Unlocking the Full Value of your Enterprise Data –Simplifying your Journey to AI (April 8 at 9:00 AM PDT)
AI is destined to impact virtually every aspect of our lives and is increasingly becoming a competitive differentiator for businesses. Learn how to unlock the full value of your data through AI to drive business advantage and make the most of your core enterprise transactional data. Learn how an AI solution on IBM Z can bring new insights to critical transactional workloads without building complex new architectures. Find out how you can develop AI models using your platform of choice and then deploy these models on IBM Z for enterprise grade AI. Learn about popular open source tools that can be used to develop models for IBM Z and how new solutions like Cloud Pak for Data can help accelerate your journey to AI.

For further information, please contact: Barbara Sannerud, sannerud@us.ibm.com.


Creating  a unified and collaborative AIOps experience for IBM Z (April 13 at 09:00 AM PDT)
Do you face challenges collaborating across teams that increase the time to resolve problems in your IT environment?
Attend this webinar to learn how to:

• Use web-based and highly customizable dashboards to visualize and consolidate information from your automation, monitoring, network management, and scheduling environment, enabling next generation z operators to quickly identify, isolate and resolve problems.
• Enhance user experience and make use of chat-based operations (ChatOps) by receiving alerts about your IBM Z environment in popular collaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Mattermost.
• Use a chatbot in these collaboration platforms to identify and resolve incidents quicker by providing collaborative problem resolution capabilities.

For further information, please contact: Mary Gorczynski, maryg@us.ibm.com.


Are your COBOL modules stuck in the 80s? What's your plan to modernize? (April 15 at 09:00 AM PDT)
This session will dive into solutions so your already compiled COBOL code can finally leverage new capabilities introduced to the IBM Z family over the last few decades, all the way to today's z15.

The latest IBM Z technology to improve COBOL performance is not accessible by COBOL 4.2 and earlier modules, wasting precious CPU cycles and money.

This session will cover:

• The latest advances we've made in COBOL optimization to maximize the benefits from the IBM Z systems you already have
• Introduce new capabilities to let you easily identify and optimize what you have now
• Detail how to quickly test and deploy the optimized code, giving you the peace of mind to move forward

For further information, please contact: Chandni Dinani, chandni@ibm.com.


Explore the latest offerings and developments for free with IBM Z Trial (April 20 at 09:00 AM PDT)
Gain access to No cost, independent virtual z/OS environments to try out the latest software on IBM Z. Explore offerings from across the IBM Z software stack through a simple, client-less connection with practical, scenario-based walkthroughs to help you get to grips with product features and use cases. IBM Z Trial is a fantastic resource to enable and inform users of all skill levels, and is continually adding new trials to our catalogue.

For further information, please contact: Jax Shawley, jax@uk.ibm.com.


Bring your own IDE to hybrid cloud development on IBM Z (April 21 at 09:00 AM PDT)
Enterprises around the world are going through digital and cloud transformations in order to respond to changing market dynamics. IBM Z is a critical part of the transformation efforts as customers are looking to speed up delivery of their z/OS application changes to respond to market needs. Improving a developer's experience and their productivity is a key part of the transformation.

IBM Z offers a Bring Your Own Integrated Development Environment (BYO-IDE) option for application programmers to develop z/OS application components in an environment that they are familiar with. Join us to learn how developers can:

• Edit, build, debug and deploy using an IDE of choice –an Eclipse-based IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio TM, or Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces (a browser-based, containerized IDE optimized for Red Hat OpenShift.)
• Exploit a modern editing and debug experience for COBOL, PL/1, and Assembler
• Integrate with any flavor of Git TM for Source Code Management (SCM) 

For further information, please contact: Sowmya Nataraj, sowmya.nataraj@ibm.com.


Are you making the most of your z/OS Transactional Runtimes? (April 22 at 09:00 AM PDT)
With a focus on hybrid cloud, many organizations are already underway on the journey to unlock the value of existing application and data assets built in CICS and IMS. Join us as we look at the capabilities, use cases and successes of those already adopting cloud native DevOps and moving towards positioning CICS and IMS at the core of their future strategies.

For further information, please contact: Jax Shawley, jax@uk.ibm.com.


Real time monitoring and observability - the foundation of your journey to AIOps (April 27 at 09:00 AM PDT)
As organizations begin the journey to AIOps, they need to first establish monitoring and observability to be able to DETECT most issues. Once detected, sufficient information needs to be available to the right people at the right time, with the proper visualization and context to DECIDE what should be done to remediate the problem and correct the root cause. And once these are identified, they need to ACT to implement remediation and corrective action. IBM Z Monitoring provides real time monitoring to detect problems before they impact operations, with advanced alerting which can be used to escalate situations to the right teams. New ChatOps collaboration and deep coverage of critical subsystems on IBM Z enable rapid problem identification helping operators and subject matter experts quickly decide what to do. Take-Action integrated with System Automation speed up and improve accuracy of remedial action.

For further information, please contact: Mary Gorczynski, maryg@us.ibm.com. 


Myth versus reality - Modernization on IBM Z (April 28 at 09:00 AM PDT)
Have you considered how modernizing in place would enable to retain all the advantages of your IBM Z platform without incurring costly off-loading expense?Join use for this informative session where we will discuss the considerations you need to make before embarking on a lift and shift strategy, the pitfalls you need to avoid and provide examples of the modernization options open to you so that you can transform your applications easily and cost-effectively on IBM Z.

For further information, please contact: Jax Shawley, jax@uk.ibm.com.


Tailored Fit Pricing: How to manage and optimize workloads in a world without white space (April 27 at 09:00 AM PDT)
The Tailored Fit Pricing model offers new opportunities for people tasked with managing their z/OS IT operations. With no Rolling 4-Hour Average, capping no longer necessary and when every MSU counts, you likely have many questions about how to manage and optimize workloads from both a technical and business perspective: How am I tracking against my allocated annual baseline? What is the change in MSU consumption month-to-month? How do I know which system management tasks are adding value and which can be reduced? How can I determine which application improvements will have the largest impact? In this session, we show you how to answer these questions and more.

For further information, please contact: Jax Shawley, jax@uk.ibm.com. 





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Karen Wilkins
Client Technical Professional
IBM UK Ltd
Bristol
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