Highlights and Featured Sessions
NEW NEWs!
IBM zEnterprise® EC12
Will feature sessions such as:
- Introducing the IBM zEnterprise® EC12 (zEc12) System: Processor. Memory and System Structure Enhancements
- Introducing the IBM zEnterprise® EC12 (zEC12) System: I/O and Parallel Sysplex Coupling Infrastructure Enhancements and New I/O Features and Functions
- Smart Monitoring of z/OS with IBM zAware on zEC12
- z/OS Exploitation of Flash Express on zEC12
- IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 3 & Model 2: BladeCenter Modules and Blades-Deep Dive Update
- z/OS Software Support for new IBM zEnterprise ® EC12 (zEC12) server
See file below for session descriptions and more:
Sessions On the zEnterprise EC12 (13KB)
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS: New full week track!
Will feature sessions, such as:
- CICS Portfolio Update
- CICS TS: A Technical Overview
- CICS TS: Touching the Cloud – Introducing Enterprise Services
- CICS TS: Introduction to Application as first class entities
- CICS TS: Introduction to Platforms as deployment targets
- CICS Explorer Update
- CICS TS: Application Management Update
- CICS TS: Platform Management Update
- CICS Tools Family Update
- CICS Transaction Gateway Update
- CICS TS: Support for WAS Liberty Profile
- CICS TS: Java and JVM Server
- z/OS&CICS Performance : It’s a Journey, not a Destination: Data Collection
- CICS TS: Scalability Enhancements
- z/OS&CICS Performance : It’s a Journey, not a Destination: Processing Data
- z/OS&CICS Performance : It’s a Journey, not a Destination: Interpreting Data
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Visit the Solution Center booth and see, touch, and experience the new IBM zEnterprise® EC12
System z Smarter Computing Strategies and Architectures
Will feature sessions such as:
- Cloud Computing Strategies for your enterprise
- Where Does System z fit in a cloud computing strategy?
- Utilizing the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator
- Application Design and Development for System z
- Enterprise Modernization
- Understanding and Applying Fit for Purpose strategies
- Financial savings with new System z technology
z/OS and Parallel Sysplex Implementation and Performance Management
Will feature sessions such as:
- Migrating to z/OS V1.13
- z/OS Software Positioning for zEnterprise
- z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) V1.13 Implementation
- z/OS Unix System Services and zFS
- System z software pricing updates
- Parallel Sysplex, Infiniband, STP and GDPS Updates
- z/OS Workload Manager(WLM) Updates and Implementation
- HiperDispatch, zIIPs, and zAAPs Advanced Functionality
- z/OS SMF, RMF and OMEGAMON monitoring strategies and updates
System z Security
Will feature sessions such as:
- System z security strategy and RACF updates
- System z Crypto
- Networking security and trusted identity management
- z/OS Comm Server security
- PKI Services
- Database Encryption on z/OS
- LDAP on System z
- Cloud Security
CICS and Application Infrastructure
Will feature sessions such as:
- CICS TS V4.2 – Intro, Migration, Connectivity
- CICS Debugging and Event Processing
- WebSphere App Server V8 Updates, Availability
- WebSphere MQ Updates, Shared Queues, Migration
- z/OS Comm Server V1 R13 Enhancements, IPv6
Business Analytics and Data Management
Will feature sessions such as:
- DB2 for z/OS Ver 10 New Features and Performance
- DB2 Analytics Accelerator
- DB2 for z/OS Health Check
- IMS 12 Updates
- System z Application Development Tools
z/VM and Virtualization
Will feature sessions such as:
- z/VM V6.2 Single System Image (SSI) and Live Guest Relocation
- z/VM® V6.2: accelerate the journey to smarter computing
- z/VM Performance: Update, Case Studies, System Limits
- z/VM Security: Update, RACF, Defense in Depth, Security Zones, SSL Server Support
- z/VM I/O: Update, Tape Encryption, SCSI, PAV, HyperPAV
- z/VM Implementation – IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager
Linux on System z
Will feature sessions such as:
- Linux on System z current and future technologies
- Security – Update and Crypto News
- Linux on System z: Solving the Server Sprawl Problem with effective IT Optimization
- Optimizing Resource Utilization for Linux under z/VM
- Disk I/O Performance, Problem Determination, RAS
- Oracle, Collaboration, Information Server, Cognos
- Linux on System z Customer Experiences and popular hands-on labs
z/VSE
Will feature sessions such as:
- z/VSE and zEnterprise – Features, Functions and new Software Pricing
- z/VSE V5.1: 64-bit virtual addressing for workload growth
- z/VSE Fast Path to Linux on System z
- z/VSE and Cloud Computing Scenarios
Storage Systems
Will feature sessions such as:
- System z Storage Management overview and updates
- DS8800 what’s new and performance update
- System z storage hardware update
- What’s new in DFSMS
- DS8000 Global Mirror
- VSAM CA Reclaim and EAV Update