During this 30-minute session, the SHARE Board of Director Officers will review a business update for the SHARE organization, including highlights from SHARE 2023 events, a financial overview and an update on investments SHARE is making to enhance the community experience.

IBM Z has a 40+ year history in security and cryptography starting with the design of the Lucifer cipher in 1974 (which became the Data Encryption Standard, DES algorithm) to today, with enablement of Quantum Safe Cryptography for the IBM z16. IBM z16 introduces new capabilities in IBM Z hardware, operating systems and middleware to provide quantum safe encryption and more. This session will cover new features in the IBM z16 Crypto Ecosystem, including z/OS Cryptographic Services (ICSF), in support of data protection.

To some folks, the MVS System Trace probably looks like "Matrix" code but, like so many other things on our platform, it's actually intended to be human readable and the information it contains is priceless -- whether you've suffered an abend, are in a hard loop, have a performance issue, or just want to understand what's going on while a program is running. The presenter will discuss how to glean information from the MVS System Trace in various common scenarios and will provide useful advice for configuring both the system and your program to ensure the MVS System Trace has everything you and your software vendors need to debug even the most challenging issue.