2023 Presentation Archives

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Many of the speakers from the 2023 VM Workshop have kindly provided their presentation materials in electronic format so that attendees may download them for reference. Presentations will be posted as we receive them.

All files below are in PDF format.

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More presentations may be added over time as they are received from speakers; please check back often.

Speaker	Company	Session Title
Kevin Stoodley	IBM	IBM Z Strategy and Future Outlook
James Vincent/Rich Smrcina	Velocity Software	Modernizing Spool Management for z/VM
Rich Smrcina	Velocity Software	Monitoring z/VSE with zVPS
Sam Cohen	Levi, Ray, and Schoup	An introduction to SAN and FB disk for ECKD Users User Experiences in Setting Up Openshift
John Mertic Len Santalucia	Linux Foundation Vicom Infinity	State of the Open Mainframe Project
David Simpson	IBM	Customer Experiences with Oracle amd Open Source Databases on z/VM
Bruce Hayden	IBM	Installing a Usable VM System is Easy!
Tracy Dean	IBM	Solutions for Real Customer Challenges Managing z/VM and Linux
		Running a DR Test with Shared Tapes and Backups
		Rexx Language Coding Techniques - Part 1
		Rexx Language Coding Techniques - Part 2
John Franciscovich	IBM	Preparing for 8 Member SSI
		Common z/VM Hurdles and How to Overcome Them
		z/VM 7.3 Platform Update
		Where is the Best z/VM Information
Arty Ecock Len Santalucia	Vicom Infinity	NVME Larger Page Allocation
Monte Bauman	IBM	LinuxONE Client Journey Design Board III
Mike Friesenegger	SUSE	How to use a purpose built, lightweight and immutable OS with z/VM Feilong: the open source API for z/VM automation
Vic Cross	IBM	Easily Extending a Usable z/VM System!
Wilhelm Mild	IBM	Where to deploy container workload in RH OpenShift on zSystems or IBM zCX Foundation for OpenShift
		How to deploy an App into Red Hat OpenShift to scale automatically
		Demystifying a Red Hat OpenShift environment with zOS and zVSE knowledge
		What are the common tools that cover traditional and container development
Steve Cook Wilhelm Mild	IBM IBM	Five Nines all the way down
Michael Snihur	IBM	What's new in the latest IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center
		Live Tour of IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center
Edmund Wilhelm	21st Century Software	VSE/VSAM Basics
		21CS VSEn and z/VM Synergies
		VSAM Tuning and Troubleshooting
		VSEn SMDMU
Shahin Krishna	21st Century Software	Fresh installation of 21CS VSEn 6.3
		MQ revival - Deploying 21CS MQ for VSEn
		Upgrading to 21CS VSEn with Fast Service Upgrade (FSU)
		Hints and Tips for newbies working with/upgrading to 21CS VSEn 6.3
Gonzales Muelas Serrano	21st Century Software	Transition and news from IBM z/VSE to 21CS VSEn 6.3
		Using Box for getting 21CS VSEn SW products, support and reporting SCRT
James Nelson	Supreme Court of Virginia	Bringing Ansible to existing infrastructure
Rick Troth	BAE Systems	Securing z/VM with Tor Hidden Services
Neale Ferguson	Sine Nomine Associates	An SSH Client Suite for VSE
Andy Hartman	Mainline Information Systems	z/VM and LINUX Considerations for FCP Storage Environments
		'Houston, All Systems Go' - Mainframe Systems as Clients in the Brave New World
Michael Potter	Replatform Technologies	Benchmarking Linux on Intel versus Linux on Z
Alan Altmark	IBM	z/VM RACF - The Right Way
		z/VM Maintenance, Service, and Upgrades
		z/VM Virtual Switch
Marc Smith	ProTech Training	IT's Best Kept Secret
Scott McFall	ProTech Training	Addressing the Mainframe Skills Shortage