Please see the note below from my college Matt Roseblade (It WAS a nice day when he sent the original message!):

It's a lovely Spring day and time for me to schedule and announce some more Lockdown Webinars.

Ideally, I'd like to call them 'Almost-out-of-Lockdown' Webinars' but we have to stay realistic, careful and working at home.   That means that IBM still can't come to you to tell you about the many great mainframe things we've been doing.  But we have been doing a lot of interesting, useful and valuable things and we'd like to tell you about them through the sometimes-challenging medium of Webex.

A small change from last year -  the sessions will be 45 minutes long.   That'll give you a chance to stretch your legs, make a tea etc.  One thing we've all learned in this last year is that back-to-back meetings are not helpful at all.

Here are the first four.  Please register early, using the links below.  Please contact me if registration doesn't work for you.

Thursday April 8th 15:00 BST (note the later time) - How resilient is your mainframe? Introducing IBM Z Batch Resiliency & the IBM Z Cyber Vault
Your existing HA/DR isn't necessarily going to protect your critical data from a cyber attack or a problem that propagates across copies, affecting all data. The IBM Z Cyber Vault provides air-gapped data corruption protection and tools to keep your data safe from cyber attacks and problems that could spread to trusted copies. The IBM Z Cyber Vault is made up of 'traditional' data centre components - hardware, storage, GDPS, security software and one new, vital component - IBM Z Batch Resiliency (IZBR). Find out how IZBR provides precision audit insights, high-value resiliency management of non-database-managed data and applications, and surgical recovery of any dataset from Safeguarded Copy in the IBM Z Cyber Vault
https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee6d29b721e39765708a2993303bd640d


Thursday April 15th 13:00 BST (back to the normal time) - IBM Z Table Accelerator - Boost performance. Reduce cost.
IBM Z Table Accelerator (IZTA) is an application optimization solution aimed at helping application owners boost the performance of mission-critical IBM Z applications and enabling cost-conscious IT operations leaders to reduce resource consumption. IZTA delivers high value by enhancing performance while reducing the Total Cost of Ownership associated with your z/OS environment.
https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/onstage/g.php?MTID=e65f1e48e38212bd8d1152396cda5f121



Thursday April 22nd 13:00 BST -  What is replacing Tivoli Asset Discovery for Z (TADz)?
This virtual HCL TechConnect will introduce IBM customers to the much anticipated, first new release of TADz in 7 years! A major new release with a new product name: IBM Z Software Asset Management v8.2 (IZSAM). Join us as SMEs from the HCL engineering team demonstrate the enhancements and new features in this exciting release.
https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb3cd88ed5d4a25ab21d4ec6585c37b7c


Thursday April 29th 13:00 BST -  IBM zAPM Connect & Instana
Enterprises of all sizes, across all industries have come to rely on their APM solutions to understand and troubleshoot the many variables that can impact performance. IBM Z APM Connect enables IBM Z data to consumed by market-leading solutions such as AppDynamics' APM. IBM has recently acquired Instana and we're integrating ZAPM Connect with Instana. Come and hear overviews of Z APM Connect and Instana and how together they can provide a complete APM solution for Z and non-Z performance data.
https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/onstage/g.php?MTID=efcfac879806d1b6b266c2a9a998126e2



In May and beyond, we have sessions coming up on ZOWE, OMEGAMON, Ansible for Z, Performance & Capacity on Z, AIOPs on Z. ChatOps on Z and much more.

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Karen Wilkins
Client Technical Professional
IBM UK Ltd
Bristol
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