Open Mainframe Project

Open Source Strategy Forum Virtual
2020-11-12 - 2020-11-13
Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring 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.
Thursday, November 12th at 2:15 pm EST, Open Mainframe Project will be speaking on a panel, Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe.
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Virtual TechU
2020-10-26 - 2020-10-29
TechU features exceptional technical content presented by IBM Engineers, Product Managers, IBM Champions, customers, and partners.
John Mertic will part of the opening session on Monday, October 26 from 08:30-09:20 EDT “Intelligent Brainy Modern Z” as well as presenting an On Demand session “Creating a sustainable open source ecosystem for mainframe through the Open Mainframe Project”.
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Open Source Summit Europe Virtual Experience
2020-10-26 - 2020-10-29
Open Source Summit connects the open source ecosystem under one roof. It’s a unique environment for cross-collaboration between developers, sysadmins, DevOps, architects, and others who are driving technology forward.
Be sure to attend our panel discussion on Wednesday, October 28 at 5:00 AM PT on Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe featuring John Mertic, Jenn Francis, and Len Santalucia.
Don’t miss the Open Mainframe Mini Summit on Friday, October 30 at 8 AM PT.
Learn more about the Open Source Summit.

All Things Open 2020
2020-10-19 - 2020-10-20
All Things Open 2020, year 8 of the event, will take place on Monday, October 19, and Tuesday, October 20. For the first time ever it is virtual and takes place online. More than 10,000 are expected to join and participate from around the world.
Be sure to check out John Mertic’s session on Creating a sustainable open source ecosystem for mainframe through the Open Mainframe Project on October 20th at 4:15 pm-5:00 pm US/ET on October 20th.
Elizabeth Joseph will be presenting on October 20th at 1:30 pm-2:15 pm US/ET on A Tour of Open Source on the Mainframe.
Learn more about this event.

Virtual Open Mainframe Summit
2020-09-16 - 2020-09-17
The Open Mainframe Project will be hosting the Virtual Open Mainframe Summit on September 16 – 17.

The inaugural Open Mainframe Summit will bring together all of the different types of mainframers – from students to hobbyists, seasoned professionals to new engineers, developers, and educators – to share best practices, discuss hot topics, learn technical insight from the best, and network with like-minded individuals who are passionate about the mainframe industry.

Learn more about Open Mainframe Summit.

Cancelled: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2020
2020-07-28 - 2020-07-30
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2020 July 28 – 30, 2020 in Shanghai, China.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Shanghai, China from July 28-30, 2020. Join Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS, containerd, Fluentd, TUF, Jaeger, Vitess, OpenTracing, gRPC, CNI, Notary, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Rook, Harbor, etcd, Open Policy Agent, CRI-O, TiKV, CloudEvents and Falco as the community gathers for three days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.
Stay tuned for details on the Open Mainframe Project’s presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2020.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

Cancelled: Open Source Software Conference 2020
2020-07-13 - 2020-07-16
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at OSCON July 13 – 16, in Portland, Oregon.
OSCON covers everything shaping software development today—from AI and cloud technology to distributed computing. If you want to explore some of the most challenging issues that our industry faces today, including rock-solid technical skills, business-tested use cases, detailed success stories (or tear-downs of failures), come to OSCON.

Open Source Summit North America 2020 Virtual Experience
2020-06-29 - 2020-07-02
The Open Mainframe Project will be speaking at Open Source Summit North America 2020 June 29 – July 2.
Open Source Summit North America (OSS NA) 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.
Don’t miss the Open Mainframe Mini-Summit Thursday, July 2 from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm in Conference Room 1.
John Mertic will be presenting “How to Grow Your Open Source Project and Become an Umbrella Project” on Monday, June 29, 2020, 3:20 pm – 3:45pm in Conference Room 12
Check out Joe Winchster’s session on “How Open Mainframer Project’s Zowe is Opening up the Mainframe. Who Says You Can’t Teach Old Dogs New Tricks.” Monday, June 29th at 11:30 am in Conference Room 14.
Check out Elizabeth Joseph’s Session on “Exploring 20 Years of Linux and Open Source on the Mainframe” Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at 3:05 pm in Conference Room 7.
To learn more about the event, or to register, click here.

Zowe Community's first joint PI planning
2020-06-25 08:00 - 2020-06-29 17:00 UTC
The Open Mainframe Project #zowe Community would like to announce the first Joint Program Increment (3 month PI) Planning session. This event will align all the Zowe squads to a shared mission for the next 3 months. It will include a presentation of hills to overcome and supporting features, followed by breakout sessions where the teams create their Iteration plans and objectives for the upcoming PI.Dates: June 25, 26 and 29

Agenda and Zoom links

We welcome you to join the community’s PI Planning event by marking your calendars (invites can be imported from the Open Mainframe Project Zowe calendar

Open Mainframe Project Webinar: Zowe LTS Release
2020-05-28 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe, the first ever open source software framework, has announced its first active Long Term Support (LTS) release and updated Zowe Conformance Program. Join us on Thursday, May 28 at 9 am PDT, to learn more about the Zowe LTS, the Zowe Conformance Program and how to get involved and engaged in one of the most active open source communities!
You must be registered to attend this webinar. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qmwFDBjPR9OMc7H8H0Nl6w
Speakers for the webinar include:
– Bruce Armstrong, Member of the Zowe Leadership Committee and IBM Z Offering Manager
– Peter Fandel, Member of the Zowe Leadership Committee and Senior Director, Product Management for Rock Software
– Rose Sakach, Zowe Onboarding Squad Scrum Master and Global Product Manager, Mainframe Division for Broadcom

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.
