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Providing a technical overview of how LLMs work and the various architectures available for creating AI tools to enhance your experience and skills with CICS Transaction Server. We will also look at solutions in overcoming common challenges faced when implementing LLMs in real-world applications.

Session Evaluation

In an era where real-time data processing is essential, the integration of Apache Kafka on Mainframe systems might seem impossible. This session explores the feasibility and advantages of integrating with Kafka from z/OS. This includes exploring the technical intricacies of integrating Kafka's distributed streaming capabilities with the robustness and transactional integrity of mainframes. Plus, configuration strategies, performance optimizations, and practical use cases that demonstrate how Kafka can modernize legacy systems, enhance data throughput, and drive real-time analytics on mainframe architectures. Let's learn how to uncover the surprising synergy between Kafka and Mainframes, transforming data processing paradigms.

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Integration is essential to the success of a Hybrid Cloud strategy. Technologies like APIs and Event Streams (Kafka) mean that providing ubiquitous and consumable access to business assets is now a reality. The agility, innovation and reduced time to value this drives is instrumental in allowing companies to adapt and react to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.
For the largest enterprises in the world, that run their core businesses on z/OS, there is almost boundless value that can be derived from providing modern consumable access to assets on the platform. Come to this session to learn about the approach, architecture and technology that IBM provides to enable API and Event (Kafka) based integration of core applications and data in CICS, IMS, Db2 and MQ.

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The most obvious answer to effective testing is to make sure each unit test is performed correctly. In the landscape of enterprise systems compromised of cloud providers, z/OS, and many middleware, integration, and development programs, it becomes a complex web that can seem impossible to connect and test all together. There is an answer, and that involves understanding applications, what areas could easily have integration tests stitched together, and how to implement testing as a service within your organisation. This session will cover the technical details to understand more about application integration testing, how Galasa, an open-source project, could be implemented at scale and worked examples of integration testing to help make it easier to scale testing at your organisation.