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 […]
Recognizing the global need for cybersecurity education, Vanguard Security & Compliance is a premier gathering of cybersecurity professionals from around the world. VSC offers a comprehensive program that balances educational sessions with interactive workshops and networking opportunities. Attendees learn from leading security experts and connect with their peers, fostering a valuable exchange of knowledge and […]
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. […]
Managing mainframe application performance and availability is an ongoing endeavor that continues to grow more complex in today's hybrid computing environments. Optimizing the performance and availability of hybrid IT infrastructure is crucial for driving digital transformation and requires modernizing how organizations manage and monitor system health. Artificial intelligence can help identify expected operational behaviors, ensuring […]
Join Scott Chapman in this 4.5 day virtual z/OS performance workshop that focuses on the metrics, techniques, and strategies necessary to effectively measure, analyze, and tune z/OS systems, as well as the z processors, memory, and DASD I/O subsystems. Covered during this workshop are workload analysis and MSU reduction strategies. The overall objective of this […]
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