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Unlock the Power of IBM i at POWERUp 2026!

Join us in New Orleans, Louisiana for POWERUp 2026, 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!

Type: High Availability Resilience clear filter
Monday, April 27
 

11:15am CDT

What's New in PowerHA?
Monday April 27, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
PowerHA for IBM i continues to evolve, with new capabilities and enhancements delivered multiple times each year. In this session, we’ll explore the latest features and improvements that simplify high availability and disaster recovery management. Stay up to date, gain practical insight into deployment strategies, and ensure you’re getting the most from the latest PowerHA innovations.

Learning Objectives:

1. See what's new in PowerHA 2. Learn how to provide feedback to shape the roadmap
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
Brian Nordland is the Director of Development for IBM Power Development at Fortra. Brian has been a prominent speaker at events, webinars, and user groups, including COMMON and LUG for over a decade. He is a co-inventor on multiple patents and has authored technical publications in... Read More →
Monday April 27, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
Studio 7-8

4:30pm CDT

IBM i DR Modernization Playbook: A Client Story
Monday April 27, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm CDT
Are you managing an IBM i environment that hasn’t been updated in years, struggling to meet modern regulatory requirements, or facing disaster recovery (DR) challenges that put your business continuity at risk? In this fast-paced, practical session, we’ll walk through how a large regional retailer, processing $Ms in transactions per day, modernized IBM i DR after 20+ years of “don’t touch it” status—improving recovery, reducing operational drag, and closing compliance gaps.

Learning Objectives:

What you’ll learn from our client story: * From legacy to modern DR: How the client transformed an IBM i DR setup that was essentially untouched for over 20 years. * How Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) were significantly improved versus the prior approach. * How the client lowered its run-rate and cleaned up ops by streamlining and fencing in ongoing costs and day-to-day management effort. * What we implemented to minimize the impact of modern cyber threats. * How our client ensured faster, more reliable recovery for a high-volume environment by reducing its DR recovery debt
Monday April 27, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm CDT
Galerie 1
 
Tuesday, April 28
 

10:45am CDT

DR Planning Yearly Checkup - Ensure your DR Plan Works in the Era of Cloud
Tuesday April 28, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
You have a disaster recovery plan? Are you really prepared? We are now in the Cloud ! How does this affect my DR Plan going forward ? The difference in surviving depends on how well you prepare for the unexpected. This session breaks down the components of disaster recovery planning as it relates to the availability and recovery of your systems. Testing is essential to examining critical points of failure, assumptions, and technical gaps.

Learning Objectives:

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of your current disaster recovery plan in hybrid and cloud environments. 2. Identify critical dependencies, assumptions, and failure points in IBM i DR testing. 3. Develop a repeatable annual DR validation process to ensure readiness and business continuity.
Speakers
avatar for Richard Dolewski

Richard Dolewski

VP, Hybrid Enterprise Solutions, Lightedge
avatar for Josh Patterson

Josh Patterson

Sr. Solutions Architect, Lightedge
Josh is a Senior Solutions Architect and IBM Champion at Lightedge, focused on modernizing enterprise cloud solutions for IBM Power platforms.  Subject matter expertise in designing resilient, cost-effective hybrid-cloud strategies and high-availability architectures that align technology... Read More →
Tuesday April 28, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
Studio 9-10

3:15pm CDT

DB2 Mirror - Continuous Availability with Proven Business Outcomes
Tuesday April 28, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm CDT
Db2 Mirror for IBMi enables continuous availability for your mission-critical applications. Learn how Db2 Mirror synchronously mirrors database updates between two separate nodes in an active-active or active-passive (with read access on the secondary) mode. Presenting 2 case studies deigned to deliver near zero downtime and optimal application availability to their business.

Learning Objectives:

Learning objectives: 1. IBM Lab DB2 Assessment 2. Building a proven reference architecture with Testing and Operations 3. Understand new features available for DB2 Mirror
Speakers
avatar for Richard Dolewski

Richard Dolewski

VP, Hybrid Enterprise Solutions, Lightedge
avatar for Scott Forstie

Scott Forstie

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.
Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events... Read More →
Tuesday April 28, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm CDT
Studio 9-10
 
Wednesday, April 29
 

8:00am CDT

Navigating the HA/DR Maze: Make the Right Move
Wednesday April 29, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
In today’s ever-evolving IT landscape, ensuring continuous business operations requires a strategic approach to High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR). With a growing array of technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud, choosing the right solution can feel like navigating a maze. This session will guide you through the key considerations for building a resilient HA/DR strategy. We’ll explore the different types of outages and align them with the technologies designed to mitigate their impact. Whether you're planning for hardware failures, software issues, or full system outages, understanding your business requirements and protection goals is critical. Join us for a practical overview of HA/DR technologies including Db2 Mirror, Live Partition Mobility, Logical and Software-Based Replication, Full System Replication, and PowerHA. You’ll leave with a clearer roadmap to help you make informed decisions and confidently chart your HA/DR journey.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the importance of considering your recovery point objective and recovery time objective for different types of outages 2. Learn how different technologies can help achieve various RPO and RTO targets. 3. Learn how the technologies can be combined
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
Brian Nordland is the Director of Development for IBM Power Development at Fortra. Brian has been a prominent speaker at events, webinars, and user groups, including COMMON and LUG for over a decade. He is a co-inventor on multiple patents and has authored technical publications in... Read More →
Wednesday April 29, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Studio 1-2

10:45am CDT

The POWER OF READY – Real Disasters, Real Recovery, Lessons Learned
Wednesday April 29, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
Businesses today demand up-time, and reliability to move product and deliver services. Can your IBM i survive a sudden, unplanned event? Learn from multiple Data Center, Cloud, and regional disasters, to know if your DR Solution works in an actual Disaster. People, Technology and Geography are common critical points of failure. Let's keep our mistakes Original!

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize common points of failure across people, technology, and geography during real disasters. 2. Learn how to design and execute a DR plan that performs under real-world conditions. 3. Build organizational resilience through effective planning, communication, and testing.
Speakers
avatar for Richard Dolewski

Richard Dolewski

VP, Hybrid Enterprise Solutions, Lightedge
Wednesday April 29, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
Studio 3-4
 
Thursday, April 30
 

9:15am CDT

Mission: Possible! Journaling Forensics 101 (with Free Tools)
Thursday April 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Learn to think like a spy! Many shops use journaling for a variety of reasons, but may not be familiar with how to use these journals for forensic purposes. Mining your journals for the who, what, when, where, how - and sometimes even why - can be very useful, not to mention fun! Come join us for a lighthearted and entertaining "Mission: Impossible" themed look at one of the most useful things you can do with your journals. This session will introduce journaling concepts and share tuning tips to optimize your journal environment for forensics. After reviewing the "old fashioned" way to dig into your journals, we will demonstrate how much easier this is with the right tools. The DMPJRN and CVTJRNDTA commands used in this presentation will be made available as a free download to all attendees, including source code!

Learning Objectives:

Learning Objectives - After participating in this session, attendees should have the skills and tools to: - Optimize your journal environment to maximize the forensic information available to you - Understand what your journals are trying to tell you, and how to interrogate them to get the answers you need - Dump your journals quickly and easily using the free software made available - Be able to interpret the content of your journals to determine what really happened to your data - Use the techniques demonstrated in the provided source code to develop your own tools - Save the world from evil-doers
Speakers
avatar for Steven Wolk

Steven Wolk

CTO, PC Richard & Son
Steven Wolk is the CTO for PC Richard & Son. Founded in 1909, PC Richard is a family owned and operated chain of over 65 appliance, electronics, and mattress superstores located throughout NY, NJ, CT, and PA. Steve's deep background in retail began on the sales floor while in college... Read More →
Thursday April 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Studio 1-2

4:15pm CDT

I never thought of THAT, so I DO Need HA!
Thursday April 30, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
There are MANY things that you did NOT plan for that would cause you to need an HA, or at LEAST a DR system. Virtually every one of these are items from my personal customers, not made up or 'read it on the internet!' You will be surprised and potentially even shocked by some of these occurrences.. Despite your security policies, the quality of your building, reliability of power and cooling, you cannot think of everything.

Learning Objectives:

You will realize that you cannot prevent every disaster, so you MUST have (at least!) a "Plan B!"
Speakers
avatar for Larry Bolhuis

Larry Bolhuis

Principal IBM Power Systems Architect, Service Express
Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982.After 2 years working with early PCs and servers her began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36 He moved to AS/400 at its introduction In 1988. Early in his career he was a developer, then migrated to networking, system design, upgrades and general systems... Read More →
Thursday April 30, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Balcony K

4:15pm CDT

Live Demo: Deploying and Managing PowerHA on IBM i
Thursday April 30, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Join us for a hands-on, interactive session that walks through the end-to-end deployment and management of PowerHA on IBM i using Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs). We’ll begin by creating an IASP and demonstrate how to migrate applications and data into it effectively. From there, we’ll explore how to build a highly available solution using either IBM Power Virtual Server with Global Replication Services or IBM FlashSystem’s Asynchronous Policy-Based Replication. This session will also cover key concepts and best practices for managing PowerHA environments across internal, external, and cloud storage infrastructures. To bring it all together, we’ll perform a live role swap to showcase real-time failover capabilities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how to deploy PowerHA 2. Gain practical insights into migrating applications and data to an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (IASP). 3. Learn techniques for synchronizing security and configuration objects across HA environments. 4. Observe a live role swap and learn how to manage failover scenarios in real-time.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
Brian Nordland is the Director of Development for IBM Power Development at Fortra. Brian has been a prominent speaker at events, webinars, and user groups, including COMMON and LUG for over a decade. He is a co-inventor on multiple patents and has authored technical publications in... Read More →
Thursday April 30, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Studio 7-8
 

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