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SUMMARY:Modernizing the Mainframe with the Modern Muscle of z/Cobol
DESCRIPTION:John Rankin (CSI International)\n\nz/COBOL™ is a new COBOL com
 piler, specifically designed for the future of z/OS, VSE and VM, that embr
 aces the power of the current IBM® mainframe.  IBM has spent over 20 years
  innovating and enhancing the zSeries platform, and as the desire for more
  and more computing power arrives, so does the requirement to utilize the 
 facilities that are within the zSeries IBM mainframe.  z/COBOL is a cuttin
 g-edge COBOL compiler that is unmatched in performance.  It is more than j
 ust paying for cutting-edge hardware; it is having the tools to maximize t
 hat investment.\nThis presentation details how the z/COBOL language can co
 mbine the power of the mainframe environment with a wide range of tools th
 at are required for the modern world.  How Open AI can be integrated into 
 database updates, credit card transactions can be facilitated and managed,
  SMS and RCS customer interactions can be delivered, the new SPYRE AI Comp
 lex can be fully utilized, JSON-RPC can be provided to completely particip
 ate in Block Chain and Crypto Currency interactions, WEB3 can be supported
  from DAPPs, and many other current and cutting edge tools.  All of these 
 important advancements within the data processing world, can now be added 
 to z/OS, VSE and VM.\n\nTrack: Databases, DevOps, Languages, API's and Fra
 mework, Machine Learning/AI\n\nAudience Level: All Audiences\n\nSession Ch
 air: Brian Jagos (Broadcom)\n\n
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