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SUMMARY:Grazer Linuxtage (Graz\, Austria)
DESCRIPTION:Grazer Linuxtage is a conference taking place annually in Graz on Apirl 5-6. Grazer Linuxtage is organized by volunteers and offers attendees the opportunity to learn more about open source software and open source hardware. \nOpen Mainframe Project Ambassador Sarah-Julia Kriesch\, IT consultant for Accenture\, will be on-site on Saturday\, April 6 at 10-10:45 am (Europe time) to present and overview of the Linux Distribution Working Group and how the different distributions collaborate. \n\nopenSUSE\, Fedora and Debian have joined forces with an IBM representative as the Linux Distributions Working Group in the Open Mainframe Project with the aim of maintaining the respective mainframe (s390x) ports together and ultimately providing all Linux distributions with the corresponding patches and can integrate extensions. At first this idea was viewed with some surprise from outside\, but at community level we are an “international” Linux community consisting of different Linux distributions. In the meantime\, SUSE\, Canonical (Ubuntu)\, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux have also joined. In the same way\, they started to develop the tooling for automatic tests together with openQA. \nThis lecture\, given in German\, will present the advantages of joint collaboration on Linux distributions with different communities and\, using the example of the Linux Distributions Working Group\, show how we can develop together so that everyone has an advantage in the end. \nCheck out the complete schedule here. \nThis event is not managed by the Linux Foundation. To learn more\, visit the main event page here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/grazer-linuxtage-graz-austria/
CATEGORIES:Ambassadors,Industry Conference,Linux Distributions Working Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240303
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240308
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SUMMARY:SHARE (Orlando\, Florida)
DESCRIPTION:SHARE\, an independent volunteer-run information technology association that provides education\, professional networking and industry influence\, invites you to join them in Orlando on March 3-7\, 2024. SHARE is an associate member of the Open Mainframe Project and Open Mainframe ambassadors will be on-site.  Check out these Open Mainframe Project -related sessions and register here. \n**All sessions are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST) and will take place at the Rosen Centre Hotel. \nMonday\, March 4:\n9:15 – 10:15 am: Customer Success Stories with the Open Mainframe Project Zowe – Joe Winchester and Ross Cruickshank\, IBM\, and Murali P Panchalingam \nThis talk covers a number of success customer stories and use cases adoptiong Zowe technology\, focusing on Education and training of New to Z staff\, DevOps and automation scripting\, Db2 modernization through Zowe Desktop extensions and VS Code development\, as well as custom SDK dashboards to build situational apps for in-house productivy. Each scenario is backed up by quotes and videos from the customers together with sample code and tips and information for others in their Zowe journey\, whether getting started or wanting to learn from the success of others. \n1:15-2:15 pm: The “ABC’s” of Building Dashboards Using Zowe APIs – Rose Sakach and Toine Micheielse\, Broadcom  \nReady to build a mainframe app using APIs? Then don’t miss this session. We’ll walk through each step of creating a simple dashboard using Zowe APIs\, Python\, a data store\, and Kibana. Walk away with a handy checklist containing all the details – no notebook required! \n2:45-3:45 pm: IBM Z System Automation 4.3 – Exploit Zowe and REST APIs to Enable Next Gen Operators – Gunnar Freitag\, IBM \nLearn about exciting new Z Automation capabilities of the new SA z/OS 4.3 release supporting IBM Z and DevOps for enhanced operations management. Learn about – On-demand automated resources to dynamically adapt to changing business requirements – The new ability to access your automation environment via REST calls and a wide variety of added enhancements making your life easier. Come and learn about user scenarios and improvements delivered recently. \n4-5 pm: Learn How Zowe Explorer Empowers Both New and Experienced Mainframers – Joe Winchester\, Billie Simmons\, Ross Cruickshank\, IBM \nThe Zowe Explorer Visual Studio Code plugin is being adopted as “the new face of Z” across the specturm of mainframe experience from education courses “IBM Z Explore\, COBOL training” through to experienced system programmers and assembler developers using it as their preferred IDE and mainframe “all-in-one” productivity workbench. This talk covers the different scenarios and use cases that enable everyone to explorer the mainframe with Zowe as their navigator. \nTuesday\, March 5:\n7:15 – 7:45 am: BOF: Mainframe Open Education Project – William Cash\, Hunter JOhnson and J.J. Lovett\, Broadcom  \nWorking session to build upon research conducted by the Core Team Members regarding roles and responsibilities\, the most desired education topics for NextGen mainframes\, evolving education to meet and suit the needs of new mainframers. We are looking to maintain engagement to drive year-round learning and education for the entire ecosystem through various avenues. \n10:30 – 11:30 am: Enterprise Deployment and Configuration of Zowe – Joe Winchester and Ross Cruickshank\, IBM\, and Murali P Panchalingam \nAs Zowe grows in maturity and adoption\, more customers are deploying it at scale\, in production environments\, and relying on it for more critical infrastructure workloads. This talk covers the use cases and patterns to assist with Enterprise roll-out\, covering everything from initial install and configuration of the first POC\, through to securing with client certificates\, MFA\, high availability within an LPAR or cross syplex\, rolling out updates\, central configuration of connection details. \n1-2 pm: PSP: Next-Gen Mainframe DevX with IntelliJ IDEA\, Jenkins\, and GitHub – Uladzislau Kalesnikau (Software Engineer\, IBA Group \nIn this presentation\, we focus on enhancing the Developer Experience (DevX) for mainframe systems by developing mainframe source code within the IntelliJ IDEA IDE environment\, managed as GitHub projects. Specifically\, we will delve into the build stage of the IBA Group DevOps suite\, which is based on Zowe products. Our discussion will include an in-depth look at the testing options available in this setup\, as well as Jenkins’ role in automating and optimizing workflows. We will also test how easily we can expand our solution by adding more parts\, and how well it can function in different settings. This will involve using CICS and working with various programming languages like COBOL\, HLASM\, Java\, and Python. \nLooking ahead\, we’ll examine the potential impact of the Language Server Protocol (LSP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on enhancing mainframe development in upcoming versions. This presentation is crucial for mainframe developers looking to enhance their DevX and modernize their development practices using IntelliJ IDEA. \nWednesday\, March 6:\n5:30-6:30 pm: ZEN – The “Easy Button” for Zowe Installation – Jan Prihoda\, Broadcom \nZEN helps you speed the deployment of Zowe through a wizard-driven configuration guide. Easily exploit rich features such as variable value validation\, real-time security validation\, assistance with certificate management\, and configuration file validation with just a few clicks. Come and see for yourself what ZEN can do from the comfort of your desktop! \nCheck out the complete schedule for SHARE and register here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-orlando-florida/
CATEGORIES:Ambassadors,Industry Conference,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231019
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SUMMARY:IBM Z Day 2023 (Virtual Conference managed by IBM)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for IBM Z Day on October 18 from 8 am – 5 pm ET to connect\, learn and be inspired. \n\nIBM Z Day is a free 1-day enterprise computing virtual conference for anyone and everyone! Hear the latest about IBM Z and LinuxONE\, and join our lineup of global thought leaders who will highlight industry trends and innovation spanning Hybrid Cloud\, AI\, Quantum-Safe Security\, and more! \nREGISTER FOR IBM Z DAY NOW: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2023 \nExplore 5 content-rich learning tracks:  \n\nIBM Z  – Build an AI-infused\, cyber resilient hybrid cloud platform with unmatched\, industry-first quantum-safe security that enables you to deliver ground-breaking innovation with greater productivity and a lower carbon footprint.\nApp Modernization – Accelerate application modernization and AIOps across IBM Z and Cloud leveraging APIs to access applications and data\, implement enterprise DevOps and full application observability all as you learn how IBM is infusing AI into application modernization.\nData & AI – NEW! Dive deep into how the Data & AI on IBM Z’s portfolio offers resilient\, efficient\, no-compromise enterprise data serving for the world’s most demanding hybrid cloud\, transactional\, and analytics applications on IBM Z.\nSustainability – When sustainability\, productivity and profitability coexist they support profit and planet. Hear from environmental\, business and IT thought leaders on how IT can identify and reduce energy usage\, and where IBM Z and LinuxONE are already making a positive impact on our planet.\n\n\nIBM Z Skills Acceleration – Get free training & network with like-minded early professionals\, students and lifelong learners from all around the world to advance skills & learn from subject matter experts.\n\nSign Up NOW: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2023
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-z-day-2023-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Member Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231018
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SUMMARY:All Things Open (Raleigh\, NC)
DESCRIPTION:All Things Open will be hosted on October 15-17 in Raleigh\, North Carolina. ATO is an educational conference where attendees learn about new technologies and topics\, and it’s always been that way. The goal is for attendees to leave having learned something or been made aware of something new. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be featured in the event in this session: \nMonday\, October 16:\n2:45 – 3:30 pm: Linux Distribution Collaboration …on a Mainframe! – Elizabeth Joseph\, Global Head\, Open Source Program Office for IBM zSystems & LinuxONE at IBM \nLinux has run on the mainframe architecture (s390x) for over 20 years now\, and there’s even Linux-only mainframe hardware! But tight collaboration between the Linux distributions is rather new. Enter the Open Mainframe Project Linux Distributions Working Group\, founded in late 2021. \nBringing together various Linux distributions\, both corporate-backed and community-driven\, representatives from openSUSE\, Debian\, Fedora\, SUSE\, and more immediately joined the effort to share bug reports and patches that impact all the distributions. Issues are often shared and discussed on the mailing list\, and more complicated topics covered during the monthly meetings. The working group has a number of success stories that will be shared. \nFuture potential issues are also tackled\, and notes shared about upstream changes that may soon impact the package processes. In the latest effort\, the team has started thinking about actual upstream projects to invite to our group to be more pro-active about changes that may cause problems on the s390x architecture. \nBut more importantly\, this is a story about community and collaboration. Many people view the various Linux distributions as a competitive space\, but like so much of the open source software community\, we are all more successful when we share knowledge about our core. The success of this working group\, and growing enthusiasm for it from new Linux distributions who are joining\, is a great example of this. \nAll Things Open is not managed by the Linux Foundation or Open Mainframe Project. To register or learn more about the conference\, click on the All Things Open conference: https://2023.allthingsopen.org/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/all-things-open-raleigh-nc/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230815
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SUMMARY:Zowe Day @ SHARE New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:SHARE New Orleans takes place on August 13-18 at the Hyatt Regency. Open Mainframe Project will be represented at the conference with several sessions. including Zowe Day. \nZowe Day will take place on Monday\, August 14. \n9:45 – 10:45 am: Zowe Day Part 1: Zowe Hot Topics: Installation & Administration \nBring your installation questions\, suggestions and challenges to this session! Our Zowe experts will share tips & tricks for installing and administering Zowe z/OS components (API Mediation Layer\, Desktop\, & ZSS) and introduce you to Zen: the mainframe installation wizard for Zowe. \nSpeakers:  \n\nSean Grady\, Rocket Software\nJan Prihoda\, Broadcom\nJoe Winchester\, IBM\n\n11 am – 12 pm: Zowe Day Part 2: Zowe V2 Technical Highlights: API-ML\, CLI\, Web UI\, Explorers\, SDKs\, Chat and Event Streaming \nJoin this session if you want to know what’s new with Zowe V2 and a peek at Zowe V3. The Zowe Community Squad leads summarize features\, functions\, capabilities and important changes delivered in all of the Zowe V2 LTS release components as well as new components introduced as Technical Previews and GA extensions. \nSpeakers:  \n\nSean Grady\, Rocket Software\nElliot Jalley\, Broadcom\nMark Ackert\, Broadcom\nUladzislau Kalesnikau\, IBA\nAdam Wolfe\, Broadcom\n\n1:45 – 2:45 pm: Zowe Day Part 3: An Overview of Zowe’s Zero Trust Architecture with Technical Tips for Configuring Zowe Security \nZowe Security Deep Dive. Looking to better understand Zowe security? Don’t miss this session. We’ll review it from two angles. First\, how the Zowe Community produces Zowe as secure open source software and second\, how Zowe consumers configure Zowe components for high availability (HA)\, access & authentication that align with their internal security policies. \nSpeakers: \n\nMark Ackert\, Broadcom\nSean Grady\, Rocket Software\nJoe Winchester\, IBM\n\n3:15 – 4:15 pm: Zowe Day Part 4: Built-On-Zowe: Extenders Showcase Their Apps \nWith over 75 Zowe conformant extensions\, you are bound to be using a product\, solution or practical application enabled by one of them! Attend this session to see demonstrations and meet the vendors who develop them. \nSpeakers:  \n\n\nDomenico D’Alterio\, IBM\nMichael DuBois\, Broadcom\nJeff Cherrington\, Rocket Software\n\nLearn more or register on the main SHARE website.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-new-orleans-zowe-day/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221209
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SUMMARY:Open Source Finance Forum (New York\, New York)
DESCRIPTION:Open Source in Finance Forum\, hosted on December 8 in New York City\, is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. Learn more or register here. \nThe event brings together experts across financial services\, technology\, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site with a panel titled\, “Trends in Enterprise Open Source.” Panelists include Alex Kim\, Open Source Incubator Advocate at IBM; Misty Decker\, Director\, Worldwide Product Marketing\, AMC Portfolio at Micro Focus;  Len Santalucia\, CTO at Vicom Infinity\, a Converge Company; and Moderator John Mertic\, Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation.  \nForward-thinking organizations no longer consider their IT infrastructure as the cost of doing business but as a competitive advantage. These organizations have various IT services and infrastructure\, from SaaS services\, cloud-native applications\, edge computing\, and even mainframe. This hybrid infrastructure isn’t an easy out-of-the-box solution. However\, the ability to tailor it to their business needs enables them to create better customer experiences and engagement. In this panel\, global IT leaders will share how they view and use open source projects including benefits\, perceived barriers and strategies that can be applied to your organization. Add this session to your schedule here. \nLearn more about the conference or to register for it\, visit the main event website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/open-source-finance-forum-new-york-new-york/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,LF Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221103
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SUMMARY:All Things Open 2022
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAll Things Open 2022\, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year\, will take place on October 30-November 2 in Raleigh\, NC.  \nThree beliefs are at the core of what we do:\n\nTechnology will continue to increase in importance and influence as we move forward\nOpen Source is at the core of innovation and remains a gateway to participation and opportunity\nLive events and in-person communication and dialogue will continue to increase in importance and have never been more vital\n\nThese beliefs and created events and platforms that have hosted tens of thousands from all over the world\, including All Things Open\, the largest open-source event on the U.S. east coast.  \nSubmit a speaking proposal (deadline April 22): https://www.allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers-2022/ \nLearn more on the main event website: https://www.allthingsopen.org/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cfp-open-all-things-open-2022/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220923
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SUMMARY:Open Mainframe Summit 2022 (Philadelphia\, PA + Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project is excited to announce that Open Mainframe Summit will be an in-person event this year! Join us on September 21-22\, 2022 in Philadelphia\, PA. Register here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/ \nIf you missed the 2021 event\, you can find a recap here. Or\, you can find the all the videos available on the Open Mainframe Summit 2021 playlist on our Youtube Channel. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-summit-2022/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,CFP,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Summit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220827
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SUMMARY:SHARE Columbus 2022 (Columbus\, Ohio + Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for SHARE Columbus\, August 21-26\, 2022\, for a week-long program of unmatched education\, face-to-face networking opportunities\, live technical sessions and receptions. Register for the conference here: https://www.share.org/Events/SHARE-Columbus-2022/Registration. \nSeveral Open Mainframe Project Ambassadors will be on-site to represent various projects including COBOL\, Zowe and more. Check out the schedule here: \nMonday\, August 22: Zowe Day\nZowe Day offers 4 information-packed educational sessions designed to be consumable regardless of experience level or role. Attend just one or as many as you like – this is a great opportunity to meet and learn from the experts! Join our vibrant community and help shape the future of Zowe. \n9:45 -10:45 am \n\n Zowe Day Part 1: Overview of Zowe\, Today and Beyond – Rose Sakach (Broadcom) and Bruce Armstrong (IBM)  Session 1 kicks off the day with a general Zowe overview and is recommended for all\, but a must for those new to Zowe.\n\n\n11 am – 12 pm  \n\nZowe Day Part 2: How Zowe Helps DevOps – Joe Winchester (IBM) and Michael Bauer (Broadcom) If your organization is interested in enabling mainframe DevOps – don’t miss  Session 2 where the focus on Zowe Command Line Interface (CLI) Use Cases will demonstrate its applicability.\n\n1:45 – 2:45 pm   \n\nZowe Day Part 3: Deploy and Configure Zowe – Security Updates – Joe Winchester (IBM) and Rose Sakach (Broadcom) System Administrators responsible for the install and configuration of Zowe will want to reserve a seat for Session 3 where the experts will offer step-by-step best practices with guidance on security options and additional recommendations for consideration.\n\n3:15 – 4:15 pm  \n\nZowe Day Part 4: How to extend Zowe – Michael Bauer (Broadcom) We will conclude the day with a focus on the development community interested in extending Zowe. Session 4 will showcase the programmable interfaces and their associated Zowe Conformance programs.\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, August 22:\n11 – 12 am  \n\nWomen of COBOL Panel Discussion – Misty Decker (Micro Focus) With the launch of the new Women of COBOL video series on Tech Channel\, we’re looking to feature women for their technical knowledge and expand visibility to the amazing work these women are doing. In this panel discussion\, we’ll meet some Women of COBOL and learn about their personal journey and the technical areas they are experts in.\n\nTuesday\, August 23:\n8 -9 am  \n\nZowe Version 2 Updates – Domenico D’Alterio (IBM)\, Bruce Armstrong (IBM)\, Joe Winchester (IBM) and Michael Bauer (Broadcom) Zowe allows you to protect your investment in z/OS and build the future of the mainframe in an open\, simple and familiar way. Zowe 1.0 entered in maintenance mode\, Zowe 2.0 recently became the “active” Long Term Release (LTS) of Zowe from the open community. It is based on 2+ years feedback on Zowe 1.0 from enterprise customers and the z/OS mainframe community at large. In this presentation you will learn about the enhancements that are available as part of Zowe 2.0 as well as you will learn what you need to know to migrate from Zowe 1.0 to Zowe 2.0.\n\n9:15 -10 15 am  \n\nWhat’s New in Zowe 2.0: Desktop\, Apps and ZSS – Sean Grady (Rocket Software) Zowe v2.0 is its first big change since Zowe launched in 2018. Each section has improvements and new features\, and there’s plenty to cover so join this session if you’d like to see what changes for installation and use of the Desktop\, ZSS\, and their Apps. Whether you’re a developer or user\, we’ll have tips for you to migrate and make best use of Zowe 2.0.\n\n10:30 – 11:30 am \n\nSchemas for Zowe 2.0: How they evolve the way you setup and validate Zowe – Sean Grady (Rocket Software) Zowe’s latest server release improves upon Zowe to address a common request: Make zowe server configuration easy to understand and validate! In 2.0\, we’ve added schemas everywhere and we’ll show you how this revolutionizes and simplifies how you setup Zowe\, track changes\, and clone & verify configuration.\n\nWednesday\, August 24:\n8-9 am  \n\nGetting Your Mainframe Ready for High Performance with Cloud Storage – Eddy Ciliendo & Tomer Zelberzvig (Model9) While the mainframe is a robust mission critical platform \, there is new storage out there barely being utilized by the mainframe. What is cloud storage? How do you connect to it from your mainframe? What needs to be done on the mainframe and TCP/IP in order to get high performance with cloud storage?\n\n10:30 – 11:30 am \n\nHow to Monitor and Manage Mainframe and Storage Performance Metrics Utilizing Voice and Open Source Software Tools – Len Santalucia\, Justin Santer\, Vincent Terrone (Vicom Infinity\, a Converge Company) We hear a lot of talk about hybrid\, multiplatform\, and Internet of Things. In this session\, Vicom Infinity\, a contributor and silver member of the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project\, will talk about their quest for easier access to mainframe and storage performance metrics by simply using your voice in a completely secure manner. ZEBRA (Zowe Embedded Browser for RMF/SMF and APIs) is an open source SW project under Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project’s ZOWE Project. It intends to provide re-usable and industry compliant JSON formatted RMF/SMF data records\, so that many other SW providers and users can exploit them. VIVA\, Vicom Infinity Voice Assistant posted at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8IQaE3rUs \, is a secure voice assistant that enables enterprise systems clients to use a voice user interface for their enterprise applications in a completely private and secure way. The integration of ZEBRA and VIVA provides the ultimate solution for fast and easy access to mainframe and storage performance metrics data.\n\n1:15-2:15 pm  \n\nI get my CICS on Route Zowe! – Joe Winchester (IBM) and Ezriel J. Gross (Rocket Software) This presentation will show how to use ope source Zowe tooling to develop\, administer\, deploy and test CICS applications. We’ll show how to build automation to drive CICS automation for compilation and deployment from a stand-alone environment using the Zowe command line interface\, as well as how to embed scripts in a Jenkins CICD pipeline. We’ll show how to use Visual Studio Code Zowe extensions to work with JCL\, REXX and TSO to drive z/OS\, as well as how to write\, compile\, and debug COBOL and Java CICS programs. We’ll show how to use VS Code tasks to integrate with CLI scripts. We’ll show how to use the Visual Studio Code Zowe CICS Explorer plugin to connect to CICS regions\, to view resources and perform actions like newcopy\, enable/disable\, and perform development tasks without needing to use CEMT or other CICS interfaces. We’ll show how to develop CICS programs with BMS maps\, CICS programs with web services\, and CICS Java programs\, all using Visual Studio Code Zowe extensions. This presentation has content for experienced CICS developers and system programmers\, as well as newcomers who want to learn how to interact with CICS through a CLI and through Visual Studio Code. This presentation will also cover interacting with Db2\, MQ and other subsystems that make up a CICS program’s technology stack.\n\n4-5 pm \n\nNavigating the Minefield: Diversity Tips for White Males – Misty Decker (Micro Focus) Does diversity make you a little nervous? Do you worry about giving someone a compliment or asking about their culture for fear of offending them? You know that tech needs to be more diverse and you want to be sensitive to your diverse colleagues’ feelings\, but how do you do that? In this open and honest conversation\, we’ll share tips for white males hoping to support their diverse colleagues without offending.\n\nThursday\, August 25:\n\n8-9 am  \n\nMentors Wanted: The Role of White Males in Improving Diversity and Inclusion – Misty Decker and Derek Britton (Micro Focus) Does it seem as though white males are often relegated to the sidelines of diversity efforts? It’s unclear what role they can play in improving the diversity and inclusion of their organizations. When it comes to mentors\, most people tend to connect with someone like them. But white males can provide very valuable advice and support for women and people of color\, if delivered appropriately. In this session\, Misty Decker (mentee) and Derek Britton (mentor) will share lessons learned from their mentor/mentee relationship and help you learn how to explore a similar partnership in ensuring diverse talent grows and succeeds.\n\n9:15 – 10:15 am  \n\nA Demo of Integrating Workload Automation in Automated Processes through Zowe Extensions – Domenico D’Alterio (IBM) Zowe enables the integration of Z specific workflow and actions in hybrid cloud application and processes. IBM Z Workload Scheduler extends Zowe API Mediation Layer and the Zowe CLI with a set of Workload Automation specifics that enable integration scenarios to\, for example\, resolve a ticket. Come and learn how IBM Z Workload Scheduler extensions of Zowe enable a real automated scenario for ticket resolution\, a demo of the scenario will be showed as part of the session.\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 26:\n8-9 am  \n\nExtending the Access\, Personas and Use Cases for z/OS Based REST Services: Zowe Chat – Domenico D’Alterio (IBM) and Bruce Armstrong (IBM) Zowe is always evolving and adding new capabilities to extend the access\, personas and use cases for z/OS interaction. Zowe Chat provides access to z/OS based services from a chat tool\, enabling team collaboration in problem solving and more through the collaborative tool already in use in your enterprise. Come and learn about this new Zowe component\, so how it is extensible and how it can help in your daily job.\n\n8-9 am  \n\nSimplified Container Management with SUSE Rancher – Mike Friesenegger (SUSE) During this session\, attendees will be introduced to SUSE Rancher and how it orchestrates Kubernetes to deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Learn about Rancher components with a demo that shows the deployment and use of Rancher components running on IBM Z and LinuxONE.\n\n9:15-10:15 am \n\nModernize z/OS System Management with As-a-Service Approach – Hiren Shaw (IBM) Today\, z/OS day-to-day administration requires specialized z/OS System programming skills. This session talks about how z/OS Management Services Catalog revolutionizes z/OS system management with easy-to-use modern interface. We will demonstrate how you can transform the way you manage your z/OS environment with the new z/OS Management Services Catalog. Completing z/OS management tasks is now simpler than ever for early tenure system programmers. This cloud-like interface helps systems programmers of all skill levels to be self-sufficient and productive using services.\n\n9:15 am-10:15 am \n\nFeilong: The Open Source API for z/VM Automation – Mike Friesenegger (SUSE)  Feilong is an Open Mainframe project.  Come learn about the project as well as be introduced to the technical components.  A demonstration will show the API in action driving z/VM functionality as well as how the API is used to provision and manage a cloud on z/VM.\n\n  \n9:15 – 10:15 am \n\nWhy we chose Zowe to help Advance our Mainframe Automation Initiatives – Rose Sakach (Broadcom) When tasked with enabling automation to address a series of infrastructure-group managed procedures\, this technical team began investigating leveraging APIs and Curl scripts but ultimately decided to use Zowe CLI. Join this session to learn why and gain insights into how Zowe can help advance your mainframe automation initiatives.\n\nLearn more about SHARE Columbus at the main event website here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-columbus-2022-columbus-ohio-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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SUMMARY:Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe annual ECC 2022 Conference will take place on June 12-14 at Marist College. Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at the event as a sponsor as well as presenting a few sessions.  \nThe 14th annual Enterprise Computing Community Conference will be hosted by Marist College with collaboration and support from our esteemed academic and industry partners and sponsors. If you would like to present or register for the event – please see below. \nSubmit a speaking proposal here (deadline May 13): https://ecc.marist.edu/web/conference2022/call-for-papers  \nRegister to attend in person here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=nq-hFIyyJ0uyQyXDPbb_-gjf6yjzqYxMra96hXEaFkFUQVdRMERERjFCTTROTVdYUllWRTZIVVlHRS4u. \nLearn more about the event on the main conference site here: https://ecc.marist.edu/. \n  \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cfp-open-enterprise-computing-community-ecc-conference/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220605
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SUMMARY:OpenSUSE Conference (Nuremberg\, Germany)
DESCRIPTION:The openSUSE Conference 2022 is schedule to take place June 2 to June 4. The openSUSE Conference is the annual openSUSE community event that brings people from around the world together to meet and collaborate. The organized talks\, workshops\, and BoF sessions provide a framework around more casual meet ups and hack sessions. Learn more about the conference or register for the event\, here. \nSarah Julia Kriesch\, an Open Mainframe Project Ambassador and contributor to the Linux Distributions Working Group\, will present at the conference with a talk titled\, “Collaboration Instead of Competition.” \nDefault community distributions are running in the same issues for special architectures. Every Linux distribution has got mostly separate maintainers and hardware distributors are handling these communities really often disconnected. That has been identified also for the architecture s390x. Therefore\, openSUSE\, Fedora\, Debian\, SUSE\, Canonical (Ubuntu) and Red Hat have established together with IBM a Linux Distributions Working Group for a better collaboration together and with the goal to achieve better support. In this presentation\, you should receive an overview of a good collaboration between Linux distributions and what you can achieve together with such a Working Group.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/opensuse-conference-nuremberg-germany/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220331
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SUMMARY:SHARE Dallas 2022
DESCRIPTION:SHARE 2022 will take place on March 27-30 in person in Dallas and virtually. To register for the event or to learn more\, visit https://www.share.org/Events/SHARE-Dallas-2022/Registration. \nAs always\, Open Mainframe Project will have a presence at the event as many of our project leaders and ambassadors will be giving presentations. Please see below and add these sessions to your schedule. \nMonday\, March 28 (all times are in CST):\n1-2 pm: Deploying and Securing Zowe from z/OS to zCX to Hybrid Cloud and Everything in Between – Joe Winchester\, IBM \nWith the increasing uptake of container-based deployments and shift to open hybrid infrastructure\, learn how you can deploy Zowe as containers using Kubernetes securely and with speed and agility to enable Zowe desktop and API services to work with z/OS resources.  In this session\, you will see a demo and learn about Zowe containerization strategy\, architecture\, security model as well as Zowe conformance criteria with respect to containers.   This session will also traditional Zowe deployment and configuration on z/OS using keyrings\, multi-factor-authentication\, different security managers\, USS setup\, z/OSMF configuration\, and all of the scenarios that we’ve seen customer deploy Zowe into. The talk will include hands-on demos where folks can ask questions and get the presenters to tweak and re-configure on the fly\, and will show how to use SMP/E for maintenance\, z/OSMF workflows\, portable software instances\, dockerhub images. Folks attending the talk will leave with a good knowledge of the best practices and common pitfalls and solutions as well as understand the direction for where Zowe is heading in a k8s and ReadHat Open Shift topology to help them plan their hybrid cloud strategy for Zowe based as well as other USS/Linux tooling. \n3:30-4:30 pm: Zowe (Kotlin) SDK\, A New Project to Connect Mainframes to the Modern Tech Stack – Uladzislau Kalesnikau and Ilya Abnitski\, IBA Group \nTo remain the backbone of the enterprise computing environment\, mainframes need to be connected to a modern tech stack and development tools. The Zowe framework provides many opportunities to bring open source to mainframes. This session will present Zowe Kotlin SDK developed by the IBA Group team to connect z/OSMF and Zowe. The project aims to provide greater flexibility for teams coding in Java or Python and enables them to use Intellij IDE for mainframes. \nTuesday\, March 29 (all times are in CST):\n8-9 am: Automating Complex Mainframe Workflows with Zowe CLI – Petr Plavjanik and Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom \nWouldn’t life be easier if your workflows\, even the most complex ones\, were automated end-to-end? In this session\, you will see how you can leverage existing automation assets and combine them together to create a fully automated process. We will achieve this using Zowe CLI\, TypeScript\, and Jenkins and improve an existing process based on REXX scripts and JCLs. \n9:15-10:15 am: How Zowe Is Opening up the Mainframe to Current and Future Generations of Mainframers – Joe Winchester\, IBM; Leanid Astakou\, Rocket Software; Dan Kelosky\, Broadcom \nThis talk shows how the open mainframe Zowe project is being used by customers to help modernize their mainframe development and IT tools and practices. We will cover the different components given by squad subject matter experts\, with a focus on customer success stories and adoption. The presentation will show the extensibility of the Zowe components into traditional mainframe areas like CICS\, MQ\, IMS and Db2\, as well as modern tooling usages using Jenkins\, GitHub\, Visual Studio Code and more. We will also show how through APIs vendors and customers have built their own Zowe extensions for their z/OS services. Since Zowe was last presented at Share we have introduced support for containers\, with publishing onto docker hub\, multi-factor-authentication\, sysplex distributor high availability\, and are preparing for Zowe version 2. This talk will cover these as well as discuss common customer questions and answers regarding security\, usage of open source on z/OS\, scalability\, and Zowe’s future roadmap. Customers who are new to Zowe wanting to find out more\, customers who are Zowe users wanting to be updated on futures\, vendors wanting to build or update their Zowe extensions\, and students wanting to learn more about education will all benefit from this presentation. \n10:30-11:30 am: How to Enable System Management Integrations in Hybrid Cloud and DevOps Environment through Zowe Extensions – Domenico D’Alterio\, IBM \nZowe™ technology delivers new ways to integrate IBM Z into the enterprise. Zowe helps to make the IBM Z platform easier to learn and use for next-generation IT staff and developers. Come and learn how IBM System Management offerings expand Zowe framework with specific extensions to have an easier way to integrate Automation of system\, applications\, processing and more in a hybrid cloud environment.. Come and learn about use cases that leverage REST API for Automation as well as CLI extensions of Zowe in an hybrid cloud environment. \n2:15-3:15 pm: Zowe in a Container World – Tiefeng Jia\, IBM \nWith the increasing uptake of container-based deployments and shift to open hybrid infrastructure\, learn how you can deploy Zowe as containers using Kubernetes securely and with speed and agility to enable Zowe desktop and API services to work with z/OS resources.  In this session\, you will see a demo and learn about Zowe containerization strategy\, architecture\, security model as well as Zowe conformance criteria with respect to containers. \n3:30-4:30 pm: Zowe V2 – What’s new with Zowe CLI? – Michael Bauer\, Broadcom \nJoin this session to learn of the latest improvements made to the Zowe Command Line Interface. Collectively\, these features provide for easier rollout and adoption of the technology across the enterprise. It is now easy to share configuration information across a user base or store it within an automation project. In addition\, the CLI is now lightning quick! And the installation has been further simplified. If you are an existing user or just interested in leveraging modern tools to develop automation for z/OS\, you won’t want to miss this session! \nWednesday\, March 30 (all times in CST):\n8-9 am: Modern DevOps on CICS from Ansible to Zowe – Joe Winchester\, IBM; Ezriel Gross\, Rocket Software; Stewart Francis\, IBM \nThis talk covers how to do modern CICS DevOps using open source tooling such as Zowe and Ansible. This covers development environments such as Visual Studio Code using GitHub\, CI/CD pipelines built using Jenkins\, and testing tools such as galassa and COBOL Check. Many of these tools have vendor extensions and commercial support offerings from mainframe software companies\, however this talk will very much take the open source first angle and show how to build end to end tooling to support agile development practices end to end. As well as CICS the talk will show this in the context of applications written in COBOL as well as Java\, and transactions exploiting Db2 and MQ on z/OS. For the front end tooling the focus will be on Visual Studio code and the growing family of extensions such as the Zowe Explorer\, as well as free tooling for language awareness\, testing frameworks\, debugging and more. The talk will also cover IntelliJ and Eclipse and the free and open source extensions available. This talk will benefit experienced CICS Developers wishing to learn about and transition away from ISPF or those using vendor tools wishing to see the open source free landscape\, as well as new to the mainframe developers wishing to see how to exploit familiar development environments on top of CICS Transaction Server programs and transactions. \n9:15-10:15: Mainframe Open Education – Fostering the Stewardship of Education Resources – Kelle Veverka\, Broadcom; Viviane Sanches\, IBM; Paul Newton\, IBM \nThe creation\, curation and consumption of Mainframe education happens all the time\, but how do you bring existing efforts together in a way that benefits the Mainframe community\, reduces critical skills gaps\, and makes existing resources readily available? Mainframe Open Education\, a project under the Open Mainframe Project (OMP)\, is bringing community members together from every corner\, empowering them to embrace the stewardship of Mainframe open education resources that will help to cultivate Mainframe knowledge\, onboard new talent\, and provide a place where Mainframe experts share and consume knowledge. Join the conversation to learn more about this community partnership and how you can participate. \nCheck out the main schedule here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-dallas-2022/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Zowe
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SUMMARY:FOSDEM
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project will be featured at FOSDEM\, happening virtually on February 5-6.  \nSarah Julia Kriesch\, a DevOps Consultant at Accenture and Open Source Contributor at openSUSE\, will be presenting a session about the Linux Distributions Working Group. \nDefault community distributions are running in the same issues for special architectures. Every Linux distribution has got mostly separate maintainers and hardware distributors are handling these communities really often disconnected. That has been identified also for the architecture s390x. Therefore\, openSUSE\, Fedora and Debian have established together with IBM a Linux Distributions Working Group for a better collaboration together and with the goal to receive better support. In this presentation you should receive an overview about a good collaboration between Linux distributions and what you can achieve together with such a Working Group. \nDetails can be found below: \n \n  \nLearn more about the conference or to register\, visit the FOSDEM website here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/fosdem/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210924
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SUMMARY:Open Mainframe Summit 2021
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Summit is back for 2021! Join us virtually on September 22-23 for the second annual event that brings open source\, mainframe and technology developers\, students and thought leaders together. \nGo to the Open Mainframe Summit main conference page to check out sponsorship opportunities: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-summit-2021/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210821
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SUMMARY:Code PaLOUsa 2021
DESCRIPTION:Codepalousa is a multi-day software development conference designed to cover all aspects of software development regardless of technology stack. The conference features presentations from well-known professionals in the software development community and virtual booths where leading software development companies come to interact with attendees to show off their latest wares. Open Mainframe Project Ambassadors Joe Winchester\, Jessielaine Punongbayan\, Richelle Anne Craw as well as  John Mertic\, Open Mainframe Project Director\, will be presenting several sessions including: \nJoe Winchester\, Wowee it’s Zowe – how the mainframe got its groove again – Thursday\, August 19 at 8:30 am EDT \nThe mainframe is often viewed as a legacy 65 year old computing platform operated by grey (or zero) haired developers typing 8 letter commands into green screens. This talk myth busts that stereotype and discusses the growth of the mainframe in today’s hybrid computing world\, especially around the Linux Foundation’s Zowe project. This provides a command line interface\, a VS Code extension\, academic initiative training courses\, and is a bridge to modern tech stacks around Jenkins\, Node.js\, Swift\, Golang and more. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/1983 \nJessielaine Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw: VS Code for Green Screen Developers.  Thursday August 19th 9:45am EST \nMainframe modernization is an unavoidable topic for every developer these days\, whether your tool is the traditional green screen or another IDE. How does the coding experience differ between the two? In this session\, we will showcase a side-by-side comparison on these development environments\, based on our experience using both. We will also dig into what the different mainframe VSCode extensions are\, how to take advantage of automation in VS Code\, and how to integrate product-specific components and other open source tools in the developer workflow. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/1997 \nJessielaine Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw: COBOL Coding in the Cloud.  Friday August 20th 8:30am EST \nHow do you imagine coding in COBOL? Join this session as we give you a glimpse of our day as COBOL developers working with Eclipse Che4z\, a mainframe development tool that blurs the lines between mainframe and distributed environments. Come and hear about the tips and tricks we learned first-hand; the technologies involved; and the challenges we experienced\, switching from traditional green screen development to Cloud IDEs. We will discuss the benefits of using a cloud managed mainframe stack and how quickly we can provision our development environment and get started with team collaboration. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/2049 \nJohn Mertic and Joe Winchester: Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? – Friday\, August 20 at 9:45 am EST  \nThe Mainframe computer is over 65 years old\, and has a dual personality of either being viewed as a proprietary thing of the past or else a hidden closed locked down machine as espoused in Hollywood movie plots. The truth is neither\, and a huge amount of mainframe computing workload today comes from open source tooling. This talks show the use of Linux Foundation tools\, especially Zowe\, Jenkins\, modern tools such as VS Code\, IntelliJ\, modern languages like Node.js\, Java\, Swift\, Golang\, and more. A lot of the mainframe’s growth comes not from tech\, but from its ability to build communities and academic learning initiatives. From what was once a platform businesses were leaving due to stagnation\, this talk shows the turnaround and the important lessons to be learned that apply to any technology wishing to survive beyond its 50th birthday.  https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/2061 \nLearn more about the conference or register for it here: https://www.codepalousa.com/Default.aspx
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/code-palousa-2021/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210809
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210814
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SUMMARY:SHARE Virtual
DESCRIPTION:The SHARE virtual conference (#SHAREvirtual21) is hosting its summer session on August 9-13. There will be more than 100 live sessions and 100 on-demand presentations focused on a variety of topics related to mainframes. Several Open Mainframe Project community leaders will be speaking at the event about Zowe\, COBOL and other topics. Take a look at the details below and add these sessions to your schedule. \nMonday\, August 9:\n12 – 12:45 pm: How Zowe made the mainframe open\, simple and familiar – Joe Winchester\, IBM \nThe Zowe project launched at Share in August 2019\, will be two years old this month ! This talk will cover how the project has grown up to where it is today\, with its core components\, its incubators\, its community\, and its customers. The focus will be on how Zowe has been deployed as infrastructure for education classes\, at customer sites for automating system operations and devops tasks\, by developers learning VS Code rather than ISPF\, and by vendors modernizing their mainframe software tools by onboarding them within the Zowe technology stack. Attendees to this talk will get to hear real world examples of where Zowe has been a success\, together with where it didn’t meet customer needs but was able to evolve and add missing or new features. Speakers include a customer\, and a student who has done Master the Mainframe before and after Zowe. \n1:15 – 1:35 pm: What’s new with Zowe CLI? – Rose Sakach and Michael Bauer\, Broadcom \nJoin us for a review of some key CLI features planned for the Zowe V2 LTS release. From converting to the new profile configuration offering easier onboarding for CLI users\, to nearly instantaneous response time for interactive commands\, we will include the value-add details and help prepare you on how best to take advantage of each of them. \n1:40 – 2 pm: Configuring Zowe CLI with new team configuration – Eugene Johnston\, Broadcom \nThe Zowe Team Configuration replaces the current method of defining application profile properties. The goal is to enable team members to easily share their configuration. We will discuss how this changes the way users configure Zowe-CLI. \nTuesday\, August 10:\n10 – 10:30 am: Colleagues in Corvettes Getting Cappuccinos – Greg Lotko\, Broadcom \nJoin us for a fun-filled session and learn about some of the latest mainframe trends and best practices. \n10:45 – 11:05 am: Top 5 (and more) reasons customers modernize with Zowe’s API mediation layer – Rose Sakach and Michal Supak\, Broadcom \nDo not miss this session if you are beyond experimenting with Zowe. We will describe the critical role of the API Mediation layer and share some tips and tricks for installation. \n11:10 – 11:30 am: Using a Zowe CLI plugin to manage mainframe developer workspaces – Vaughn Marshall and Michael Vasak\, Broadcom \nModern developer workflows involve coding in a working directory\, typically opened in an IDE. Using CLI’s like Git\, they are able to easily sync and integrate changes from other developers via a single command. No tracking what you’ve changed or where conflicts lie hidden in the central repo. In this session we’ll see how we constructed a similar experience for mainframe developers using a Zowe CLI plugin. \n11:45 am – 12:05 pm: DIY Zowe Explorer Starter Kit – Jessielaine Caidic Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw – Broadcom \n\no you want to build a mainframe VS Code extension but don’t know where to begin? Good news! We have just what you need to get you started. In this session we will talk about building VS Code extensions using Zowe Explorer extensible APIs. We will share code samples\, tips and tricks and best practices so that you don’t have to start from scratch. We will also discuss what you need to keep in mind while building\, in order to be compatible with the Zowe Explorer conformance criteria.\n\nWednesday\, August 11:\n12:45 – 1:30 pm: Do you really understand mainframe modernization? – Ed Airey and Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nThe phrase Modernization has been used frequently in the last year\, but do you really understand what Modernization means when it comes to Mainframes? Does it mean moving off of the mainframe or rewriting COBOL applications in Java? Modernization means many things to many people and differs based on the requirements and the desired outcome. Today’s demands require mainframe applications to do more for the business—connect\, share\, integrate and secure—across networks\, devices\, platforms and the cloud. All while running the business and keeping the lights on. These mammoth mainframe systems aren’t going away either. Rather than a re-write or replacement strategy which is prone to cost overruns and risk of failure\, IT leaders are looking to modernization as a pragmatic path to achieve IT transformation. During this session\, we will: • introduce a new mind-set to mainframe modernization including how to re-think digital change for IBM Z applications. • Share the research into the effectiveness of various techniques. • explore how your organization can get started quickly along this modernization journey by leveraging best practices\, proven technology and choosing the best modernization technique for your unique situation. \n3:45 – 4:30 pm: Avoid unconscious bias to become a better professional – Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nWhat does unconscious bias have to do with being an ally? In this session\, we’ll explore this question and in the process learn something about ourselves. We’ll start with a revealing riddle and an exploration of unconscious bias\, learning how we all have biases. Then we’ll discuss what it means to be an ally\, including specific actions you can take to help others. Finally we’ll explore how an awareness of our own biases is essential to being an ally. \n3:45 – 4:30 pm: What’s new in cloud provisioning and management with continuous delivery – Hiren Shah\, IBM \nCloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS allows middleware system programmers to create software service templates that provision IBM® middleware\, such as IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®)\, IBM DB2®\, IBM Information Management System (IMS™)\, IBM MQ\, and IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS). System programmers can track software instances that were provisioned from those templates. Application developers can quickly provision and deprovision an environment as needed through a self-service software services marketplace. In this session we will go over new enhancements provided in Cloud Provisioning and Management with continuous delivery stream. \nFriday\, August 13:\n11 – 11:45 am: Shh! Don’t say the M-word; How to talk about mainframes – Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nTo the non-mainframer\, the word “Mainframe” comes with lots of assumptions\, usually not complimentary. In this session\, we’ll explore the word “Mainframe”. – Explore the wide range of ways people use the word “mainframe” and the confusion that can ensue. – Learn how you can explain what you do in a way anyone can understand. – Learn how to convince people mainframes are cool with just a few words. \nRegister for the SHARE conference here: https://www.share.org/Events/SHARE-Virtual-Experience/Registration. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210612
DTSTAMP:20260503T004415
CREATED:20210525T182606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210525T182606Z
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SUMMARY:Women Who Code CONNECT Reimagine
DESCRIPTION:REIMAGINE is a space to connect\, level up technical skills\, and find inspiration to reimagine your world. \nFocused on Women Who Code\, this is a full developer conference with great technical talks from industry leaders\, experts\, and peers. Discover new ways to connect with companies and your community. Technical tracks include topics like blockchain\, mobile\, web\, cloud\, data science\, security\, AI\, and ML delivered through talks\, workshops\, and demos. Get actionable advice\, share best practices\, and meet people who believe that tech is better with women in it. \nOne of Open Mainframe Project leaders – IBM’s Elizabeth Joseph\, Chair of the Software Discovery Tool project\, will be speaking at the event on June 11 at 11:15 am – 12 pm (EDT). Her session\, “You’re Running That on WHAT? Developing Software for Non-x86 Platforms” will discuss how many people don’t think twice about the hardware platform we’re developing software for\, but what happens when it begins to matter? \n \nTo learn more about the conference or to register\, visit the main Women Who Code Connect Reimagine website.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/women-who-code-connect-reimagine/
CATEGORIES:All,Diversity & Inclusion,Industry Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210617
DTSTAMP:20260503T004415
CREATED:20210423T223341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T223341Z
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SUMMARY:IDUG 2021 NA Db2 Tech Conference
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project will be participating in the IDUG 2021 NA Db2 Tech Conference\, taking place virtually on June 7-16\, again this year. Several Open Mainframe Project members and leaders will be presenting sessions or keynotes. \nJune 8 at 7:30 am PST (10:30 am EST): Rocket Software’s Tim Willging\, VP and Chief Architect\, and Paul Bartak\, Distinguished Engineer\, will give a keynote address about optimizing Db2 for z/OS development and management. They’ll  share ideas\, strategies\, and innovations that allow you to support greater agility across Db2 administration and development. With superior automation\, intelligent assistance\, and optimized user experiences\, you will have the tools to align and elevate Db2 for z/OS with your enterprise’s broader innovation initiatives. \nJune 9 at 7:30 am PST (10:30 am EST): Greg Lotko\, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Broadcom\, will give a keynote presentation about new ways to amplify the value of your mainframe investment while also making your day-to-day life working with Db2 for z/OS easier. \nJune 9 at 12:55 pm PST (3:55 EST): Open Mainframe Project Ambassador Joe Winchester\, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM\, will present “Software in Space – What can IT earthlings learn from space missions.” \nJune 11 at 10:50 am PST (1:50 pm EST): John Mertic\, Director of Program Management at The Linux Foundation\, will present the “(Re) Emergence of Open Source on Mainframe.”  \nCheck out the complete schedule or register for the event at the IDUG main conference website.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/idug-2021-na-db2-tech-conference/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210521
DTSTAMP:20260503T004415
CREATED:20210423T224211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T224211Z
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SUMMARY:SUSECON 2021
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project member SUSE will be hosting its annual SUSECON on May 18-20 as a digital event again this year. John Mertic\, Director of Program Management\, will be giving a presentation titled\, “Death of the mainframe? Hope Open source modernized the mainframe.” \nThe open source movement has rapidly become the leading way to develop code for today’s smart and agile businesses. This session will cover how an “open mainframe” is the perfect solution for deploying open source on an enterprise computing platform. Attendees will learn how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe\, COBOL and more are the starting point for open development. The session will also cover how the mainframe platform is a natural technology for Linux deployments and how the mainframe community operates within the wider construct of the Linux Foundation. Attendees will also learn about Open Mainframe Projects’s endeavors to promote the next generation of mainframers with its OMP internship program and Women in Technology initiatives. \nTo see the complete schedule or to register for this free conference\, visit the main conference website: https://www.susecon.com/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/susecon-2021/
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Member Event
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