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SUMMARY:Zowe Q1 2025 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe community on Wednesday\, March 19 at 8 am PT/11 am ET for our first quarterly webinar of the year! Whether you are a Zowe User\, Contributor\, Extender or simply interested in what’s happening with Zowe\, we invite you to attend the webinar to learn more. \nIn this webinar\, Jakub Balhar\, Chair of the Zowe TSC and Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, will present an overview of the architectural changes coming to the API Mediation Layer and answer questions. Rose Sakach\, Open Mainframe Project ambassador\, will also present updates about Zowe. \nRegister here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/zowe-q1-2025-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Ambassadors,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Webinar,Zowe
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T100000
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Mainframe: 60 years old and 60 years young!
DESCRIPTION:Join the Open Mainframe community in this special webinar on Thursday\, May 23 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET that aims to celebrate the mainframe birthday. We will take a look back at the fantastic innovations that have powered the IBM Z mainframe platform from its beginnings 60 years ago\, which includes some of the folks who have shaped and witnessed the platform as well as those who are leading the charge into the next 60 years. Register here. \nSpeakers include: \n– Cheryl Watson\, CEO and Co-Founder at Watson & Walker  \nCheryl Watson is the CEO and co-founder of Watson & Walker which offers practical mainframe performance and measurement advice.  Cheryl is known around the world for her passion and enthusiasm for IBM mainframes and the software that runs on them. She is most well-known for her z/OS (formerly MVS) newsletter\, Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter\, published since 1991. \n– Derek Britton\, Mainframe and Modernization Advisor \nWith over 30 years in the enterprise and mainframe software industry\, Derek is an accomplished technology leader\, writer\, and consultant. With software development\, product and brand marketing\, product management\, and services experience\, Derek regularly commentates across the IT press\, and at events such as Gartner\, Open Mainframe Summit\, SHARE\, and GSE. Derek holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from De Montfort University\, and is the co-founder of the Open Mainframe Project COBOL Working Group. \n– Donna Hudi\, CMO at Phoenix Software International \n \nDonna has more than 30 years of financial service\, technology\, marketing\, and executive management experience spanning the asset management\, software development\, consulting\, and non-profit industries. Prior to joining Phoenix Software as their Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Business Development\, she served as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for SHARE Association. Donna has been involved with the Open Mainframe Project since she was the Executive Director for SHARE Association and has continued during her tenure at Phoenix Software. She has been a member of the OMP Marketing Committee since 2019 and currently serves as the Marketing Committee Chair. \n– Ed Jaffe\, CTO at Phoenix Software International \nEd began his software development career by writing applications for government and research organizations in Washington\, D.C. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982\, he transitioned to the banking industry and eventually joined Phoenix Software International in 1987. He became Manager of Research & Development in the mid-1990s and was named Chief Technology Officer in 2009. Ed participated as a SHARE volunteer for nearly 30 years most recently as the SHARE Core Platform Focus Area Leader and is recognized throughout the mainframe community as a subject matter expert and strong advocate for the IBM Z platform. \n– Jakub Balhar\, Principal Product Owner at Broadcom \nJakub is a long-term enthusiast who is interested in building more secure solutions. He currently leads Zowe as the TSC chair\, API Mediation Layer Squad lead\, and the Product Owner for API Mediation Layer within Broadcom. He previously worked in the Space-related business\, collaborating with NASA and ESA as Gisat’s Head of Application Development. \n  \n  \n-Jessielaine Punongbayan\, Support Engineer and Tech Evangelist at Dynatrace \n \nJessielaine is a Support Engineer at Dynatrace\, an AI-powered monitoring tool. She has held various roles such as a Product Owner\, Team Leader\, Open Source contributor\, Mainframe Modernization Ambassador\, Writer\, Conference Speaker\, Software Engineer\, and Hackathon Winner. \nRegister for the webinar here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/happy-birthday-mainframe-60-years-old-and-60-years-young/
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230309
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SUMMARY:SHARE (Atlanta + Live Stream)
DESCRIPTION:SHARE Atlanta\, taking place on March 5-8\, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta\,  brings together subject-mater experts and enterprise IT professionals to impart lessons\, explore new release capabilities and dive deep into the most pressing issues facing confronting the enterprise IT industry today. Learn more about the conference or to register\, click here. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be on-site in full force again with several ambassadors giving talks about Zowe and COBOL. Please see below and add these sessions to your schedule (all sessions are in Eastern Daylight Time). \nSunday\, March 5:\n3:45-4:45 pm: Can Zowe act as an enabler of innovations? Sure it can! – Jan Prihoda\, Product Owner at Broadcom \nAre you interested in innovating and wondering how you can leverage Zowe? I would like to share my experience with Zowe as an idea generator. In the first part I will share my journey developing Ansible collections and show how development in one area can be utilised in other areas. Next I will discuss my experience with Zowe deskop app development and share contributions based on feedback from a customer. And finally\, Zowe can be taken as an inspiration for unrelated development\, and I will tell you how. \nMonday\, March 6:\n9:15-10:15 am: Zowe the First Five Years – Rose Sakach\, DevOps Product Manager\, Mainframe Division at Broadcom; Peter Fandel\, Director of Software Development at Rocket Software; Bruce Armstrong\, IBM Z Product Manager at IBM; and Michael DuBois\, Senior Manager for Product Management at Broadcom \nFrom concept to core technology for mainframe automation\, more customers are leveraging Zowe for a wide-range of use cases. In this session\, our panel will share insights into how Zowe has matured\, how Organizations have earned approval to fast-track their implementation for enterprise use. \n10:30-11:30 am: Zowe Version 2 Updates and Beyond – Domenico D’Alterio\, Senior Product Manager at IBM; Bruce Armstrong from IBM; and Joe Winchester\, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM \nZowe 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 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 and following releases as well as you will learn what you need to know to migrate from Zowe 1.0 to Zowe 2.0. \n1:15-2:15 pm: Using the Right Tool for the Job – When to Use z/OSMF\, Ansible and\, Zowe– Luisa Martinez\, Software Engineer; Barbara Leinberger\, Modernization Specialist; and Frank John DeGilio \nYour modernization toolbox should employ as many varied tools as the toolbox you have on your workbench at home. One tool  alone will never be the answer. In recent times\, many people are finding themselves confused about when to use z/OSMF\,  Ansible and  Zowe. In this session\, we will be taking a  closer look at the problems each tool aims to solve and their approach to solving them to allow you to make informed decisions on the tools to use when. \nTuesday\, March 7:\n9:15-10:15 am: End to End Software Delivery: From Inception to Production – Michael Bauer\, Product Manager at Broadcom \nModern DevOps practices are critical to delivering business value quickly and safely. In this session\, we will cover the journey of an enhancement request to a mainframe application. We will: ? Apply agile management tooling to prioritize work ? Leverage Enterprise Git Servers for source control and collaboration ? Code using modern editors like Visual Studio Code ? Validate and Package changes using process-controlled CI/CD pipelines ? Protect the software supply chain by leveraging attestations ? Deploy the verified package to production environments \n10:30-11:30 am: How Open Source Modernized the Mainframe – John Mertic\, Executive Director at Open Mainframe Project \nThe open source movement has rapidly become the way code is being developed 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\, a new working group focused on Mainframe Modernization and more are the starting point for open development. \n10:30-11:30 am: Tour Top Zowe Client Use Cases from medium.com/zowe! – Dan Kelosky\, Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom and Michael Bauer\, Product Manager at Broadcom \nIn this session we will walk through some common user scenarios for Zowe clients as outlined in our most popular blogs! Instead of reading the content\, we will demo and explain the steps outlined in our top blogs with live Q&A. \n1:15-2:15 pm: Back to the Future with COBOL – John Mertic\, Executive Director at Open Mainframe Project \nCOBOL is the lifeblood of mainframe applications that power the global econony. It is reliable\, proven and the foundation of most mission critical financial services at the world’s biggest banks. Yet few people realize or acknowledge the profound impact the COBOL language has had over its 60-year history. In this panel\, we’ll take a look at the COBOL’s history\, the sudden demand for it\, the academic landscape and the efforts of Open Mainframe Project and other organizations to create resources for COBOL and showcase its value to a broader audience. \nWednesday\, March 8:\n4-5 pm: Diagnosing Transient Performance Issues by Analyzing SMF 98 and 100 Records in Zowe – Daniel Wiegand\, Senior Product Manager; and Daniel Rosa\, Senior Software Engineer at IBM \nz/OS transactional workloads contain interactions between IBM z/OS components\, middleware\, Independent Software Vendor (ISV) products\, client applications and shared resources. Sometimes these interactions and resources can cause transient short term performance issues. In the worst cases\, these transient issues can repeat\, worsen\, and result in broader service degradation\, critical situations\, and even outages. When things go wrong\, Subject Matter Experts spend significant time (e.g. days\, weeks\, or months depending on the issue) looking for clues needed to define the root cause. SMF 98 and 100 records can be generated on synchronized\, 5-second intervals with micro-summary\, exceptionalism enriched data. Subject Matter Experts can analyze this data to identify and correlate short interval anomalies with only 15 minutes of data\, reducing the time required to diagnose complex critical situations\, service degradation\, and outages. In addition\, Subject Matter Experts can proactively identify repeating transient workload resilience risks\, providing an opportunity to diagnose the root cause and address it before a crit-sit or outage occurs. \nLearn more about the conference at its main event website here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-atlanta/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,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:20220915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220916
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SUMMARY:IBM zDay 2022 (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for IBM zDay – Global Conference to connect\, learn and be inspired.  \nIBM Z and LinuxONE Community is hosting its signature annual virtual conference – IBM zDay 2022\, bringing together over 150 industry experts and global thought leaders on AI\, modernization\, hybrid cloud and more! Join us on Sept 15th. This free digital event is open to everyone of all levels! No experience required! \nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2022 \n \n \nOpen Mainframe Project Ambassador Sarah Julia Kriesch\, a key contributor of the Linux Distribution Working Group will also be doing a panel discussion at 12 pm ET.  \nExplore 5 all-new content-rich learning tracks: \n\n\nIBM zSYSTEMS: Build a flexible\, AI-infused\, sustainable business with IBM zSystems. Accelerate and scale with infrastructure that is optimized at its core to secure your enterprise.\nIBM LinuxONE: Build a sustainable infrastructure with IBM LinuxONE\, an enterprise-grade Linux server designed to meet the needs of mission-critical workloads in the hybrid cloud.\nMODERNIZATION: Build a connected business with IBM zSystems and Cloud. Leverage APIs to extend and access applications and data\, and refactor or rewrite existing application code.\nCOMMUNITY: Learn how our global community is shaping the digital landscape\, evolving the tech industry and making the world a better place.\nSTUDENT 24-Hr Global Meetup: Starts Sept. 14th!  Students and life-long learners from around the world will come together to advance their skills and participate in hands-on coding activities designed for all levels\, including our all-new 2022 IBM zStudent Contest.\n\n\nSIGN-UP TODAY: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2022
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-zday-2022-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,Member Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220324
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SUMMARY:Micro Focus Universe 2022
DESCRIPTION:Universe 2022 is for those journeying into the unfamiliar to solve a digital dilemma—how to balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s opportunities. Join us as we show you how to achieve the outcomes needed to run and transform at the same time and boost your transformation journey without ever leaving your home or office. Learn more here. \nRegister for the “Application Modernization and Connectivity” (AMC) track to gain access to information that will help set a successful path to digital transformation for your COBOL and mainframe applications. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nAttend Online: The event is virtual so you can experience it from your sofa\, home office\, or wherever you are!\nGeneral Session: Micro Focus executives share strategies for solving your digital dilemma: how do you balance running day-to-day with the need to transform your organization for tomorrow—and do both at the same time.\nTrack Keynotes: Key leaders from each of our tracks share specific information from disciplines across the enterprise that can help you run and transform at the same time.\nBreakout Sessions: Attend customer and Micro Focus-led breakout sessions to benefit from best-practices and product usage tips.\nLive Studio Broadcasts: New for 2022\, Live Studio broadcasts are available any time during conference hours. They provide one location to easily view a variety of track-specific content—from product strategy to customer stories\, and demonstrations.\nExplore Zone: Looking to dive even deeper? Taking things at your own speed? Visit the Explore Zone to watch deep dive demos\, download white papers\, find customer stories\, discover research\, and more.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/micro-focus-universe-2022/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Member Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220207
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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:20211214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211216
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20211202T060102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T060102Z
UID:10000101-1639440000-1639612799@openmainframeproject.org
SUMMARY:Open Source Summit + Automotive Linux Summit Japan (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Open Source Summit + Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2021 is a Virtual Experience\, happening December 14-15 on the Japan Standard Time Zone (UTC+09:00).  Open Mainframe Project will be represented by a few Zowe community members and ambssadors. The session has been changed to Pacific Standard Time.  \nAs with past virtual experiences\, know that we are taking thoughtful actions to create an immersive digital experience that provides you with interactive content and collaboration experiences. You will have the ability to network with other attendees\, attend presentations with live Q&A\, interact with sponsors real-time\, and much more – all virtually\, from anywhere. To register for the event\, visit the main conference page: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/register/. \nTuesday\, December 14 at 10:30- 11:20 pm PST: Women Explorers: What Does the Future of Mainframe Development Look Like?  \nSpeakers: Richelle Anne Craw\, Katelyn Nienaber & Jessielaine Punongbayan\, Broadcom; Lauren Li & Billie Jean Simmons\, IBM \nMeet the women of the Zowe Explorer Squad. In this session\, the panelists will share valuable insights on navigating the challenges of modernizing the mainframe developer experience. The session will cover topics such as collaborating in the Zowe Explorer project\, building a positive culture across different companies\, managing open source commitments with internal priorities\, overcoming time zone barriers\, embracing the team diversity\, and feeling confident in making decisions about the future of the project. Add this to your schedule here. \nRegister for the event\, here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/open-source-summit-automotive-linux-summit-japan-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,Diversity & Inclusion,Education & Training,LF Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211118
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20211103T185510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T185510Z
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SUMMARY:IBM Community Festival
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project member IBM is hosting an inaugural IBM Community Festival 2021\, which takes place on November 8-17. \nThis five-day festival will have days dedicated to user groups\, the IBM Loyalty program\, IBM experts\, and our Cloud Without Compromise program with an opening keynote presentation by Rob Thomas\, Senior Vice President of IBM Global Markets. \nLen Santalucia\, Open Mainframe Project Governing Board Chair and CTO of Vicom Infinity\, will be giving a presentation about Open Source on the mainframe on November 10 at 8:30-9:30 am PST/ 11:30 am – 12:30 am EST. He’ll be joined by Andy Youens\, Managing Director of Formaserve\, and Phil Allison\, Enterprise Architect at Black Knight Inc. \nOpen Source Meets IBM Systems \nBring your questions for this panel of IBM Champions who have been supporting\, contributing to\, and implementing open source on two of IBM’s key platforms: IBM i and IBM Z. The panel will feature Andy Youens\, Managing Director of FormaServe in the UK; Phil Allison\, Enterprise Architect at Black Knight Inc in the USA\, who has been working with Ansible on IBM Z; and Len Santalucia\, CTO at IBM Z Platinum Business Partner Vicom Infinity\, A Converge Company\, and Governing Board Chair of the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project. They will share their experiences and provide insights you will certainly find valuable in your discussions with clients and colleagues. \nLearn more or register for the event here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-community-festival/
CATEGORIES:All,Member Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20210727T232118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210727T232118Z
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SUMMARY:Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference (Seattle\, Washington + Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference will be held on-site in Seattle\, Washington as well as virtually on September 27-30. It is the leading conference for developers\, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate\, share information\, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions. To learn more about the event\, which is co-located with Open Source Summit\, or to register for it\, please go to the main Embedded Linux Conference website here. \nOpen Mainframe will be have a virtual booth at the event – look for that online. Additionally\, Open Mainframe participants from the Mentorship Program will be giving a presentation. \nWednesday\, September 29 at 11:30 – 12:20 pm PDT:\nModernizing Code Older than You Are: One Student Takes a COBOL Bank App to Hybrid Cloud – Sudhanshu Dubey\, Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentee and student from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College;  and Misty Decker\, Contributor of Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group and Product Marketing Manager from Micro Focus \nBillions of lines of COBOL are still running the core IT of thousands of companies but those applications have largely been left out of modern advances in IT. Misty Decker will introduce the Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group and how they are working to address COBOL skills and modernization of legacy core applications. As part of the Open Mainframe Project’s mentorship program\, student Sudhanshu Dubey demonstrated the options for modernizing an existing COBOL application to address the business needs and prove the future possibilities. Sudhanshu will demonstrate how he: \n\nRan analysis tools on a monolithic banking core application\nIdentified key services that could be externalized\nRan the application in a hybrid cloud environment\nModernized the user experience COBOL can be a part of modern hybrid cloud environments.\n\nAdd this to your schedule here. \nOpen Mainframe Project is a Bronze sponsor of the event. To register or learn more about event\, visit the main Embedded Linux Conference website.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/embedded-linux-conference-seattle-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,LF Event,Mentorship,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T090000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20210806T003656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T003656Z
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SUMMARY:I am a Mainframer: Personal Stories and Lessons from the Next Generation of Mainframe Developers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 18 at 8-9 am PDT for a new webinar that explores “Personal Stories and lessons from the next generation of mainframe Developers.” \nFive open source mainframe developers will share their personal journey into the mainframe\, covering what they’re working on\, the challenges and issues (good and bad) and their experiences with customers\, the open source community\, and more.  \nOne of the challenges of open source and projects like Zowe is how it can reinvent a 60 year old computing platform for the next generation of developers and system programmers and architects at tomorrow’s IT companies.  \nThis webinar will shine the light on four key Open Mainframe community members who are playing their part and open the lid on their successes\, failures\, and questions and answers for the secret sauce that is powering Zowe and other Open Mainframe Projects they are involved with. The success of Zowe and the Open Mainframe Project comes in large part from the diversity and background of its committers\, and this panel brings together a group that includes the Zowe Technical Steering Committee lead together with squad members from different companies. \nSpeakers include: \n\nJoe Winchester\,  Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM (Moderator)\nJakub Balhar\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom and Zowe TSC Chair\nLauren Li\, Front-End Developer at IBM\nLeanid Astrakou\, Staff Software Engineer at Rocket\nLeonid Baranov\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom\nAshley (Nan Nan) Li\, Content Designer at IBM \n\nRegister for the webinar here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxwiPaFtRreDN1aONdQa_A.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/i-am-a-mainframer-personal-stories-and-lessons-from-the-next-generation-of-mainframe-developers/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Diversity & Inclusion,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Webinar,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210821
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20210701T221153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T221153Z
UID:10000088-1629244800-1629503999@openmainframeproject.org
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:20210623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210625
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
CREATED:20210423T212316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T212316Z
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SUMMARY:cdCON 2021
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project will be participating in cdCON\, a virtual event on June 23-24\, for the first time this year with two presentations. \nOn Wednesday\, June 23 at 7:45-8:15 am PST (10:45 – 11:15 am EST)\, Broadcom’s Daniel Kelosky\, Software Architect\, and Michael Bauer\, Product Owner will give a presentation titled\, “Mainframe DevOps and Modernization.” Add this to your schedule here. \nThis presentation will show traditional mainframe development practices and interfaces and how the practices and interfaces can be modernized with Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe framework. The session will be in the context of C and assembler language software development for z/OS\, but the concepts apply to other language development for mainframe\, like PL/1 or COBOL. \nOn Wednesday\, June 23 at 11:30 am – 12 pm PST (8:30 – 9 am EST)\, John Mertic\, Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation\, and Sudharsana Srinivasan\, Program Manager at IBM\, will lead a session titled\, “Back to the Future with COBOL.” Add this to your schedule here. \nMainframe applications are the lifeblood of the global economy. COBOL is the lifeblood of those applications. Yet few people realise or acknowledge the profound impact the COBOL language has had over its 60 year history. Showcasing a brand new OMP Working Group\, this session reveals COBOL’s secret history and the efforts of OMP and others to bring COBOL’s value to the public eye. The session will cover – 1. COBOL’s enduring value – how it stood the test of time 2. Recent trends to demonstrate COBOL’s ongoing popularity 3. The work of the OMP in promoting COBOL. \nOpen Mainframe Project is a proud sponsor of cdCON. To learn more about the conference or to register for it\, visit the cdCON main event site: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/ \n  \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cdcon-2021/
CATEGORIES:All,LF Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210617
DTSTAMP:20260501T073535
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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