This talk will cover a number of these including Ansible, Zowe, Python, zosopentools, showcasing each of them in turn and describe how to get started with demos and FAQs.

In this session, I am going to talk about how you can leverage IMS specific Jenkins Plugins to make dynamic changes to the IMS resource definitions without the need to do IMSGENs, thereby eliminating the corresponding IMS downtime and also improve the performance of IMS and DB2 applications by identifying programs that use too many or too few IMS checkpoints and/or DB2 commits, which can cause resource wastage or locking problems.

Join this session to learn more about the latest updates in the IMS modernization area.

Come and learn some of the new best practices for open-source deployments on IBM Z that meet the expectations of users as well as the needs of system administrators.

In the past, mainframe system testing was limited to legacy tools and required specialized knowledge. Today, with the adoption of of open source tools and projects (OMP & Zowe) any team can easily integrate test and build stage into their CI/CD pipeline.

Good programming practice means that you test your code. That does not mean throwing into production and assuming it works! If you are developing new interactions or modifying your code interacting with IMS, you need to assure that you have good code, covering the needed scenarios, before committing code into a shared test system or worse, production.

Using Pervasive Encryption with IMS database 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, datasets, logging and utility use from an encryption point of view: Why is encryption important? What can be encrypted? What can t be encrypted? Why should it be encrypted?

Everyone today is talking about mainframe modernization, what it is, what it isn't, why should you, is the mainframe still relevant. In this session all of these will be discussed and answered with real user examples.

Mainframe software testing plays a crucial role in the modern DevOps pipeline. A key principle is automating testing and doing it early in the development cycle - and doing it repeatedly. The aim is to catch and fix bugs quickly, minimize redoing work, and guarantee quality before building and delivering new code to production.

In today's digital landscape, cyber threats are unpredictable and pose a significant challenge to safeguarding critical enterprise data. To ensure the resilience of IMS, innovative and robust strategies are required to manage these risks effectively. This session is designed to provide you with comprehensive strategies for enhancing the protection and management of your IMS recovery assets.