Based on a case study that involves reporting and automation with zWR and zGuard, this session will explore how to avoid MSU MLC costs overrun and deploy tuning in a mainframe environment.

 
Speaker
Kevin Luey
Mainframe Senior Technical Solutions Consultant/Team Leader
SVA Software Inc

Track
Mainframe Modernized

“Help! My management wants yet another opex report”. With all of the data that’s available in your mainframe environment, it’s challenging to figure out what you should focus on. Being able to rapidly understand what data is most important for your unique mainframe environment isn’t just a nice-to-have need, it’s mission critical. Learn how you can rapidly scan and analyze your mainframe environment using sophisticated analytics and machine learning to help identify the data that’s most important to your organization.

Speaker
Libor Cerney
Product Owner, Mainframe Division
Broadcom

Track
Mainframe Modernized

Rapid delivery of core business systems needs to be enterprise-wide, and DevOps is now mainstream, even on the mainframe. Your mainframe DevOps tool chain needs to integrate and communicate all aspects of the delivery lifecycle. Using REST-based APIs, ChangeMan ZMF can drive your mainframe deliveries faster than ever, while retaining rock-solid reliability and visibility. Join this session to see how hooking up mainframe DevOps delivery tooling is easier, and more productive than ever, using Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF.

Speaker
Bob Yates
Sr. Solutions Architect, Mainframe & Enterprise DevOps
Micro Focus

Track
Modern Enterprise IT / What’s New
Performance Engineering and DevOps
Mainframe Modernized

Most of z/OS sites run CICS to serve transactional applications.
These CICS environments are often very complex with thousands of different transaction codes running in hundreds of CICS regions hosted in multiple production systems.

A lot of measurements providing all the needed performance metrics and allowing to analyze in detail CICS transactions elapsed time are available in SMF 110 records.

Unfortunately, the number of these records is normally very big, so it is impossible to prepare and analyze reports showing all this data.
A statistical approach allowing to focus only on the CICS transactions experiencing an abnormal elapsed time is therefore needed.

In this presentation we discuss a possible approach we successfully implemented at some customers sites.
We will also describe a reporting drill down methodology that can be used to find problems very easily and follow up on improvement or degradation situations.

Speaker
Mark Cohen Austrowiek
Technical Director
EPV Technologies
Rome, Italy

Track
Monitoring and Observability

Java is ubiquitous in online services, yet ensuring Java applications’ availability and performance remains a challenging task. In this talk, we show how established industry approaches and widely-accepted beliefs about Java tuning are wrong and how AI breaks through long-standing limitations.

Speaker
Stefano Doni
Co-Founder, CTO
Akamas
Italy

Track
Performance Engineering and DevOps

It seems you can’t throw a rock these days without it glancing off a shiny new application of ‘artificial intelligence’ or ‘machine learning’. Indeed, the promise of ‘AIOps’ proposes a transformational effect on our lives as operators and developers of complex systems. What, though, is AIOps? This is a question that many people are happy to answer, but I decided to take a deeper look. What I found may shock you, and it’s that I learned more about AIOps by cooking rice than I did from hours of research.

This talk will introduce you to the secrets behind AIOps, what you can learn from rice cookers, and a few takeaways about the role and application of automation in complex systems.

Speaker
Austin Parker
LightStep

Track
Monitoring and Observability

Join this session for a technical deep dive on practical ways to leverage AI in your IT operations, including discussions on topology, Cassandra, Kafka bus, graph database and more.

Speaker
Dave Helsley
Distinguished Engineer, Mainframe Software Division
Broadcom Inc.

Scheduled:
January 26, 2021 10:05 AM 10:45 AM

Track
Modern Enterprise IT
What’s New

Capacity Management process maturity includes aligning capacity, performance and cost. This process alignment are critical goals in determining business service levels constrained by capacity, and cost. Audiences today request their reporting to be up to the minute along with consumption history to forecast future business demand activity. We will review the capacity management process necessary to meet these goals. We will look at why consumption timely data availability, drill down self-service reporting; is a requirement for today’s diverse system management audience.

Speaker
Daniel Ruehl
Senior Software Implementation Specialist at 21st Century Software

Presentation Date/Time:January 21, 2021 9:00 PM – 9:40 PM

Track
 Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure

In this session, the presenters will review the challenges of anomaly detection during DevOps and discuss the methodology and use case of cloud platform selection for the application. There will be a focus on applying iterative modeling and gradient optimization to determine the minimum configuration and cost required to support new applications Service Level Goals in different clouds

Speakers
Boris Zibitsker
CEO at BEZNext

Alex Lupersolsky
President
Solved Now

Pavel Pratasevich
Instructor at Computer Systems Institute

Justin Bleuel
Project Manager

Track
Performance Engineering and DevOps

The Mainframe applications that are critical to many of the businesses and governmental functions that support everyday lives require significant enhancement to meet the need for flexible and cost effective deployment, on the mainframe, on distributed systems, in the Cloud. Application Modernization has become an increasingly important model to drive the level of change. To make the transition from the current monolithic, tightly coupled architectures to modern containerized services requires a combination of technologies and skills in high demand. This presentation will highlight these requirements within the context of a Maturity Model supporting the Modernization journey for all mainframe applications.

Presented by
Howard Hinman
Global Chief Technologist for Mainframe Modernization and Digital Transformation at Micro Focus

Presentation Time and Date
January 21, 2021 9:10 AM – 9:50 AM