SHARE Cleveland, happening on August 17-21 at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown, provides attendees with access to the latest enterprise IT news, key focus areas, prominent industry leaders and product highlights on emerging technologies all in one space over five days.
Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at the conference again this year with several sessions including:
2:30-3:30: Dispelling the Myths Around Open Source on the Mainframe – Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity, A Converge Company
Wondering if Open Source on the Mainframe is right for you and your organization? Don’t know what you don’t know? Is it myth or fact? Let the experts from within the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project help you weed it all out. Fact or fiction, we will help you understand why Open Source on the Mainframe IS right for you and your organization.
2:30-3:30: Mainframe Modernization Trends (Including DevOps) – Dusty Rivers and Jerry Edgington, Mainline Information Systems
Many different definitions of What mainframe Modernizations encompasses” have been discussed.In this session we will discuss many of them along with examples, and include mainframe Devops!!!!!!!!
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Customer Success Stories with Zowe – Joe Winchester, IBM
This talk will cover customer success stories and scenarios where users have been able to deploy and use Zowe technology in real work situations. It will be given jointly with a customer (TBD) to showcase their use of DevOps and operation automation using Zowe CLI and Zowe Explorer.
7:30-8:30 am: Skill Up! Mainframe Learning for All – IBM’s Devonte Hawkins, Sudharsana Srinivasan, Joe Winchester and J.J. Lovett, Broadcom
As the mainframe industry evolves, so does the need for accessible and engaging learning resources. This panel brings together experts from the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) Education Initiative, the COBOL Programming Course, and Zowe to discuss the future of mainframe education. Moderated from the perspective of an early-career professional, this session will highlight essential learning tools—including the OMP Education Gitbook, COBOL Programming with VS Code, and the Fundamentals for Zowe course—that empower all professionals. Join us for an insightful discussion on how these resources shape the next generation of mainframe talent.
10-11 am: Making the Mainframe Great Again With Zowe Command Line Interface (CLI) – Joe Winchester, IBM and Gene Johnston, Broadcom
The Zowe Command Line Interface opens up IBM z/OS to non mainframers who want to do anything from ad-hoc scripting, building full DevOps automation pipelines, and everything inbetween. By providing simple easy to use intuitive commands to run commands covering everything from listing data sets, submitting jobs, running REXX, as well working with CICS, MQ and Db2, non-mainframers can become versant at how to become mainframers without needing to leave their familiar PC terminal or command window, and embed scripts in their laptop’s existing technology. This talk will cover 101 getting started with Zowe CLI through to advanced tasks such as console commands, substitution variables, and will cover many scenarios for the audience from beginner mainframe students to advanced system programming.
2:30-3:30: How to Captain Your Mainframe’s USS Enterprise Environment – Joe Winchester, IBM; Steven Perva, Ensono; and Reg Harbeck, Mainframe Analytics
This session will show how to become a Unix System Services power user, embracing tools like Z Open Automation Utilities, Z Open Community, ZTI, Access Control Lists, CBT Tape USS utilities, and more … We’ll show with practical examples and demos how and why its crucial for mainframers to understand the capabilities of the USS environment as well as how to configure, secure, and use it as the basis for python and bash scripting. It’s also the platform to enable Linux developers to embrace the z/OS operating system from within the comfort of a modern flexible UTF enabled shell allowing a wider range of open source and other packages to be ported and run on-prem to help continue to make the mainframe less of a steep learning curve for distributed IT staff.
3:45-4:45 pm: Open Source and Industry Standards – Joe Bostian, Chat McIntyre, Frank DeGilio, IBM
Interfaces become industry standard when they are formalized in a specification, or achieve a level of pervasive use. Standards organizations outline rules that governments and other organizations adopt as approved processes. These all have to be expressed in commonformats at public locations, and through widely accepted processes. This is the essence of open source. Come and see how open source affects standards, and how standards are adopted by open source communities.
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