This year’s IBM’s TechXchange Conference takes place on October 21-24 at the Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas. More than 5,000 technical attendees will be on-site to engage, network and attend the more than 1,000 sessions, demos, instructor-led labs and roadmap discussions.
In addition to our Community Day activities, which can be found here, there are a few Open Mainframe Project-related sessions. Add these sessions directly to your IBM TechXchange Agenda here.
Tuesday, October 22 at 04:30 pm – 05:15 pm PDT
AMA: What’s NEW in OpenTelemetry on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE [3762]
OpenTelemetry is a vendor-agnostic, open-source project with the aim to enable an effective observability by making high quality telemetry data from any source available to any target. Research among customers shows that mainframe integration is a mandatory requirement for observability of core business applications. Ideal for IT architects, Site Reliability Engineers and mainframe experts, in this AMA we will discuss fundamentals of this topic and explore best practices for modernizing mainframe observability with OpenTelemetry.
Rudiger Schulze, IBM
Thursday, October 24 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Collaboration of Linux Distributions on the Mainframe – A Benefit for you & all Linux Distributions [2543]
Debian, openSUSE and Fedora have founded together the Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project for achieving better support for the mainframe architecture s390x and collaboration for providing solutions. That has been such success, that SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux have joint also. The question has popped up, whether we should be open only for all Linux Distributions or should we include also important upstream projects in our Linux Distributions Working Group. We have started also to share our automated test suites for openQA. In this presentation I will represent the existing benefit for all Linux distributions and the impact for you as customers with the value of functionality and support.
Sarah Julia Kriesch, Accenture
To learn more about the event, visit the main event website: https://www.ibm.com/community/ibm-techxchange-conference/.
To register and use Open Mainframe Project’s 30% discount, register with this link: https://ibm.co/3KbeObO
Open Mainframe Project is planning the content for October 21 as it pertains to the Community Day. The Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project are not managing TechXchange. The main TechXchange event is planned and managed by IBM.