IBM Z Europe - Group home

IBM and Red Hat together can deliver tremendous value to your business by helping you modernize and innovate while at the same time leveraging on your past investments. Modernizing your applications landscape, migrating new workloads for cost efficiency, improving your time to market are challenges we have the answer for!

IBM Z/LinuxONE is THE enterprise platform for mission critical applications, bringing next-level data privacy, security, and resiliency to the hybrid cloud. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z enables more innovation without limitation on a platform open to any application, team, or infrastructure, plus containerized software that allows workloads and data to run anywhere.

First, we want to SHOW you and demo our solutions and assets. Secondly, we will give you the opportunity to register for a dedicated session with our experts to discuss YOUR challenges.  We will bring in the same virtual room YOU, IBM and Red Hat specialists.

Agenda:

11:00 - 11:05: Welcome - by Nicola Losito
11:05 - 11:30: Why Red Hat Openshift Container Platform on Z? by Anna Shugol and Sebastian Siegert
11:30 - 11:50: Use cases for Openshift on Z platform - by Elton de Souza
11:50 - 12:05: Client Testimonial: Dan Westerlund - CTO for BlueBarricade Blockchain Technology
12:05 - 12:15: Show case on Multi Architecture - by Sebastien Llaurency
12:15 - 12:25: How to start? by Sebastien Llaurency and Anna Shugol
12:25 - 12:30: Closing - by Nick Redshaw

While the Z community Europe grows and a lot of interesting webinars were provided, I often get the question where to find courses or how to gain skills. All though there is a lot of training available it can be hard to find a proper starting point. Therefore I would like to share some direct links which are worth checking out.

IBM z/OS Mainframe Practitioner - develop foundational skills in IBM Z hardware and software, especially around z/OS and System Administration

Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode - This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more.

CICS video course - This video course consists of a series of video lectures addressing various aspects of using IBM CICS.