COMMON POWERUp 2025: Full Schedule

Unlock the Power of IBM i at POWERUp 2025!

Join us in Disneyland, California, for POWERUp 2025, the premier conference for IBM i professionals. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just starting your IBM i journey, this event offers unparalleled education, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. Stay ahead of the curve with insights from industry leaders, explore the latest innovations, and connect with a thriving community that shares your passion for IBM i. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge, grow your skills, and power up your career!

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8:00am PDT

PowerHA for Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud (Geographic Mirroring)

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

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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.

This session will cover recently released technologies for geographic mirroring including compression, multi-target geographic mirroring. In addition, other recently announced PowerHA Cloud technologies in IBM Power Virtual Server will be discussed.

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 →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Safari 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

High Availability Resilience

9:15am PDT

IBM i Integrated MFA Solution Developer Impacts

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT

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The integrated IBM i MFA solution set of features has various impacts for application developers to consider. Some impacts directly impact if or how their applications work in various configurations. Other impacts involve changes to make applications better ecosystem citizens in context of the authentication exit point information provided to those solutions. Profile handles and profile tokens is one of the primary areas of focus in the session.

Learning Objectives:
Learn about the new and updated APIs and Commands developers should be aware. Understand how updating applications to use these capabilities provides a better MFA end-user experience as well as increases the value of security solutions built on the authentication exit point support.

Speakers

Tim Mullenbach

IBM i Security Business Architect, IBM

Tim Mullenbach is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Rochester. He spent his first 20+ IBM years with the IBM i Sockets and System TLS development team prior to transitioning to the IBM i Security Business Architect role in 2018.

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Safari 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Security

10:45am PDT

OSS Tools For System Management

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

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Join us as we explore the world of open-source tools for system management, starting with fundamental concepts and progressing to practical applications on IBM i with Prometheus for operational monitoring and Grafana for data visualization. We will also introduce Manzan, IBM i's new open-source solution for seamless integration with modern infrastructure monitoring tools. Have you ever wanted to receive Slack notifications for critical system errors, or perhaps send syslogs directly to monitoring dashboards like Sentry or Grafana Loki? With Manzan, not only is all of this now possible, but it also unlocks the potential for AI-driven system management. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how you can enhance your system's monitoring capabilities with minimal setup and maximum flexibility.

Understand basic system management concepts and explore various open-source tooling options
Learn how to use Prometheus and Grafana on IBM i
Learn how to integrate Manzan with modern infrastructure monitoring tools
Explore the role Manzan plays in system management with AI

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

STSM and Senior Business Architect - AI and Open Source, IBM

Sanjula Ganepola

Software Developer - IBM i App Dev & AI Toolchain, IBM

Sanjula Ganepola is a Software Developer at IBM working on IBM i application development tools. As an open-source advocate, he is an active contributor and maintainer of several Visual Studio Code extensions including IBM i Project Explorer, Code for IBM i, IBM i Testing, Source Orbit... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Safari 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programming: General

3:45pm PDT

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

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT

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The logistics company generates over 3.2M downloads to equip over 400,000  trucks 7 x 24 with all the AI features they need for their workday.  Near zero downtime was the only way to keep the fleets connected and moving. 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.

Speakers

Richard Dolewski

VP, Hybrid Enterprise Solutions, Lightedge

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 →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
Safari 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

High Availability Resilience

5:00pm PDT

IBM i Services for the Developer

Wednesday May 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

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In the past you may have considered using CL or coding to system APIs to access and work with system information. Today there is a better option: IBM i Services. In this session you will learn how to use SQL to work with data areas and data queues, discover how easy it is to review your program and service program attributes, and much more.

Speakers

Ann Wilkerson

Software Developer, IBM

Ann Wilkerson is a lead user interface developer in IBM i. She joined the Rochester lab in 2021 and has since worked on Navigator, IBM i Services, and IBM i Migrate While Active. Her focus areas include security, networking, and the IFS.

Wednesday May 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Safari 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programming: General