Sustainability is an ever-growing concern and the mainframe space is no exception as organizations look to reduce the environmental impacts of their data centers.

Explore the ongoing debate between mainframe and cloud environments, focusing on the strengths and limitations of each. Discuss the integration of cloud services with traditional mainframe systems, enabling organizations to combine the reliability and processing power of mainframes with the flexibility and scalability of cloud environments.

"The New SHARE Z Workforce Starter Kit: Skills for the Modern Mainframer" provides a comprehensive foundation for emerging professionals by demystifying complex IBM Z hardware and system initialization. This package bridges the gap between traditional systems programming, such as SMP/E and ISPF mastery, and modern development tools like Python and VS Code. Beyond technical expertise, the curriculum offers essential career insights to help you navigate the "workforce jungle gym" and build long-term professional resilience.

In this practical and interactive session, we'll dive into the key features of z/OS and mainframe hardware that are included in the base price but often go underutilized. Building on the success of our previous session, we'll explore even more capabilities that you may not be fully leveraging.

The goal of this presentation will be to provide mainframe engineers with some insight into the complicated nature of managing mainframe data visualizations and how they provide practical business value in solving everyday problems.

How can you effectively welcome new developers into your organization's well-defined processes? As your staff retires or you augment your teams, maximize productivity and minimize risk.

In this session we will introduce IP routing from a z/OS point of view. Topics covered include cover basic IP routing concepts including IPv4 and IPv6, ARP, route tables, and static routes.

In this session, we'll try to demystify z/OS disk storage, starting with discussion of the 'round, brown, spinning' physical hardware of old up to the automated, virtualized, solid-state and cloud environment of today and its importance to applications.

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept but a practical tool that can revolutionize how businesses operate. This session will provide a foundational understanding of AI, exploring its core principles and various applications.

The SHARE Bit Bucket session has been a tradition of SHARE since SHARE 76 (March 1991) when Bob Shannon and Carl Youngren presented it for the first time. Each session includes multiple speakers who present interesting topics that would not require a full SHARE session to cover.