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

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

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 →

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.

8:00am CDT

184: Live Demo: Deploying PowerHA and Independent ASPs

EVALUATION

See how to go from a single system, to a fully deployed PowerHA environment using IBM FlashSystems Global Mirror technology. We begin the journey by creating an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (IASP) along with techniques for migrating your application into the IASP. We will be doing a live role swap by the end of the hour.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to deploy PowerHA with IBM FlashSystems Global Mirror
2. See how to synchronize security and configuration related objects across the environment
3. Understand how to migrate data and applications to an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (IASP)

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

Deploying PowerHA pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Meeting Room 203A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Anyone looking to implement PowerHA

10:30am CDT

338: DB2 Mirror - Logistics for 400K trucks - Driving Business Outcomes

EVALUATION

Transflo generates over 3.2M downloads to equip over 400,000 truck drivers 7 x 24 with all the features they need for their workday. Near zero downtime was the only way to keep the fleets connected and moving around the clock. This CASE Study will present through the eyes of the customer a roadmap : IBM lab DB2 Assessment, building a reference architecture, implementation, testing failover and day to day management for DB2 Mirror.

Learn how Transflo leveraged an IBM Cloud On Net solution by staying on IBM Power Technology connected to AWS and Azure. The solution enabled Transflo to scale easily, reach best-in-class system availability.

Learning Objectives:
1. Gain insight into the critical step for a successful DB2 Mirror Implementation
2. Explore operational testing with DB2 Mirror
3. Stay-up-to-date with the latest new features available for DB2 Mirror

Speakers

Richard Dolewski

VP, Enterprise Solutions, Connectria

Richard is a recognized SME and award-winning industry speaker specializing in, Cloud Computing Architecture, Business Resiliency, Disaster Recovery Planning and Backup & Recovery Program Design. He leads organizations through the new era of technology, achieving the desired, successful... Read More →

Scott Forstie

Db2 for i Architect, IBM

Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events... Read More →

338 DB2 Mirror – Logistics for 400K Trucks Final pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Meeting Room 102 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Digital Badge HA/DR

2:45pm CDT

102: What IBM i Professionals can learn from NASA

EVALUATION

The NASA moonshot initiative in the 1960s and 1970s was groundbreaking in the use of information technology and advanced developments. Correspondingly testing and quality assurance was mandatory, extensive, and equally inventive. Using examples from history we will discuss current issues such as disaster recovery (the Apollo One fire), test coverage (Apollo 13), specifications and prototypes (the development of the LM), user ability and experience (Apollo 14), and further education development (Apollo 17).

Learning Objectives:
Explore disaster recovery, High Availability, testing, and implementation of quality assurance in a unique and informative way.

Speakers

Yvonne Enselman

Principal Architect for Quality Assurance on IBM i, Yvonne Enselman Professional Services

I am a Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Professional Services expert.Named IBM Champion 2024I have twenty-five years of experience in the IBM i industry starting in application development, transitioning through quality assurance, and into management. My passion has been... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 103A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level All
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Testers and Developers interested in furthering QA knowledge. Anyone who was interested in the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo program in the 1960s.

2:45pm CDT

128: Testing your DR Plan - Reality Check - 5 Yearly Must Haves

EVALUATION

Exercising the recovery elements that make up your Disaster Recovery Plan is an integral part of any effective business strategy. Business and Technology has evolved. Ensure you test for today’s digital business world and Cloud computing. Testing your plan is essential to see how to do it right.

Learning Objectives:

Speakers

Richard Dolewski

VP, Enterprise Solutions, Connectria

128 Testing your DR Plan Reality Check PowerUp Dallas Final pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 203C 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level All
Digital Badge HA/DR

5:15pm CDT

209: Back Up to the Cloud with IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i

EVALUATION

You can use Cloud Storage Solutions to store IBM i files securely in the cloud, eliminating the need for tape drives, tape cartridges, and courier services for off-site storage. ICC should also be a core part of your Hybrid Strategy. When your IBM i LPAR is already on the cloud, the only backup medium available is cloud storage! You can use Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) for i with Cloud Storage Solutions to transfer virtual save media to and from the cloud. This session will cover backups of Cloud LPARs, and also the use of ICC to simplify your on-prem to Cloud hybrid strategy.

Learning Objectives:
1- How to set up and configure an IBM i environment in the cloud with ICC
2- Setting up Cloud Storage for ICC, with Proxies
3- Configuring BRMS for ICC
4- Using the above to simplify your on-prem to cloud migration

Speakers

Hrithik Govardhan

Software Lead, Rocket Software

Long time Rocketeer working in the Security/MFA/Cloud spaces on Power and Z.

icc powerup2024 pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2024 5:15pm - 6:15pm CDT
Meeting Room 201A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level All
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Users interested in DR solutions in a Hybrid Cloud environment

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

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.

9:15am CDT

110: Live Demo: Managing PowerHA Solutions

EVALUATION

PowerHA provides complete high availability (HA) solutions for IBM i customers with both internal storage and external storage environments. This interactive demo session will explain the concepts required to manage PowerHA environments, as well as give live demonstrations of the key management tasks used in a PowerHA environment.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the basic concepts required to configure a PowerHA environment.
2. Understand how to manage a PowerHA environment and see it in action
3. See tools within PowerHA that help your environment stay secure

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

ManagingPowerHA pdf

Thursday May 23, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 203B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

High Availability Resilience

Session Level Intermediate
Digital Badge HA/DR
Audience Those wanting to see PowerHA in action from a day to day management perspective to see just how easy it can be.

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

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

Geographic Mirroring pdf

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