COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025: Full Schedule

WELCOME TO COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

Don’t forget to reach out to your local country user group to get the discount code for the congress!

Common Europe, in collaboration with Common Sweden, is delighted to be holding its annual flagship event, Common Europe Congress, in the friendly city of Gothenburg offering extensive education, networking and relaxation opportunities. It’s also a great opportunity for exploring the city… so why not take a family mini-break as well.
Congress education areas targeted are IBM Power hardware, Application Development, Advanced RPG, Open Source tools and Languages, System Management, Db2 and SQL, IBM Storage, IBM i services and microservices, Security and Compliance and much more.
There will be two AIX / Linux tracks, to emphasize the Power Systems character of Common Europe.
Top IBM Business Architects and industry experts have already agreed to share their knowledge on the latest announcements, customer cases as well as practical subjects.
The congress content includes:

3 ½ days of latest education delivered by top IBM and industry leading speakers punctuated by large breaks offering maximum networking,
Three-hour in-depth workshops, 60 minutes’ education sessions and solution provider’s special slots,
A Solution Providers’ Centre open for 2 ½ days with top European and worldwide technology companies at their booths presenting innovative practical solutions that will enhance our solutions,
A Congress Dinner in the hotel with live entertainment.

We have negotiated special room rates in the Congress hotel itself,
The Common Europe Organization Team looks forward to seeing you in picturesque Gothenburg.

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

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08:00 CEST

Securing and a monitoring SSH on IBMi LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST

06 - R17

Many applications and functions are taking advantage of the SSH server on the IBM i, especially with the recent influx of open-source packages being made available to IBM i users. However, by default, it’s rather open to abuse. In this presentation we will explore the options for locking down, and monitoring access to SSH on the IBM i.

Speakers

Stefan Dufaye

Technical Consultant, Rowton IT

I’ve worked with the IBM i for over 25 years. I started as a developer, updating RPG code to make it millennium compliant, but I’ve spent most of my career working on the technical side. Originally supporting IBM i installations for customers and then moving on to manage the hosted... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i System Management

10:20 CEST

IBM i Performance Analysis for SQL requests LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST

06 - R17

The purpose of this presentation is to show practical ways of analyzing performance data collected via iDoctor/Jobwatcher. The focus of the presentation will be DB performance.
This presentation will give input to the performance investigation by demonstrating how to view and extract DB related information from Jobwatcher and use this information for more detailed analysis in ACS (Access Client Solution).
The introduction of the topic will be the recommended JobWatcher definition and the recommended ways to read JobWatcher collections.
For a bit deeper analysis, its demonstrated what pitfalls can occur by using only Plan Cache Snapshots for SQL performance analysis. Here JobWatcher collections can make the analysis much more powerful.

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Power Performance Specialist, IBM

Morten Buur Rasmussen is a performance Specialist at IBM Technology Expert Labs. Morten has 39 years of experience in the computing field. He started working with the S/38 and AS/400 in 1988 as programmer.Before joining the Lab Services and Expert Labs, he worked for IBM Denmark and... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i System Management, SQL

11:30 CEST

Security Catalog for IBM i LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30 - 12:30 CEST

06 - R17

It is very often that clients ask the question that how can we secure our IBM i in today's IT world where ransomware attacks are increasing ? What we can implement in order to make systems more secure ? But security is something which can take most of the time and still a proactive approach is needed for planning, executing and monitoring. The session will broadly cover the different security areas that needs to be review with recommendation in order to restrict the inappropriate use. Different layers of security will be explained in relation to IBM i and how each layer can affect if elevated access in given or unencrypted channels are used. Considering different areas on IBM i and following appropriate steps can make a system much secure than leaving it wide open thinking that system itself is very secure which is a misconception.

By Rohit Chauhan

Speakers

Rohit Chauhan

Senior Technical Specialist and IBM Champion, Tietoevry Tech Services Norway AS

Rohit Chauhan is an IBM Champion and a Senior Technical Specialist with expertise in IBM i platform and IBM Power Systems. He is also a IBM Redbooks author and works at Tietoevry Tech Services, Stavanger, Norway, which is an IBM Business Partner and one of the biggest IT service providers... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
06 - R17

Strategy, Security

12:40 CEST

TBD LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:40 - 13:05 CEST

06 - R17

Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
06 - R17

Solution provider

14:05 CEST

SQL for System and Storage Management

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:05 - 15:05 CEST

06 - R17

Ryan Moeller (Software Engineer, Db2 for i) teams up with Ann Wilkerson (Lead Developer, IBM i Navigator) to show how Navigator and SQL services can be expanded upon to automate and report on everyday storage and systems management tasks.

Speakers

Ryan Moeller

Software Engineer, IBM

Ryan Moeller is a software engineer working on Db2 for i, specifically on the SQL Query Engine (SQE) team. He joined the team in the Rochester, MN development lab in 2020. Ryan specializes in SQL, database development, and query performance analysis.

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:05 - 15:05 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i, Systems management

15:20 CEST

Live Demo of Navigator LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 15:20 - 16:20 CEST

06 - R17

The IBM Navigator is marching forward adding new features and ways to manage your IBM i. This session is all about the live Demo we will show you first hand the new features as well as help answer your questions on how you can take managing the IBM i to the next level

Speakers

Tim Rowe

STSM - IBM i Business Architect, IBM

Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 15:20 - 16:20 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i, Systems management

16:30 CEST

Can cloud help me in accomplishing my DR and Cyber Resiliency goals LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 16:30 - 17:30 CEST

06 - R17

in this session we are going to find out how cloud can help you to accomplish your Disaster Recovery and also your Cyber Resilience goals.

Also the reason for cloud as a DR environment will be discussed.

Speakers

Tonny Bastiaans

offering manager, IBM

Tonny Bastiaans is World Wide Product manager Power System at IBM. Started more than 20 years ago as an engineer on RS6000 systems (the predecessor of Power). He moved via several roles to his current role. With his technical background he is bridging the gap between technic and business... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i System Management, Strategy

COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

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