IBM z17 is here and new hardware has been introduced to offload IO and enable faster CP processing. EQDIO is an updated (Enhanced!) protocol to QDIO that exploits this hardware. What does it mean and what can it do for you, z/VM, and the Virtual Switch?
This session is designed as a follow-on to the z/VM Introduction. The concept and structure of the z/VM Directory is discussed, along some hints and tips to make the Directory easier to manage and more securable. Using these hints and tips can make External Security Manager (ESM) implementation easier to accomplish.
Join IBM Champions Cameron Seay (East Carolina University), Len Santalucia (Vicom Infinity), Kurt Acker (Velocity Software), along with some admins and students to hear how universities are using Linux on Velocity (zLOV) as a base to manage their hybrid clouds with IBM z and LinuxONE Systems. Much like all businesses today, colleges and universities have compute requirements with budgets that must be managed in a cost controlled fashion. Teaching with zClouds focuses on the collaboration between IBM, IBM Business Partners and universities to help bring zSkills to a younger generation while maintaining their business requirements. Our goal is to provide insight from students, faculty and the collective teams involved that helped to make it all happen.
This session will cover the purpose, function, and usage of the GetShopz program on CMS. GetShopz simplifies the transfer to a z/VM system for z/VM 7.4 service ordered through IBM Shopz or IBM ServiceLink. In addition, GetShopz can be used to transfer an order for a program product to the z/VM system. Participants will be walked step-by-step through a direct-to-host transfer for Shopz as well as ServiceLink. A workstation upload option is available for z/VM systems that cannot connect to the IBM download site. Additionally, GetShopz enables security features such as Digital Signature Verification to ensure that service packages arrive intact and unaltered. A participant familiar with CMS but unfamiliar with GetShopz can expect to walk away understanding how to get started with the utility and the benefits of doing so. Previous users of GetShopz also gain value from the presentation as new features from the z/VM 7.4 1Q25 feature pack are covered.
Ansible is a popular Open Source system management framework that can be used to manage a huge array of different types of equipment, from network switches to storage subsystems to operating systems. Terraform is also popular in system administration circles for providing "infrastructure-ascode", often as part of a development team's CI-CD environment. This session will cover some of the "good, bad, and ugly" of using Ansible and Terraform to manage z/VM systems, the guests that run on them, and the partitions and machines on which they run.
Successful crisis response is about more than fixing a bug—it’s about leading through uncertainty. Join this session to learn how to guide clients and teams through major disruptions with empathy, accuracy, and structure. Topics include establishing shared understanding, documenting clearly, managing escalation paths, and driving coordinated recovery.
Join Olivia Ecock as she sits down with new IBM z/VM Developers Caroline Hart, Daniel Shekhtman, Montana Lee, and Sam Capodicci to hear their stories. Find out what led them to the mainframe, how it’s differed from what they learned in school, what pain points and challenges they’ve faced in learning the ropes, and in what ways they’d like to enhance z/VM and the IBM Z experience.
