An overview changes introduced with z/VM 7.4, the most recent release of z/VM as well as an overview of recent functional enhancements of z/VM 7.3 and published statement of directions for the next z/VM releases.
I tell the story of migrating a heavily customized z/VM 7.2 in a CSE configuration to z/VM 7.3 SSI, and the challenges experienced. Join me to hear my tales of woe, of sleepless nights and lessons learned. I'll share some new techniques I picked up along the way and hopefully entertain you for about an hour.
Corporate security guidelines are constantly being modernized, but most of the time once a security rule has been created, they are hardly ever updated. This should make you think – are you really still security compliant. Come join us, as we offer best practices to help you become more security aware and proficient.
With the growth of container technologies and focus on OpenShift, this session describes the Openshift and Kubernetes architecture, and container performance management. To manage performance, it is important to be able to understand how it works and how to measure the consumption of an OpenShift implementation. This session looks at how to see what is happening inside OpenShift and how to meet capacity planning, chargeback and performance analysis requirements. Both Linux on z and zCX will be addressed.
The Eli Madison Memorial Apprenticeship (EMMA) is a mainframe focused apprenticeship program. It uses the traditional apprenticeship model for technical roles. We feel this is THE solution to the "mainframe skills shortage" and have buy in from industry and the community at large. Currently involved are 3 mainframe ISVs, 185 apprentices, 6 university professors at 5 universities, and 8 full time volunteers. EMMA is ready to do business.
Join us in this session as Bill Bitner sits down with VM Community members Rick Barlow, Richard Lewis, and Rick Troth to hear their stories. Find out how they got into the z/VM space, what surprises they found, and how they grew their knowledge of VM. When we tell our stories and we listen to others tell their stories, we often learn that we're not alone. We're much better together.
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.
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.
