.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Bring your mainframe data to your AI agent with z/OS Connect.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Scalable and Secure AI Inferencing with Red Hat OpenShift AI on IBM Z

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Mainframes for the Modern Mind: A Practical Approach to Learning z/OS.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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The journey to trusting AI for IT operations using Machine Learning.

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Simplifying Certificate Management for Mainframe Deployments

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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How a Mainframer's Brian Learns New Skills.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Mainframe Skills in 2026 - blues skies or dark clouds?

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Modern System Programming on z/OS: Why Metal C Is the Future over HLASM.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Demystifying Mainframe Architectures: Transaction Flows and Connectivity Explained

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Simplifying and transforming the IBM Z experience with Agentic AI.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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OpenTelemetry: Simplifying Mainframe Integration into enterprise-wide observability solutions

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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 How to develop apps using the Deep Learning Compiler for the AI unit on the IBM Telum processor

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Mainframe Modernization: From Vintage to Vogue

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Fable and fairy tale - the true story about COBOL

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Have you got going with VS Code yet?

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Your first VS Code extension.

 

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Programming Mainframe Assembler Today and in the future.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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zCX in Action: Web Apps, Alternative Databases, and Automated Pipelines.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Agentic AI for z/OS Development.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Got bad AI? Challenges and remedies in zOS app development.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Accelerate mainframe application modernization with generative-AI and automated testing.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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A modern approach to developing with api's on Z.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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IPCS for Beginners.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Simplify knowledge transfer with mob programming

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframes, movies and Me

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframe Security 101.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframes are a Piece of Cake.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Z-Agent: Bringing Mainframe Job Insights to Life with Zowe and Python.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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 Zowe DevOps as a Curriculum.

 

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Write your first COBOL program!.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Impostor Syndrome - Are you good enough?

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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From sea shells to fingernails - A brief guide to payments and mainframe integration technology.

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The impact of Generative AI for each role in mainframe.

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Category: 2026 Closing Sessions
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Category: 2026 Conference Agenda Overview
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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 for z/OS Key Updates and Future Direction.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, best practices and some more.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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DBA 2.0 - Making Change the DBA's Advantage.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Hard Lessons Learned using High Performance DBATs.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Kaizen for DB2 SQL - There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Automate Management of Db2 with Profile Tables.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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BoF

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 Admin Foundation, UMS, and Zowe - how to install and configure the whole shabang.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Advancing Db2 for z/OS with AI Insights and Intelligent Agents.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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SysplexWLB - One step closer to continuous availability for DDF workloads.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 Under the Microscope: Auditing z/OS with Precision.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Discover the latest open beta features in CICS Transaction Server. See what’s coming next and share your feedback to help shape the future of CICS.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Ever wondered how banks process thousands of transactions every second or how large companies manage massive amounts of data? It is all thanks to powerful systems like CICS (Customer Information Control System)! In this session we'll introduce you to the world of CICS and show you how CICS, key part of the mainframe, helps run some of the biggest businesses in the world. Attendees will gain insights through real-world examples into why CICS remains the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of modern IT infrastructure, handling millions of transactions per second with unmatched reliability, speed, and security. By the end of the session, you'll know what CICS is and its role in the mainframe world.

Whether you're completely new to the mainframe and CICS or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will show you why CICS is the true MVP. Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of high-speed transactions and secure systems that keep our modern world running!

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Experienced CICS system programmers are often the single best knowledge base their organisation has — but much of that value is scattered across inboxes, chat threads, ticket histories, and, most critically, “tribal knowledge” that never makes it into formal documentation. In this session, “Turbo‑charge CICS knowledge for AI use,” we’ll show how to turn that fragmented expertise into an AI‑ready knowledge layer that can reliably support modern AI assistants and specialised CICS agents. We’ll focus on pragmatic, low-friction techniques for extracting high-signal operational know‑how: structured SME conversations (remote-friendly), capturing real troubleshooting narratives, and using transcripts as raw material to produce curated, reviewable knowledge documents — so your best practices and hard-won lessons become reusable, searchable, and consistently available. You’ll learn how to prioritise what to capture (runbooks, “why we do it this way,” failure modes, and decision heuristics), how to reduce ambiguity and “it depends” answers into context-rich knowledge, and how to establish lightweight validation so the content stays trusted as CICS evolves. The goal: move from ad hoc expert interruption to scalable expertise-on-demand, enabling AI systems to go deep on CICS-specific questions rather than staying generic.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Effective testing is essential for building robust systems. Dive deep into a structured approach to the testing pyramid for CICS applications. Using Test4z, we will demonstrate how unit tests form the foundation of the pyramid, enabling rapid validation of individual components. We'll then explore how integration tests and, finally, end-to-end tests in production-like environments build upon this foundation as you move up the testing pyramid.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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z/OS middleware configuration is often manual, time‑consuming, and difficult to audit consistently. This session introduces a configuration‑as‑code approach using the z/OS Middleware Configuration Tool (zconfig).
Learn how zconfig represents CICS, Db2, and IMS configurations declaratively in YAML and applies them consistently across environments. We’ll show how existing environments can be discovered and transformed into code, reducing manual effort while improving consistency, traceability, and audit readiness across z/OS systems.

 

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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One of the highlights from CICS TS 6.3 is the support of OpenTelemetry tracing. This session will introduce you OpenTelemetry tracing that is widely used in cloud and off-platforms, how CICS supports it, and how it may help you uncover the myth of the parts of your business on the z platform.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Take a guided walkthrough of the newest CICS Transaction Server 6.3 performance report.  We’ll highlight key insights to help you understand what these results mean for your workloads and how to optimize for peak performance.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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AI coding agents are dramatically increasing development velocity — but they are also amplifying a long‑standing problem: testing does not scale at the same rate as code generation. As agents produce more code, faster, and across broader surfaces, manual and semi‑automated testing quickly becomes the bottleneck, re‑introducing risk at precisely the point teams believe they’re moving faster.This session explores a central paradox of AI‑assisted development: the same agents that exacerbate the automated testing problem are also the most viable solution to it. We’ll examine why traditional test approaches struggle in an agent‑driven world, particularly for complex systems like CICS and z/OS where meaningful validation requires end‑to‑end integration testing, not just unit tests. We’ll discuss how AI‑generated code frequently lacks corresponding tests, why hand‑crafting integration tests does not keep pace, and how this discrepancy can undermine confidence in AI‑accelerated delivery.The second half of the session focuses on the opportunity: using AI coding agents to generate new Galasa integration tests alongside — or even ahead of — the code they produce.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Come to this session to find out how to integrate CICS with AI in the latest CICS TS version 6.3

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BOF.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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This session will introduce you the latest features in CICS TS 6.3 for securing your business.

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2026-Opening Sessions Article Count:  2

2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track Article Count:  12

2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track Article Count:  12

2026 General Interest/Performance Track Article Count:  12

2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers Article Count:  12

2026 Skill Track Article Count:  12

2026 Closing Sessions Article Count:  1

2026 Conference Agenda Overview Article Count:  1

2026 Db2/DevOps Track Article Count:  12

2026 CICS/Security Track Article Count:  12