Monday, August 14^th

What's New in DFSMS - New Orleans style - 11AM - Speaker: Barbara McDonald

This session highlights the new DFSMS content delivered with z/OS 3.1 as well as recent enhancements delivered via continuous delivery.

Tuesday, August 15^th

DFSMS Basics: SMS Overview and Introduction to Writing ACS Routines Demo - 2:45PM - Speakers: Frank McCune, Trevor Geisler

This session demonstrates the basics of building and modifying SMS Configurations, ACS routine basics and challenges, and new enhancement details.

Try what you learn in the BYOD Lab!

BYOD Lab: How to Write SMS ACS Routines - 4PM - Speakers: Frank McCune, Trevor Geisler

This session provides the opportunity for hands-on experience writing ACS routines.

Bring your own device and questions! 

Wednesday, August 16^th

What's New in Catalog and IDCAMS for z/OS 3.1 - 2:45PM - Speaker: Stephen Branch

This session takes a deeper dive into the latest Catalog and IDCAMS content in z/OS 3.1 as well as additional enhancements delivered via continuous delivery.

Learn more about the new features, how to use them, and what they mean to your installation. 

Understanding the Five IBM z/OS Cloud Storage Solutions - 4PM - Speakers:  Glenn Wilcock, Tracy Dean, John Hogan (21CS)

This session explores the many IBM options for utilizing cloud object storage as another storage tier for your z/OS data, with a primary focus on Cyber Resiliency solutions and use cases to integrate it into your environment. 

Storage Management Free for All - 5:15PM

Bring any storage management questions you have and leverage the wealth of knowledge from SHARE speakers and attendees. 

This provides a great opportunity to network with developers and other clients.

Thursday, August 17^th

Are You Leveraging the Latest DFSMShsm Enhancements?  - 9:15AM - Speaker:  Robert Gensler

This session takes a deeper dive into the latest DFSMShsm content in z/OS 3.1 as well as additional enhancements delivered via continuous delivery.

There’s bound to be at least one new enhancement that’s a must have for your shop. 

Data migration scenarios - Use cases for IBM TDMF and IBM CSM - 10:30AM - Speakers: Randy Blea, Brandon Wilkie

This session provides an overview of near non-disruptive data migration for technology refresh, data center relocation or day to day physical volume movement for tuning using TDMF and CSM.  

PDSE Pitstop: Performance, Problem Analysis and Pheatures - 1:15PM - Speaker: Trevor Geisler

This session takes a broad look at what constitutes a PDSE data set, and then delve deeper into their use.  

Friday, August 18^th

DFSMSrmm: Keeping Pace With Today’s Business Challenges - 8AM - Speakers:  Louis Hanna, Evelyn Brazelton

This session shows how new features of DFSMSrmm improve performance, reduces resource consumption, and enhance access to data with traditional ISPF and z/OSMF GUI interfaces.  

Sysplex Data Sharing – Access a NoSQL database on z/OS leveraging VSAM RLS - 9:15AM - Speaker: Terri Menendez

This session provides an overview of the new EzNoSQL function, including how to leverage RLS, along with recommended configurations and hints and tips for the experienced or new user of RLS.

Large Scale Data Resiliency with virtually no Host CPU - 10:30AM - Speakers: Glenn Wilcock, Robert Gensler

This session introduces a new DFSMShsm solution, integrated with Db2, that utilizes DS8900 transparent cloud tiering to perform large scale data backup and recovery, with none of the data passing through the host.