Speaker: Scott Chapman, CIO and Director of Software Design and Development, Enterprise Performance Strategies

WLM was introduced in the early 1990s and most sites implemented goal mode in the late '90s or early 2000s. A lot has changed since then. New WLM features have been introduced. Options and features are enabled (or not) either when defining a new policy or when a new feature becomes available but then never reviewed for applicability in the face of significant changes in the hardware and software environment, etc.

Just like regularly reviewing your goals, revisiting your WLM options periodically is a good practice. Join Scott Chapman in this session as he reviews the WLM options and shows how one long-standing recommendation is now perhaps skewing results in a counter-productive fashion.

This webcast is sponsored by Enterprise Performance Strategies and does not necessarily represent the views of SHARE and/or SHARE members.

Speakers: Patrick Fournier, Virtel Solution Architect, SysperTec; Domenic Cifani, Senior Software Engineer, SysperTec

There are many reasons to consider migrating to Virtel Web Access for 3270 Terminal Emulation. Here are just two of them:

1. The Java applets and browser extensions/plugins of your legacy TN3270 emulator are no longer supported by Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari. So, unless you want to stay on IE forever…
2. With many 3270 TE end-users working from home - often using their personal computers - it becomes paramount to deploy a secure 3270 TE access solution that works instantly with any web-enabled client device.

Virtel Web Access is a thin-client (browser-based) 3270 TE solution which provides those benefits and more. It relies on end-to-end (client devices to mainframe) SSL-encrypted HTTPS connections (no middle-tier server!) that are compliant with FIPS 140.2, TLS 1.2/1.3 and IPV2/IPV6.

Using VWA does not require installing, administering, or supporting anything on the end-user’s device. Meeting your organization’s security and compliance policies is much easier when using VWA as your 3270 TE solution.

In this webcast, see how migrating to VWA will help your organization continue to prosper on the z/OS mainframe.

As we all know, things are not always going as planned in 2020. Unfortunately, we had to delay our discussion on how Virtel can help replace 3270 screens with modern web GUIs. This is another way that Virtel can assist an organization’s digital transformation affordably, while remaining on the mainframe.

This webcast is sponsored by SDS and does not necessarily represent the views of SHARE and/or SHARE members.

Moderator: Jeanne Glass, Founder and CEO, VirtualZ Computing

Panelists:

• Lauren Valenti, Head of Mainframe Education and Customer Engagement, Broadcom
• Lisa Dyer, Global Vice President, Product Management, Ensono
• Priya Doty, Vice President, Product Marketing for IBM Z and LinuxONE Brands, IBM
• Tendu Yogurtcu, Chief Technology Officer, Precisely

Abstract: Within an environment of unprecedented and unpredictable economic turmoil, the mainframe is poised and deployed across the globe to meet the new demands of businesses and governments. We’ve heard the news—from calls for COBOL programmers to the search for a vaccine—how is the mainframe playing a role? This dynamic panel of executive women leaders who drive mainframe initiatives every day, discuss the innovations, opportunities and challenges ahead. Collaboration and transparency are always priorities but are they enough to lead the way forward.

Moderator: Lisa Wood, Chief Marketing Officer, VirtualZ Computing

Panelists:

• Tyler King, Design Lead, IBM Z Resiliency, IBM
• Melissa Sassi, Global Head of IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator, IBM
• Gloria Chance, CEO and President, Mousai Group
• Katie Branch, Manager, Mainframe Systems Training and Development, Ensono
• Deborah Carbo, Director, Product Management, Mainframe Division, Broadcom

Abstract: IBM just set a new record for MIPS, this year shipping the highest MIPs in history, driven by growth in new workloads. There is no debate that incredible innovation drives the industry. But are we fully deploying that same world-class creativity and problem-solving to the spectrum of needs in the industry—beyond product and services—like the skills gap, diversity, inclusion and mentorship? In this session, we examine the progress and efforts in place today in the mainframe industry and brainstorm applying innovation to accelerate our path forward.

Moderator: Misty Decker, Program Manager, z Systems Academic Initiative at IBM

Panelists:

• Lella Halloum, Student
• Chloe Allen-Ede, Student
• Kaitlyn Lowe, Student

Abstract: We know we need more girls to get interested in learning about technology.  But the same tactics that appeal to boys don't always work with girls.  In this session, I'll share what the education researchers say works and how I've used these methods to get young girls interested in mainframes in particular.  You'll walk away armed with the tools to personally make a dent in this massive problem.

Speakers: Larry Strickland, Chief Products Officer, Data Kinetics Ltd.; Andrew Bowker, IBM Z Table Accelerator Offering Manager, IBM; Nathan Brice, IBM Z AIOps Program Manager, IBM

Just transitioned to Tailored Fit Pricing or thinking about it? Leveraging any of IBM's Operational Analytics tools? Want to squeeze every ounce of IBM Z power to maximize performance and transaction throughput and/or create capacity for new workloads and apps? Learn how IBM Z Table Accelerator (IZTA), a new offering released in Q1 2020, significantly improves the performance of vital mainframe applications while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership associated with your infrastructure. IZTA may just be the tool you've been searching for that allows you to fully leverage investments made in other IBM Z software. Get up and running quickly with a blazing fast ROI so you can focus on the more innovative projects you've been meaning to tackle.

Attendees will learn about significant opportunities to optimize mainframe capacity and performance provided via the below:

• New Tools such as IBM Z Table Accelerator
• New Pricing Models such as Tailored Fit Pricing
• New Technologies such as In-Memory Processing 

This webcast is sponsored by Data Kinetics Ltd. and does not necessarily represent the views of SHARE and/or SHARE members.

Speakers: Andrew Mead, Senior Offering Manager & Business Unit Executive for Tailored Fit Pricing, IBM; Roger Rogers, Executive IT Economics Consultant, IBM; Rebecca Levesque, CEO & President, 21st Century Software

Tailored Fit Pricing is a new pricing model that eliminates the need for capping workloads and provides a complete alternative to the R4HA. For clients adopting this new model, there may be questions on how you manage your workloads both from a technical and business perspective: How am I tracking against my annual baseline? What is the change in MSU consumption month-to-month? Who are my major consumers of resources? Can I quantify the benefit of investing in new z15 hardware?

In this webinar, the speakers discuss these questions and demonstrate how to model these scenarios using IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics. Using predefined reports, IT operations and management can easily manage performance consumption, link this back to business operations, and provide the basis for planning workload optimization and future capacity needs.

This webcast is sponsored by 21st Century Software and does not necessarily represent the views of SHARE and/or SHARE members.

Speakers: Mark Anzani, VP Strategy, IBM Z; David Clitherow, Global Offering Manager, IBM; David Raften, Engagement Manager, IBM, IBM Z; Rebecca Levesque, CEO & President, 21st Century Software

Digital transformation in the enterprise is being driven by the increasing pressure of customer expectations for continuous and unfailing access to information. The ability to support those requirements demands the best in an IT infrastructure and with IBM Z at the heart of your enterprise.

Learn how built-in z15 resiliency, GDPS failover capabilities and innovations like system recovery can allow for a complete resiliency solution lifecycle. The speakers will demonstrate how to remain competitive, exceed Service Level Agreements, and minimize the disruption of any downtime with the best of breed operational resiliency that IBM Z provides. IBM Z Batch Resiliency can further aid the delivery of operational resiliency of that business-critical data used by batch workloads to achieve a faster point in time recovery, delivering protection to maximize data integrity.

This webcast is sponsored by 21st Century Software and does not necessarily represent the views of SHARE and/or SHARE members.

A Journey to Zowe - Zowe Conformance and an Extender's journey from learning Zowe to building a Zowe App

Both members and non-members of SHARE can access the videos in the 3-part series here.

Part 1
Begins with an overview of the Zowe V1 Conformance program and will describe how your Zowe component plug-in / extension can earn the V1 Zowe Conformance badge. We'll then walk through the steps that lead a software vendor to choose Zowe and leverage Zowe components as infrastructure for their UI transformation away from Eclipse.
Speakers: Roy Boxwell, Software Engineering GmbH; Bruce Armstrong, IBM; Joe Winchester, IBM - Hursley Labs; Rose Sakach, Broadcom

Part 2
Zowe Extensions - Zowe is open source software on z/OS that anyone can use. Part 2 will provide the latest news on Zowe features and functions and explain various ways you can exploit or extend the technology. Zowe provides several out of the box uses that are being enhanced monthly. There are also many extension points to allow you to tailor a solution that meets your needs. Come learn how Zowe can help you organize REST APIs on z/OS, automate tasks with the Command Line Interface or integrate browser applications. You will from the experts writing Zowe and be able to get involved in this revolutionary software for the z/OS platform.
Speakers: Bruce Armstrong, IBM; Joe Winchester, IBM - Hursley Labs; Dan Kelosky, Braodcom; Sean Grady, Rocket Software

Part 3
Zowe 2020 - Part 3 will present a summary of what the open community has accomplished in the first half of the year and describe the development goals for the remainder of 2020. The open community conducted a public planning session in June to describe the project. Come learn the plans and learn how to get involved. We will review ways to participate in the community.
Speakers: Michael DuBois, Broadcom; Peter Fandel, Rocket Software; Bruce Armstrong, IBM

Marketplace demands require the enterprise to modernize applications and release new offerings rapidly. Relying on waterfall development processes can be familiar, but can have drawbacks that produce delays, cost overruns, and slower cycles.

With the move to an agile DevOps framework, automated testing is a critical function to ensure quality in continuous deployments. Teams that improve their test efficiency and effectiveness significantly reduce their expenses and the time it takes to get high-quality innovative solutions to end users.

Learn from the experts as they share:

• Where testing fits in your hybrid cloud strategy
• Why smarter testing with automation is key to CI/CD in your DevOps process
• How to get started

Register for this webinar if you need to: 

• Get to market quickly before the competition
• Replace outdated or inefficient manual testing and deliver continuous integration
• Find the best technology to support collaborative agile delivery

Speaker: Cody Giardinello, SHARE Volunteer - zNextGen Deputy Project Manager

Let us introduce you to SHARE Virtual. This presentation will provide you with information regarding all SHARE Virtual activities and offer tips for maximizing your event experience.

Speaker: Ezriel Gross, Principal Solutions Advisor, Rocket Software 

IPCS is a component of z/OS used for online problem management, interactive problem diagnosis and debugging for abend dumps. In the CICS world, we can effectively identify our problems with a subset of the IPCS commands. This session focuses on the IPCS features that are most relevant to solving CICS problems, and covers real world examples of how to use the product to solve CICS related abends. 

This session was awarded the Best of the Best user session at SHARE Fort Worth 2020.

Speaker: Lethika Panicker, Senior Principal Technology Engineer, Worldpay

Learn how the utilization of z14 processors can improve performance and throughput as well as reduce MLC for Db2 for z/OS. The utilization of large page frames and how to effectively monitor real storage will be covered in this webcast. The webcast will also showcase the performance of the environment before and after these changes were implemented at Worldpay.

Speaker: Sean Seitz, VP of Technical Services, Optica Technologies

z/VSE customers value stability and seek solutions that extend the value of their investment in the z/VSE platform. Join Optica Technologies, PSR Inc, and CSI International to discuss a modern, automated, integrated approach to DR for z/VSE customers. Customer examples and testimonials will be presented to help you learn how a tightly integrated solution makes for an easy transition from any current state to a modern, future state solution with improved RPO/RTO, flexible replication options, and one-click DR. Discover how this extended life platform can be delivered on-premise, via multi-tenant DR-as-a-Service, or fully hosted to align with your IT strategy.

Speaker: Julie Bergh, WW Lead Security Advisor, Rocket Software

Authentication is the beating heart of security. The most fundamental action in all of IT is to identify “who you are,” and authentication is the building block that answers that question. This is becoming even more critical given the recent coronavirus outbreak now that a large population of employees are forced to remotely access mission-critical applications.

Now more than ever, businesses and governments across industries—and particularly those in highly regulated spaces—must do everything they can to detect threats to their mission-critical corporate information and applications.

In this webcast, Rocket will discuss how leading businesses are:

• Deploying multi-factor authentication to stop hackers and protect their assets
• Using security analytics and cognitive computing to detect vulnerabilities and remediate exposures
• Supporting cloud and big data applications by extending their mainframe investments while complying with industry regulations and keeping costs down

Detecting threats can be complex, and failure to protect can result in vulnerabilities, audit failures, loss of reputation, security breaches and even total system shutdowns.

Speaker: Scott Chapman, CIO, Director of Software Design and Development, Enterprise Performance Strategies Inc.

Measuring CPU consumption is a critical piece of both performance analysis and capacity planning. There are lots of different ways that CPU consumption can be expressed, such as CPU Seconds, MIPS, MSUs, Service Units and more. If you are confused as to what these terms mean and how they relate to each other then this session is for you. Join Scott Chapman for a walk through the possible CPU measurements, conversion between those measurements, and when you might use each.

Speakers: Julie Bergh, Security Executive, Rocket Software; Anne E. Caluori, Senior Alchemist, ∑Thinking; Deborah Carbo, Director, Product Management, Broadcom Inc.; Cynthia Overby, President and Co-Founder, Key Resources Inc.; Tina Tarquinio, Director, IBM Z, IBM

• How to build relationships that create opportunities
• Why it is important for women to negotiate
• Why emotional intelligence is so important for women

Speaker: Cody Giardinello, zNextGen Deputy Project Manager, SHARE Volunteer

This presentation will provide information regarding all SHARE Fort Worth activities, offer tips for scheduling your time, as well as advice and resources to maximize your on-site experience.