This presentation will bring to light the various steps to implementing IBM z/VM Centralized Service Management (CSM) across a large data center or ecosystem.
When connecting to SAN-attached storage, you will likely be communicating via Fibre Channel Protocol instead of FICON. This session will discuss all the steps involved in implementing an FCP connection from an IBM zSystem to an "open system" storage device. Knowledge of how traditional z storage attaches to an IBM zSystem is helpful but not required.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source, vendor-neutral project providing standardized metrics, traces, and logs for application and infrastructure observability. This session introduces OpenTelemetry's core concepts and demonstrates how it can be used to gain real-time visibility into infrastructure performance. Attendees will learn about integrating OTel with popular monitoring backends, setting up infrastructure instrumentation, and extracting actionable insights for performance optimization and troubleshooting.
This session aims to give the participant an introductory understanding of z/VM traditional installation and upgrade installation. No experience with install/upgrade is required, and students are welcome. Basic concepts and DASD/minidisk layouts are introduced using diagrams to lay a foundation for each process. Then, the steps for the process are covered at a higher level, with references to further reading. Participants come away confident to approach the z/VM Installation Guide. This session is excellent preparation for those wishing to attend the “z/VM and Virtualization Hands-on Lab”, where they can choose to perform an upgrade installation themselves. This session does not include a live demo, but uses photos of real output to engage with the process.
This session will overview how GDPS, IBM's multi-site application availability solution, integrates key availability technologies such as z/OS, z/VM, Linux, and remote copy technologies with automation to enhance application availability and improve DR for z/OS, VM, and Linux on z. The enhanced GVA, GDPS Virtual Appliance, which runs on LinuxONE systems with z/VM and Linux guests will be highlighted. GDPS offers the state of the art in terms of performance towards continuous availability. Additionally, GDPS offers our clients a way to fulfill their regulatory and business compliance requirements by granting them "insurance" in case of a disaster (i.e., disaster recovery - DR) and providing high availability (HA) as well as ease and continuity of operations (CO).
Converge will present notable accomplishments of its current pool of interns. The interns were recently presented with an eclectic set of critical tasks and given strict deadlines. Come hear their approach to real-world problems , their solutions, and their outlook on the Z ecosystem.
Based on customer request, in this session we will cover the following topics: Using Callable Services to prevent duplication of similar code in several programs in an application suite. Using sidefiles to reduce the object size of COBOL programs. Using Debug Tool or CEETRACE to check logic flow and remove redundant code. Describing various methods to generate dumps and diagnostic data to provide 21CS for analysis.
TLS (Transport Layer Security) can be used in z/VM to establish secure connections. This presentation will cover the What, Why, Where, and How of setting up and using it, while also giving examples. No background of TLS or SSL is required.
There is an exciting new technology that has begun to emerge from the crypto world. Like the decentralization of currency, decentralization of data is now a reality with the use of blockchains, distributed apps (DAPPs) and Web3 infrastructure. This presentation will explore how this new technology functions, and how it can be harnessed to provide a wider range of solutions for mainframe customers. While Web3 is a completely new method of managing websites, tablets, and other mobile devices, the concept of moving data ownership into the hands of the end user is an extremely powerful one. DAPPs represent a revolution in software that is provided, and distributed, over the blockchain, and can be executed within servers, browsers, and many other handheld devices. When these programs are combined with access to a complete range of data sources, these modern solutions are dynamic.
This session will discuss and demonstrate more than 20 REXX EXECs, many inspired by Linux commands. These include GREP, DIFF, HEAD, MAN, TAIL, WHICH, WC and WHO. They are open source and available on Github. In addition a Web front end named z/VM and Linux Modern Administration (zlma) will be discussed and demonstrated.
This session will focus on the physical planning consideration for the system covering the power, layout, site tools and environmental stats. We will also explore the installation experience for the 9175 at the Washington Systems Center as part of the early support program.
