SHARE Kansas City starts this Sunday and the DFSMS team is excited to see and connect with you there at our sessions!
Take a look at the list below to learn a bit more about the sessions on our agenda and let us know which one you are looking forward to the most.
You can also save the flyer down at the bottom to make sure you don’t miss a session while you are there!
Sunday, August 4th
New Use Cases for z/OS Data and Cloud Storage: Continuing the Journey – 5:00 PM –Speakers: John Hogan & Tracy Dean
Is your organization using the cloud to store non-z/OS data, especially data you want to share across applications and platforms? z/OS contains some of the most interesting and valuable data your company has about itself and its clients. Come hear how you can use cloud object storage to easily, reliably and securely select and share your z/OS data, whether you’re sharing within z/OS between sysplexes or with non-z/OS platforms.
Monday, August 5th
What’s New in DFSMS – 1:15 PM – Speakers: Barbara McDonald & Alexis Kapica (Ricci)
Come learn about the current product offerings and recently delivered new function within the DFSMS product family. This session will highlight current direction within DFSMS with focus on new features and functions delivered via continuous delivery and in the latest release of z/OS.
IBM Z Storage Management and zAIOps – 2:30 PM – Speakers: Andrew Bowker & Johnathan Crossno
Let's face it, "mainframe storage admins" are trending toward extinction as more and more enterprises turn to "general storage admins" to handle storage needs across a hybrid infrastructure. The next generation of storage admins will turn to AI-infused tooling to help manage storage on mainframe componentry. In this session, we'll openly discuss AI use cases for Storage Administrators around topics such as proactive storage incident prevention, storage anomaly detection, auto shifting storage conditions, and optimizing ML1/ML2/MLC storage tiers. Come share your experiences, hear peer feedback, and contribute ideas to the future of IBM's storage administration zAIOps software stack.
Cyber Resilience for Enterprise Data - Protection from Logical Corruption3 – 2:30 PM –Speaker: Beth Peterson
Every month there is a new story about an attack on Enterprise Data from ransomware, malware, insider threats or other corruption/destruction of data. This is a significant concern for many large organizations and to the associated industry regulatory bodies. Traditional High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions provide no protection from this type of event. The speaker will discuss how IBM is responding to the phenomenon focusing on the concepts and solutions to protect and recover the core Enterprise Data from logical corruption. Included in the discussion will be the latest solution enhancements.
Tuesday, August 6th
Sysplex Data Sharing - What you need to know for implementing RLS and TVS – 10:30 AM – Speaker: Terri Menendez
With z/OS 3.1, Transactional VSAM (TVS) is part of z/OS base and allows batch programs to run concurrently with CICS or other regions that use VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS). The session will cover an RLS overview, including best practices for configuration defaults and recommendations, common problems resulting from a less than optimal configuration, and how to find optimal configurations. In addition, learn what TVS does, how it differs from VSAM RLS, and what benefits you'll get by switching to TVS for your batch workloads. Included throughout will be actual customer use cases and benchmarks.
Accessing a NoSQL database on z/OS is Ez – 2:15 PM – Speakers: Terri Menendez and Users: Steven Partlow & Nancy Kilroy
This session will highlight the latest enhancements to EzNoSQL, and sponsor users will provide their use cases, along with insights and details on how they implemented the solution. With EzNoSQL you can easily create and access JSON key:value databases through a comprehensive set of C or Java based APIs. Data integrity and performance are met with EzNoSQL’s store-through caching design, in-memory buffering, and easy horizontal scaling. Let EzNoSQL be the database of choice on z/OS to meet the growing demands of your application.
What's New in the IBM DS8900F Storage Family1 – 2:15 PM – Speaker: Beth Peterson
This session will provide an overview of the DS8900F Storage Family including key changes and enhancements that are essential for your enterprise data and showcase why IBM Storage and Z systems are a winning combination!
DFSMSrmm: Simplifying your RMM Environment with New Functionality – 3:30 PM – Speakers: Parker Mathewson & Louis Hanna
Learn how new features of DFSMSrmm can simplify your tape management, improve performance, reduce resource consumption, and enhance access to data with traditional ISPF and z/OSMF GUI interfaces. DFSMSrmm continues to introduce meaningful enhancements ensuring non-proprietary access to your data without sacrificing security by remaining true to its commitment to z/OS. DFSMSrmm offers superior integration with DFSMS and OAM to provide seamless management of your removable media.
Wednesday, August 7th
z/OS Native APIs for Cloud Object Storage2 – 7:30 AM – Speaker: Andrew Wilt
Do your COBOL developers have their eye on data in your cloud object store? But they can’t jump high enough to soar through the cloudy sky without using Java and unknown packages? z/OS has native APIs that provide simplified access to cloud object stores. This session will cover the ins and outs of calling the DFSMSdfp CDA APIs from a z/OS Application. It will cover calling the APIs from COBOL, LE C, and HLASM, along with the ability to call one API to access Azure Blob Storage, Azure File Service, S3 compatible object stores, as well as the Google Cloud Platform.
Are You Leveraging the Latest DFSMShsm Enhancements? – 8:45 AM – Speaker: Robert Gensler
Come discover the latest DFSMShsm enhancements around usability, management class enhancements, minimizing CPU, simplification, RAS, performance, constraint relief, and cloud storage. There’s bound to be at least one new enhancement that’s a must have for your shop.
Simplify Your Replication with IBM Copy Services Manager3 – 10:00 AM – Speaker: Randy Blea
IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) is a storage replication product that provides a single place to manage and automate replication and advanced copy services across your IBM storage environment and is designed to scale for thousands of relationships. With CSM you can simplify the management of your replication solutions while providing disaster recovery and high availability to your applications. CSM is easy to install, easy to setup, and easy to manage and provides support for both mainframe and distributed data. This session will provide an overview of CSM, its many benefits and use cases, along with details on recent enhancements.
zHyperLink User Experience and New Features1 – 1:15 PM – Speakers: Beth Peterson & John Baker
This session will cover the latest information and enhancements for zHyperlink, a protocol designed for very low response times to DS8900F using a short-distance fibre connection. It will also include a user experience on zHyperlink and their experience with adopting and implementing zHyperlink.
DFSMS Recovery Bonus Pack: Catalog and HSM – 2:30 PM – Speakers: Frank McCune & Derek Erdmann
In this session we'll discuss recovery from the standpoint of two DFSMS components that make heavy use of their control data sets: Catalog and HSM. Come learn how to recover a user catalog with the new RECOVER command, how to recover an HSM CDS using the Enhanced CDS Recovery procedure, as well as what action can be taken to restore an HSM CDS to a usable form if a good backup copy doesn't exist.
Automate DS8000 and Copy Services Manager management with REST, Python and/or Ansible3 – 2:30 PM – Speaker: Randy Blea
Both the IBM DS8000 storage system and IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) have the ability to integrate into your existing zAnsible or Python automation for configuration and/or copy services management. In this session, learn about what’s available in the REST, Python and Ansible interfaces to both of these products. We’ll go over some specific use cases as well as have an open discussion on future solutions that you the customer would like to see implemented using automation.
Panel Discussion – A Review of Ways to Prevent Out-of-Space Abends – 3:45 PM – Multiple Speakers
There are many products available to help you prevent out-of-space abends and other allocation issues. In this panel discussion you will hear from different vendors giving a brief out-line of their products with a chance for Q&A afterward. Vendors included will be DTS, BMC, Broadcom and IBM.
Storage Management Free For All – 5:00 PM
This is a great session to come and ask any Storage Management related question to other users as well as vendors. This session usually has a great mix of vendors and users; and most storage-related questions can be answered by the experts in the room.
6:30 – Storage Management Project Dinner
Thursday, August 8th
IBM TS7770: Taming Structured and Unstructured Data with the Cloud and More1 – 8:45 AM – Speakers: JP Lavigne & Vanessa Sobik
Join us as we show you how the IBM TS7770 Virtual Tape Library solution tames your TB's to EXB's of IBM Z systems data. In this session, the speakers will review the latest enhancements and new functionality with real world customer experiences. From the data center to the edge, DR to object storage and from the latest tape drive support to how we can manage your IBM Z systems cloud data. We'll focus on the key enhancements, how customers are leveraging this technology and how we use our close relationship with IBM Z systems and the IBM DS8000 to maximize your overall IBM Z systems environment experience.
Integrating Cloud Objects in your Batch Processing – 10:00 AM – Speaker: Andrew Wilt
The DFSMS utility, GDKUTIL, provides a method to easily retrieve objects from Cloud Object Storage, as well as store objects in Cloud Object Storage from your Batch JCL jobs, using Cloud Data Access (CDA). This session will go over the GDKUTIL utility functions and usage as well as setup and configuration of CDA in the z/OS environment, needed to successfully use the utility. Details such as importing the Root Certificate Authority (CA) certificates, configuring the CSFKEYS class to protect encryption keys, and storage of the cloud credentials will be covered in this session.
Leveraging LWORM to Enhance Your zSystems Resiliency1 – 10:00 AM – Speakers: JP Lavigne & Vanessa Sobik
Join IBM and Wells Fargo as we highlight how the LWORM functionality within the Enterprise Virtual Tape Library grid can help deliver a more resilient business environment. Leveraging the LWORM functionality within the IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library get first hand tips from Wells Fargo as they explain how LWORM has assisted in their need to create a modular, scalable, and high-performing virtual tape solution for their IBM Z mainframe environment. This architecture, a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk, tape, and connected object stores delivers a key part of their infrastructure foundation supporting many of their key applications. Wells Fargo will highlight examples around electronic records management and how it helps them meet multiple regulatory requirements such as: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Join us as we share our details and best practices
How can DFSMSdss be of Service? – 12:30 PM – Speaker: Matthew Barragan
DFSMSdss (DSS) is a feature of z/OS that copies and moves data to help manage storage, data, and space more efficiently. Don't be fooled by this simple description, as DFSMSdss is function rich and provides many functions and options you might not have realized were available. Lets take a dive into some of the known, and perhaps not so well known, functions of DSS. We'll cover the basics and provide some interesting use cases. Whether you're new to z/OS or a seasoned programmer, this session could give you a few things to add to your storage management toolkit.
Understanding the IBM z/OS Cloud Storage Solutions – 3:00 PM – Speakers: Glenn Wilcock & Robert Gensler
Cloud Object Storage can help you lower your TCO for data storage. During this session, the speakers will explore 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. Discover the many alternatives for integrating it into your environment, whether it is through IBM storage only (TS7700), DFSMS in combination with storage (DFSMShsm/dss, DS8900, TS7700), OAM for unstructured data, software only with Cloud Tape Connector, and DFSMS Cloud Data Manager (DFSMScdm) for cloud data, or a combination of them all!
1 Hardware
2 Languages, APIs, and Framework
3 Data Center Management and Resiliency
Meet the DFSMS team: