2026 - General Interest/Performance
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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Red Hat OpenShift AI provides trusted, operationally consistent capabilities for data scientists, devsecops engineers and application developers to experiment, serve models and deliver innovative applications. OpenShift AI integrates optimized vLLM framework and advanced tooling to automate deployments, self-service models, tools and resources. In this session, we will discuss how OpenShift AI integrates with IBM Z and LinuxONE to leverage IBM z17 on-chip (Telum II) and off-chip (Spyre) accelerators, auto-scaling, CI/CD for models (MLOps), and securing model endpoints for enterprise use cases. Join us to gain insights into accelerating AI adoption by operationalizing inferencing across the OpenShift ecosystem for real-time workloads in Hybrid Cloud environments.
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Today’s developers want speed, feedback, and modern tooling—but mainframes often seem out of reach. In this session, I’ll walk you through my team's experience with z/OS and how we made mainframes more attractive and practical for newcomers. Let’s explore how you can modernize not just your systems, but your approach to talent.
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Machine Learning is perceived as the way to sip through large amount of data, draw conclusion, capable of predict outages, pinpoint root cause, suggest remediation. After many years of trying, the result is still not ideal (“oh no, false positive!”). Does this mean we should give up? If not, how can we turn the “not so ideal” results into something useful? This session will clarify the ML myths and hypes. Share how machine learning can be used pragmatically; and how can clients help make this a reality. Collect feedback on a few approaches such as Event Grouping, Gen AI and LLM; brainstorm on other ways to make AI useful. Brainstorm on the balance between leveraging the power of AI and safeguarding wrong decision or actions in IT operation space.
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Digital certificates are critical for secure operations, yet their setup and maintenance often introduce unnecessary friction. This session explains the core principles of certificate management, highlights common challenges, and presents a new toolkit that simplifies and accelerates certificate provisioning during mainframe software installation.
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* Skills acquisition
* Education
* Neuroscience
* Memory
In this session, we will take a detour into the field of neuroscience to look at how the human brain functions as it acquires new skills. Finding the time to invest in developing your existing mainframe skills and learn new ones is always a challenge, and even more so for experienced mainframers. Yet your professional abilities underpin your day-to-day responsibilities, career potential, and are a critical investment. The modern mainframer will need to acquire new skills throughout their lifetime and develop new job capabilities at regular junctures. What impact is the growing presence of automation and AI in the workplace having on this process, and do these tools make the process of learning new skills easier or more demanding of you?
Whether you are newly exploring the weird and wonderful world of the IBM mainframe and deciding where you career will take you, or you are a seasoned mainframer with many years of experience on Z, this talk will provide valuable insight into how our brain’s learn new skills and tools and techniques to enhance this process.
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After a similar session at GSE 2024, a delegate exclaimed “This was the skills session we needed at the start of the conference!” –
This session aims to paint an important foundational picture of the challenges, opportunities, and practical realities of the mainframe skills question.
We will explore the history of the skills challenge in the industry.
We will then look at the variety of tremendous opportunities and resources – training as well as technology - available for early-career mainframers.
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As the demand for modernization grows across z/OS environments, system developers face a critical choice between continuing with traditional HLASM and embracing newer tools like Metal C. This session presents a practical comparison between development in Metal C and HLASM, showcasing how Metal C enables faster development, better maintainability, and comparable — often superior — performance. Attendees will see real-world code samples and benchmarks illustrating how Metal C simplifies system-level programming without compromising control or efficiency. We'll also cover how Metal C reduces the skill barrier: new developers can be onboarded faster, with less reliance on highly specialized assembler knowledge. This session is ideal for z/OS architects, application developers, and systems programmers who are considering transitioning from assembler to more modern, C-based approaches in their low-level codebases.
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Mainframes remain critical for powering essential business applications. However, understanding how transactions flow and components communicate can be challenging. This session provides an overview of typical mainframe architectures, walking through common transaction flows within z/OS. We’ll examine the interactions between subsystems like CICS, IMS, and associated components, explaining how they work together to ensure speed, reliability, and scalability. You'll gain insights into the movement of data through message queues, network pathways, and attachment facilities. Whether you’re an architect, developer, or operations professional, this session will solidify your foundational understanding of mainframe connectivity and transaction processing, providing a practical basis for improved system management.
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Experience first hand how AI assistants and Agents are coming together to transform the user experience on IBM Z to increase productivity and speed task resolution. In this session, you will learn how IBM watsonx Assistant for Z provides conversational AI for any questions on IBM Z and how it provides a runtime environment to run AI agents that are capable of automating operations and providing system insights through an AI chat. Learn about and see demos of the included foundational AI Agents that can interact with your sub-systems like CICS, IMS, Db2 and systems management software including Concert for Z, Z System Automation, OMEGAMON, or Z Workload Scheduler. Learn how to ingest your own enterprise knowledge and how you can easily build your own AI agents.
S511 - OpenTelemetry: Simplifying Mainframe Integration into enterprise-wide observability solutions
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Many modern organizations are implementing enterprise-wide observability solutions to gain end-to-end visibility across all their systems, and IBM Z plays a crucial role in many of those environments. OpenTelemetry offers a vendor-neutral, open-source framework to simplify the collection and management of telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) from diverse environments. This session will show you how OpenTelemetry bridges the gap, providing visibility into transaction flows spanning critical z/OS components such as MQ, CICS, IMS, and Db2. We’ll demonstrate how instrumenting these applications generates standardized OpenTelemetry data, allowing seamless integration with your existing enterprise observability platform. You’ll learn practical steps to enable OpenTelemetry on z/OS and discover how to leverage this data to improve incident detection and accelerate troubleshooting.