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SUMMARY:Zowe Q2 Webinar: Understanding Zowe Docs and using AI for Effective Navigation
DESCRIPTION:Whether you are installing\, configuring\, trouble-shooting\, or just learning about Zowe\, Zowe Docs will be your go-to guide. In this webinar on Tuesday\, July 1 at 8 am PT/11 am ET\,  the members of the Zowe community will share tips and best practices for optimal navigation and take you through a live tour with example use cases. A step-by-step demo on how to open an issue real-time will help improve the documentation for everyone while instantly making you a contributor to the Zowe Community. We will conclude with a demonstration on how best to partner with AI to answer Zowe questions and find Zowe specifics. Register here. \nSpeakers: Ana Ceron\, Andrew Jandacek\, Jakub Balhar\, Rose Sakach
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/zowe-q2-webinar-understanding-zowe-docs-and-using-ai-for-effective-navigation/
CATEGORIES:All,Webinar,Zowe
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SUMMARY:Mainframe Open Education Student User Group
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge management involves consciously organizing\, retaining\, and sharing an organization’s knowledge and experience. The primary aim is to connect those seeking information with those who possess it\, enhancing operational efficiency and expertise within the organization. This is exactly what Mainframe Open Education does. it is the wikipedia of mainframe knowledge and experience. \n \nJoin the core team every first Wednesday of the month for a live discussion about Mainframe Open Education. We’ll hear from contributors and students who have engaged with the project to learn about how to get involved\, best practices\, badges and more! \nSpeakers include:  \n\nDevonte Hawkins\, IBM zStack Technical Specialist at IBM\nTaylor Hrupek\, Mainframe Business Specialist at Broadcom\nNanxi Meng\, Instructional Designer at Broadcom\nJ.J. Lovett\, Head of Education and Customer Engagement at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nTiiso Senosha\, contributor to Mainframe Open Education and past Open Mainframe Project Mentor\n\nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/mainframe-open-education-student-user-group-2-2/2025-07-02/
CATEGORIES:All,Education & Training,Mainframe Open Education,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250806T090000
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SUMMARY:Mainframe Open Education Student User Group
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge management involves consciously organizing\, retaining\, and sharing an organization’s knowledge and experience. The primary aim is to connect those seeking information with those who possess it\, enhancing operational efficiency and expertise within the organization. This is exactly what Mainframe Open Education does. it is the wikipedia of mainframe knowledge and experience. \n \nJoin the core team every first Wednesday of the month for a live discussion about Mainframe Open Education. We’ll hear from contributors and students who have engaged with the project to learn about how to get involved\, best practices\, badges and more! \nSpeakers include:  \n\nDevonte Hawkins\, IBM zStack Technical Specialist at IBM\nTaylor Hrupek\, Mainframe Business Specialist at Broadcom\nNanxi Meng\, Instructional Designer at Broadcom\nJ.J. Lovett\, Head of Education and Customer Engagement at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nTiiso Senosha\, contributor to Mainframe Open Education and past Open Mainframe Project Mentor\n\nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/mainframe-open-education-student-user-group-2-2/2025-08-06/
CATEGORIES:All,Education & Training,Mainframe Open Education,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250822
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SUMMARY:SHARE Cleveland (Ohio)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site at the conference again this year with several sessions including: \nMonday\, August 18:\n\n9:15–10:15 am: Which Mainframe Connection Protocol: FTP\, SSH\, or z/OSMF – Just Another Manic Monday? – Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom Corporation\n \nBefore launching your modernization project leveraging Open Mainframe Project Zowe\, it’s important to have a comprehensive understanding of the available mainframe connection protocols. REST APIs? FTP? SSH? We’ll cover the available options\, the pros and cons of each and how to use them with the Zowe clients – Zowe CLI\, Zowe Explorer for VSC and the Zowe Client SDKs. \n\n2:30-3:30 pm: Dispelling the Myths Around Open Source on the Mainframe – John Mertic\, Linux Foundation \nWondering 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. \n2:30-3:30 pm: Mainframe Modernization Trends (Including DevOps) – Len Santalucia and Jerry Edgington\, Pellera Technologies \nMany 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!!!!!!!! \nTuesday\, August 19:\n3:30 – 4:30 pm: Customer Success Stories with Zowe – Joe Winchester\, IBM \nThis 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. \nWednesday\, August 20:\n7:30-8:30 am: Skill Up! Mainframe Learning for All – IBM’s Devonte Hawkins\, Joe Winchester and Hunter Johnson\, Broadcom \nAs 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. \n10-11 am: Making the Mainframe Great Again With Zowe Command Line Interface (CLI) – Joe Winchester\, IBM and Gene Johnston\, Broadcom \nThe 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. \n2:30-3:30 pm: How to Captain Your Mainframe’s USS Enterprise Environment – Joe Winchester\, IBM; Steven Perva\, Ensono; and Reg Harbeck\, Mainframe Analytics \nThis 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. \n3:45-4:45 pm: Open Source and Industry Standards – Joe Bostian\, Chad McIntyre\, Frank DeGilio\, IBM \nInterfaces 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. \nLearn more about the event or register for it here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-cleveland-ohio/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference,SHARE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250903T090000
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SUMMARY:Mainframe Open Education Student User Group
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge management involves consciously organizing\, retaining\, and sharing an organization’s knowledge and experience. The primary aim is to connect those seeking information with those who possess it\, enhancing operational efficiency and expertise within the organization. This is exactly what Mainframe Open Education does. it is the wikipedia of mainframe knowledge and experience. \n \nJoin the core team every first Wednesday of the month for a live discussion about Mainframe Open Education. We’ll hear from contributors and students who have engaged with the project to learn about how to get involved\, best practices\, badges and more! \nSpeakers include:  \n\nDevonte Hawkins\, IBM zStack Technical Specialist at IBM\nTaylor Hrupek\, Mainframe Business Specialist at Broadcom\nNanxi Meng\, Instructional Designer at Broadcom\nJ.J. Lovett\, Head of Education and Customer Engagement at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nTiiso Senosha\, contributor to Mainframe Open Education and past Open Mainframe Project Mentor\n\nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/mainframe-open-education-student-user-group-2-2/2025-09-03/
CATEGORIES:All,Education & Training,Mainframe Open Education,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251001T090000
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SUMMARY:Mainframe Open Education Student User Group
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge management involves consciously organizing\, retaining\, and sharing an organization’s knowledge and experience. The primary aim is to connect those seeking information with those who possess it\, enhancing operational efficiency and expertise within the organization. This is exactly what Mainframe Open Education does. it is the wikipedia of mainframe knowledge and experience. \n \nJoin the core team every first Wednesday of the month for a live discussion about Mainframe Open Education. We’ll hear from contributors and students who have engaged with the project to learn about how to get involved\, best practices\, badges and more! \nSpeakers include:  \n\nDevonte Hawkins\, IBM zStack Technical Specialist at IBM\nTaylor Hrupek\, Mainframe Business Specialist at Broadcom\nNanxi Meng\, Instructional Designer at Broadcom\nJ.J. Lovett\, Head of Education and Customer Engagement at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nTiiso Senosha\, contributor to Mainframe Open Education and past Open Mainframe Project Mentor\n\nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/mainframe-open-education-student-user-group-2-2/2025-10-01/
CATEGORIES:All,Education & Training,Mainframe Open Education,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251007
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SUMMARY:Community Day at TechXchange (Orlando\, Florida)
DESCRIPTION:The Open Mainframe Project will again be featured as part of IBM TechXchange’s Community Day\, which will be held on October 6\, the first day of the event.  Last year\, Open Mainframe had record-breaking attendance and a packed agenda highlighting open source and projects including Zowe\, Galassa\, Mentorship\, Mainframe Open Education\, COBOL Programming Course\, Feilong\, Software Discovery Tool\, zopen Community and more. \nCommunity Day (Monday\, October 6) Schedule\n \nTransforming z/OS Software Management with an Open-First Approach Using Ansible and Zowe\n1:30-2:15pm | Room 1 | Jan Prihoda and Rose Sakach (Broadcom) \nHow to Contribute to Linux on the Mainframe\n1:30-2:15pm | Room 2 | Sarah Julia Kriesch (Kyndryl) and Elizabeth Joseph (IBM) \nCBT Tape – The Treasure Trove of Mainframe Utilities\n2:15-3:00pm | Room 1 | Joe Winchester (IBM) and Reg Harbeck (Mainframe Analytics) \nGalasa – Scaling Integration Testing for the Enterprise\n2:15-2:35pm | Room 2 | Louisa Denly (IBM) \nSkill Up! Mainframe Learning for All\n2:40-3:00pm | Room 2 | Kathleen Nordstrom (Broadcom) \nUnlock the Full Potential of Zowe Explorer – Essential Tips and Tricks AND What Mainframe Connection Protocols (FTP\, SSH\, or z/OSMF) Can I use for Zowe Clients?\n3:30-4:00pm | Room 1 | Dan Kelosky (Broadcom) \nMastering Mainframe Architectures – Transaction Processing on z/OS AND OpenTelemetry on Mainframe SIG: Progress Updates\n3:30-4:00pm | Room 2 | Rudiger Schulze (IBM) \nTake your mainframe career to a new level by contributing to Zowe\n4:15-5:00pm | Room 1 | Dan Kelosky (Broadcom) and Rose Sakach (Broadcom) \nZelma – z/VM and Linux Modern Administration\n4:15-5:00pm | Room 2 | Mike MacIsaac (Sine Nomine Associates) \nFrom Punch Cards to VS Code\n4:15-5:00pm | Room 1 | Wolfram Greis (European Mainframe Academy) \nA not-to-technical deep dive into Feilong\n5:15-6:00pm | Room 2 | Aazam Thakur (Open Mainframe Project Ambassador) and Mike Friessenger (SUSE) \n  \nAdditional Details\nTo learn more about these presentations or to add these to your schedule in the Session Catalog – click here. \nThere will be other Open Mainframe Project sessions and activities at TechXchange. For more details\, click here. \nRegister for Community Day for free using the Open Mainframe code here. (This only registers you for Community Day on Monday\, October 6. It does not give you access to the rest of the IBM TechXchange conference.) \nRegister with the Open Mainframe Project code and link for a 30% discount on the TechXchange conference here.  \nOpen Mainframe Project is planning the content for October 6 as it pertains to the Community Day or Pre-Conference Day. The Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project are not managing TechXchange. The main TechXchange event is planned and managed by IBM. Learn more about TechXchange here. If you have questions\, please email techxchange@openmainframeproject.org. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/community-day-2025/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Member Event,Open Mainframe Summit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251010
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SUMMARY:IBM TechXchange 2025 (Orlando\, FL)
DESCRIPTION:IBM TechXchange\, taking place October 6-9 at the Orange County Convention Center and Hilton Orlando\, is the ultimate learning hub for developers\, technologists\, and techies looking to grow their skills. With 400+ learning courses and labs\, 150+ available certifications\, 1k+ technical events per year and a growing community of over 400k members\, IBM TechXchange is on a mission to creating a better future with technology. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site again at Community Day on Monday\, October 6. Check out more details here. Additionally\, Open Mainframe will also have several other sessions presented by ambassadors and project leads including: \nMonday\, October 6:\n5:45 – 6:05 PM: The Linux Distributions Working Group as Part of the Open Mainframe Project – Sara Julia Kriesch (Kyndryl) \n4:00 – 5:00 PM: Dispelling the Myths Around Open Source on the Mainframe – Len Santalucia and Ken LoCascio (Pellera Tchnologies)\, Elizabeth Joseph (IBM)\, Steven Perva (Ensono) and Louisa Denly (IBM) \nWednesday\, October 8: \n11:00 – 11:20 AM: Credit Agricole: How to use modern tools to facilitate IBM z/OS operations and data access – Francois Delombe (CA-GIP) \n11:30 – 11:50 AM: Beyond DevOps: Unlocking New Possibilities with Zowe – Jan Prihoda (Broadcom) \n1:30 – 1:50 PM: Achieving Greater Business Agility with VS Code and Hybrid Toolchains – Vaughn Marshall (Broadcom) \n2:00 – 3:00 PM: ISPF and/or VS Code Zowe Explorer. how to become a power user in BOTH mainframe file editors – Jim Horne (Lowe’s Companies) and Joe Winchester (IBM) \n2:00 – 3:30 PM: Using OpenTelemetry to integrate the mainframe into enterprise-wide observability solutions – Chris Walker\, Rudiger Schulze\, Ash Mahay (IBM) \nOpen Mainframe Project will also be in the Open Source Zone in the event expo. Stop by the booth and get your 10th anniversary swag! \nRegister with the Open Mainframe Project code and link for a 30% discount on the TechXchange conference here. 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-techxchange-2025/
CATEGORIES:All,IBM TechXchange,Industry Conference
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SUMMARY:(Webinar) Culture Speaks: How Internal Communication Shapes What We Believe and How We Behave
DESCRIPTION:This experiential session on Wednesday\, October 22 at 9-10 am PST explores how internal communication becomes the heartbeat of organizational culture. More than just words\, the way we lead\, listen\, and message—formally and informally—shapes what people believe is possible\, safe\, and true within an organization. But this won’t be your typical corporate communication workshop. In this session\, we listen with our whole selves. We’ll use music and expressive arts to tune into the rhythms of how we speak\, lead\, and listen. From soundscapes to storytelling\, participants will surface the unspoken energy of their organizational culture—and learn to shift it with intention. \nParticipants will engage in soundscapes\, storytelling\, and creative exercises that invite reflection on how trust\, intentional leadership and transparent communication (these were participants’ insights from the last panel) foster a culture of psychological safety and belonging. Come ready to listen deeply\, create boldly\, and leave with new strategies to communicate with purpose and intention. \nRegister for the webinar here. \nMaking Our Strong Community\, Stronger is a collaborative initiative sponsored by BMC\, Broadcom Mainframe Software\, IBM\, Open Mainframe Project\, Rocket Software and TechChannel. With a goal of accelerating diversity by sharing different voices\, perspectives and corporate cultures\, we hope to inspire meaningful conversations and most importantly\, approachable actions that elevate inclusivity with lasting impact. Join our LinkedIn Group here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/culture-speaks-webinar-october-2025/
CATEGORIES:All,Diversity & Inclusion,Making our Strong Community Stronger
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
DTSTAMP:20250925T212028Z
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SUMMARY:GS UK In-Person Conference 2025 (Whittlebury\, Northamptonshire)
DESCRIPTION:The GSE UK Region Conference\, an  annual event which takes place on November 3-6\, in Whittlebury\, Northamptonshire\, hosts more than 200 hours of technical training from vendors and GSE members. There are several keynote and plenary sessions and a large number of subject streams\, each of which covers a specific area of interest\, with serves as a cornerstone for collaboration\, learning and advancing the future of enterprise computing. For the second year in a row\, Open Mainframe Project will have a stream at the conference. \nMonday\, November 3\n\n\n11:00 – 11:45: The Power of the Mainframe Open Education for New Mainframers – Yetunde Obakeye\, Linux Foundation/OMP \n\n\n12:00 – 12:45: Harmonizing Mainframe Ecosystems with a Collaboration Among Linux Distributions – Sarah Julia Kriesch\, Kyndryl \n\n\n13:30 – 14:15: Zowe DevOps as a Curriculum – Richelle Anne Craw\, Beta Systems Software AG \n\n\n14:30 – 15:15: Productive mainframe delivery using open source – a practical demonstration – Bronwyn Davies and Stephen Morgan\, PopUp Mainframe Ltd. \n\n\n15:45 – 16:30: Our Galasa rollout – Joe Sexton\, Macro 4 Limited \n\n\nTuesday\, November 4\n\n\n10:15 – 11:00: Effective strategies for Git and source control on z/OS – Igor Todorovski and Harithamma D\, IBM \n\n\n11:30 – 12:15: Testing Across Boundaries: z/OS to Cloud with Galasa – Louisa Denly\, IBM \n\n\n12:30 – 13:15: Installing and Configuring Zowe – from Zowe to Enterprise deployment – Jakub Balhar\, Broadcom Mainframe Software and Joe Winchester\, IBM \n\n\n14:30 – 15:15: Zowe CLI in Action: Enabling Mainframe Automation and Self-Service Portals – Diego Rodriguez\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n15:30 – 16:15: Hidden treasures\, advanced features\, and administrative tips for Zowe API Mediation Layer – Elliot Jalley\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n16:45 – 17:30: Automating Mainframe Operations with REST APIs & Zowe CLI Plug-ins – Joshua Powell and Miroslav Strnad\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\nWednesday\, November 5\n\n\n10:00 – 10:45: Build Your First REST API App to Manage Started Tasks – we’ll show you how! – Jan Prihoda and Sergei Krunevich\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n11:15 – 12:00: Driving Operational Visibility for Mainframe Infrastructure APIs with Open Telemetry and the Zowe AP – Elliot Jalley\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n12:15 – 13:00: From complainer to committer: How I got involved in open source and you can too – Joshua Waters\, Next Retail Ltd. and Dave Nice\, IBM \n\n\n14:15 – 15:00: CBT Tape\, a treasure trove of powerups no mainframer should be without – Marcus Davage at BMC Software Ltd and Joe Winchester\, IBM \n\n\n15:15 – 16:00: Updating Legacy Code the Open Source Way: Stories from a Maintainer – Oleksandr Hubanov and Germanas Samrickis\, Rocket Software UK Ltd \n\n\n16:30 – 17:15: Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduction to Modern Observability and OpenTelemetry – Ruediger Schulze and Chris Walker\, IBM \n\n\nThursday\, November 6\n\n\n10:00 – 10:45: Feilong: Empowering z/VM Adoption – Rajat Sharma\, IBM \n\n\n11:15 – 12:00: The Power Trio: Visualizing Db2 for z/OS with REST\, OpenTelemetry\, and Grafana – Sujit Neb\, BMC Software Ltd \n\n\n12:15 – 13:00: Zopen: ‘Apt’ly bringing package management to the Mainframe – Russell Wilson\, IBM UK LTD. \n\n\nThe full schedule can be found here. \nRegister for the event here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/gs-uk-in-person-conference-2025-whittlebury-northamptonshire/
CATEGORIES:All,CFP,GS UK
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T100000
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SUMMARY:Mainframe Open Education Student User Group
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge management involves consciously organizing\, retaining\, and sharing an organization’s knowledge and experience. The primary aim is to connect those seeking information with those who possess it\, enhancing operational efficiency and expertise within the organization. This is exactly what Mainframe Open Education does. it is the wikipedia of mainframe knowledge and experience. \n \nJoin the core team every first Wednesday of the month for a live discussion about Mainframe Open Education. We’ll hear from contributors and students who have engaged with the project to learn about how to get involved\, best practices\, badges and more! \nSpeakers include:  \n\nDevonte Hawkins\, IBM zStack Technical Specialist at IBM\nTaylor Hrupek\, Mainframe Business Specialist at Broadcom\nNanxi Meng\, Instructional Designer at Broadcom\nJ.J. Lovett\, Head of Education and Customer Engagement at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nTiiso Senosha\, contributor to Mainframe Open Education and past Open Mainframe Project Mentor\n\nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/mainframe-open-education-student-user-group-2-2/2025-11-05/
CATEGORIES:All,Education & Training,Mainframe Open Education,Webinar
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SUMMARY:CLI Meets AI: Introducing ZCrafter (Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:ZCrafter is a CLI tool that helps you work with COBOL\, JCL\, and mainframe systems using AI. You ask questions\, analyze code for bugs\, troubleshoot errors and get instant answers about mainframe development. Based on Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe\, ZCrafter was created by NIU students in the IBM Z Student Ambassador Program. \nJoin us on Friday\, December 5 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET for a presentation that will include an overview and live demo of ZCrafter. The creators will also be sharing their journey into mainframes\, their experience with open source\, trends in AI and technology and the future of mainframe. Register for the event here. \nSpeakers: NIU Students Victor Taiwo\, Sang Pham\, Oyewale Adeoye\, and Paris Richards \n  \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cli-meets-ai-introducing-zcrafter-webinar/
CATEGORIES:All,Zowe
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227
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SUMMARY:SHARE Orlando 2026
DESCRIPTION:SHARE Orlando\, happening on February 22-26 at the Rosen Centre Hotel\, 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. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site at the conference again this year with several sessions including: \nMonday\, February 23 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST \nFrom Journeys to Roadmaps: AI-Curated Learning for New Mainframers \nKelsey Colberg and Nanxi Meng\, Broadcom \nMonday\, February 23 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm EST \nAsk Me Anything: Open Source + Mainframes \nJoe Winchester\, IBM \nMonday\, February 23 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm EST\nAutomating Mainframe Operations and Powering Self-Service Portals with Zowe CLI & Python \nDiego Rodriguez and Rose Sakach\, Broadcom \nMonday\, February 23 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm EST \nMaking the Mainframe Great Again With the Zowe Command Line Interface (CLI)  \nJoe Winchester\, IBM \nTuesday\, February 24 9:15 am – 10:15 am EST\nZero-Cost\, High-Impact: Modernizing RMF Reporting with ZOWE ZEBRA and Grafana \nJoe Carlisle\, Hitachi Vantara \nTuesday\, February 24 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm EST\nBYOD Lab: Your IDE in a Container – Hands on Lab \nSandeep Sirivolu and Thomas McQuitty\, Broadcom \nWednesday\, February 25 10:30 am – 10:50am EST\nHello Mainframe\, How Are You Today? Using Zowe in an AI World With MCP AI Agents  \nJoe Winchester\, IBM\, Andrew Toews\, Gestell \nWednesday\, February 25 3:45 pm – 4:45pm EST\nZowe API Mediation Layer Made Easier: Faster Install\, Smarter Admin Training \nElliot Jalley and Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom \nThursday\, February 26 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm EST \nCBT Tape: A Treasure Trove of Mainframe Utilities \nKarla Houser\, Caterpillar Inc.\, Joe Winchester\, IBM\, Reg Harbeck\, Independent Consultant \nThursday\, February 26 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST\nBuilding Open Source and Proprietary Software on a Zowe Base \nJoe Winchester\, IBM
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-orlando-2026/
LOCATION:Rosen Centre Hotel\, 9840 International Drive\, Orlando\, FL\, 32819\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,SHARE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260821
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SUMMARY:SHARE Pittsburgh 2026
DESCRIPTION:SHARE Pittsburgh\, happening on August 16-20 at the The Westin Pittsburgh hotel\, bringing together IT professionals for five days of community\, knowledge sharing\, and forward-thinking insights centered around the mainframe. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site at the conference again this year with several sessions including: \nMonday\, August 17\n9:45am – 10:05am EDT: From Datasets to AI Insights: What’s New in Storage Management with OMEGAMON – Chris Walker\, IBM \nMainframe storage teams are being asked to do more with less—while data growth\, complexity\, and skills transitions keep accelerating. In this 20‑minute session\, we’ll spotlight the newest capabilities in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage that help storage professionals move faster from “something changed” to “here’s what to do next.” You’ll see how Realtime Dataset Metrics (RDM) brings a modern\, Zowe-based web experience to dataset-level work and how new AI-based insights can be leveraged to proactively identify problems before they become incidents. Finally we’ll show storage metrics can be both integrated across the OMEGAMON family though the new Grafana-based web UI and streamed to observability consumers using the OMEGAMON Data Provider in a variety of formats like OpenTelemetry and JSON. \n10:30am – 11:30am EDT: Open Source and the Mainframe Panel: stAsk Me Anything? – Joe Winchester\, Nanxi Meng\, IBM \nWith the growing use of open source software on the mainframe\, there are many questions to answer. How will companies adopt and trust the technology ? How will vendors participate in a way that brings revenue yet doesn’t detract from the “free at the point of source” ? Will open source make the platform less unique and is this is a good or bad thing for z/OS ? What role do early career professional bring alongside experienced tenure mainframes ? What role does academia and learning initiatives play ? What is the intersection and opportunity with open source and AI on the platform ? This panel will place customer sysprogs and DbAs\, students\, and software vendors alongside to present their arguments and ideas and take Q&A from the audience to help share ideas\, problems and solutions. \n10:30am – 11:30am EDT: The Future of Mainframe: Zowe\, AI\, and the New-to-z SME – Dan Kelosky\, Rose Sakach\, Broadcom \nThe Open Mainframe Project Zowe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is key to open-source integration and development on z/OS. This session explores the strategic direction of the Zowe MCP Server and showcases use cases where MCP\, paired with AI\, accelerates onboarding and productivity. See featured practical examples using AI tools to assist in complex tasks like decoding JCL and Assembler. \n1:15pm – 2:15pm EDT: Leveraging Git and VS Code Tooling for Your Mainframe Applications – Joe Winchester\, Nanxi Meng\, IBM \nLearn how Morgan Stanley has moved to Git and is making use of the VS Code functionality available to help mainframe developers leverage these new tools in their day to day development efforts \nTuesday\, August 18\n8:00am – 9:00am EDT: Modern Way of Developing COBOL Applications Using Zowe Explorer and Z Open Editor – Lewis James\, Akanksha Modi\, IBM \nTraditional CICS development often relies on legacy tools that can limit productivity and slow onboarding. This session demonstrates how Zowe Explorer for CICS TS on VS Code modernizes the CICS TS development experience by enabling developers to work with mainframe resources using a familiar\, intuitive interface.\nFocusing on enhancements and extension work for CICS TS\, the session highlights how developers can streamline access\, editing\, and interaction with CICS artifacts directly from VS Code. Through a practical walkthrough\, attendees will see how this approach reduces context switching\, improves efficiency\, and brings a developer-first experience to mainframe workflows. \n9:15am – 10:15am EDT: Modernizing the Mainframe Developer Experience with Zowe: TD Bank’s Strategy for Empowering the Next Generation – Wellington Mazongo\, TD Bank – Rose Sakach\, Broadcom \nThis session will present a practical case study detailing how TD successfully leveraged the open-source capabilities of Open Mainframe Project Zowe to fundamentally modernize their z/OS development and maintenance process. Facing the dual challenge of workforce transition and the need for accelerated application delivery\, they implemented a strategic plan to combine traditional\, platform-specific tooling with a standardized\, open-source stack centered on Zowe. \n9:15am – 10:15am EDT: Top Open Source Powerups No Mainframer Should Be Without – Joe Winchster\, IBM \nThe intersection of #opensource and the z/OS operating system has yielded some nuggets of technology and tools to make every majnframer’s daily tasks easier and more productive. This talk will showcase a number of these with demos and how to guides to obtain and install as well as cover use cases and licensing concerns. We’ll look at zti to bring 3270 emulation to a shell. We’ll explore z open community that delivers vim\, curl\, OpenSSL\, bash\, and many other great ports to USS. We’ll dig into Zowe Explorer for VS Code and IntelliJ and show how these bring modern GUI IDEs to the platform. CBT will be covered with its powerful ISPF installer and a look at some of its most popular utilities. Galsa\, SEAR\, Blackwall\, PIRACF and other great power ups that work well in enterprise computing environments as well as daily tasks will be covered. \n2:30pm – 3:30pm EDT: Attracting New Talent and Driving Developer Productivity – Brian Jagos\, Vaughn Marshall\, Broadcom \nAs mainframe practitioners retire\, business continuity concerns have made attracting new talent to z/OS application development more important than ever. During this session\, our speakers will share what Sunlife has been doing to address these concerns. We’ll share our priorities\, how we are accomplishing our goals\, and the challenges we experienced along the way. \nWednesday\, August 19\n9:15am – 10:15am EDT: Hello Mainframe! Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents to Talk to z/OS – Joe Winchster\, IBM – Andrew Toews\, Gestell – Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom \nThe Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe CLI is a powerful way to execute raw z/OS commands\, but they lack the contextual understanding for mainframe development. Users must be familiar with TSO syntax\, mainframe concepts like data sets\, JCL\, how to understand error codes\, codepages\, … This talk will showcase the Zowe MCP server that interacts with Zowe CLIs and SDK APIs and allows tasks such as job submission and file navigation and manipulation using a textual language interface. In addition we’ll show how to execute TSO commands with guardrails and syntax assistance plus command completion and help. \n10:30am – 10:50am EDT: DEI\, Open Source Software & Mainframe (MF) Transformation\, Illustrated via a MF Database Performance Example – Thomas Halinski\, Broadcom \nIn this session we will start with an explanation of diversity in Open Source Software and its positive effects in the IT Industry. We will then review the definition of what a REST API is and what the open-source project of Zowe is. Then we’ll take a look at an example of Open Source Software for a performance monitoring use case\, using sophisticated open-source tools to visualize performance metrics exposed by an API. The comparison of the original performance report with the Transformed Open Source version is outstanding.\nOur example will be based on the open-source software of Zowe with an API for a MF database of IDMS\, but can be used wit Db2\, IMS or any MF database. The techniques are general and can be applied to any product that exposes performance metrics through a REST API. \nWednesday\, August 19\n3:45pm – 4:45pm EDT: Simplifying and Opening the Mainframe to Clients with the Zowe Command Line Interface – Joe Winchster\, IBM – Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom \nThe 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 in between. 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. This talk will cover using z/OSMF as the back end as well as the Zowe Native SSH server. \nThursday\, August 20\n1:15pm – 2:15pm EDT: BYOD Lab: A CI/CD Workshop with Zowe CLI and Jenkins – Tom McQuitty\, Sandeep Sirivolu\, Broadcom \nThis hands-on lab guides building CI/CD automation for the build-scan-test-deploy DevOps workflow. Using Open Mainframe Project Zowe CLI and Jenkins\, attendees will learn best practices like credential handling\, dependency management\, and z/OS connectivity configuration. The session emphasizes code reuse through techniques like templating\, ensuring confidence in applying these concepts.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-pittsburgh-2026/
LOCATION:The Westin Pittsburgh\, 1000 Penn Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,SHARE
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SUMMARY:Zowe Webinar: PAGENT policies to unite Zowe and AT-TLS
DESCRIPTION:Join the Zowe community for a webinar on Tuesday\, September 22 at 8 am PT/11:00 ET that provides a detailed overview for configuring PAGENT policies to unite Zowe and AT-TLS \nFor sites using AT-TLS the TLS “http to https:” layer is provided by the PAGENT started task. Configuring this for Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe is an area that can be tricky to get right. This webinar will cover the basics of AT-TLS\, where errors and informational messages are logged\, how to enable different levels of tracing and understand output flow. We will discuss how to create the set of rules for inbound server\, outbound client to client\, and outbound client to APIML services including z/OSMF. The Zowe community will also introduce a cool\, new “AT-TLS Checker” utility. \nBring your questions and join the webinar here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/zowe-webinar-pagent-policies-to-unite-zowe-and-at-tls/
CATEGORIES:All,Zowe
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