"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.

Encryption is the solid foundation of a layered cybersecurity strategy. One of the challenges to a successful implementation and deployment of pervasive encryption is the number of groups and roles that have to be involved from the early planning stages to develop the appropriate policies and procedures. The speakers will leverage their experience of engaging with many clients as they started their pervasive encryption journey with z/OS data set encryption and provide best practices for planning and implementing pervasive encryption.

IBM MQ is the world's leading messaging system used by most of the top fortune 500 companies. Millions of messages, worth trillions of dollars, flow through IBM MQ every day. As a result of this success, the product continues to evolve and improve. Constant evolution and development is the bedrock of sustained success and IBM MQ is no exception to this. Attend this session to hear about the updates in the latest long-term support release IBM MQ V9.3 and its Continuous Delivery features. Learn about new functions and interfaces. We will cover z/OS and Distributed platforms, including Cloud deployment features and the MQ Appliance.

Threats to your company's data continue to rise and now come from many different sources including cyber attacks and attacks from privileged insiders. Protecting your data from these and other forms of logical corruption requires capabilities that go beyond those provided by traditional high availability and disaster recovery solutions which are designed to protect against natural disasters^ hardware failures^ and other types of physical impacts. In this session^ you will learn all about the IBM Z Cyber Vault solution. This enables you to take regular^ tamper proof^ point-in-time copies that are validated and stored in an air-gapped environment. This means that in the event of a logical corruption event^ your business can identify and recover far faster than was previously possible.

We will start out with a discussion of what Linux can bring to the plate to modernize z/OS, before moving on to an overview of the different ways to deploy Linux on IBM Z & LinuxONE. The advantages and limitations of the various deployment alternatives will be shown, as well as a look at available Linux distributions. Finally, technologies to be aware of will be shown in Linux will be shown, which can improve Linux and z/OS working together, as well as particular scenarios in which each technology can provide great benefits.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides the foundation for containerized workload on IBM Z and LinuxONE . Join us for the latest news, enhancements, and use cases available with Red Hat Openshift.

Join us for a demonstration of just how easy it is to build a REST API in minutes, using the powerful combination of hybrid cloud: a cloud-native development environment running on Red Hat OpenShift, with deployment on z/OS.

Enable your organizations to bridge the gap between COBOL/PL/I and modern applications, improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and stay competitive in the rapidly evolving business landscape. This session will showcase use-cases and customer success stories to leverage existing COBOL, PL/I applications while gradually integrating Java, Node.js, Python or Go. Assess your organization's situation and use the best fit for purpose languages. You will leave this session with some hands-on solutions and use-cases worth deploying immediately.

Join to discover the latest happenings within the Java world, now IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS v17, how it can help you modernize your business-critical applications for the hybrid cloud while fully taking advantage of new Java security features, IBM zSystems hardware and software stack. Focus on the Semeru 17, and importance of migration. Finally, identify Java interop opportunities with COBOL, PL/I, IMS, CICS, IDz and more.

The latest compiler and language portfolio on IBM zSystems? provide significant benefits for organizations looking to modernize business critical applications for the hybrid cloud. This session covers latest enhancements to COBOL, PL/I, C/C++ and Java, and how they can help accelerate digital transformation and reduce CPU usage on IBM z16. It will also provide an overview of the latest IBM Open Enterprise Languages (Node.js, Python and Go) and how organizations can leverage them to shorten the delivery time for new applications requirements and take advantage of colocation with critical applications and data to increase performance.