Open Mainframe Project

Open Mainframe Project Webinar: Zowe Virtual Hackathon
2020-05-27 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe hosted its first-ever Virtual Hackathon for the developer community from February 23-April 30. The goal of the hackathon was to educate students, engineers and makers around the world about the Zowe framework and how it can be used to create enterprise applications. On Wednesday, May 27 at 9 am PDT, several of the teams participating in the hackathon will present their projects and answer questions to members of the Open Mainframe Project and the Zowe Leadership Committee. We invite you to join us to see the presentations and ask questions!
You must be registered to attend the session. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RqqXgRhuTxmZw4wRCc597g

IBM Think 2020
2020-05-04 - 2020-05-07
The Open Mainframe Project will be onsite at IBM Think 2020. IBM Think 2020 is the annual IBM business and technology conference is now virtual!

IBM Think provides hands-on experience with the latest advancements in open technologies from hybrid multicloud to data and AI – then meet the luminaries who are using them to transform our lives. Think isn’t a single conference for thousands of people. It’s thousands of curated conferences in one.
Stay tuned for details on the Open Mainframe Project’s presence at IBM Think 2020.
Be sure to check out Open Mainframe Project Member speaking session “Creating a Modern App to Interact with IBM z/OS [6972]” with Bill Pereira, Developer Advocate for IBM Z, IBM. This session will take a deep-dive into the steps and technologies optimized for the creation of web applications using Node.js, React and Zowe to interact with a z/OS LPAR.

Wednesday, May 06 | 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM | Master Class 2

Also, be sure to stop by Open Mainframe Project Member booths SUSE and Broadcom.

Postponed: Open Source Forum London 2020
2020-04-06
Open Source Forum London 2020 has bee postponed. Please check back for details.
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at Open Source Forum London 2020 in London, England on May 6, 2020. Join FINOS for the fourth Open Source Strategy Forum and help drive the direction of open source in financial services. This one-day conference brings together experts at the cross section of finance, open source, and technology for unparalleled content and networking.
Stay tuned for details on the Open Mainframe Project’s presence at Open Source Strategy Forum London.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

Virtual: SUSECON 2020
2020-03-23 - 2020-03-27
SUSECON 2020 is going virtual! Check back for details.
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at SUSECON 2020 in Dubin, Ireland March 23–27, 2020.
SUSECON ‘20 is hosting over 150 different technical sessions, including customer case studies, hands-on training, technical tutorials, and roadmap presentations.
Check out the Open Mainframe Project session:
Wednesday, March 25, 03:34 PM – 04:45 PM “Creating a sustainable open source ecosystem for mainframe through the Open Mainframe Project” (BOV-1203) with John Mertic. More details to come.

Cancelled: GSE GUIDE SPRING EVENT 2020
2020-03-23 - 2020-03-24
Open Mainframe Project member Phoenix Software invite you to visit their booth at GSE GUIDE SPRING EVENT 2020, March 23 – 24 in Nice, France.
The GSE GUIDE SPRING EVENT, designed for CIOs and IT Managers. Key topics include: AI – Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Cloud, IBM Garage, and Quantum Computing Update
Learn more here.

IBM Tech U IBM: Power Systems, Storage and IBM Z
2020-03-18 - 2020-03-22
Update: This event has merged with the Atlantic City, NJ event October 5-9, 2020. More details to come on Open Mainframe’s participation.
Open Mainframe Project member Phoenix Software invites you to visit their booth at IBM TechU, May 18 – 22, 2020 in Orlando, FL.
Each year thousands of IBM clients, business partners, IT professionals and IBM employees attend TechU events held around the world. TechU equips you with the knowledge and essential skills necessary to deliver the innovations of tomorrow. Learn to leverage disruptive technology trends like cloud and cognitive at the IBM Systems Technical University (TechU) in Orlando.
Learn more about IBM TechU.

Canceled: The Linux Foundation Member Summit
2020-03-10 - 2020-03-12 | CA, United States
The Linux Foundation Member Summit (formerly Open Source Leadership Summit) is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations.
This event has been canceled. Please check back for updates.

Be sure to check out the following speaking session:

Tuesday, March 10th at 12:10 pm. Panel Discussion: How Open Source Changed Enterprise Systems Computing featuring: Kara Todd, IBM; Alan Clark, SUSE: Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity.
Wednesday, March 11th at 4:40 pm. Open Mainframe Project – The Little Engine that Could, featuring John Mertic, The Linux Foundation.

The event fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

Zowe Meet and Mingle at SHARE Fort Worth 2020
2020-02-25 17:30 - 18:30 UTC
Come meet the Zowe community members that are working on the project. Help set priorities for 2020 and find ways to get involved. This session will review ideas the community has for Zowe’s direction and welcome feedback plus new ideas for how Zowe can help you and your company. Customers, ISVs, SIs, and students all are welcome.
Session ID: 27155
Zowe BOF – Discussion of 2020 Priorities – Meet and Mingle with the Project Members
Tuesday, February 25, 2020: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM, Fort Worth Convention Center, Room 202D
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

Zowe Education for Exploiters: ISVs, SIs and DIY Customers at SHARE Fort Worth
2020-02-23 09:00 - 13:00 UTC
The Zowe open source community will be holding 4 hours of developer education at the winter SHARE in Fort Worth, Texas. The session will be held from 9 am to 1 pm on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 covering the major components of Zowe. A Sunday morning session is a challenge to attend but many thanks to the SHARE organization for providing the meeting room and the block of time for this education. Come with your questions! The instructors will be the Zowe developers creating and delivering Zowe. See session 27081 “Zowe Education for Exploiters: ISVs, SIs and DIY Customers”. Reserve your seat here. Also, look for other Zowe sessions throughout the week of SHARE. You are welcome to direct questions to Bruce Armstrong at armstrob@us.ibm.com.

Open Mainframe Project's Zowe Virtual Hackathon
2020-02-23 - 2020-04-30
Open Mainframe Project is planning its first-ever Virtual Hackathon for the developer community that aims to educate students, engineers and makers around the world about the Zowe framework and how it can be used to create enterprise applications.
The inaugural Virtual Hackathon will take place on Sunday, February 23 and extended to Thursday, April 30 and is open to anyone who would like to participate and create a team. Teams (between 2-8 members) can register together and submit their current project or something new. The only condition is for the project to be Zowe related.
To register your team, please click here: http://www.cvent.com/d/ynql8z/4W
Once all the projects are submitted by April 5, Open Mainframe Project will host a webinar where each team will have a short slot to present their project. Leading solutions and projects will be featured in a virtual meetup and blog. They’ll also be invited to attend Open Mainframe Summit on September 17-17 in New York City at no cost to the participant. All participants will receive a unique digital badge indicating that they have contributed to this hackathon.
Learn more about Open Mainframe Summit here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/.
Examples of potential Zowe projects:

● An enhancement or addition to the Zowe ecosystem, perhaps a feature you might have been missing in it.
● A project to build something of your own on top of Zowe, or leveraging Zowe.
● If you have an product of your own, it could be an enhancement to make it compatible with Zowe, or Zowe extension for your product.
A good example of a project that started in a hackathon is the Zowe Mobile App, which initially started as a hackathon project within Open Mainframe Project member Broadcom. Broadcom had an internal hackathon, this app was presented and it was recently accepted as a part of the Zowe project. Please read more about the app and how it was created in this article.
Criteria for project presentations:
● Potential business value
● Blog/Vlog quality
● Innovation/creativity/fun
● Learning
● Finished product

If you need help, please reach out to using the #virtualhackathon channel on the Open Mainframe Project Slack. OMP Zowe community members will answer all questions and offer support to the registered participants during the hackathon.

SHARE Fort Worth 2020
2020-02-23 - 2020-02-28
SHARE Fort Worth brings together 500+ technical sessions and hands-on labs on enterprise IT hot topics such as Security, Mainframe Hardware, Cloud Technology in Enterprise, Zowe & Open Source, and IBM Z.
Be sure to visit Open Mainframe Member booths while you are there SUSE, Broadcom, and Phoenix Software.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.
OMP will have several sessions at the event. Please see below for a summary of some of our Zowe sessions:

Sunday, February 23

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Zowe Education for Exploiters: ISVs, SIs and DIY Customers. Room 101, Session Number: 27081
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM: Open Source on Z Working and Planning Session. Room 204A, Session Number: 27050

Monday, February 24

11:00 AM – 12:00: Project Keynote and Opening: Open Source for Z. Room 202B, Session Number: 27033
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: IBM Z Open Editor for COBOL and PL/I with Zowe VS Code Extension: A Marriage Made in Heaven – A Story About How Contributing to Open Source Made IBM Product Offerings Better. Room 101; Session Number: 26916
4:15 – 5:15 Zowe and VS Code – We Love It! Room 101, Session Number: 26481

Tuesday, February 25

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Zowe BOF – Discussion of 2020 Priorities – Meet and Mingle with the Project Members. Room 202D, Session Number: 27155
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. AI/Automation Discussion Lounge; Zowe Discussion Lounge

Wednesday, February 26

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM See Zowe & z/OSMF Automating your Change Request on Z. Room 200, Session Number: 26294
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – BYOD Lab: Become a Zowe User. Room 101, Session Number: 26559
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM Understanding the Zowe Technology Stack from a z/OS Assembler Developer Perspective. Room 201C, Session Number: 26370
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM: Zowe – Preparing, Installing, Upgrading, Extending, Tuning, Diagnosing, Enjoying. Room 200, Session Number: 26646
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM: BYOD Lab: Zowe CLI, Eclipse Che4z, GitHub to Endevor Bridge, and more! Room 101, Session Number: 26230
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM: How Service Management Unite Exploited Zowe to Make Next Gen Operators More Effective – A Case Study. Room 203B, Session Number: 26959

Thursday, February 27

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Zowe CLI for DevOps Automation: Understanding and Using the Zowe Command Line Interface. Room 204A, Session Number: 26382
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: BYOD Lab: Zowe CLI and z/OSMF Workflows – z/OS Product Maintenance Deployment Hands-On. Room 101, Session Number: 26192
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM: Zowe for CICS DevOps, System Management and Application Development, Room 201A, Session Number: 27005
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM: Zowe: A User’s Experience from an IT Infrastructure View. Room 200, Session Number: 26302
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM; z/OS as a Jenkins Application for IaaS: Room: Room 101, Session Number: 26084

Friday, February 28

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Protect your Batch Applications from Disaster by using DevOps Principles. Room 201B, Session Number: 26381

IBM Z Council – Cincinnati, OH
2020-02-06 08:00 - 14:00 UTC
Open Mainframe Project members Vicom Infinity and Broadcom are hosting IBM Z Council in Cincinnati, OH.
This session will update attendees on IBM’s latest IBM Z hardware developments and new Security, Data and Management solutions.
We’ll kick off the session with a presentation by Rich Hornor from IBM Z Offering Management as he introduces us to the IBM z15 – the latest generation of IBM Z. With new industry-first capabilities, IBM z15 supports your digital transformation providing superior security and resiliency for mission-critical cloud workloads.
Next, Rich will do a deeper dive into one of the z15’s most exciting features – Data Privacy Passports. The movement of data between partners and third parties is often the root cause of data breaches. This capability provides transparent, end-to-end, data-level protection and privacy. Now, you can encrypt your data, grant and revoke access to it, and maintain control of it – even as it moves off the system of record.
Then, Jerome Gilbert will discuss Db2 DevOps. Many organizations are moving to create a strategy around continuous integration and continuous delivery, even for data. Db2 for z/OS has developed solutions to address developers’ desires for speed and the freedom to try things out. Db2 DevOps makes the platform much more attractive for developers without giving up control of the Db2 development environment.
Finally, Steve Bohn will introduce Zowe. Zowe is a project under the Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, the Open Mainframe Project, intended to bridge the divide between modern enterprise applications and the mainframe. Learn what this means for your organization, and for all Z companies around the world.
Sign up here.

Open FinTech Forum
2019-12-09
Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at Open FinTech Forum on December 9 in New York, New York. Focusing on the intersection of financial services and open source, Open FinTech Forum will provide CIOs and senior technologists guidance on building internal open source programs as well as an in-depth look at cutting-edge open source technologies, including AI, Blockchain/Distributed Ledger, Kubernetes/Containers, that can be leveraged to drive efficiencies and flexibility.
Diana Henderson, an Offering Manager for OMP member IBM, will give a presentation titled, “The Future of Banking: Securing Digital Asset Custody Solutions,” at 2:10-2:40 pm.
Asset tokenization is emerging as a method for managing assets by converting rights to an asset into a digital token. If the asset can be digitized, it can be easily traded, enhancing liquidity and value. But organizations seeking to secure these assets on exchanges are challenged by threats of crypto hacking and insiders with access to those assets. Organizations require secure and regulatory compliant custodial services to fully participate in these digital asset markets. Come hear about this burgeoning industry from a client/ISV perspective, along with the solution they’ve implemented on the world’s most secure Linux platform. Add this to your schedule here.
To learn more about Open FinTech Forum, visit their website: https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-fintech-forum-2019/

IBM Z Day (virtual conference)
2019-11-21
IBM Z Day is a 1-day virtual conference with a lineup of 25 global thought leaders that will highlight industry trends and demonstrate how IBM Z is reliably running the world – always open, on and secure. John Mertic will be on-hand to provide details about open source and Open Mainframe Project from 7:30-8:30 am.
Imagine this – IBM Z runs 30 billion transactions a day! Always open | on | secure. To provide perspective, there are approximately 5.6 billion Google searches per day. Want to know how? Join tech influencers, international organizations like the World Economic Forum and the United Nations, and IBM enterprise and startup clients to hear how they are shaping the digital landscape and evolving the tech industry, while making the world a better place.
For more details about the conference, visit the website or register now here.

DevOps Enterprise Summit: Las Vegas 2019
2019-10-28 11:25 - 11:55 (America/Los_Angeles) | THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
On October 28th from 11:25 AM-11:55 AM, join Venkat Balabhadrapatruni and George DeCandio from Broadcom and Mike Esposito from Aetna, for a panel discussion titled “The Final Frontier: Extending Modern DevOps to the Mainframe“. In this panel attendees will learn how Zowe is the centerpoint of the striking productivity gains and software acceleration they’ve realized by extending modern DevOps to the mainframe, thereby unlocking the value of Hybrid IT.
Full agenda at https://t.co/jNuedND617

Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference Europe
2019-10-28 - 2019-10-30 | Lyon Convention Center, Lyon, France
If you’re attending Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference Europe on October 28-30 in Lyon, France, we invite you to these sessions highlighting Open Mainframe Project.
On Tuesday, October 29 at 17:10 – 17:45, Jiri Aichler from Broadcom will lead a session titled, “Open Source Meets Mainframe – Zowe, Security, and Open Infrastructure”, where Jiri will discuss Zowe’s remarkable growth as an open source framework developed for the mainframe, as well as diving deeper into Zowe’s security roadmap and the open infrastructure which supports the Zowe community from source to solution. Add this to your schedule here.
On Wednesday, October 30 at 2:25 – 3:50, John Mertic, will lead a session titled, “Panel Discussion: Open Mainframe Project: Training the Next Gen Mainframers.” This year, Open Mainframe Project recruited 9 interns to work on six projects including compliance engine, dockerHub development stacks, BoringSSL, Kubernates on Z and Zowe, Open Mainframe Project’s framework that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications. In this panel session, this year’s interns will present their experience and best practices.Add this to your schedule here.
Register for OSS Summit here.

Helping Mainframe Clients with their Journey to the Cloud
2019-10-23 08:00 - 09:00 UTC
Open Mainframe Project members Broadcom and Vicom Infinity invite you to an event to learn more about the new directions in DevOps and the tools that will help you get there, including Zowe. On Wednesday, October 23 at the Marist NYC Executive Center, located at 420 Fifth Ave. (corner of 37th St. and 5th Ave.), from 8-9 am.
Attendees will hear about how OMP members like Broadcom and Vicom are bringing to market new innovative technology and approaches to service these emerging demands of enterprise level hybrid and Multi-Cloud environments.
You will hear examples of Zowe adoption in the industry:

Cloud-like experience for new generation of Mainframe developers achieved through Command Line Interface and integration oi z/OS commands with modern scripting languages like JavaScript, test and automation frameworks like Jest, or Mocha.JS and mainframe subsystems and applications like CA Endevor SCM.
Extension of CI/CD Pipeline to z/OS

Zowe enables integration of various tools into the CI/CD pipeline without requiring dedicated tool integrations and plugins. It allows DevOps teams to use the best tool for the job.

Provisioning and ITOps automation

Automation is not an exclusive just to development. System provisioning, maintenance and many other administrative tasks can be automated, or exposed as self-service. We’ll take a look at examples of automation of ITOps tasks using Zowe.

Automation of Manual Processes

In this section of the presentation Goran will introduce Zowe API Mediation Layer (microgateway) and we’ll take a look at how IBM Global Services utilizes Zowe API Mediation Layer to build automation for z/OS workflows into the ServiceNow Portal.
Please RSVP by October 15th to info@vicominfinity.com

IBM Technical University Las Vegas 2019
2019-10-07 - 2019-10-11
On October 7-11, thought leaders, engineers, developers, and more will gather at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for IBM’s Technical University. Open Mainframe Project will be on-site with several speaking sessions from key members including Broadcom, IBM, Rocket and SUSE. Please see below and attend these sessions!
Mike Friesenegger, Solution Architect for SUSE and active Open Mainframe Project member, will lead a session on Monday, Oct. 7 at 1:45-2:45 pm about Deploying OpenStack to manage z/VM and KVM on IBM Z and LinuxONE. This session and demo will show how to configure OpenStack to manage the Z and LinuxONE resources.
Additionally, leaders from Broadcom will be presenting several DevOps sessions, including several that will be focused on OMP’s Zowe. Please see below and learn more about these sessions here.

Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America
2019-08-23 12:20 - 12:55 UTC
If you’re attending Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America on August 21-23 in San Diego, we invite you to the Open Mainframe Project mini-summit and Zowe sessions. To learn more about the Open Mainframe mini-summit, click here.
On Friday, August 23 at 12:20-12:55 pm, Joe Winchester, Zowe Community Leader and z/OS Explorer Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM, will give a presentation titled, “Zowe Redefines the Way We Interact with z/OS.” Zowe is the first open source tool platform and integration framework for z/OS mainframes that delivers a non-prescriptive interface. With Zowe, developers and system programmers can integrate existing, open source and 3rd party tools via a Command Line Interface (CLI), leverage Restful APIs to automate your workflows or use the zero client install Zowe Desktop (Web UI) to connect to z/OS applications, data and services. This session features demos of all 3 interfaces with some real world application examples.
Add this to your schedule here. Register for OSS Summit here.

Open Source on the Mainframe Mini-Summit
2019-08-20 14:00 - 17:30 UTC
At this year’s Open Source Summit North America, we’ll be hosting a mini-summit titled, “Open Source on the Mainframe” on Tuesday, August 20 from 2-5:30 pm. This session will give you insight into the broad open source tools that work seamless on the mainframe (such as Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack, node.js and more) as well as mainframe specific open source initiatives that can unify the devops practice for organizations using mainframe in conjunction with cloud and other distributed architectures.
The summit is free for OSS attendees but registration is required. Please see the detailed agenda below.
2:00 – 2:30pm: The Open Mainframe Project – How Open Source is Modernizing the Mainframe – John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
The 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. You will learn how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe and OpenStack Cloud Connector 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.
2:30 – 3:00pm: IBM Z: To Open Source and Beyond! – Joe Winchester, IBM
This talk covers the challenges customers have faced with obtaining and deploying tooling for their mainframe developers and system programmers over the last 50 years. The Zowe Community and Open Mainframe Project are working with ISVs and customers to address this and create modern platforms and frameworks by bringing open source languages and tooling to the mainframe. Co-presented with Broadcom and Rocket Software, attendees will learn how a blend of open source tools together with Zowe, the new open source framework, empowers mainframe developers.
3:00 – 3:30pm: Re-Envisioning Old Workflows with New Technologies: Using Zowe to Manage Datasets and Jobs with UI and CLI Tools – Thomas Mcquitty, Broadcom
Zowe is well positioned to help simplify and improve the efficiency of mainframe administrators. This session will offer some examples of how Zowe can help improve the usability of mainframe processes, to begin to open this work up to early-career professionals and not just skilled mainframers. In addition, we will show you how the command line interface within Zowe can help streamline the execution of key administrative tasks.
3:30 – 4:30pm: Lab (BYOD): Zowe CLI – Learn how to construct a DevOps pipeline for a CICS COBOL Application – Thomas Mcquitty, Broadcom
If you are interested in Zowe and/or DevOps, this is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the Zowe Command Line Interface. In this “Bring Your Own Device” session, you’ll be working within a modern cloud IDE workspace.
You’ll learn how the Zowe CLI enables you to control, script and develop on the mainframe like any other cloud platform. Zowe also empowers you to use industry standard open source tooling of your choice! In this lab, you will compile, deploy, run and test a CICS COBOL application as part of a DevOps pipeline.
To participate in this session, all you need on your own PC is access to the internet and a browser.
4:30 – 5:30pm – Lightning talks on other open source on mainframe projects
There are numerous open source efforts happening on the mainframe. Learn more about them in a series of lighting talks highlights projects such as z/VM Cloud Connector, porting work of board open source projects to mainframe, and more.
To add the OMP Mini Summit to your OSS schedule, click here.

SHARE Pittsburgh 2019
2019-08-05 - 2019-08-10 | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at SHARE Pittsburgh 2019 on August 4 – 9. The event is dedicated to advancing enterprise technology and is handcrafted by professionals to expand knowledge, enhance skills and increase organizational efficiencies in the tech industry. OMP will have several sessions at the event. Please see below for a summary of some of our Zowe sessions.
Monday, August 5:

At 4:45-5:45 pm: Zowe: Taking a Look at the New Web-Based Viewer Technology Being Initially Rolled Out in IBM’s OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS (Room 409-410, session number 25035)
Louis Hanna from IBM will present OMP’s Zowe web based user interface. Attendees will see how this technology is implemented, used, and can make life easier for z/OS based functions you perform on a daily basis. The initial delivery in OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS highlights what this technology can do for you.
Tuesday, August 6:
7-8 am: Women in IT Breakfast. OMP is proud to sponsor the second annual Women in IT breakfast that brings professionals, engineers, educators and developers together for a morning of networking, Q&A and more. To register for the breakfast or to learn more, click here.
2:15-3:15 pm: How Open Source Changed the Modern Mainframe (Room317-318)
In this session, John Mertic, Director of Strategic Programs for the Linux Foundation, will present how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe and OpenStack Cloud Connector are the starting point for open development. The session will also cover how the mainframe platform is a natural technology for Linux deployments and the impacts of being more open on the mainframe from the perspectives of DevOps, AI, Analytics, Open UX frameworks, and Security.Attendees will also learn about the opportunities, challenges, considerations, and experiences to date to help inform their participation in the mainframe community.

Wednesday, August 7:
11:15- am – 12:15 pm: IBM Z Service Automation Suite to Optimize Batch and Application Automation on Z (Room 315-316, session number 25879)
The increasing importance of Application Availability and a strong need to simplify and modernize systems management on Z drives the launch of new offerings to optimize the way how to manage a complex application and resource environment. In this session, Domenico D’Alerio with IBM will provide an introduction to the IBM Z Service Automation Suite, a brand new offering, which provides integrated Automation, Workload Scheduling, and Network Management out-of-the box. Supported by modern Service Management Unite User Interface (powered by OMP’s Zowe), you have a comprehensive set of workload automation functions to control your application availability, to automate complex batch workload and manage your SNA and IP networks.

11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Zowe Update – Learn How Zowe Is Changing the z/OS Landscape and Where It’s Going (Room 321, session number 25411)
OMP’s Zowe’s vision was to tackle the problem of opening up the mainframe to a new generation of users, a wider landscape of tools, and improving the overall devops and operational experience for all. It is one year since Zowe launched at Share St. Louis. Joe Winchester from IBM will present Zowe from all angles with an overview of what it does, how to obtain it, how to use it, and how the Zowe community operates. An update will be given of the progress that Zowe has made since its announce and launch, together with a roadmap and vision for where the Zowe community want to take the project moving forward. This session will be ideal for people who have heard of Zowe and want to find more, through to users who are experienced with Zowe and want to see the roadmap ahead as well as give input and feedback to the team.
Thursday, August 8:

8:30-9:30 am: Modern to Mainframe – Zowe Enabled Automation, Testing, and Orchestration (Room 317-318, session number 25325)

Discovering how to apply modern testing and orchestration tools to mainframe process can be intimidating. In this session, Dan Kelosky from Broadcom will reduce the complexity of this tooling by explaining the purpose and capabilities of modern testing (like Jest and Mocha.js) and orchestration tools (like Travis.ci and Jenkins). We will then demonstrate plain and clear examples how to integrate these tools with traditional mainframe [assembler] development using Zowe CLI and APIs.

10-11 am: Zowe – A User’s Experience of Adopting Zowe (Room 303, session number 25235)

Hear from IBM, a large mainframe service provider, on how their newer system programmers and developers were excited about Zowe and adopted it to transform their user experience of working with the mainframe platform. Guiherme Cartier will cover various use cases and demos related to automation and interface improvements with great productivity and happiness gains.

2:15-3;15 pm: Zowe, APIs and More for System Administrators (Room 302, session number 25893)

OMP’s Zowe is focused on APIs, you might think that is is a topic meant exclusively for Application Developers and DevOps teams, but its impact will be far reaching. Haley Fung will present Zowe’s three main deliverables include an application framework, an API mediation layer, and a command line interface, which provides a core set of commands for working with data sets, USS, JES, as well as issuing TSO and console commands. Attend this session to build your knowledge base on Zowe and be ahead of the curve.

4:45-5:45 pm: Zowe CLI – DevOps: Adapting Enterprise Development to Cloud Computing with Hosted Development Environments (Panel Discussion – Room 317-318, session number 25160)

As the anticipated gains associated with application and infrastructure cloud hosting (public, hybrid, or private) come to fruition through greater scalability, utility-based pricing, and provisioning efficiencies requiring fewer platform-centric technical skills, how are IT organizations transitioning application development environments? Should they? Will the cloud-hosting returns be a wash if development and delivery environments remain traditional? The panel, featuring Rosalind Radcliffe with IBM, Vaughan Marshall with Broadcom, and Rose Sakach from Broadcom, will discuss hosted development environments, what they are, what they are not, and how they may be the next best move in bringing news skills to the platform.

Friday, August 9:

8:30-9:30 am: BYOD Lab – Zowe CLI – Learn How to Construct a DevOps Pipeline for a CICS COBOL Application (Room 401-402, session number 25156)

If you are interested in Zowe and/or DevOps, this is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the Zowe Command Line Interface. In this “Bring Your Own Device” session, you’ll be working within a modern cloud IDE workspace. You’ll learn how the Zowe CLI enables you to control, script and develop on the mainframe like any other cloud platform. Zowe also empowers you to use industry standard open source tooling of your choice! In this lab, you will compile, deploy, run and test a CICS COBOL application as part of a DevOps pipeline. Dan Kelosky and Michael Bauer from Broadcom will be on-site to present how to work with Zowe and provide guidance as attendees give it a try. To participate in this session, all you need on your own PC is access to the internet and a browser.

11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Why and How Can Zowe Be Extended by a Tools Vendor or Customer’s IT Shop (Room 305, session number 25412)

OMP’s Zowe is designed and built to be an extensible and open platform. One of its goals is to have a rich set of base function that is freely and widely available under an open source license. Another one of its goals is to provide a platform onto which vendors can host their tools through extension and plugin points. This is equally applicable to mainframe IT shops who want to build out their own in-house value add to Zowe to rehost their own internal proprietary systems. This talk is designed to cover how to extend Zowe from a technical perspective and cover the different patterns of extension, together with showing the samples and guides that can be used to showcase each extension playbook. At the end of the talk attendees who are looking at Zowe as a platform to extend and host their own tooling, whether for commercial or internal user, will know more about how to do this as well as the benefit of why. Joe Winchester with IBM will also discuss their vision for the future and welcome all feedback and questions for missing onboarding patterns that the Zowe team should look to provide

To register for the event, click here.

Zowe Meetup in Pittsburgh
2019-08-04 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Broadcom, 750 Holiday Drive, Greentree PA 15220
If you’re in the Pittsburgh area, the Open Mainframe Project invites you to a Zowe meetup! On Sunday, August 4, OMP member Broadcom will host a meetup at their offices (750 Holiday Drive, Greentree PA 15220), for anyone interested in learning more about Zowe, the open source framework that is modernizing the mainframe. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet some of the core community committers, hear about Zowe roadmap initiatives and participate in community planning. Registration required.
Please see below for the agenda:

Introduction
A year in Review
Zowe v2 Themes/Roadmaps
Conformance Program/App Directory
Long Term Release Support
CI/CD Review
Community Tooling
Developer Ennoblement/Advocacy

Open Source Summit China 2019
2019-06-25 00:00 - 2019-06-26 00:00 UTC | Shanghai Expo Centre, No. 1500 Shibo Avenue, Shanghai, China
The Open Mainframe Project will be onsite at Open Source Summit China on June 25 & 26 in Shanghai. The event is the premier destination for the community to collaborate, share information and learn about the most important open source technologies and topics today, including cloud native, serverless, microservices, IoT, AI, networking, Linux and more.
Stay tuned for details on the Open Mainframe Project’s presence at OSS China.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

IDUG North America 2019
2019-06-02 00:00 - 2019-06-06 00:00 UTC
The Open Mainframe Project will be onsite at IDUG North America 2019 from June 2 – June 6 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wednesday, June 5:
At 8 AM, join Tim Willging, Distinguished Engineer from Rocket Software & Denis Tronin, Sr. Principal Product Manager at Broadcom for their presentation “Introduction to Zowe! An overview of all the value Zowe brings, including a demonstration“. In their presentation, attendees will hear about the biggest challenges that’s facing mainframe in 2019. Attendees will also receive an overview of open source languages and tools for the mainframe and an overview of the Zowe framework.
At 9:20 AM, join Sean Grady, Software Engineer at Rocket Software and Sujay Solomon, Product Manager from Broadcom for their presentation, “It’s Open Source! A look under the hood at the Zowe architecture“. Join Sujay and Sean as they explain the architecture of the Zowe framework. Attendees will learn how the architecture components communicate with one another, and how Zowe services drive modern mainframe actions.
At 10:40 AM, join Sean Grady from Rocket Software & Michael Bauer, Sr. Product Owner of Broadcom for their presentation, “Re-envisioning old workflows with new technologies“. Michael and Sean will demonstrate how Zowe can simplify common administrative tasks.
At 1 PM join John Mertic with the Linux Foundation for an overview of how “Open Source is Modernizing the Mainframe.” This session will cover how an “open mainframe” is the perfect solution for deploying open source on an enterprise computing platform. You will learn how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe and OpenStack Cloud Connector 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.
On Thursday, June 6 at 8 AM join Barry Barker, Vice President of IBM Z Software at IBM, Anjali Arora, Chief Product Officer from Rocket Software & David Stokes, Senior Director of R&D from Broadcom and John Mertic, Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation, for their keynote address, “Building Next-Gen Applications with IBM Db2 and Zowe.” The address will discuss how OMP members worked together to open up the mainframe to narrow the skills gap & enable application developers to use the tools of their choice.
To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

Zowe Enterprise Installer - Play Forward
2019-04-23 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
On Tuesday, April 23 the Open Mainframe Project will participate in the Zowe Enterprise Installer – Play Forward open call.
At 11 AM EST, join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM for a presentation on the future plans regarding the Zowe framework. Attendees are encouraged to give their input on issues relating to installing, upgrading, extending distributions, service and support, packaging and runtime lifecycle. The call will be of interest to anyone who has installed Zowe or is thinking of installing Zowe.
To learn more about the call, click here. (Note: Users must sign up for the Zowe Developers group on Zowe.org to see details for the open call)

IBM zCouncil - Philadelphia
2019-04-23 | Maggiano’s Little Italy – King of Prussia, PA, 205 Mall Road, King of Prussia, PA
The Open Mainframe Project will be participating in the IBM zCouncil in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 23.
At 9 AM, Len Santalucia, Business Development Manager from Vicom Infinity will be onsite to help kickoff the event w/ Clyde Richardson, IBM Z Software Technical Sales Executive at IBM to deliver a keynote address.
At 2:05 PM, join Alex Kim, IBM Z Solutions Architect at Vicom Infinity for his presentation, “#TalktoTheMainframe with ViVa“. Alex will be showing off the demo for the voice assistant device ViVa, and will demonstrate how it can securely interact with a mainframe using voice and the latest technologies including The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe framework.
To learn more about the event, click here.

Developer Panel: The Future of Open Source
2019-04-18 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Devhub, 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C, Canada
The OpenMainframe Project will take part in a DevHub Meetup in Vancouver, Canada on Thursday, April 18 at 6 PM. The Meetup will feature a panel about The Future of OpenSource, where local leaders will share different perspectives on how open source will shape future developers and companies.
Mike Fulton, Distinguished Engineer at IBM and Open Mainframe Project member, will share details about open source, OMP, Zowe and more. He joins Don Burks, Technical Lead at Sphere, Nathalie C. Chan King Choy, Consultant at Kestrel Omnitech & Brenda Rigney, Strategy Consultant at Rigney as they discuss how open source has affected their careers, and how they think the technology will evolve.
To register for the panel, click here.

Mainframe DevOps Using Zowe Open Source Webinar
2019-04-11 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
DevOps.com is presenting a webinar on April, 11 at 11 AM EST entitled, “Mainframe DevOps Using Zowe Open Source” The webinar will demonstrate how to use the Zowe open source framework to extend modern devops tooling and practices to the mainframe and to enhance the mainframe developer experience. The hosts will also drill into the Zowe architecture as they demo key capabilities including the command line interface (CLI) and API Mediation Layer.
Join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and Michael Bauer, Senior Product Owner from Broadcom as they demonstrate how users can “un-silo” the mainframe to accelerate software delivery and drive cross-platform applications.
To learn more about the webinar or to register, click here.

Zowe zUniversity Webinar: How to Contribute
2019-04-09 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
On Tuesday April 9, 2019, the Open Mainframe Project will participate in the Zowe zUniversity – How to Contribute webinar on Zowe.org.
At 9 AM EST join Sujay Solomon & Mike Bauer from Broadcom Inc. as they demonstrate how users can easily navigate the Zowe website. The demonstration will provide a step-by-step presentation that will show users can easily begin their own contributions to the Zowe framework on Github.
To learn more about the webinar, click here. (Note: Users must sign up for the Zowe Developers group on Zowe.org to see details for the webinar)

SUSECON 2019
2019-04-01 - 2019-04-05 | Renaissance Nashville Hotel, 611 Commerce St, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
From April 1 – 5, thought leaders from all over will flock to Nashville, Tennesse for SUSECON 2019. The Open Mainframe Project is a media sponsor of the event, which features technical and business-level tutorials, customer case studies, hands-on product training, open source solution demos and certification opportunities.
On Tuesday, April 2 at 2 PM, join Michael Friesenegger, Solution Architect at SUSE for his presentation, “Looking beyond Linux for IBM Z and LinuxONE“. Join Michael as he explains what users can do to successfully deploy and test open source technologies for private cloud, container orchestration and cloud-native applications on IBM Z.
To learn more about the event or to register, click here.
