Mainframe Modernization Introduction
Case Study on Mainframe Modernization - Pre-Assessing the Participants
List of Popular traditional Modernization Tools including GenAI Tools (Prerequisites, Advantages, License, Installation and Usage Procedure, Demo)
LZLabs, Microfocus, BlueAge, Co-Pilot, Watson X, AI Code Converter, Google BARD,
AZURE OpenAI, LLAMA
Scenario Based Tools Overview
Re-hosting Tools (Microfocus Enterprise server,UpWare)
Re-platforming Tools (NetCobol)
Re-factoring Tools( Sonar Qube)
Re-architecting Tools (Azure,IBM Watson X)
Integration and Middleware Tools ( IBM Connect EE, MuleSoft Anypoint )
Data Migration Tools(AWS DMS, Attunity)
DevOps and CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD)
Overview on IBM Watson X Special mention

Basics of major Cloud Providers (AWS/AZURE/GCP)

Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Explore Elements of a prompt
Explore different prompt engineering principles/techniques
Hand on Exercises on basic prompts related to code analysis and conversion

Prompt Techniques and Use Cases for Cobol
Prompt Techniques and Use Cases for DB2
Prompt Techniques and Use Cases for CICS
Hands on Exercises on different Prompts to convert code from Language to anither

GitHub Copilot (Theory, Demo and Hands on Exercises) - Code generation, test case
generation, test success criteria, bug fixing, clean code, generate comments, make
code consise and robust
AWS CodeWhisperer (Theory, Demo and Hands on Exercises) - Single-line code
completion, Full function generation, Block completion, Reference Tracker,Security
Scan

Azure SDK Overview and Prompting using API
Conversion and Execution of mainframe project consisiting CICS, DB2, Cobol into
JAVA and JS code base
Hands on Exercises using Prompt Azure API
KBA on Mainframe Modernization
Case Study on Mainframe Modernization - Post-Assessing the Participants

Reasons for migration to COBOL 6
New Features of COBOL 6
What is new in COBOL Complier V6.x
Migration Stratigies
Common Issues in Migration

IBM Z Hardware features and compiler support.
What is ABO, Overview
What does ABO do and its value
ABO Product positioning to complement Enterprise COBOL
ABO Binaries compiled by COBOL 6.4

What is DevOps and How IBM got to DevOPS, DevOPS lifecycle, CI-CD
Building a DevOps Tool chain
DevOps and Cloud-native deployment, DevSecOPs, DevOPS and Site
Relibility Engineering (SRE)
GIT and GIT Hub Essentials
Test environment capabilities for Z/OS Dev and test running under
Linux on Z SystemsWhat is DevOps and How IBM got to DevOPS, DevOPS lifecycle, CI-CD
Building a DevOps Tool chain
DevOps and Cloud-native deployment, DevSecOPs, DevOPS and Site
Relibility Engineering (SRE)
GIT and GIT Hub Essentials
Test environment capabilities for Z/OS Dev and test running under
Linux on Z Systems

What is WAZi as a Service
Z/OS Dev and Test vitrual Servers
WAZI Image builder
Z/OS for Continuous Delivery

Idz workbench and intro to Eclipse for ISPF Developers
Editing program source, using software analyserfor code review
Analyzing COBOL Program
Dataset access and file manager
ISPF Options and Batch job submit

IBM Z and IBM Cloud, AWS Cloud and AZURE (Hybrid Cloud)
IBM WatsonX code Assistant for Z
IBM Z/OS Connect
Mainframes as parts of Event Driven Stack
Information sharing and data access challenges in Hybrid cloud

Helps Vizualise Applications, data and jobs

Zowe front end interface - VS code plug-in

Overview on Z/OS Connect
Calling Restful APIs
Z/OS Connect Server
Z/OS Connect Designer
Z/OS Connect OCI Compliant Container Delivery