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Are you responsible for managing and maintaining AIX systems? Are you looking to migrate to AIX 7.3 and are interested in learning more about what's new with AIX 7.3? Come listen and learn all about some of the new features and capabilities available with AIX 7.3. We’ll talk about many new features for 7.3, like DNF, pigz, bash, new tools for managing AIX images, Live Update enhancements, and more. Chris will also discuss some of the new features and improvements available in recent TL/SP levels, such as AIX Fast Failover for Fibre Channel Adapters and AIX JFS2 Log Shuffle. The session will also include several real-world AIX best practices and other interesting tips and tricks relating to AIX system administration.

AIX continues to be the backbone of mission-critical workloads across industries, delivering unmatched performance, reliability, scalability, and security on IBM Power Systems.This session will provide an in-depth look at the AIX roadmap and recent feature enhancements, along with a preview of upcoming releases and strategic initiatives. We will explore how AIX continues to lead in performance, reliability, availability, and security while introducing modern automation and modernization tools that simplify operations and improve efficiency.Attendees will gain insights into how AIX aligns with Power11 innovations to help organizations modernize with confidence, protecting existing investments while enabling greater agility, scalability, and resilience for the years ahead.

What would AIX need to remain a compelling platform for the next two decades? This session is not an official roadmap—it's a technical wishlist from someone who has worked with AIX for over 20 years and wants to see it thrive. Consider it a letter to the Magi, or to IBM's AIX product management.We'll explore practical modernization paths: native package management that doesn't require sacrifices to ancient gods, first-class support for modern languages (good news: Rust and Go already work great—so why not make it official?), container tooling options, and open source integration that makes AIX attractive for new workloads—not just legacy migrations.Drawing from real experiments at the LibrePower lab (aix.librepower.org), we'll share what's possible today, what's frustratingly close, and what would transform AIX from "the system we maintain" into "the system we choose." Topics include: modern CLI tooling, security utilities, compilation wins and challenges, and the open source packages AIX desperately needs.This is a community discussion, not a vendor pitch. Bring your own wishes—and your honest frustrations. Let's draft that letter together.Opinions expressed are personal views of Hugo Blanco, not official IBM positions.

As PostgreSQL becomes a strategic platform for enterprise data, infrastructure choice plays a critical role in performance, resilience, scalability and security. This session explains why EDB Postgres on IBM Power is a powerful foundation for mission-critical workloads.Discover how IBM Power’s high-performance architecture and built-in reliability, combined with EDB’s enterprise-grade PostgreSQL capabilities, deliver superior performance, enhanced scalability, high availability, and improved cost efficiency.The session also features a demonstration of EDB Postgres on IBM Power, covering key topics such as deployment, scalability, high availability, and security.In addition, attendees will gain insights from real-world use cases and customer success stories.

Enterprises running mission-critical workloads cannot afford planned outages for maintenance and updates. AIX Zero Planned Downtime (ZPD) capabilities are designed to eliminate this trade-off by enabling system updates while applications remain online.This session provides a deep dive into AIX ZPD technologies, with a focus on AIX Live Kernel Update and Live Library Update. Attendees will learn how these capabilities allow critical fixes and updates to be applied without rebooting systems or disrupting running workloads.Through architectural insights and a live demonstration, we will show how AIX enables continuous availability, reduces operational risk, and simplifies maintenance for always-on enterprise environments. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of where ZPD fits into their AIX strategy and how to adopt it effectively in production environments.

This presentation show how to run the Icinga Monitoring and Observability on Linux, AIX and IBM i, how you can combine several options to build a complete monitoring and observability that can run on the IBM Power platform for the IBM Power platform.We will show how monitoring, logging and tracing can provide a complete overview of the resources of your infrastructure to cover all platforms including IBM Power systems and all other systems to provide a universal and common platform to monitor and observe your infrastructure.In addition we will present a new module that provides manual and auto remediation or escalation for problem handling using custom scripts, Ansible or other IaC tools.

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This demonstration provides a great introduction to the capabilities of PowerVC and PowerVM. It shows the process of capturing, deploying and resizing virtual machines running Linux IBM i or AIX. It shows also how to configure compute templates, storage templates, deploy templates, and use the self-service portal to deploy VM as a cloud user.

What can be worse than speaking about IT security? Speaking about AIX patch management! Find updates, security patches, jungle them all way around, and get a system that an auditor accepts as compliant. Impossible! But at least it is possible to automate the task.

As Artifi cial Intelligence solidifi es its place in core enterprise systems, the debate surrounding the defi nition of "Open Source AI" has only intensifi ed. This technical update is a direct follow-up to the session presented last year, refreshed to address the signifi cant changes in both the general AI landscape and its open source defi nitions that have emerged since our last discussion.
Designed for IT Leaders, Enterprise Architects, and Technical Professionals, this session revisits the essential context and governance frameworks introduced previously, but applies them to today's reality. We will start with a reviewed technical baseline of AI and Machine Learning concepts to ensure a common understanding before diving into the new developments of the past 12 months.
Attendees will be equipped to:
- Track the Evolution: Identify how the challenges in defi ning Open Source AI have shifted since last year compared to traditional Open Source Software.
- Apply Current Criteria: Utilize the latest frameworks, such as the Open Source AI Defi nition (OSAID) and the Foundation Model Transparency Index, to accurately assess the true openness of established solutions like IBM Granite.
- Spot Evolved Risks: Analyze the operational pitfalls of "open weights" models and identify the techniques used in "openwashing" that have appeared since last year's session.

This presentation show how we build a pipeline to run software building on all our platforms including the IBM Power platform, Linux, AIX and IBM i, allowing you to provide a true DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for your software building, integrations, testing and deployment.

Open source software is becoming foundational to modern system administration, application development, DevOps practices, and AI innovation. The AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software has become a critical bridge between enterprise-grade stability and community-driven innovation.This session provides an overview of the AIX Toolbox ecosystem, including recent enhancements and the enablement of AI-focused packages. Attendees will learn how DNF simplifies package installation, dependency resolution, and ongoing maintenance, enabling modern and consistent workflows on AIX.We will also discuss the roadmap and future enhancements planned for the AIX open source ecosystem. Live demonstrations will illustrate how open source and AI packages can be easily adopted on AIX today, helping organizations modernize with confidence while preserving the performance, reliability, and security of the AIX platform.