COMMON POWERUp 2024: Full Schedule

THE BEST IBM i & POWER SYSTEMS EDUCATION.When you come to POWERUp, you’ll be able to customize your experience. Choose from 300 sessions, covering over 20 areas of IT, when you plan your schedule. Visit the largest Expo of its kind and meet the experts behind the solutions. Attend social events to meet renowned speakers and peers alike. This conference is structured to give you the pure education and professional connections needed to best enhance your career. Are you ready to POWERUp?

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10:15am CDT

143: What's new in PowerHA

EVALUATION

Learn through live demonstrations how to take advantage of all the exciting new enhancements in PowerHA with a focus around automation, simplification and integration.

Learning Objectives:
1. A brief review of PowerHA
2. Learn and see the exciting new features
3. A preview of what is to come in the future

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →

WhatsNewInPowerHA pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
Meeting Room 201B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Anyone interested in PowerHA, either those considering it or those who have had it and want to learn what is new

11:30am CDT

137: BRMS - How It Can Save YOU!

EVALUATION

Backing up your system can be critical for disaster recovery, data recovery, and audit. Managing it manually can be daunting and apt to failure. Learn how BRMS can save the day and automate many essential tasks (some that you may not be doing).

Learning Objectives:
What is BRMS
How can it help essential tasks:
Disaster Recovery
You deleted what?
Audit
First steps to make the move

Speakers

Jeffrey Carey

Sr. System Administrator, Ensono

Jeff Carey is an IBM i professional with over 25 years of experience on the platform, specializing in system administration. He currently is a Senior System Administrator for Ensono, a company providing managed services for Mainframe, IBM i, Cloud, and hybrid IT, headquartered in... Read More →

Monday May 20, 2024 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Meeting Room 203B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Beginner
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience IT professionals who need to backup or restore data from IBM i systems.

4:00pm CDT

109: Intro to FlashCopy & Cybersecurity Resiliency with Safeguarded Copy

EVALUATION

If you’re using external storage in your IBM i environment without taking advantage of FlashCopy, we have one question for you: Why not? Get an overview of how FlashCopy works, the types of FlashCopy options available, how FlashCopy can be used in environments with or without independent ASPs.

In addition, learn how IBM's Safeguarded Copy extends FlashCopy to provide another layer of cybersecurity resiliency.

Learning Objectives:
1. FlashCopy Overview
2. Advanced FlashCopy Concepts
3. Cybersecurity Resiliency with Safeguarded Copy

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

Introduction to FlashCopy and Cybersecurity Resliliency with Safeguarded Copy pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 201A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Those looking at wanting point in time copies of their data to either reduce their backup window, querying, or development and test purposes

5:15pm CDT

313: BRMS Recoveries

EVALUATION

There's so much to cover in BRMS when setting up the backups that discussing recoveries sometimes gets lost. In this 20 minute session we will focus solely on the recovery process for both full system and single item recoveries. A few tips and tricks for making sure that you are able to recover exactly what you need when you need.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the steps to a full system recovery
2. Learn to recover single objects and IFS files
3. Take home a few tricks to make sure you are able to recover what you need

Speakers

Sarah Jacob

VP of Customer Experience, Agile Technology Architects

Sarah Jacob is the Vice President of Customer Experience at Agile Technology Architects. She is a Subject Matter Expert in Power Systems Administration and a volunteer for COMMON. Sarah specializes in Backup and Recovery planning and recovery testing. Additionally, she acts as primary... Read More →

Monday May 20, 2024 5:15pm - 5:35pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level All
Audience Anyone who wants to use BRMS to perform recoveries

8:00am CDT

108: Choosing the right HA/DR solution

EVALUATION

The High Availability and Disaster Recovery landscape is continually evolving with new technologies both on-premis and in the cloud dedicated to ensuring your business stays running. Navigating through these technologies requires and understanding of business needs, and outage protection goals.

Throughout this session we will discuss the types of outages, and the technologies available to protect against those types of outages in order to help you make decisions to map out your HA and DR journey. This session will give a brief overview of a number of technologies including: Db2 Mirror, Live Partition Mobility, Logical/Software based Replication, Full System Replication, and PowerHA technologies.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the importance of considering your recovery point objective and recovery time objective for different types of outages
2. Learn how different technologies can help achieve various RPO and RTO targets.
3. Learn how the technologies can be combined to form solutions with several examples of common solutions

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

Choosing the right HADR solution pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Meeting Room 103A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Beginner
Award BRONZE
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Those looking to implement or enhance their HA or DR plans for IBM i that want an overview of various hardware replication technologies

9:15am CDT

190: How Journaling Works with DB2

EVALUATION

From its humble beginning journaling local database changes to physical files on the System/38, IBM i journaling technology has evolved to include SQL tables, the integrated file system (IFS), and even remote journaling. In fact, many IT teams have been using IBM i journaling technology for audits, replication, problem determination, removal of bad updates, and high availability for years!

This session will take you through the process of how journal works against data base files and IFS. You will learn about the various commands for creating and working with journals and journal entries.

You’ll learn:
• How to start journaling of PF/SQL/IFS
• Why before and after images are important
• How to use remove journal changes
• What remote journaling is

Learning Objectives:
You’ll learn:
• How to start journaling of PF/SQL/IFS
• Why before and after images are important
• How to use remove journal changes
• What remote journaling is

Speakers

Tom Huntington

EVP of Technical Solutions, Fortra

Tom Huntington is Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at Fortra, and has been with the company for over 35 years. He helps manage the worldwide Fortra software engineer team that works to integrate and promote our automation and security solutions to partners and customers... Read More →

Common PowerUp2024 Journaling DB2 Handouts pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 201C 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Beginner
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience DB administrators and developers

9:15am CDT

295: BRMS Beyond the Basics

EVALUATION

This session will discuss some of the advanced topics in using BRMS for your back up and recovery. Featured topics will be tape and library management, BRMS Networking, control group and list controls, BRMS Policies and how they affect the overall operation of BRMS, and using SQL to manage BRMS. Recovering from a BRMS back up can be extremely easy, but it can also present some opportunities for trouble. This session will discuss some of the landmines in a BRMS recovery and how to avoid them.

Learning Objectives:
1. Ultilize control groups and lists to fully customize BRMS backups
2. Set up and manage BRMS Networking
3. Learn how to make a BRMS recovery simple and as easy as possible
4. Using SQL services to manage BRMS and reports

Speakers

Sarah Jacob

VP of Customer Experience, Agile Technology Architects

Tuesday May 21, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 201B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level All
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience BRMS users who know the basics but want to expand beyond that.

2:45pm CDT

279: IBM HA/DR Solutions for IBM i

EVALUATION

The IBM i HA/DR portfolio covers the spectrum from storage-based solutions to IP based Geographic Mirroring for both on premise and/or in PowerVS. The solution portfolio enables automated fail-over, provides off-line backups and ransomware protection while greatly reducing both CAPX and OPEX compared to the legacy logical replication tools. We’ll cover the options, how they work and how you should position them as well as the latest enhancements. We’ll also discuss Pools 2.0, the CBU and migrating to PowerHA 7.5 from a previous release, GRS in PowerVS and upcoming roadmap.

Learning Objectives:
1. for current PowerHA/FSR/VM Recovery Manager customers, learn what's new and what's coming, on premise and in PowerVS
2. for IT Admins and business partners relatively new to hardware based based HA/DR, learn the basics, what are the outcomes expected from each approach, how does this solution portfolio compare to legacy software replication tools
3. On premise verses PowerVS or Hybrid
4. Be able to make the case to your management on the how and why you want to do this.

Speakers

Steven Finnes

Product Manager, IBM

Steve has spent several years in IBM with positions spanning basic research to product development, product offering and marketing. He is the product offering manager for IBM Power Systems with responsibility for PowerHA for AIX, PowerHA for IBM i and the CBU.

IBM I HADR PowerUp 2024 pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 203B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Audience IT adminstrators