With an unprecedented interest in enterprise-focused generative AI, watsonx Day provides an opportunity to participate in a watsonx Challenge: a no-code/low-code hands-on activity to kickstart and expand your AI skills using IBM watsonx products. The challenge offers multiple tracks. Learn how to apply AI to assess client satisfaction and interest, enhance productivity in sales roles, […]
There will be ten parallel streams during the three days with each session lasting for one hour. Registration will be free for GSE members but a small charge will be made for non-members to cover our expenses. Access to session videos will be free for GSE members and for two months after the conference for […]
CICS Interdependency Analyzer (aka CICS IA for z/OS) is a runtime tool for use with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, that can be used to collect data related to transaction affinity, resource dependency and command flow. CICS IA plugin for CICS Explorer is an intuitive front end to visualize and explore the collected data. CICS […]
IBM has put out a Statement of Direction (SOD) that says IMS Managed ACBs will be required by the summer of 2025. That’s only a year away! Every IMS client that has IMS DB, is impacted by this SOD. But what is IMS Managed ACBs? Why is this being imposed on IMS clients? How does […]
Join SHARE in Kansas City August 4-8 for a week long program of enterprise IT. As a leader in user-focused education, SHARE Orlando will deliver an engaging, user-driven experience unlike any other event! By attending, you'll gain access to the latest enterprise IT news, key focus areas, prominent industry leaders, and product highlights on emerging […]
Regulatory and industry standards press for more and more safety around customer and company data. The Pervasive Encryption model with IMS datasets requires some planning. IMS is unique in many ways and keeping the IMS Infrastructure safe is as important as keeping its databases safe. This session discusses IMS data, logging, and utility use from […]
Join Peter Enrico in this 2 day virtual workshop, where you will learn how to effectively measure, monitor, and tune coupling facilities and structures. If you are new to parallel sysplex, have no fear, we will start by reviewing the basic concepts and latest details of XCF, Parallel Sysplex, coupling facilities, and data sharing. Get […]
The Mainframe Technical Exchanges (MTE) are technical educational events that give you direct access to Broadcom Mainframe experts and your peers. These three-day events include how-to sessions, product roadmaps, demos, and hands-on labs. You’ll have the opportunity to provide feedback into the future of Broadcom solutions and share your best practices and challenges.
Many organizations already leverage automated DevOps practices for distributed applications, and now many are looking to include z applications in the pipeline. For CICS, developers manage source code and the executable modules, but the systems programmers typically manage the related CICS resource definitions. This separation between the code and resource definitions creates issues when incorporating […]
Long gone are the days of the mainframe processors having relatively low processor speeds and relatively small memory sizes. The modern mainframe can have TBs of memory, and the processor clock speeds are among the fastest in the world. Fast processors wait at the same speed as slow processors, but the opportunity cost of waiting […]
With a nod to Dr. Suess, this presentation discusses a few Db2 best practices based on experiences I've encountered during my consulting career. It takes a look at actual scenarios (without naming names) to explore situations that can arise in any organization. Some of the things covered include RUNSTATS, RID failures, lock escalation, and more. […]
