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Monday, May 20
 

10:15am CDT

123: IBM i Security from the Ground Up
EVALUATION
Come to this session to learn the basics of IBM i Security. During this session Carol will cover the three building blocks of IBM i Security - Security-relevant System Values, User Profile Configuration and Object Security. Carol will also describe how (the order) the system checks security as well as program adoption. This session builds the foundation for other topics discussed during the rest of the conference. Emphasis will be placed on using modern interfaces (Navigator for i, IBM i Services, etc)

Learning Objectives:
  • Understand the functions provided by security-relevant system values
  • Know which attributes of the user profile contribute to the capabilities of the user and understand the best practices settings for these attributes
  • Understand the options available for setting authority on objects (files, programs, etc)
  • Know the order in which IBM i checks authority when a user accesses an object
  • See how you can create and manage user profiles, system values and permissions in New Navigator
Speakers
avatar for Carol Woodbury

Carol Woodbury

IBM i Security SME and Senior Advisor, Kisco Systems
With over 30 years' experience in the area of IT security, Carol is known world-wide as an expert in the area of computer security. During her career, Carol has architected security solutions for Fortune 100 companies as well as small and medium-sized organizations. Carol is passionate... Read More →

IBM i Security From the Ground Up PowerUP 2024 pdf
Monday May 20, 2024 10:15am - 12:30pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level Beginner
  • Audience Any user that has little or no knowledge of IBM i Security or someone that needs a refresher of the details of IBM i security will benefit from this session.

2:45pm CDT

183: Anatomy of a Password
EVALUATION
Have you thought about the passwords you use on your systems? What rules or restrictions do you have in place? But more importantly, why?! Have you ever thought about what those rules actually do to your passwords? Do you think they are making you more secure or less secure? In this presentation, we will cover passwords in depth, in theory, and specific to IBM i. Can your IBM i password be hacked? Come and find out at this inquisitive session!

Learning Objectives:
1. Set modern password policy
2. Understand password protection tools
Speakers
avatar for Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews

Principal Security Consultant, IBM
Robert Andrews is a Principal Security Consultant, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), and the Team Lead for the IBM i Security and Authentication Technology Expert Labs team in Rochester, MN. He is an IBM certified Thought Leader and The Open Group certified Distinguished Technical... Read More →

Anatomy of a Password pdf
Monday May 20, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security

4:00pm CDT

274: Di WHY? Do it yourself IBM i security assessment
EVALUATION
For all IBM i do-it-yourselfers and tinkers, we'll temporarily set aside the question of "should I really be spending my time on this?" to show you how to run to your own security assessment. You'll leave with a checklist and some sample queries to get you started on your very own IBM i security audit.

Learning Objectives:
1. Provide a checklist of IBM i security audit tasks
2. Run sample queries to generate audit data
 3. Evaluate audit data to assess security risk
Speakers
avatar for Justin Loeber

Justin Loeber

IBM i Security, Kisco Systems
Justin Loeber is the owner and CEO of Kisco Systems, a developer of IBM i security and compliance software. Kisco's mission is to secure every IBM i by helping educate the IBM i community about security, continuously improving its products and delivering the best value in the market... Read More →

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Monday May 20, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level Intermediate
  • Audience Anyone with responsibility or accountability for IT security, data integrity, compliance or business continuity.

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
avatar for Sarah Jacob

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

5:50pm CDT

285: Collect Network Statistics the Easy Way
EVALUATION
Network statistics are collected by interface and port for specified systems every 300 seconds. Since clients and servers connect to the system randomly; collecting information over time assures that a good representative sample of actual traffic is detected. This information can be leveraged for Traffic Analysis (for measuring workloads and performance); and for Security Analysis (for determining active ports and services). Three SQL routines will be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:
We will review the Collection routine; which is mostly just running NETSTAT_INFO every 300 seconds….
We will review the Traffic Analysis code; and results.
We will review a simple use for Security Analysis.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Hawkins

Tim Hawkins

System Admin, Tanimura & Antle
I've got one year to go before I retire....  The boss said to "give back", and since that matched my plans anyways; here we go.  I present 4 classes on IBM i Security, showing all of the gory details.  Some can be leveraged for just system administration, and some elements work... Read More →

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Collect Network Statistics the Easy Way pdf
Monday May 20, 2024 5:50pm - 6:10pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Networking
  • Session Level Advanced
  • Audience System Administrators who will be attending the “Using SQL to drive IBM i Security scans” session; or who need to know how to capture network statistics.
 
Tuesday, May 21
 

8:00am CDT

275: Kick the Old IDE Habit With Code for i
EVALUATION
SEU and PDM are no longer viable. Does RDi feel slow and clumsy? Or perhaps your manager won't pay for RDi, or won't let the team use it? VSCode with the Code for i plugin is an amazing solution, and Scott even prefers it over RDi. Why not learn how to get started?

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to set up VSCode with Code for i
2. Learn how to use it to connect to IBM i systems
3. Use it to edit, compile and read programs, including RPG.
Speakers
avatar for Scott Klement

Scott Klement

Development & Solutions Architect, Midrange Dynamics
Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Programmer Tools

9:15am CDT

397: Power10 I/O Offerings Update
EVALUATION
We will look at the IO offering portfolio including ethernet, fibre channel, NVMe, storage and IO expansion. We will highlight the latest updates and interesting capabilities along the way.
Speakers
avatar for John Folkerts

John Folkerts

Power Systems IO Product Management, IBM
John Folkerts has recently taken on the role of Power Systems IO Product Manager.  John is responsible for direct attach storage, network adapters, fibre channel adapters, IO expansion and a variety of other areas.  His previous roles within IBM included hardware development of... Read More →

IO Offering COMMON POWERUp 2024 V2 pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Virtualization
  • Session Level All

10:30am CDT

117: Managing IBM i PTFs
EVALUATION
What are PTFs? Why do I need them?  How do I get them? Which ones do I need? Does my technology really need a refresh? In this session we will describe PTFs, Cumultative PTFs, and other PTF Groups. We'll discuss how to find out what you have, how to get them, and how to put them in place. We'll help you determine what PTF strategy is the one for you and your system.

Learning Objectives:
1. What PTFs, and PTF Groups are and why you need them.
2. How to get PTFs and load them onto IBM i.
3. The use of Virtual Image Catalogs and Virtual DVD drives to save time and problems in the PTF process.
4. How to determine which PTFs you need for your system.
Speakers
avatar for Larry Bolhuis

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, IBM Champion, Service Express Inc.
Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988.After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of... Read More →

Managing IBM i Fix Information [PTFs} pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level Intermediate
  • Award SILVER
  • Audience This session is for you if you are the person in charge of administering IBM i.

2:45pm CDT

119: Selecting Your Power Virtualization Environment
EVALUATION
When virtualizing IBM POWER Systems you have two primary choices for the hosting environment, VIOS and IBM i. Each of these offers strengths and each has weaknesses. In this session we'll go over more than 35 comparison points putting the two hosting choices side by side. Well cover technical capabilities as well as usability and visual items. We'll look at costs and requirements for each host.

Come and select your choice for a hosting partition or confirm that you've gone down the right track.

Learning Objectives:
What requirements would lead you to select VIOS as your hosting environment
What requirements would lead you to select IBM i as your hosting environment
What are the costs or need-to-knows for each of the two hosts.
Speakers
avatar for Larry Bolhuis

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, IBM Champion, Service Express Inc.
Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988.After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of... Read More →

Slecting your Power Hosting Environment pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Virtualization
  • Session Level Intermediate
  • Audience Any IBM i system administrator, especially those with virtualization in their future.

4:00pm CDT

312: Developing With Developers In Mind
EVALUATION
In the world of software development, effective developing strategies are a crucial part to any project. Join us in this insightful session to explore the art of developing with developers in mind. Discover strategies, tools, and best practices to improve productivity and streamline updates for a better user experience. If you're not sure if this is the session for you, just ask yourself, "Do I want to receive work emails and calls while I'm on vacation?"

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about organizing code using procedural programming
2. Learn to Automate tasks and processes (with a hint of open source)
3. Learn about what to include in project documentation
Speakers
avatar for Mike Zaringhalam

Mike Zaringhalam

Developer, PC Richard & Son
Have you ever wanted to meet someone who started Hawaiian Shirt Fridays at their work place? If the answer is 'Yes!', then feel free to reach out with any questions you have regarding Hawaiian shirts... Or IBM i related topics. My main focuses are RDi, DB2, Modernization, and D... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  IT Strategy
  • Session Level All
  • Audience Anyone looking to improve their collaboration skills

5:15pm CDT

205: Logging options for Rest APIs on IBM i
EVALUATION
The IWS Rest API support has some exciting new logging options that has been recently added. With the new options you can now easily have tools like Splunk or Elastic Stack, or others, as you can now create a JSON based log file with Lots of additional details to help you better understand your API work flow and who is making connections.

Learning Objectives:
Speakers
avatar for Tim Rowe

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM
Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his... Read More →

Logging options for Rest APIs on IBM i pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2024 5:15pm - 5:35pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level All

5:50pm CDT

284: Object-level Authorities by Application, with Automation
EVALUATION
The ownership and authority privileges for all objects on the system are gathered and summarized for review; SQL code is set to identify when objects in the application don’t follow preset authorities; and code to automate the maintenance of ownership and authorities in a fast-paced development environment. Ownership and public authorities are critical elements of a secure environment.

Learning Objectives:
We will review sample application authorities, and the code that drives the creation of an application_authorities table. We review a few of the methods to categorize libraries for ownership and authority maintenance. Finally, a second SQL set of stored procedures are presented to maintain authorities on a schedule basis.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Hawkins

Tim Hawkins

System Admin, Tanimura & Antle
I've got one year to go before I retire....  The boss said to "give back", and since that matched my plans anyways; here we go.  I present 4 classes on IBM i Security, showing all of the gory details.  Some can be leveraged for just system administration, and some elements work... Read More →

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Object level Authorities by Application, with Automation pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2024 5:50pm - 6:10pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level All
  • Audience System Administrators who will be attending the “Using SQL to drive IBM i Security scans” session; or who need to know about application authorities in-use on their system.
 
Wednesday, May 22
 

8:00am CDT

118: Daily Care and Feeding of IBM i
EVALUATION
IBM i and IBM Power Systems combine to deliver a fabulously reliable environment. The operating system has rich work management capability and strong error reporting. Despite that you shouldn't ignore it or you will eventually find yourself dealing with something serious. In this session we'll cover the things you need to watch and understand allowing you to deal with them before they become serious issues.

Learning Objectives:
1) Learn where to look and what to look for to know how your system is running.
2) Learn what to configure for automatic reporting of errors and problem.
3) Learn the points at which you need to begin to apply effort well before issues occur.
4) Be able to tell management: "Yes our IBM i is running well!"
Speakers
avatar for Larry Bolhuis

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, IBM Champion, Service Express Inc.
Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988.After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of... Read More →

Daily Care and Feeding of IBM i pdf
Wednesday May 22, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level Intermediate
  • Award GOLD
  • Audience This session is focused on the Developer who is suddenly handed the Admin hat and needs to know what the daily tasks of an Admin are.

9:15am CDT

375: 30 Information and Cyber Security Tips in 60 Minutes
EVALUATION
Security is a big topic but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Just like weight lifting, where you can start with smaller weights and work your way up, so to in cyber security you can reduce your risk by doing some basic things as you work toward bigger goals. Examining the most common causes of security failures and a few simple countermeasures can help you take some action now.

Learning Objectives:
You know security is important, you do what you can to keep your IBM I and ERP secure, but is there anything more you could and should be doing? Get your checklist out and start checking the boxes of Robert’s 30 Security Tips in 60 Minutes. From no-brainers like MFA and limited ALLOBJ Authority to more detailed considerations like antivirus software and various security tools, this presentation will tell you what you should be doing, a little about how to do it, and a lot about what you may not be thinking of.
Speakers
avatar for Robert Nettgen

Robert Nettgen

Senior Consultant, Briteskies
Robert Nettgen wanted a career in radio broadcasting, but saw that profession declining and found better pay working in IT.  A PC developer in the ‘80’s, Rob started administering AS/400s in the early ‘90s for a Radio/TV group owner.  In 1999 Rob accepted a job as IT director... Read More →

30 Security Tips in 60 minutes pdf
Wednesday May 22, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level All
  • Audience CISOs, System admins, Managers and Directors of IT departments, and anyone else responsible for information security.

10:30am CDT

139: Everything They Never Taught You!
EVALUATION
Ok, maybe we're setting the bar a little high by saying EVERYTHING, but did you ever feel like all the people around you seem to just KNOW things, things you don't? Sure, you're a wiz with SQL, and no one codes RPG like you do, but when it comes to people skills, to working in teams, to communicating well, to building your career... Well, they never taught you THAT! Come to this session to learn everything you've been missing out on.

Learning Objectives:
Attend this session to learn to:
* Collaborate more effectively with other team members
* Resolve conflict with coworkers
* Improve your relationship with your boss
* Negotiate to get what you want
* Effectively market yourself in your current position
* Communicate better with everyone
* Understand EVERYTHING THEY NEVER TAUGHT YOU!
Speakers
avatar for Steve Wolk

Steve Wolk

CTO, PC Richard & Son
Steven Wolk is the Chief Technology Officer for PC Richard & Son, a family owned and operated chain of 66 appliance and electronics superstores located throughout NY, NJ, CT, and PA. Founded in 1909, PC Richard has always been known for honesty, integrity, and reliability throughout... Read More →

Everything They Never Taught You! Steven Wolk pdf
Wednesday May 22, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Personal Development
  • Session Level All
  • Award GOLD
  • Audience Anyone who must work with other people will benefit from this session!

1:30pm CDT

116: Clean Up Your IBM i Disk
EVALUATION
How much disk storage do you have on your system? The most common answer is 'not enough!' Attend this session and find out where all that space went, what you can clean up, and what should be left alone. Learn about reporting, automating, and managing your disk space in IBM i. Develop a deeper understanding of the tools IBM has built into IBM i and how to leverage them to help keep your system clean. Especially learn how to leverage SQL to find consumers of disk QUICKLY! Walk away with a solid understanding of how to clean up your disk space both QSYS and the IFS.

Learning Objectives:
How to determine where all your disk space has gone.
How to clean up unused space in physical files.
How to search for object filling up the IFS
How to use *nix and PASE tools to work in the iFS.
How to use SQL to find disk users and usage.
Speakers
avatar for Larry Bolhuis

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, IBM Champion, Service Express Inc.
Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988.After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of... Read More →

Clean up your IBM i pdf
Wednesday May 22, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level All
  • Audience This session is for you if you are the person in charge of administering your IBM i and what's filling up it's disk storage!!

2:45pm CDT

395: Building APIs with Jakarta (Java)
EVALUATION
Speakers
avatar for Adam Shedivy

Adam Shedivy

Software Developer, IBM
Adam is a software Developer working on enhancing client and open source integration on IBM i.

Wednesday May 22, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Programming - General

4:00pm CDT

369: Why Should You Use HTML Living Standard and Not Static HTML to Build New UIs
EVALUATION
Users don’t accept two-dimensional experiences. They want rich media. They want real-time information. They want an interactive experience. And they want it all at their fingertips. Long gone are the days when users were okay with going to five different sources to get the information they needed. To build the modern user experiences users want, you need to use HTML Living Standard.

In this session, we’ll discuss:
o The value of HTML Living Standard, including bi-directional communication and responsive error handling
o How to integrate with third-party solutions to build an interactive, rich experience
o What are other ways to use HTML Living Standard, such as local storage, database queries, and leveraging local technology such as device cameras and location data.
Speakers
avatar for Jeroen van Dun

Jeroen van Dun

Product Manager, Rocket Software

Wednesday May 22, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Programming - UI
  • Session Level All

5:15pm CDT

215: Benefits of Continuous Availability with Db2 Mirror for i
EVALUATION
Discover how Db2 Mirror for i is a continuous availability solution that can improve your business continuity. Also learn about some of the new and unique features of Db2 Mirror.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about how Db2 Mirror can be used to eliminate outages or load balance workloads
2. Learn about the newest features of Db2 Mirror
Speakers
avatar for Shauna Rollings

Shauna Rollings

IBM i Performance Tools & High Availability Development, IBM
Shauna joined the IBM i development team in 2008. She has developed and supported IBM i performance data collector tools throughout her entire IBM career. From the very beginning of the Db2 Mirror for i project, she has also been the technical team lead for the Db2 Mirror Configuration... Read More →

215 Db2MirrorContinuousAvailabilityBenefits pdf
Wednesday May 22, 2024 5:15pm - 6:15pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  High Availability Resilience
  • Session Level All
  • Digital Badge HA/DR
  • Audience System Administrators or Business Executives looking for an RTO and RPO of zero.
 
Thursday, May 23
 

8:00am CDT

175: Everything You Need to Know About the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert
EVALUATION
Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. The relentless push to do more with less is only going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping. Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale.

IBM i offers a product at no additional charge that helps ascertain application and infrastructure health. The IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE) can be used to define attributes of a healthy environment and use those defined attributes to validate that the environment is as expected.

This session will everything you need to know to get started with ARE:
- Overview of what ARE is and example use cases
- Prerequisites, installation, and logging into the ARE console
- Creating and editing templates
- Setting up system groups, verification options, and verifying systems
- Understanding the reports

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to acquire the IBM ARE product, where it needs to be installed, and how to log in and get started
2. Learn how to create templates that define the attributes to verify
3. Learn how to set up system groups for verification
4. Learn how to review the reports from a validation
Speakers
avatar for Dawn May

Dawn May

Owner, Dawn May Consulting, LLC
Dawn has been involved with COMMON for over 20 years and has been a consistent volunteer since 2008. She's been a member of the strategic education team, a subject matter expert, and a speaker. Now, as President of COMMON, she's focused on leading COMMON as the industry leader of... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level All
  • Audience This session is geared for any system administrator that wants an easy way to ensure attributes are not changed on a single partition, or across a set of partitions.

9:15am CDT

141: Configuring Single Sign-on for IBM i
EVALUATION
IBM i has the capability to participate in a single sign on environment. What is single sign on? Single sign on is an authentication process where a user can access various applications in the network using one set of login credentials. This presentation will describe the Kerberos protocol and how to map a domain user ID to an IBM i user profile to safely authenticate the user to an enabled network application without passwords being sent across the network.

Learning Objectives:
Learn about the Kerberos protocol and how to configure IBM i to take advantage of the protocol and enable single sign-on.
Speakers
avatar for Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews

Principal Security Consultant, IBM
Robert Andrews is a Principal Security Consultant, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), and the Team Lead for the IBM i Security and Authentication Technology Expert Labs team in Rochester, MN. He is an IBM certified Thought Leader and The Open Group certified Distinguished Technical... Read More →

Single Sign On Overview for IBM i pdf
Thursday May 23, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level Intermediate
  • Audience IBM i System Administrators, Windows Administrators, and Network Administrators

10:30am CDT

427: A New Era of Analytics for IBM i using IBM Cognos
EVALUATION
Come here about the powerful reporting and analysis capabilities in IBM Cognos Analytics. Whether you're migrating reporting workload from DB2 WebQuery, or exploring new ways you can empower your team for data analysis and distribution, join this session to get a view into what's possible and discover potential pricing benefits to existing IBM Db2 Web Query customers.
Speakers
avatar for Jonah Mudse

Jonah Mudse

Product Management, IBM
Jonah Mudse has devoted his professional life to building software products that customers love. He is a product manager, design thinker, and educator. In 2022, Jonah joined the IBM Business Analytics portfolio - driving innovation for business to be better at business, more often... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Database
  • Session Level All

1:30pm CDT

286: Using SQL to Drive Security scans
EVALUATION
There are at least 78 security-related resources accessible by SQL; covering 156 security-checks; with another 20 not accessible; for a total of 176. Deliverables are: 10,200+ lines of SQL, with a partition-based implementation worksheet, and a Security Audit spreadsheet; showing each of the individual items, with a “Pass” flag and counters -- pretty enough for your future security audit.

Learning Objectives:
We will start by looking at the results (a single TXT file), and then we will dive into the SQL, and each of the spreadsheets to see how we got here. We won’t review every SP…
Speakers
avatar for Tim Hawkins

Tim Hawkins

System Admin, Tanimura & Antle
I've got one year to go before I retire....  The boss said to "give back", and since that matched my plans anyways; here we go.  I present 4 classes on IBM i Security, showing all of the gory details.  Some can be leveraged for just system administration, and some elements work... Read More →

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Thursday May 23, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Security
  • Session Level Advanced
  • Digital Badge SQL
  • Audience System Administrators who are into protecting their systems; needing to understand the w-h-o-l-e scope, based on the specifics. Lots of them….

2:45pm CDT

296: Work Management Optimization
EVALUATION
This session will introduce IBM i Work Management to the developer and other new system administrators. We will explore how the system is configured and managed using IBM i Navigator for i, with examples from ACS, SQL Services, and the traditional character based interface as well. As delivered your IBM i installation work, but it is not optimized for your environment. All too often the performance of your system is impacted by poor work management practices. Learn how to take the first steps to optimizing your IBM i Work Management.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn what objects are used in most work management configurations and how to modify them using the tool of your choice
2. Learn how to optimize your environment, your applications
3. Learn how to monitor your system to keep it in tip top shape
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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 →

Thursday May 23, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  Systems Management
  • Session Level All
  • Audience Developers or new system administrators

4:00pm CDT

225: Geographic Mirroring: HA with Any Storage Including Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud
EVALUATION
Geographic mirroring is a PowerHA hardware replication technology that provides a complete high availability solution for IBM i working with any type of storage, enabling the simplicity of hardware replication with the flexibility of cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. In addition, if simple real-time disaster recovery meets your needs, Geographic mirroring can also be used in an IBM i-hosted environment for a very easy-to-implement DR solution.

This session will explain the concepts of geographic mirroring, as well as best practices and sizing considerations. We will walk through a complete configuration of a geographic mirroring environment.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the basics of IBM i Geographic Mirroring
2. Learn best practices and sizing considerations when considering geographic mirroring
3. See geographic mirroring in action
Speakers
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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 →

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Thursday May 23, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 101 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
  High Availability Resilience
  • Session Level All
  • Digital Badge HA/DR
  • Audience HA and DR planners looking for solutions that provide availability in their environment
 
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