Stream: Becketts
Time: 12:00 - 12:45
"Always on and always available" is a core expectation for the mission-critical services that sit at the heart of every mainframe customer's application landscape. When it comes to deploying changes, minimal disruption isn't just a goal — it's a hard requirement. This session explores how modern orchestration techniques meet that bar. We'll walk through the full deployment lifecycle: how CI pipelines package build outputs and publish them to an artifact repository, how those packages are retrieved, prepared, and installed into target runtime environments, and how the process is governed end-to-end. Along the way, we'll cover two of the most common and challenging requirements in today's mainframe architectures — deployment scheduling and cross-application dependency management — and show how orchestration tooling addresses both
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Dennis is the lead of IBMs LabConnect team and is working with clients on their DevOps transformation to standardize and automate the processes, tools, and methodologies for traditional mainframe application architectures. He is working on the mainframe platform for more than 15 years.