SHARE DC Feb 2025

[RASakach]

Zowe Community Sessions Wish-List

(1) Zowe V3 Overview - having Community Members there; SHARE KC was well attended
(2) Top 10 for Zowe Clients (similar to what we did for Zowe Server in KC)
(3) Customer Panel Session: Different Customers and new topics

[RASakach]

Evaluation Information from SHARE KC:

Optimizing Zowe’s API Mediation Layer for Complex Enterprise Workloads

• 5: 5: 5 from 3 evaluations. 18 attended. Comments:
• Would like to see more on Zowe APIML security optionsl

Making the mainframe simple again with the Zowe command line interface

• 4/75: 5: 4.75 from 4 evaluations. 14 attended. Comments:
• Had to leave early for flight, but really was pleased with Zowe progress shown at this SHARE, so wanted to get a bit of this sessions. This was the Aha ! session of the conference for me.

Top 10 Administrative Tips for Achieving and regtaining a healthy, high-performing Zowe

• 5: 4.8: 5. 5 evaluations from 22 attended. Comments:
  Great job ! Great Session !

Zowe v3 is coming in September. Learn what to expect, and please tell us what’s missing

• 4.6: 4.8: 4.8. from 5 evaluations. 34 attended. Comments:
• The title of this evaluation is different than the session link.

Let’s Talk Zowe! End Users Share Their Stories

• Attendance: 67
• Session Evaluations Submitted: 12
• 4.5, 4.67, 4.25 (value, presented, relevant)
• Write-In Comments: practical questions combined with answers coming out real time experiences, well done!Great panel session. Love hearing the customer stories! ; Amazing session. Very knowledgeable and insightful panel.; it was very informative.Being told that open source is fine because "Everybody else is doing it." was not effective for me.

[Joe-Winchester]

From Ansible to Zowe, Learn how Open Source Technology is Changing the Face of Mainframe Computing.

• Attendance: 75
• Session Evaluations Submitted: 20
• 4.60, 4.85, 4.55 (value, presented, relevant)
• Write-In Comments:
  great panel with brbdors and clients collaborating to growm IBM Z; the presenters were engaging, thoughtful, and their thoughts helped add context and direction for me to hopefully start work in some open source projectsGreat panel. more please.; good discussionIt was a great panel discussion.interesting discussions; Enjoyable session.

(This was hosted by the Open Source Track in their room so we could ask them to have it in their agenda for DC or else we could put it in the Zowe track, either way it looks like it resonated with the attendees).

**Learn How Zowe Explorer Is Empowering Both New and Experienced Mainframers

• Attendance: 43
• Session Evaluations Submitted: 11
• 4.64, 4.55, 4.55 (value, presented, relevant)
• Write-In Comments:
  Awesome overview. excellent visuals Great presenters, great content.The session was a demo and not really explaining how Zowe Explorer is empowering new and experienced mainframers - perhaps the name should be update Having 3 presenters is difficult when winging the demo. But, we got tge basics. Great to see people maximizing their productivity with newer tools

[RASakach]

Preliminary plans:
Zowe Slots (9)

1. API Mediation Layer: Planning for install & Config, sample installation
2. API Mediation Layer: Administration & advanced configs (onboarding services, HA, MFA, SSO, x509 configs)
3. API Mediation Layer: LAB: Install & Config DIY
4. Introducing Zowe V3 or MEET THE EXPERTS or similar (Squad leads / or representatives)
5. Zowe Users Panel Session: Why Zowe is an key enabler for our Mainframe modernization plan (as an example)
6. Zowe Explorers-focused session (maybe we can showcase BOTH explorers in a single session?) What's new, what's planned?
7. How Zowe CLI is powering mainframe automation (or similar, showcasing Zowe CLI)
8. TBD
9. TBD

[balhar-jakub]

I really like the idea of showcasing the explorers together.

[Joe-Winchester]

• Zowe and Galasa together worked well in KC. Could this be considered for a DC slot also ?

The Top 10 tips session was also good for Zowe APIML. How about we widen that to be all of Zowe so we cover tips from Zowe Explorer, CLI, Zowe Desktop, APIML, ...

• Top 10 Tips and Tricks to get the most out of Zowe.

In Nola we did a session on vendor extensions where we had Segus, Phoenix and BMC. What about

• Showcasing vendor extensions for the Zowe ecosystem.
  We could see if Ulf from Segus will be in KC (or Roy) to present, and likely Ed from PSI will be there to showcase EJS. We could also see if HCL are readly to present their CICS Interdependency Analyzer extension (which will be GA by then).

• For Zowe CLI powering mainframe automation, I think this should be a wider Zowe CLI session not just focusing on automation. In KC I presented "How Zowe CLI is making the mainframe simple again" that covered everything from REXX scripts, SSH, JES, CICS, MQ, Db2 (so all core Zowe CLI and core extensions). For me automation really needs vendor products like CA7 or Ansible and I think we should keep the presentation sweet and simple without overcooking it.

• The session with Adaptigent went well too, so I'll reach out to see if they want to be involved with an APIML talk.

• I don't think we should do a Zowe APIML install and config lab. In my experience users run into problems because their systems have particular quirks that need custom config and we won't be able to create enough variety in whatever systems we host the labs with. The Install and Config talk should be enough if we cover the golden path install and config as well as the quirks that issues like networking, custom user IDs, different ESMs, different kinds of cert, all throw in the path of a successful config.

[KUGDev]

I'm thinking about this one:
Zowe Ecosystem: a session to explain (again) what are the components of the Zowe, both for the client side and the server side (of course, there are a lot of them, so from my perspective, I see it like a "speedrun" session, showcasing all the things Zowe has, dividing the client and server side). The reason of the idea for this session - we are encountering misconceptions in Zowe products list. There are still such questions like "I installed Zowe, what to do next?", and then we are trying to figure out, what the "intstalled Zowe" actually is: is it the server-side components, or the client-side ones, or both of them.

+1 for the explorers together session, @JillieBeanSim and I had this idea back in Orlando, didn't discuss in details.

[Joe-Winchester]

@RASakach .
On the IBM side from the list I've updated the priority and submitted the following. I expect Broadcom folks to be involved in all of them, and in the submission explicitly put Gene and Jakub's name down on two. Not sure who from Broadcom will be at DC to help with other session so currently names are IBMers and/or customers and other vendors.

5. Zowe Users Panel Session:
6. Zowe Explorers-focused session (both explorers together).
7. Zowe CLI focused session (Gene)

I've also submitted

• Zowe and Galasa together.
• Zowe and z/OS Containers (Jakub)
  I have no submitted any of the top 1 through 4 in the list above and am hoping you'll do this from the Broadcom allocation side.
  Still troubled by the fact we don't have any Zowe Desktop or Zowe z/OS component themed sessions, but if anyone from those squads is in DC we can always adapt titles and abstract to include any Rocketeers or members from those squads as we get close to the date.

[RASakach]

@Joe-Winchester Thanks very much for the update.

On the Broadcom side we have submitted

1. API Mediation Layer: Planning for install & Config, sample installation
2. API Mediation Layer: Leveraging APIs, Administration & advanced configs (onboarding services, HA, MFA, SSO, x509 configs)
3. API Mediation Layer: LAB: Install & Config DIY

And we have included:
4. CLI: A 3-part LAB consisting of creating / maintaining a TEAM CONFIG and building automation to satisfy 2 use cases