2022-10-18, 13:30–14:15, Room 3
IT Automation can help close shortage of IT staff. Clearly, if you can do things in an automated way, you can have the limited staff members doing more intelligent things.
In this session you will learn how IBM can help you to tackle this problem for the z/OS environment
The z/OS domain has many IT Automation products taking care of applications, monitoring, jobs etc, yet the basic z/OS tasks can still require manual intervention.
IBM created a free of charge utility called Z Open Automation Utility (ZOAU) that form an abstraction layer between the Open World and the traditional z/OS (MVS), TSO, ISPF, JES, REXX, JCL etc.
This tool has APIs for JAVA and Python and the latter can significantly help it IT Automation activities using Ansible.
In this session Frank Van Der Wal is going to explain what ZOAU is, how it works and will give a short demo to explore some interesting Usecases.
Frank Van Der Wal is currently working in the Northern European market as Distinguished IT Specialist focussing on helping mainframe customers in their Digital Transformation journey to best explore the platform.