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SHARE Kansas City 2024

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 […]

Pervasive Encryption and IMS – Virtual IMS User Group – Featuring Dennis Eichelberger

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

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 […]

Broadcom Mainframe Technical Exchanges

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.

Virtual CICS User Group – CICS Resource Definitions as part of a DevOps Pipeline

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

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 […]

Optimizing Performance at the Speed of Light: Why I/O Avoidance is Even More Important Today

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

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 […]

Virtual Db2 User Group – Oh, The Things I’ve Seen! Db2 Stories and Best Practices

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

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. […]

IBM Z Day 2024

Virtual Meeting

We’re excited to extend to you a special invitation to IBM Z Day 2024, our largest tech event of the year on October 1st from 8 AM – 5 PM ET. IBM Z Day’s signature experience will show you how to unleash the power of AI with IBM hybrid cloud infrastructure, providing you with deep technical content, demos, […]