InterConnect 2016 - Cloud and systems briefing center - z Systems

1. Cloud and Systems Briefing Center
Z Systems:
Accelerating Mobile Application Development and Management with APIs
Exposing mainframe applications and data to mobile devices makes business sense, but how can you ensure that the
critical connection of z Systems to mobile and cloud applications is as straightforward as possible? This can be achieved
by exposing existing z assets as APIs for accessing Systems of Record, while leveraging mobile and cloud capabilities with
new Systems of Engagement applications. In this session, we will explore enterprise Node.js apps for delivering
enhanced customer experience (with mobile and cloud adoption), how to accelerate development and management of
SoE APIs with StrongLoop, and how to leverage z assets with IBM API Management.
SME: Asit Dan, Kyle Charlet
CICS Application Infrastructure and DevOps
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS version 5 is the premier enterprise-grade, mixed-language application server. CICS
offers new capabilities that optimize operational efficiency, increase service agility, and introduce new cloud and
DevOps support to automate CICS deployments. Dive into the details of these capabilities which include support for Java
7 or 8 and a 64-bit JVM, the WebSphere Liberty Profile, CICS support for web services and new security facilities for web
services, CICS business and system events, z/OS Connect, the CICS Explorer, and the CICS Tools that optimize your CICS
eco-system. Investigate why CICSPlex System Manager (CPSM) is a must have option to manage multiple CICS systems
from a single point of control, and examine the CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG), a flexible, high-performing, security-
rich, and scalable connector technology for all CICS servers.
SME: Steve Fowlkes, Leigh Compton, Steve Zemblowski
Cloud, Mobile Security, Application and SaaS Security Solutions
Understand z Systems cloud, mobile, application and Saas security solutions.
SME: J Alyn Ward, Bob Kennedy
Creating Business Value through Mobile, the API Economy and IBM z
The fastest and most cost effective way to expose a business’ core capabilities to new channels such as mobile is to
leverage existing investments in mainframe applications and data. This session will introduce the value that z Systems
brings to the mobile and API enabled enterprise. Get an overview of the mobile and API enabling capabilities available
in IBM offerings such as CICS, IMS, MobileFirst Platform, Management and IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.
SME: Daniel Wilson, Al Grega

2. Creating True Customer Value at the Intersection of Mobile and Analytics
The integration of mobile and analytics can help organizations gain business insights and provide a more compelling
experience for customers. With information from analytics, companies can cater products and services to individual
customers and more easily detect fraudulent activity. They can also steer their businesses toward new growth
initiatives. This session will discuss how to use analytical insights that can be seamlessly integrated with real-time, on-
platform transactions and data, to determine next best actions or detect fraud quickly. To realize these benefits,
enterprise database technologies must provide a hybrid transaction and analytical platform, and z Systems can offer an
unparalleled environment for supporting end-to-end analytics.
SME: Avijit Chatterjee
Developing, deploying, and managing applications for the Enterprise with WebSphere Liberty Profile on System z
In 2014 IBM introduced a strategy for continuous delivery of new capabilities in WebSphere Application Server Liberty
Profile. The WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile is a complementary feature of the WebSphere Application
Server (Z and non-Z) and CICS Transaction Server. Join this session to walk through the process of creating a WebSphere
Liberty application in Eclipse, packaging the configuration, then exporting, installing, and running it on System z. Both
z/OS and Linux on z runtime environments will be shown. New features, like the new Remote Server support for Liberty
applications using the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile Tools for Eclipse, will be demonstrated.
SME: Bill Keller
Do you need a comprehensive solution for managing your zVM and Linux on zVM environment?
Discuss solutions to automate startup, discovery, monitoring, backup, and restore, enabled by a powerful set of tools,
and reduces risk and the total cost of ownership of the z/VM and Linux on System z environment.
SME: Tracy Dean
Do you need to monitor JVMs on z/OS or get ready to?
Java applications running on z Systems are becoming more prevalent and IT needs to understand how JVMs on z/OS are
configured and functioning, enabling performance optimization and fast problem resolution. This session will describe a
new IBM offering to expand management to any JVM running on z/OS including those in CICS, IMS, DB2, WebSphere,
standalone, and others.
SME: Pat Hayes
Exposing Mainframe Applications and Data for Mobile with z/OS Connect
This session will deep dive on the latest mobile and API integration capabilities of IBM z/OS Connect, which extends the
value of applications that run on z/OS by allowing clients to easily create efficient and scalable APIs for contemporary
mobile and cloud applications. With IBM z/OS Connect, Application developers, with or without z/OS-skills, can
intuitively create RESTful APIs from traditional z/OS-based assets. Mobile application developers, whether they are in an
enterprise, with partners, or are key innovators in an industry, can easily incorporate z/OS data and transactions into
their applications without the need to understand z/OS subsystems.
SME: Asit Dan, Al Grega

3. How OpenStack and KVM change the game for Cloud on z
This session will provide an opportunity for a customer to learn about IBM's new direction with KVM and Openstack and
how this opens the door for different cloud provisioning choices on z with VMWare's vRealize solution.
SME: Setareh Mehrabanzad, Bryan Foley
How to accelerate problem isolation & Identification through IT Operations Analytics
Costs and performance matter... optimizing operational efficiency of your z Systems is an ongoing challenge. In a world
where time and resource are at a premium, stay on top by using Analytics in IT Operations environment to get answers
in minutes not hours and get rid of the "blind spots" in your environment and reduce mean time to recovery/repair.
SME: Al Chakra, Kim Bailey, Barry Klutz
How z Systems Product Offerings make for a Stronger, More Well-Managed Cloud Experience
This session will help a customer to understand what IBM's infrastructure management offerings mean to a hybrid or
private cloud environment with z and why the combination of all of them results in a much richer cloud experience than
can be provided in other ways.
SME: Kershaw Mehta, Pat Hayes
Identity Governance
Learn how to analyze z Systems security entitlements and privileged roles to support segregation of duties
SME: Jamie Pease, Steve Talbot Walsh, Nick Oropall
Implementing Java Batch under the WebSphere Liberty Profile
Organizations are faced with a dual challenge – maintaining 24x7 uptime for on-line processing systems coupled with
processing ever increasing data volumes in an ever diminishing “batch window”. IBM can help your organization achieve
continuous interleaving of batch and interactive (OLTP) processes, and reuse assets written in Java, COBOL, PL/I, C/C++
etc. rather than re-writing or “re-platforming” these assets. This session will present new options available with
WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5 that include new capabilities to manage large record volumes and to lower
batch processing elapsed time, to deploy Java batch applications for the Liberty profile and integration with external
enterprise schedulers. If your workload includes IMS, you will learn how this workload is included in a modernization
strategy.
SME: Scott Simons

4. Leveraging your Investment in System Z to Create New Opportunities in the API Economy
The emergence of API's has changed how organizations build innovative mobile & web applications, enter new markets,
and integrate with cloud and third party applications. System Z customers have made significant investments over time
developing valuable assets which support core business functions. System Z customers can leverage these assets by
exposing them as APIs for both internal and external application developer consumption. With the help of IBM API
Management, these organizations can govern the way that API's are consumed and get detailed analytics on the success
of the API's and applications that are consuming them. This session will show you how companies can expose System Z
based functions as APIs in order to create new business opportunities, gain efficiencies in rapidly developing applications
and extend customer reach and improve customer service.
SME: Subhajit Maitra
Managing Applications in a hybrid cloud world
The choice and flexibility to run application and services across on-premises systems, private and public clouds provides
a powerful set of choices for how you can run your business applications. You will need complete visibility across your
infrastructure and application environments to quickly identify bottlenecks and quickly get to the root cause of
problems as they occur in complex deployments. This discussion session will highlight IBM's existing capabilities to
provide the visibility into your applications regardless of where they run with IBM Application Performance
Management.
SME: Aaron Young
Managing Mobile Workloads on IBM z for Optimal Performance and Reliability
The availability and ease of user access to mobile devices translates to more frequent but less predictable access
patterns. Mobile apps and the systems of record they need to connect to need to work, be available, and perform all of
the time. Mobile apps also need to scale so that they are not overwhelmed by their own success and can be available for
worldwide use, 24/7/365. In this session you'll learn how IBM Service Management Suite and z Systems, together with
other IBM operational and IT analytics products, help z Systems clients and their system programmers and
administrators face the challenges of the mobile revolution. Learn how the resiliency requirements of mainframe
applications are maintained in support of new workloads such as mobile.
SME: Nathan Brice, Uwe Gramm
MQ Initiated CICS workload - Parallel Sysplex Implementations
Application integration has often centered on using production transactions in new combinations and from new 'feeds'.
Increasing use of mobile devices and giving a cloud appearance to existing transactions often means that increased
availability is necessary, using both MQ and CICS in a parallel sysplex fulfills the availability requirement - giving the
greatest level of information availability of any platform. However this availability can come at some subtle costs. In
this session we can discuss issues we have seen, and how to avoid them, along with your Queue 'Plex questions.
SME: Lyn Elkins

5. New Cases for Mainframe Use with Cloud
This session will provide a customer who is looking for what benefits they are not realizing because they do not currently
use their z System for cloud with a list of ideas about how they might be better utilizing their investment and what some
of the latest offerings from IBM mean for alternative ways to use their mainframe.
SME: Bryan Foley, Kershaw Mehta, Mark Figley, Jerry Saulman, Pat Hayes
New: JMS Support in CICS by using MQ!
CICS and MQ have supported a native Java implementation for many years. Did you know that in 2015 this powerful
combination of products began supporting JMS (the Java messaging Service standards) as well? This support will allow
for more opportunities to host application on the most highly available platform of all. This session is designed to help
those who are unfamiliar with JMS, and will include how the set-up and use.
SME: Mitch Johnson
Proven and Emerging zService Management Suite for z/OS (SMSz) Reference Architectures for today's mainframe
including the new SMU WebUI !
Come and hear more about zManagement best practice technology, optimized solution for today’s problem solving
mainframe scenarios. Topics include reference deployment architecture used by clients, SMU Web UI and 3270
modernized user interfaces, and foundation building blocks for integrated service management across OMEGAMON
monitoring, eventing, reporting, z/OS log analytics and automation.
SME: Lorin Ullman, Uwe Graham
RACF, Strong Authentication and Crypto
z Systems security is built on a foundation of secure hardware, infrastructure, operating system and security solutions
that provide encryption, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), strong authentication and authorization controls,
auditing, network security data security and more.
SME: John Petreshock, Julie Bergh
Rules and Decision Modernization for Systems of Record
This session will show you how IBM ODM can be used to maintain a business rule that is used concurrently in a batch
program, a CICS application and an IMS application and how a change in the rule can be administered and implemented
in all of these execution environments from a single source in real time.
SME: Subhajit Maitra

6. The Hardware That Makes Your Cloud Stand Tall
This session will provide a chance to understand the hardware of the z13 system and how it enriches the IBM cloud
offering. The session will start with a discussion about the customer's needs and move to a field trip to the z13 for some
personal guided tour time reviewing the hardware discussed.
SME: Jerry Saulman
The modern workload automation team needs IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS
The new IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS version allow IT managers and schedulers to anticipate possible issues and
make informed decisions with predictive automation. Also, with that version, you can automate everything you want,
including, for example, maintenance and upgrade of the scheduling tool itself. Finally, the deployment of automation
work flows is accelerated as applications developers are offered with self-service capabilities.
SME: Art Eisenhour, Flora Tramontano, Domenico D’Alerio, Pat Hayes
Tools for CICS Transaction Server Version 5.3
In today's world of increasing demand for enterprise service access from internet and mobile devices, social networks,
and unknown future sources, CICS tools can help you to solve the two most pressing challenges that companies face
today; driving operational efficiencies, while increasing service agility. These core foundational CICS tools align with CICS
TS V5.3 to deliver these capabilities in a way that positions users of CICS for the next transformational era in technology,
moving them towards a service delivery platform for cloud computing.
In this session, IBM experts will demonstrate various CICS tooling scenarios so you can see firsthand how the
comprehensive portfolio of CICS tools enhance service management initiatives to optimize IT processes, maximize CICS
system availability, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and transform CICS applications to achieve greater business
flexibility.
SME: Eric W. Higgins
Transforming Your Mainframe: Making Old Things New
How many times have you heard "the mainframe is old, hard-to-use and we're moving to more modern technology"?
You try to convince them otherwise, yet your story may be difficult to tell because your own systems are still
predominantly COBOL and batch and 3270. This session will review a number of ways that you and your z Systems shops
can transform the existing mainframe environment into a 21st century compute platform. We'll talk about everything
from code modernization to building new skills to transforming our beloved 3270 to a new, modern user experience.
SME: Al Grega, Bill Seubert
Understanding IBM's Hybrid Cloud with z Story
How a customer chooses to do hybrid cloud around z ultimately sets in motion architectural points that will secure their
SOE and SOR. This session will explain our position for how to think about hybrid cloud with z and give insights into
related topics such as API Economy.
SME: Mark Figley

7. Unleash CICS Business Critical Data Locked in VSAM
Data Analytics help organizations understand their customers and anticipate their future behavior and needs. This
insight helps deliver the high level of personalization and service that consumers expect. Unfortunately many
organizations still have mission critical business data housed in VSAM files which creates a number of issues that include:
VSAM data is not structured for use by market analytics tools, not be encrypted at the field level, making PCI compliance
difficult, and VSAM data has a number of limitations in a highly available (24x7) environment. This session will dive into
IBM solutions that enable a low-risk migration strategy from VSAM to DB2 while ensuring optimal application
performance.
SME: Joseph Gailey
What You Need to Know about CICS Consolidation and Threadsafe Applications
The CICS community has been discussing the Threadsafe topic for quite some time now, but it is still a very relevant
topic due to ongoing enhancements in CICS. Threadsafe applications typically experience performance in terms of
reduced CPU utilization and greater throughput. In addition, many customers find that they are able to run their
existing CICS workload in fewer CICS regions, which helps reduces administrative overhead along with additional CPU
savings.
We will customized this session to fit your level of understanding and use of threadsafe in CICS. Our experts will discuss
technical aspects of CICS’s Open Transaction Environment (OTE), along with the business benefits of running
applications in a multi-threaded CICS region. They will also cover various processes you can implement to make your
applications threadsafe.
SME: Joseph Gailey, Gary Andrews
When Building an Enterprise-Grade Private Cloud is the Right Choice
This session will help identify questions to address the basic question of whether a public cloud, hybrid cloud, or
enterprise-grade private cloud on z is right for the customer by explaining IBM's definitions of each and discussing in
detail what requirements a customer has which may lead to which options.
SME: Mark Figley
Why Analytics in the Cloud with z Makes More Sense than Analytics Elsewhere
Doing analytics in the cloud provides a host of benefits to the customer including: reduced cost by not copying data from
their SOR to a distributed system and the analytics offerings on z Systems. This session will provide analytics experts who
will talk about how analytics in the cloud with z is being done today at other customers and what product offerings will
be most beneficial.
SME: Anuja Deedwaniya

8. Why You Should Be Looking at Bluemix for Your z Systems Data
Bluemix offers z customers flexibility with their SOR to develop applications faster and use development technologies
that their developers are already well-versed in. This discussion session will cover the basics of what Bluemix means to a
z customer and provide opportunity to discuss potential application development projects for suitability for using
Bluemix.
SME: Frank DeGilio
Why You Should Rethink Java on z
So much has changed in the past couple of years from infrastructure optimization, new hardware features, programming
model changes, new use cases to changing enterprise usage patterns that it's an extraordinary time to revisit the role of
Java on System z. This session will review the many recent changes, why they matter to you and how to best leverage
this exceptional, yet only recently becoming understood, revolution that is the new System z enterprise platform.
SME: Carl Whole
z Systems Data Security
Learn how to protect your most critical assets on z/OS with DB2, RACF, Guardium, zSecure, encryption, database and file
activity monitoring and how they feed your SIEM for actionable items in real-time.
SME: Howie Hirsch
zSecure Compliance, Threat Detection, and Administration
Learn how to automate compliance monitoring, threat analysis, create security alerts, and simplify administration for z
Systems security.
SME: Jamie Pease, Julie Bergh
zSecurity Intelligence
Learn how to enhance your security intelligence both on z Systems and across your enterprise with QRadar SIEM and
zSecure to detect threats, provide security dashboard, and create security alerts.
SME: Jamie Pease, Julie Bergh