Open Mainframe Project

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.

DevOps.com Webinar: Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe
2019-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
DevOps.com is presenting a webinar on March 28 at 11 am EST titled, “Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe.” Join this roundtable session with leaders from the Open Mainframe Project, IBM and Broadcom to learn the latest approaches to integrating the mainframe into modern devops tooling and practices to accelerate delivery and drive true cross-platform applications.
John Mertic, the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation, Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, and Rose Sakach, Product Manager at Broadcom, will discuss the challenges and opportunities that led to the creation of the Open Mainframe Project and the Zowe initiative. Launched last August, Zowe is the first open source project based on z/OS and serves as an integration platform for the next generation of tools for administration, management and development on z/OS mainframes.
By utilizing new interfaces and an API mediation layer, enterprises can now more easily integrate rich mainframe resources and extend ‘API-first’ to the mainframe.
Click here to register.

SHARE Phoenix 2019
2019-03-10 00:00 - 2019-03-15 00:00 UTC | Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N 3rd St, Phoenix, Arizona, 85004
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at SHARE 2019 in Phoenix with several presentations including a Women in IT Luncheon:

On Monday, March 11, at 12:30 PM, join Martha McConaghy, Vice President of The SHARE Association and active OMP member, Jeff Reser, Senior Product Strategist for SUSE, and Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM, for the “Women in IT Lunch.” Sponsored by the Open Mainframe Project, the luncheon is an opportunity for women to connect with other women in the IT industry. An RSVP will be required to attend the event.

On Monday, March 11, at 1:45 PM, join Peter Haumer, Development Leader of IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for his presentation, “IBM’s Devops Experience for Zowe: Towards a Modern Cloud-Based Ide Experience for Cobol Development and Devops”. Peter will explain how IBM created an entirely web-based, zero clients install Integrated Development Environment offering on top of Zowe.

On Monday, March 11, at 4:30 PM, join Jordan Cain, Software Engineer from IBM for his presentation, “How Zowe will Redefine the Way We Interact with z/OS”. The session will feature demos for all the interfaces of the z/OS.
On Tuesday, March 12 at 8:30 AM, join Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Mainframe Divison at Broadcom Technologies, Jerry Edgington, Senior Technical Analyst at Western and Southern Financial Group, Rosalind Ratcliffe, Distinguished Engineer and DevOps Architect at IBM, Ishmael Thomas, Program Advisor of Enterprise Systems Engineering at Regis University & Jeff Reser, Global Product and Solutions Marketing Manager at SUSE for a keynote panel discussion entitled, “Speed Dating with Open Mainframe“. During the discussion, contributors and users will discuss 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.

On Tuesday, March 12, at 11:15 AM, join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member from IBM & Sujay Solomon from Broadcom Technologies for their presentation, “How to Be a Zoweian: Contribute, Extend, Customize, Participate”. The session will cover all of the ways available currently to extend Zowe. Attendees will be able to see what the open-source platform provides to users.
On Tuesday, March 12, at 11:15 AM, join Michael Bauer, Senior Product Owner from Broadcom Technologies for his lab, “Zowe CLI – Build a DevOps Pipeline on AWS for a Mainframe COBOL Application”. The lab will provide attendees the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with the Zowe command line interface and Zowe Visual Code extension. Attendees will also learn how the Zowe CLI enables users to control, script and develop on the mainframe similar to other cloud platforms.
On Wednesday, March 13, at 8:30 AM, join Dan Jast, zClient Technical Specialist from IBM, for his presentation, “Zowe Installed and Configured: A User’s Experience”. During the presentation, Dan will share his experiences of installing and configuring Zowe.
On Friday, March 15, at 8:30 AM, join Dan Kelosky, Senior Principal Architect from Broadcom Technologies for his presentation, “Zowe Modern to Mainframe (Testing Automation and Orchestration)” Join Dan as he explains the purpose and capabilities of modern testing and orchestration tools. Dan will also provide clear examples of how to integrate these tools with traditional mainframe development using Zowe CLI and APIs.
On Friday, March 15, at 10 AM, join Navya Kheterpal, Software Engineer from Broadcom Technologies for her presentation, “Writing a Simple Plugin to Enable Mainframe Applications into the Zowe Framework.” Attendees will be able to observe a demo of a plugin written for Zowe CLI. Attendees will also learn how to jump-start their own effort for writing open-source applications in the Zowe framework.
On Friday, March 15 at 10 AM, join Kevin Hosozawa, Principal Software Advisor from Rocket Software, and Louis Hanna from IBM for their presentation entitled, “Zowe Technology!!! Taking a Look at the New Web-Based Viewer Technology Being Initially Rolled Out in IBM’s OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS.” Louis and Kevin will review the latest Zowe web-based user interface and demonstrate how it can be used for z/OS based functions.

To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

Zowe Webinar
2019-02-22 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Earlier this month, the Open Mainframe Project announced that Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, is now production ready less than six months after launching. Any enterprise or solution developer can access the Zowe 1.0 source code or convenience build and incorporate it into their products or services with the agility and scalability of a cloud platform.
Join this webinar on Friday, February 22 at 9-10 am PST to learn more about how Zowe makes the z/OS environment more “cloud-like” and aims to improve integration in hybrid cloud environments and how to get more involved.
Steven Dickens, Open Mainframe Project Marketing Committee Chair and Global Sales Leader at IBM, will host the webinar as Zowe developers Sujay Solomon, Global Product Manager at Broadcom, Alex Kim, Systems z Solutions Architect with Vicom, and Sean Grady, Software Engineer at Rocket Software will share an overview and best practices, walk through a demo and answer questions. JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cyLnRoZWxpbnV4Zm91bmRhdGlvbi5vcmclMkZsJTJGNjM0MiUyRjIwMTktMDItMTMlMkY0MmJjd3IlMjIlMjB3aWR0aCUzRCUyMjEwMCUyNSUyMiUyMGhlaWdodCUzRCUyMjUwMCUyMiUyMHR5cGUlM0QlMjJ0ZXh0JTJGaHRtbCUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93VHJhbnNwYXJlbmN5JTNEJTIydHJ1ZSUyMiUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYm9yZGVyJTNBJTIwMCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRmlmcmFtZSUzRQ==

IBM THINK 2019
2019-02-12 - 2019-02-15 | Moscone Convention Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
The Open Mainframe Project will be onsite at THINK 2019 hosted by Open Mainframe Project member, IBM. The annual event offers the opportunity for attendees to get a hands-on experience with the latest technology and network with professionals from one of the world’s most celebrated communities of technologists and thought leaders.
On Tuesday, February 12 at 5:30-6:30 PM, join The Open Mainframe Project for Happy Hour! Attendees are encouraged to stop by the SUSE booth (#562 in the Think Infrastructure Campus) for martinis, food, and to learn about all things OMP.

On Wednesday, February 13 at 9:30 AM, join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff member at IBM, Sujay Solomon, Product Manager at Broadcom Inc. & Sean Grady, Software Engineer at Rocket Software for their presentation, “IBM Z: To Open Source—and Beyond!”. Their presentation will cover the challenges customers face while obtaining and deploying tooling for their mainframe developers and system programmers. Attendees will learn how a collaboration of open-source tools and the new Zowe open-source framework empowers mainframe developers.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 9:30 AM, join Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom Technologies, Ross Mauri, General Manager of IBM Z at IBM, Barry Baker, Vice President of IBM Z software at IBM, James Douglas, Operations Security Manager at Broadridge Financial Services, Brian Klingbeil, COO for a panel discussion hosted by Len Santalucia, CTO of Vicom Infinity entitled, “The Innovation Ecosystem: Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be on the Mainframe!“. The highly interactive session will demonstrate why it’s the best of times to be on the mainframe.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 3:30 PM, join Amit Tolmare, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM, Neeraj Kumar, Senior Product Management Leader at IBM, & Heinrich Reusch, Manager of zD&T Development at IBM for their hands-on lab, “Experience Wazi, a Web IDE for Z Open Development Powered by Zowe“. The hands-on lab will provide attendees a full, modern code editing experience with language-specific features and technology integrations in the Zowe powered web-based IDE, Wazi. Users will also experience advanced COBOL analysis, editing and refactoring and learn how fast and easy it is to get a personalized Z environment on the IBM Cloud.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 4:30 PM, join John Mertic, The Director of Program Management at The Linux Foundation for his presentation, “The Open Mainframe”. John will explain how open mainframes are the perfect solution for deploying Open Source on enterprise computing platforms. Attendees will learn how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe 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, February 14 at 1 PM, join Matt Hogstrom, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect at IBM & Per Kroll, Director of IBM Z Management and Ops Analytics at IBM for their presentation, “Want to Know How You Can be Part of Zowe?“. Attendees will learn how they can be part of the growing Zowe community of committee and project members who are shaping and creating a modern, extensible computing platform for mainframe developers and system programmers.

On Thursday, February 14 at 2:30 PM, join Rosalind Radcliffe & Matt Hogstrom, Distinguished Engineers & Chief Architects from IBM for their presentation, “Open Development & Modernizing Applications on IBM Z”. Moving from monolithic applications toward an API economy means leveraging microservices and DevOps practices, with a fully integrated and automated pipeline enabled by a hybrid cloud architecture plus best-of-breed, open source tooling and communities such as Zowe. Join Rosalind and Matt as they explain how users can reduce risk by enabling microservices to be implemented in their language of choice and run where most appropriate whether it’s on z/OS, Linux for Z, or on distributed platforms.
To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

Open Source Summit Europe 2018 - Edinburgh, UK
2018-10-22 - 2018-10-24
On Tuesday, October 23 the Open Mainframe Project will be on display at Open Source Summit Europe. All of the summer interns who worked at OMP will showcase their work in a session titled, “Open Source Investments in Mainframe through the Next Generation.” This year’s class focused on improving mainframe open source packaging and support of modern technologies such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.
To learn more information or to add this to your schedule, click here.
Open Mainframe Project is a community sponsor for Open Source Summit Europe, which is co-located with ELC and OpenIoT Summit. Use our code “OSSEU18COM15″ and you’ll receive 15% off Attendee Registration.

All Things Open 2018 - Raleigh, NC
2018-10-21 - 2018-10-23
More details to follow…

Open Fintech Forum - New York
2018-10-10 - 2018-10-11 | 2Below Conference Center at Credit Suisse New York, New York, 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, United States
The Open Mainframe Project will be active at Open FinTech Forum with a few dedicated sessions.
On October 11 at 11:30 am, John Mertic, Director of ODPi, and Goran Begic, Sr. Director of Product Management at CA Technologies, will present a session titled, “Connecting Modern Application Developments to the Mainframe with Zowe.” In this session, attendees will learn about Open Mainframe Project, details about the newly launched Zowe and showcase how attendees can get involved in this new open source project based on z/OS. To learn more or to add it to your schedule, click here.
Additionally, several Open Mainframe Project members will participate in a panel discussion titled, “The Resurgence of Mainframe in Modern Industry: insights from key executives on the future of this cornerstone technology.
OMP member Len Santalucia from Vicom Infinity will moderate Alan Clark from SUSE, Steve Conger from ADP, Calista Redmond from IBM and Andy Youniss from Rocket Software will participate. In this panel session, you’ll hear perspectives of key executives in the mainframe space on the current and future of the mainframe, as well as how open source technology is driving growth and cementing mainframe as a sustainable infrastructure choice for decades to come. To add this to your schedule, click here.
Open Mainframe Project is a community sponsor at this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OFF18COM15.

Open Source Summit North America 2018 - Vancouver
2018-08-29 - 2018-08-31 | Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC, V6C, Canada
Open Mainframe Project will be a community sponsor at this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OSSNA18COM15.
We also will have two talks from community members during the conference:
Wednesday, August 29 • 2:10pm – 2:50pm
Bringing Students from Underprivileged Backgrounds into Tech through Open Source and Mainframe – Dr. Cameron Seay, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Thursday, August 30 • 4:00pm – 4:40pm

Bringing a New Linux Distro to the Mainframe – Story of How Alpine Linux was Ported to s390x – Tuan Hoang, Marist College

SHARE St Louis
2018-08-12 - 2018-08-17

VM Workshop 2018 - Greenboro, NC
2018-06-28 - 2018-06-30
We are a sponsor for this event again, and Len Santalucia will be speaking on behalf of the project on “What Does Today’s Buyer Think about
Mainframes? Study Results from the Open Mainframe Project”.

LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018
2018-06-25 - 2018-06-27
Open Mainframe Project will be a Community Sponsor for this event.

Open Source Summit Japan - 2018
2018-06-20 - 2018-06-22
Open Mainframe Project will be a Community Sponsor for this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OSSJ18COM15.

10th Annual Enterprise Computing Community National Conference
2018-06-17 - 2018-06-19
Leonard J. Santalucia CTO, Business Development Manager, Certified Specialist and IBM Champion will be speak at the 10th Annual Enterprise Computing Community National Conference Monday June 18th at 10:45am 3mainframe.
Collaboration and Growth in Open Source Enterprise Computing with Open Mainframe Project
Mainframes are amazing, powerful machines running critical functions across various industries that touch each of us every day… and are also driving innovation in open source. In this talk, we will explore the roots, importance, and prolific growth of open source on the mainframe, how it’s been used by companies such as ADP, AIG, and others, and how the mainframe community is gathering around the Open Mainframe Project to drive enterprise computing forward.
Learn more about the conference here.
http://bit.ly/2JpIyRe

Open Source 101 - Columbia, SC
2018-04-17 | USC Alumni Center, 900 Senate St, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Hear John Mertic speak on “What Does Today’s Buyer Think about Mainframe? Study Results from the Open Mainframe Project” at 2:00pm in CONFERENCE ROOM 4.

IBM THINK 2018 - Las Vegas
2018-03-19 - 2018-03-22 | Mandalay Bay, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, United States
Come hear John Mertic present “Collaboration and Growth of Open Source Enterprise Computing with Open Mainframe Project” on March 19th from 4:30 PM to 5:10 PM in Reef B.
And project members can join us for an exclusive member lunch on March 20th ( details at https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/omp-members/viewevent?eventid=247276&calstart=2018-03-20 )
