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2026 Helsinki

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026-Opening Sessions
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Welcome to GSE Nordic Region Conference 2026 with a presentation of the conference, the Logistics, Networking Opportunities and how to get the most out of the Conference.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026-Opening Sessions
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IBM Z raises the bar again with z17 - the most scalable, scalable and efficient, general purpose computing platform on the planet. The Large System Performance Reference (LSPR) ratings of the z17 will be discussed along with its hardware performance drivers; topics include processors, cache and memory topology, SMT, subcapacity models, product offerings and workload variability. Join Dave as he reveals the highlights of this technical marvel, and learn how you can measure the impact of z17 on your workloads.As AI rapidly evolves, enterprises face key challenges such as data quality, security, integration with existing systems, and ethical concerns. This keynote will outline the most critical obstacles and trends shaping AI adoption, offering actionable insights for enterprises to effectively integrate AI technologies while maximizing their potential for innovation and growth.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Session 1 Deepak Kohli

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Managing IMS is challenging on its own, but when regulations and external expectations stack up, the day‑to‑day upkeep can quickly become complex and exhausting. In this presentation, I’ll give you a glimpse into the realities of IMS housekeeping and what it takes to keep a 4 IMSplex running smoothly in a banking environment. We’ll look at the practices, routines, and safeguards that help us maintain stability, compliance, and performance in such a demanding setup.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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 Navigating the Nuances of IMS DDL: A Beginner's Expedition

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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What does IBM Z Cyber Vault mean for an IMS environment.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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NRB - IMS Java, a building block of IMS Modernization - Episode 2

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Session 2 Deepak Kohli.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Whilst the technical implementation of IMS Managed ACBs is not overly difficult, there are many other issues that need to be understood to make this a successful conversion.

In this session we will touch on why you need Managed ACBs, and cover many of the other issues that need to be considered.
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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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BoF.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Securing IMS Connect Workloads.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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Mining the IMS Catalog: Practical SQL for Metadata Insight.

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Category: 2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track
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From IMS PA to Analytics Platform using Opentelemetry & GRAFANA.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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* Short intro of what System Boost Recovery Is
* How to use STC System Boost Recovery
* How System Boost Recovery can change your systems TOPOLOGY and CPU Polarity
* Analyze test cases with STC System Boost Recovery with SMF 99-12 data
* Present a method how to use STC System Boost Recovery to gain Capacity Benefit
* Discuss pitfalls when using STC System Boost Recovery

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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This session will cover the highlights of new functions found in z/OS 3.2. As we discuss these exciting new functions, we will identify which are available on release(s) prior to z/OS 3.2. Hold on tight - this will be a whirlwind overview of a big release!

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Enterprise messaging and IBM MQ are a critical part of any system. This session shows you how MQ is rapidly evolving to meet your needs. Irrespective of your platform or environment, this session introduces many of the recent updates to MQ, whether that's in administration, building fault tolerant and scalable messaging solutions, or securing your systems.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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z/OS is going to change the way sysprogs configure the system.
The shift will be focused on how to make it simpler for Non z/oS users
It will use industry standard tooling
Sysprogs are invited to weigh in on the topic

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As AI continues to revolutionise every aspect of our lives, this presentation explores the cutting-edge intersection of IBM MQ and Agentic AI. Discover how the innovative MQ Agent uses AI to diagnose and resolve complex MQ issues and learn how MQ is poised to become the backbone of reliable, scalable, and secure agentic AI systems, empowering businesses to harness the full potential of this rapidly evolving technology.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Primarily: The NIST publications for establishing a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) can be overwhelming but the basic concept of creating a ZTA is based upon common-sense steps and practices that can be applied to the most critical controls for z/OS. Remember you are dealing with people. In the primary part of this overall session, we will discuss a practical approach to creating and providing the two basic elements required in a ZTA, the Policy Decision Point (PDP) and the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP).

A "quick dive": With machine identities we need to know of potential critical vulnerabilities in SSL/TLS Connections to server end-points, all end-points, across the entire z/Fabric. And with new regulatory concerns and possible processing exposures, to expand the role of key rings, certificates, related ESM profiles and ICSF controls to achieve a Secure Boot of z/OS.

For sure: “Bad Actors” are out there using whatever means necessary to upset the status quo.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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IBM MQ is the backbone of many mission-critical systems, and understanding its behaviour is key to maintaining performance and reliability. This session explores how OpenTelemetry brings powerful, standardised observability to MQ environments, enabling end-to-end tracing and deeper insights across distributed applications. It also highlights how the MQ Console complements this with real-time metrics and operational visibility. Whether you're running MQ on z/OS, Distributed, or in the cloud, learn how to modernise your monitoring strategy and unlock actionable insights.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Some people think reading SMF data is some kind of black magic. Others put SMF into the "too hard" bucket. And I was the same. Until recently.
This past year I learned about using SMF with IBM MQ for z/OS. This presentation is the result of my efforts and hopefully will make SMF seem less scary and worth trying out for yourself if you have never used it before.
We'll cover how to get your queue manger to create the data; how to get the data out of SMF; and what to do with it next.
Then we'll take a look at the kinds of questions you can answer using the data you have collected.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Go beyond the silo. Join us to see how you can transform your mainframe ITSM and ServiceNow implementation by leveraging Observability to provide the unified data you need for proactive and efficient operations. Combining both can speed problem-solving, identify and resolve problems faster, moving you from a reactive to a proactive operational model. Map Mainframe dependencies to the CMDB for proactive issue prevention and easier management. Improve efficiency and reduce errors!

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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Enterprise messaging and IBM MQ are a critical part of any system. This session describes general high availability and scalability considerations, and how to maximise message availability on z/OS and on other platforms.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track
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AI is transforming everything we do. How do we take this amazing technology, originally introduced on the IBM z16 and greatly enhanced with the IBM z17, and infuse real-time AI insights for our existing applications? This session will give an quick overview of the technology, but focus mostly on deployment of AI models onto z/OS and how applications can leverage these models to be able to do AI within the scope of a transaction and still meet the most stringent of SLAs!

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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IPCS for Beginners.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Simplify knowledge transfer with mob programming

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframes, movies and Me

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframe Security 101.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Mainframes are a Piece of Cake.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Z-Agent: Bringing Mainframe Job Insights to Life with Zowe and Python.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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 Zowe DevOps as a Curriculum.

 

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Write your first COBOL program!.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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Impostor Syndrome - Are you good enough?

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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From sea shells to fingernails - A brief guide to payments and mainframe integration technology.

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Category: 2026 Skill Track
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The impact of Generative AI for each role in mainframe.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Bring your mainframe data to your AI agent with z/OS Connect.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Scalable and Secure AI Inferencing with Red Hat OpenShift AI on IBM Z

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Mainframes for the Modern Mind: A Practical Approach to Learning z/OS.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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The journey to trusting AI for IT operations using Machine Learning.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Simplifying Certificate Management for Mainframe Deployments

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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How a Mainframer's Brian Learns New Skills.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Mainframe Skills in 2026 - blues skies or dark clouds?

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Modern System Programming on z/OS: Why Metal C Is the Future over HLASM.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Demystifying Mainframe Architectures: Transaction Flows and Connectivity Explained

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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Simplifying and transforming the IBM Z experience with Agentic AI.

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Category: 2026 General Interest/Performance Track
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OpenTelemetry: Simplifying Mainframe Integration into enterprise-wide observability solutions

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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 How to develop apps using the Deep Learning Compiler for the AI unit on the IBM Telum processor

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Mainframe Modernization: From Vintage to Vogue

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Fable and fairy tale - the true story about COBOL

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Have you got going with VS Code yet?

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Your first VS Code extension.

 

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Programming Mainframe Assembler Today and in the future.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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zCX in Action: Web Apps, Alternative Databases, and Automated Pipelines.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Agentic AI for z/OS Development.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Got bad AI? Challenges and remedies in zOS app development.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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Accelerate mainframe application modernization with generative-AI and automated testing.

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Category: 2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers
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A modern approach to developing with api's on Z.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Closing Sessions
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 Quantum computing is no longer a distant concern. "Harvest now and decrypt later" is an immediate threat and geos have put a stake in the ground to complete the first round of migrations by 2030. Most organizations have not started this process and struggle to know where to begin. Join this session to unpack the quantum threat, understand the PQC timeline and shed light on what you can do to jumpstart this journey today.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Conference Agenda Overview
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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 for z/OS Key Updates and Future Direction.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, best practices and some more.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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DBA 2.0 - Making Change the DBA's Advantage.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Hard Lessons Learned using High Performance DBATs.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Kaizen for DB2 SQL - There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Automate Management of Db2 with Profile Tables.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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BoF

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 Admin Foundation, UMS, and Zowe - how to install and configure the whole shabang.

 

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Advancing Db2 for z/OS with AI Insights and Intelligent Agents.

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Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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SysplexWLB - One step closer to continuous availability for DDF workloads.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 Db2/DevOps Track
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Db2 Under the Microscope: Auditing z/OS with Precision.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Discover the latest open beta features in CICS Transaction Server. See what’s coming next and share your feedback to help shape the future of CICS.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Ever wondered how banks process thousands of transactions every second or how large companies manage massive amounts of data? It is all thanks to powerful systems like CICS (Customer Information Control System)! In this session we'll introduce you to the world of CICS and show you how CICS, key part of the mainframe, helps run some of the biggest businesses in the world. Attendees will gain insights through real-world examples into why CICS remains the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of modern IT infrastructure, handling millions of transactions per second with unmatched reliability, speed, and security. By the end of the session, you'll know what CICS is and its role in the mainframe world.

Whether you're completely new to the mainframe and CICS or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will show you why CICS is the true MVP. Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of high-speed transactions and secure systems that keep our modern world running!

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Experienced CICS system programmers are often the single best knowledge base their organisation has — but much of that value is scattered across inboxes, chat threads, ticket histories, and, most critically, “tribal knowledge” that never makes it into formal documentation. In this session, “Turbo‑charge CICS knowledge for AI use,” we’ll show how to turn that fragmented expertise into an AI‑ready knowledge layer that can reliably support modern AI assistants and specialised CICS agents. We’ll focus on pragmatic, low-friction techniques for extracting high-signal operational know‑how: structured SME conversations (remote-friendly), capturing real troubleshooting narratives, and using transcripts as raw material to produce curated, reviewable knowledge documents — so your best practices and hard-won lessons become reusable, searchable, and consistently available. You’ll learn how to prioritise what to capture (runbooks, “why we do it this way,” failure modes, and decision heuristics), how to reduce ambiguity and “it depends” answers into context-rich knowledge, and how to establish lightweight validation so the content stays trusted as CICS evolves. The goal: move from ad hoc expert interruption to scalable expertise-on-demand, enabling AI systems to go deep on CICS-specific questions rather than staying generic.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Effective testing is essential for building robust systems. Dive deep into a structured approach to the testing pyramid for CICS applications. Using Test4z, we will demonstrate how unit tests form the foundation of the pyramid, enabling rapid validation of individual components. We'll then explore how integration tests and, finally, end-to-end tests in production-like environments build upon this foundation as you move up the testing pyramid.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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z/OS middleware configuration is often manual, time‑consuming, and difficult to audit consistently. This session introduces a configuration‑as‑code approach using the z/OS Middleware Configuration Tool (zconfig).
Learn how zconfig represents CICS, Db2, and IMS configurations declaratively in YAML and applies them consistently across environments. We’ll show how existing environments can be discovered and transformed into code, reducing manual effort while improving consistency, traceability, and audit readiness across z/OS systems.

 

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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One of the highlights from CICS TS 6.3 is the support of OpenTelemetry tracing. This session will introduce you OpenTelemetry tracing that is widely used in cloud and off-platforms, how CICS supports it, and how it may help you uncover the myth of the parts of your business on the z platform.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Take a guided walkthrough of the newest CICS Transaction Server 6.3 performance report.  We’ll highlight key insights to help you understand what these results mean for your workloads and how to optimize for peak performance.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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AI coding agents are dramatically increasing development velocity — but they are also amplifying a long‑standing problem: testing does not scale at the same rate as code generation. As agents produce more code, faster, and across broader surfaces, manual and semi‑automated testing quickly becomes the bottleneck, re‑introducing risk at precisely the point teams believe they’re moving faster.This session explores a central paradox of AI‑assisted development: the same agents that exacerbate the automated testing problem are also the most viable solution to it. We’ll examine why traditional test approaches struggle in an agent‑driven world, particularly for complex systems like CICS and z/OS where meaningful validation requires end‑to‑end integration testing, not just unit tests. We’ll discuss how AI‑generated code frequently lacks corresponding tests, why hand‑crafting integration tests does not keep pace, and how this discrepancy can undermine confidence in AI‑accelerated delivery.The second half of the session focuses on the opportunity: using AI coding agents to generate new Galasa integration tests alongside — or even ahead of — the code they produce.

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Parent Category: 2026 Helsinki
Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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Come to this session to find out how to integrate CICS with AI in the latest CICS TS version 6.3

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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BOF.

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Category: 2026 CICS/Security Track
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This session will introduce you the latest features in CICS TS 6.3 for securing your business.

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2026-Opening Sessions Article Count:  2

2026 IMS/MachineLearning Track Article Count:  12

2026 Mainframe Infrastructure Track Article Count:  12

2026 Skill Track Article Count:  12

2026 General Interest/Performance Track Article Count:  12

2026 Application Development/Cloud & Containers Article Count:  12

2026 Closing Sessions Article Count:  1

2026 Conference Agenda Overview Article Count:  1

2026 Db2/DevOps Track Article Count:  12

2026 CICS/Security Track Article Count:  12