West Coast 4Q21 Virtual Z Council
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Times in Pacific Time
December 2, 2021
10:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST
Presentation Materials:
IBM Z Table Accelerator – 4Q21 zCouncil
What’s New in zOS 2.5 – 4Q21 zCouncil
You are Invited!
We are delighted to announce the upcoming combined West Coast Z Council/Z User Group Meeting scheduled for December 2nd, 2021. It is our honor to have you attend this virtual zCouncil meeting to share more recent developments in IBM Z.
The zCouncils are offered by IBM Systems Hardware and Software teams, to provide an insight into IBM mainframe recent announcements, z System software tooling, and to provide and exchange of ideas, observations and experiences with z Systems hardware and software.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
Virtual Webex Meeting
10:00 AM PDT | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
10:05 AM – 10:55 AM PDT | Performance Increasing IBM Z Table Accelerator Andrew Bowker – Offering Manager, IBM Z Table Accelerator – IBM Z AIOps Larry Strickland – Chief Product Officer, DataKinetics |
10:55 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Short Break |
11:00 AM – 11:50 AM PDT | IBM Telum Micoprocessor Kiri Nicholoson – IBM Z Hardware Client Technical Specialist |
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM PDT | Short Break |
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT | Exciting z/OS 2.5 Updates Steve Warren, IBM Z Systems Technology Architect |
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM PDT | Wrap Up & Closing Remarks |
Please note that this is a virtual meeting and will be held over WebEx. We hope you all are staying healthy, and we look forward to the day where we can safely meet in person again.
Are you looking for innovative ways to optimize resource utilization and accelerate your application performance?Andrew Bowker, the Offering Manager for IBM Z Table Accelerator – IBM Z AIOps will be joined by Larry Strickland, the Chief Product Officer from DataKinetics to discuss the Performance Increasing IBM Z Table Accelerator (IZTA)! DataKinetics partnered with IBM in developing IZTA.This interactive technical discussion will provide insights on how to identify VSAM datasets or Db2 objects with the right characteristics for optimization and cost reduction using IBM Z Table Accelerator. We’ll demo how to discover and identify hidden optimization opportunities in your mission-critical Db2 and or VSAM workloads
Your very own, Kiri Nicholson, will be wrapping it up! You may have heard IBM’s recent announcement of it’s new Telum processor, the next-generation microprocessor for IBM Z and LinuxONE. If your organization places emphasis on fraud prevention or AI insights, you will be very interested to learn about Telum’s capabilities. Telum is designed to help your organization leverage AI in real-time while keeping latency consistent and low. Join us for a discussion of Telum’s capabilities.
Hold onto your seats and join us as Steve Warren, Senior Technical Staff Member & z/OS Technology Architect at IBM, gives us a whirlwind tour of the very latest features introduced in the z/OS V2.5 release or delivered as new continuous delivery items!
If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact any of the following:
- Keziah Knopp – [email protected]
- Thuy-Mi Le – [email protected]
- Kiri Nicholson – [email protected]