SHARE VIrtual Summit - Technical Agenda

Tuesday, March 2

Women in IT

Leadership Panel - The Ever Changing Landscape of Technology
Embracing Apprenticeships: A Conversation on the Power of Women Working Together
What Your Colleagues What You to Know About Gender Diversity
Cultivating the Benefits of Diversity in Race, Gender and Age
Building a Woman's Networking Group at Work
Networking for Female Professionals
Building Women into Leaders in IT
Do You Feel Invisible? Presentation Skills to Help Women be Heard

Enterprise Data Center

Opening Keynote: MainframeFlix for Your Education Fix
Accelerate AIOps on IBM Z to Improve Resiliency
AIOps: Take the Next Step
AIOps: Enabling Automation with Modernization
Mainframe Infrastructure Analytics: Rapidly Unleash the Mainframe Insights and Compare Your Environment to Best Practices
You Thought Uptime Was Important Before? Key Strategies to Increase Availability to Meet Today’s Digital Demand
Getting Started with Modern Automation of z/OS Sysprog Tasks - A Users Journey
Creating a PaaS environment on z/OS - A User Experience
Taking Over the World with Ansible - A Non-z/OS Journey

Wednesday, March 3

Keynote

When Every Second Matters: Cyber Vault on IBM Z

MVS

MVS Program Opening
Hidden Treasures in z/OS (aka Bit Bucket x'3D')
Highlights of Upgrading to z/OS V2.4 and Beyond
Secret Session
Installing ServerPac Using z/OSMF Software Management
Applying PTFs using z/OSMF Software Update
z/OSMF V2R4 Implementation and Configuration
z/OS Performance Hot Topics And MVS Performance Opening
WSC Experiences with z/OS Boost
WLM Report Classes - Effective Setup and Usage
Cyber Resiliency, Safeguard, Logical Protection - Multi-Vendor Round-Table Shoot Out
RLS Catalogs: Performance Outside the Box
Increase Effectiveness of Managing Storage through Automation
Cyber Resilient Backup with Virtually No Z CPU

Thursday, March 4

MVS

What are Containers and Why Do I Care?
Yet More z/OS Container Extensions User Experiences!
zCX and Building Multi-Platform Containers
IBM z15 new feature: System Recovery Boost Examined
z/OS V2.5 User Experiences
Watson & Walker zRoadShow
What’s New in DFSMS
A Guide to a Successful PDS to PDSE Conversion for COBOL V5 and Beyond
What Happened to Our Data Sets? Identifying ICF Catalog Problems
GDPS Highlight Reel
Accelerate Your Sorts with DFSORT Exploitation of the Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort
WLM Response Time Goals: Understanding and Using the “Easier” Goal Type
Pitfalls on Non-traditional Migrations
XCF Auto-Magic Tuning
Z Sort on z15 + Large Memory = Big performance!
Optimize z/OS Performance with Easy-to-Use, Actionable Analytics

Tuesday, March 9

Enterprise Data Center

z/OS Communications Server Technical Update: Winter 2021 Edition
Shared Memory Communications Version 2 - Multiple IP Subnet Support
Taking z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology to the Next Level
Customer Use Case: Using NetMaster for Proactive Critical Network Monitoring
Hints & Tips from Communications Server Level 2/3
Want to Use IBM Z NetView REST APIs? Here's How!

Professional Development

Entry-level to C-Level - Mainframe Education is Vital
Leadership Lessons Learned (or Re-learned!) in 2020 and COVID-19
Grace Hopper Celebration - 2020 Best of Highlights
Mainframe Open Education
Work from Home? Live at Work? Hints and Tips for Surviving in an "Always Available World"
Master the Mainframe 2020: Delivering a Brand New Hybrid Experience

Wednesday, March 10

AADI

Scalable, Fault Tolerant Messaging with MQ Shared Queues on z/OS
What's New in IBM App Connect Enterprise
An introduction to IBM App Connect Enterprise on IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX)
Scaling Your MQ Processing with Uniform Clusters
Proving It Is Not MQ's Fault
Enterprise COBOL v6.3 Was Announced! What's New?
How to Take Advantage of the COBOL v6 Compiler - Migration!
z/VM New Features, Using the Latest Enhancements, Sponsor User discussion
z/VM Upgrade In Place Technical Overview and User Experience
z/VM Security Best Practices and User Experience
z/VM Sponsor User Experience Panel
z/VM Networking Security Best Practices

Thursday, March 11

AADI

Liberty? You got it!
Overview of Liberty z/OS Security
The E3 Challenge – Evolve, Embrace, and Educate with DevOps on Z
Monolithic z/OS Applications as Part of a CI/CD Pipeline to Drive Improved Software Quality
Storing zUnit Aftifacts in a Traditional Mainframe SCM
Navigating a Monolithic COBOL Application
Expose Mainframe Applications as APIs to Connect with DevOps Build and Test Environments
Language Environment (LE) Overview and Updates
Character sets and COBOL impications
Cobol Coding Tips - Performance in Mind
Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE: What's New
What's New With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE
What's new with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE
User Experiences with Linux and IBM Z - Customer Panel
How the IBM Linux Community Cloud Benefits From Advanced Lifecycle Management
Application Performance Proven on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z
Best Use Cases Explained for OpenShift on IBM Z
IBM Secure Execution

Tuesday, March 16

DevOps/Open Source/Zowe

Everything you need to know about Open Source Software on Z

Zowe: A User’s Experience from an IT Infrastructure View
Test automation framework of your choice powered by Zowe
How to contribute Ansible content to the open source community
How to configure z/OSMF for Zowe
An Open Source Delivery and Deployment Model for the Security Conscious
Easy start in zOS with one of the most popular IDEs
Muscle Memory: New Zowe Desktop Apps for the Multi-tasker
Mainframe packaging and deployment
Using Git In A Mainframe World
Mainframe packaging and deployment strategies in a modern pipeline
Using Git As An Interface to DevOps Tools

CICS

Introduction to CICS for the Non-CICS Specialist
CICS Opening and Product Update
What's New in CICS Security
What's New in CICS Foundation
Java Update for CICS TS 5.6 + UK Customer Java CICS Experience
What You Need To Know - Using the CICS Asynchronous API
I Get My CICS on Route Zowe ! Using Zowe for CICS Development, Administration, Automation and More !
New Task Mini Trace Available in CICS TS V5.6
What You Need to Know about the CICS Explorer - a Users Perspective

Wednesday, March 17

DevOps/Open Source/Zowe

Delivering True DevOps on the Mainframe
Mainframe DevOps - we learn from people more than from books
Effective development methodologies for the mainframe
Mainframe DevOps – Preventing Deployment Errors
Developing and testing with your own virtualized mainframe
Database DevOps for Db2 and IMS
Wowee it's Zowe ! Overview and deep dive in how customers, ISVS, and the community are using Zowe to transform and modernize the mainframe
How to get Involved in the Zowe Community for fun, education, contribution or commercial extensions
Build z/OS-connected apps using Node.js, Python or Swift Zowe SDKs
Name TBD - New Open Mainframe Project
Proposed ZOWE Incubator - ZEBRA
Access z/OS Performance & Management Data using Zowe CLI and CA SYSVIEW

CICS

The Problems with RLS: A User Experience Implementing VSAM RLS with CICS
What You Need To Know - CICS Liberty
What You Need To Know - z/OS Connect EE and CICS
CICS Interfaces - Customer Experiences (Including Z/OS Connect)
What You Need To Know - CICS Application Events and Systems Policies
CICS Resource Configuration for Target Environments
Integration Testing of z Powered Hybrid Cloud CICS Applications with Galasa
Visualizing CICS Performance Data in Splunk Using CICS Performance Analyzer
A User Experience with Regulating Transaction Flow in CICS

Tuesday, March 23

Security

SEC Project Opening Session
Expert Panel - Audit Findings and How to Mitigate Them
Addressing the Top 3 Concerns with Privileged Users
MQ Security for z/OS from a Security Analyst
Digital Certificate Lifecycle Management on z/OS
What's a STIG? Everything You Need to Know and More
IBM z/OS Authorized Code Scanner
Combating Ransomware and Other Malicious Attacks
Lessons Learned from Implementing IBM Z Pervasive Encryption from an Architect's Viewpoint
Staying Ahead of the Bad Guys: Continuous Monitoring for Attacks
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste - Zero Trust in the Age of Covid

Enterprise-wide

How To Spin Up and Spin Down environments for Mainframe Development And Testing
Why Do We Need A Cultural Change For DevOps Transformation In The Enterprise
Performing Application Development with a Dynamically Created Environment
Mainframe Embraces DevOps for the Enterprise
zNextGen Project Opening and Keynote: A Legacy of Promise for the Future
My Journey to Becoming a Mainframer
The Z Skills Revenge - How IBM Services is levering Z Modernization
Introduction to Parallel Sysplex and Data Sharing

Wednesday, March 24

Information Management

DevOps and IMS (Part 1): The Journey Continues
DevOps and IMS (Part 2): Understanding the Journey
DevOps and IMS (Part 3): Putting it Together
DevOps and IMS (part 4) Creating, Updating, and Testing IMS Applications in a DevOps World
DevOps and IMS (part 5) IMS User Experience with a DevOps CI/CD Workflow
Is Your IMS the Best It Can Be?
Who says TCP/IP is slower than FICON?
Db2 12 for z/OS: Key Enhancements of Function Levels Beyond M500
Db2 12 for z/OS and z14 performance User experience Worldpay from FIS
Latest innovations to reduce costs and support cyber resilience with PowerMax Enterprise Storage
New Frontiers in Leveraging z/OS Real Storage for Optimal Db2 Performance
A more efficient use of DASD to Enable Cyber Data protection without Impact to Overall Capacity
Unsung Heroes of the Db2 for z/OS Application Development, Db2 12 Edition