For those who don’t know, IBM sends laptops and lab materials to MQ Technical Conference (MQTC) for attendees to do FREE hands-on training. The MQ Lab was open to attendees all day Monday and Tuesday.

I would like to thank Lyn Elkins, Jack Carnes Jr and Mitch Johnson from IBM for doing an awesome job in the MQ Lab. The MQ Lab is worth the price of admission to MQTC not to mention, there are 71 technical sessions (& 15 vendor sessions) at MQTC.

MQ Lab pictures (click on the image to see a larger picture):

Here is a list of all of the FREE labs for distributed platforms that were available at MQTC:
• Introduction to IBM MQ
• Using the MQ Explorer
• Configuring the IBM MQ JMS Provider
• Publish / Subscribe Administration
• IBM MQ Security
• Using the IBM MQ Console and REST Interfaces
• Implementing Channel Security in IBM MQ
• Using Multiple Certificates in IBM MQ
• Protecting Message Data with IBM MQ Advanced Message Security
• Configuring a IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Environment
• Creating File Transfer Requests Using IBM MQ Explorer and Command Line
• Creating a Sales Force Developer Account
• IBM MQ Salesforce Bridge
• IBM MQ on Cloud
• RDQM for High Availability
• RDQM for Disaster Recovery

Here is a list of all of the FREE labs for z/OS that were available at MQTC:
• Comparing buffers above and below the bar
• Advantages of having enough fixed pages
• Developing and Deploying JMS Enable CICS Applications
• Using CAPEXPRY on z/OS
• Introduction to SMF115 Records
• Introduction to SMF116 Records
• Channel Initiator Statistics Lab
• z/OS Queue Manager Customization
• z/OS Advanced Message Security
• Implementing z/OS Queue Manager Security
• Introduction to CICS Trigger Monitors
• CICS Publish and Subscribe
• Queue Sharing Group Comparing Offload Options

Big News: Lyn Elkins told me that they were so busy in the MQ Lab that for next year’s MQ Technical Conference, they will run the MQ labs for the entire 3 days of the conference!

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Richard Nikula presenting ‘If you can’t clone yourself, Delegate!’ session:

Rob Sordillo presenting the ‘REST Easy with Infrared360’ session:

Krista Valentine presenting the ‘Licensing Lingo – The Users Guide to IBM Licensing’ session:

Lunch:

Chris Frank presenting the ‘What’s new with Logging in IBM MQ?’ session:

Jonathan Levell presenting the ‘MQTT: The Protocol for the Internet of Things’ session:

Sam Goulden presenting the ‘MQ Administration, the Web Console, & REST API’ session:

Afternoon desserts:

Tim Zielke presenting the ‘MQ Data Conversion’ session:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Suganya Rane presenting ‘MQ on AWS’ session:

Rob Parker presenting ‘Running MQ in the Cloud’ session:

MQ Labs:

Lunch:

Afternoon snacks – tortilla & pita chips served with 4 different dips

Mark Taylor presenting ‘Using Open Source solutions to monitor your queue managers’ session:

Tuesday evening in the Vendor Pavilion – cheesecake:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Opening Remarks:

Selfie:

David Ware presenting ‘What’s New in IBM Messaging’ session:

MQ Labs:

Lunch:

Sandeep Chellingi presenting ‘MQ High Availability and Disaster recovery Implementation scenarios’ session:

Afternoon desserts – ice cream social:

Glen Brumbaugh presenting ‘MQ, IIB, Docker, Kubernetes and the IBM Cloud’ session:

Monday evening in the Vendor Pavilion:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Sorry for the delay in getting the MQTC pictures posted but it has been a very busy.

Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.8:

And everybody got a bag of cool (hopefully) swag:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

The final list of sessions, schedule and tracks have been posted to MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 web site.

I have posted the ‘Tracks‘ web page. I have grouped the sessions together by various Tracks. It is designed to help attendees determine what sessions they should attending at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 .

I have created 8 Tracks and here is the list:

• MQ Beginners
• MQ Administration
• MQ Advanced Administration
• MQ Programming
• MQ Security
• MQ Performance
• MQ on z/OS
• MQ Architecture

So, if your company has some ‘newbies’ that need MQ training, have them attend MQTC and go to the sessions in the MQ Beginners track.

For more information about MQTC, please go to:
https://www.mqtechconference.com

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.