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SUMMARY:Zowe 1.23 Live System Demo
DESCRIPTION:Open Mainframe Project is excited to announce that Zowe 1.23 release is now available! OnAugust 4 at 6-7 am PST/ 9-10 am EST\, Zowe squads will share the new benefits of the release as well as live demos to see these features in action.\n\n\nWhat: Live Zowe Demos and Q&A\nWhen: Wednesday\, August 4 at 6-7 am PST/9-10 am EST\nWhere: https://zoom.us/j/94784372343\nAdd to your calendar: https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/zowe-dev/viewevent?eventid=1205575&calstart=2021-08-04\n\n\nThis is a great way to not only see the new features and enhancements\, but to ask questions to the teams who work on Zowe and give them input that will help shape future release items.  Key 1.23 features include API Mediation Layer authentication based load balancing\, improvements to the Docker and High Availability tech previews\, allowing the Zowe cLI to filter data sets by volume serial number\, and for the Zowe Explorer a number of enhancements for refreshing UI content and an improved developer guide.\n\n\nCheck out the last few demo presentations here:\n\nZowe 1.22 Release Highlights and Demo Video\nZowe 1.21 Release Highlights and Demo Video
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/zowe-1-23-live-system-demo/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:All,Zowe
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210814
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SUMMARY:SHARE Virtual
DESCRIPTION:The SHARE virtual conference (#SHAREvirtual21) is hosting its summer session on August 9-13. There will be more than 100 live sessions and 100 on-demand presentations focused on a variety of topics related to mainframes. Several Open Mainframe Project community leaders will be speaking at the event about Zowe\, COBOL and other topics. Take a look at the details below and add these sessions to your schedule. \nMonday\, August 9:\n12 – 12:45 pm: How Zowe made the mainframe open\, simple and familiar – Joe Winchester\, IBM \nThe Zowe project launched at Share in August 2019\, will be two years old this month ! This talk will cover how the project has grown up to where it is today\, with its core components\, its incubators\, its community\, and its customers. The focus will be on how Zowe has been deployed as infrastructure for education classes\, at customer sites for automating system operations and devops tasks\, by developers learning VS Code rather than ISPF\, and by vendors modernizing their mainframe software tools by onboarding them within the Zowe technology stack. Attendees to this talk will get to hear real world examples of where Zowe has been a success\, together with where it didn’t meet customer needs but was able to evolve and add missing or new features. Speakers include a customer\, and a student who has done Master the Mainframe before and after Zowe. \n1:15 – 1:35 pm: What’s new with Zowe CLI? – Rose Sakach and Michael Bauer\, Broadcom \nJoin us for a review of some key CLI features planned for the Zowe V2 LTS release. From converting to the new profile configuration offering easier onboarding for CLI users\, to nearly instantaneous response time for interactive commands\, we will include the value-add details and help prepare you on how best to take advantage of each of them. \n1:40 – 2 pm: Configuring Zowe CLI with new team configuration – Eugene Johnston\, Broadcom \nThe Zowe Team Configuration replaces the current method of defining application profile properties. The goal is to enable team members to easily share their configuration. We will discuss how this changes the way users configure Zowe-CLI. \nTuesday\, August 10:\n10 – 10:30 am: Colleagues in Corvettes Getting Cappuccinos – Greg Lotko\, Broadcom \nJoin us for a fun-filled session and learn about some of the latest mainframe trends and best practices. \n10:45 – 11:05 am: Top 5 (and more) reasons customers modernize with Zowe’s API mediation layer – Rose Sakach and Michal Supak\, Broadcom \nDo not miss this session if you are beyond experimenting with Zowe. We will describe the critical role of the API Mediation layer and share some tips and tricks for installation. \n11:10 – 11:30 am: Using a Zowe CLI plugin to manage mainframe developer workspaces – Vaughn Marshall and Michael Vasak\, Broadcom \nModern developer workflows involve coding in a working directory\, typically opened in an IDE. Using CLI’s like Git\, they are able to easily sync and integrate changes from other developers via a single command. No tracking what you’ve changed or where conflicts lie hidden in the central repo. In this session we’ll see how we constructed a similar experience for mainframe developers using a Zowe CLI plugin. \n11:45 am – 12:05 pm: DIY Zowe Explorer Starter Kit – Jessielaine Caidic Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw – Broadcom \n\no you want to build a mainframe VS Code extension but don’t know where to begin? Good news! We have just what you need to get you started. In this session we will talk about building VS Code extensions using Zowe Explorer extensible APIs. We will share code samples\, tips and tricks and best practices so that you don’t have to start from scratch. We will also discuss what you need to keep in mind while building\, in order to be compatible with the Zowe Explorer conformance criteria.\n\nWednesday\, August 11:\n12:45 – 1:30 pm: Do you really understand mainframe modernization? – Ed Airey and Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nThe phrase Modernization has been used frequently in the last year\, but do you really understand what Modernization means when it comes to Mainframes? Does it mean moving off of the mainframe or rewriting COBOL applications in Java? Modernization means many things to many people and differs based on the requirements and the desired outcome. Today’s demands require mainframe applications to do more for the business—connect\, share\, integrate and secure—across networks\, devices\, platforms and the cloud. All while running the business and keeping the lights on. These mammoth mainframe systems aren’t going away either. Rather than a re-write or replacement strategy which is prone to cost overruns and risk of failure\, IT leaders are looking to modernization as a pragmatic path to achieve IT transformation. During this session\, we will: • introduce a new mind-set to mainframe modernization including how to re-think digital change for IBM Z applications. • Share the research into the effectiveness of various techniques. • explore how your organization can get started quickly along this modernization journey by leveraging best practices\, proven technology and choosing the best modernization technique for your unique situation. \n3:45 – 4:30 pm: Avoid unconscious bias to become a better professional – Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nWhat does unconscious bias have to do with being an ally? In this session\, we’ll explore this question and in the process learn something about ourselves. We’ll start with a revealing riddle and an exploration of unconscious bias\, learning how we all have biases. Then we’ll discuss what it means to be an ally\, including specific actions you can take to help others. Finally we’ll explore how an awareness of our own biases is essential to being an ally. \n3:45 – 4:30 pm: What’s new in cloud provisioning and management with continuous delivery – Hiren Shah\, IBM \nCloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS allows middleware system programmers to create software service templates that provision IBM® middleware\, such as IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®)\, IBM DB2®\, IBM Information Management System (IMS™)\, IBM MQ\, and IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS). System programmers can track software instances that were provisioned from those templates. Application developers can quickly provision and deprovision an environment as needed through a self-service software services marketplace. In this session we will go over new enhancements provided in Cloud Provisioning and Management with continuous delivery stream. \nFriday\, August 13:\n11 – 11:45 am: Shh! Don’t say the M-word; How to talk about mainframes – Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nTo the non-mainframer\, the word “Mainframe” comes with lots of assumptions\, usually not complimentary. In this session\, we’ll explore the word “Mainframe”. – Explore the wide range of ways people use the word “mainframe” and the confusion that can ensue. – Learn how you can explain what you do in a way anyone can understand. – Learn how to convince people mainframes are cool with just a few words. \nRegister for the SHARE conference here: https://www.share.org/Events/SHARE-Virtual-Experience/Registration. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/share-virtual/
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SUMMARY:Code PaLOUsa 2021
DESCRIPTION:Codepalousa is a multi-day software development conference designed to cover all aspects of software development regardless of technology stack. The conference features presentations from well-known professionals in the software development community and virtual booths where leading software development companies come to interact with attendees to show off their latest wares. Open Mainframe Project Ambassadors Joe Winchester\, Jessielaine Punongbayan\, Richelle Anne Craw as well as  John Mertic\, Open Mainframe Project Director\, will be presenting several sessions including: \nJoe Winchester\, Wowee it’s Zowe – how the mainframe got its groove again – Thursday\, August 19 at 8:30 am EDT \nThe mainframe is often viewed as a legacy 65 year old computing platform operated by grey (or zero) haired developers typing 8 letter commands into green screens. This talk myth busts that stereotype and discusses the growth of the mainframe in today’s hybrid computing world\, especially around the Linux Foundation’s Zowe project. This provides a command line interface\, a VS Code extension\, academic initiative training courses\, and is a bridge to modern tech stacks around Jenkins\, Node.js\, Swift\, Golang and more. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/1983 \nJessielaine Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw: VS Code for Green Screen Developers.  Thursday August 19th 9:45am EST \nMainframe modernization is an unavoidable topic for every developer these days\, whether your tool is the traditional green screen or another IDE. How does the coding experience differ between the two? In this session\, we will showcase a side-by-side comparison on these development environments\, based on our experience using both. We will also dig into what the different mainframe VSCode extensions are\, how to take advantage of automation in VS Code\, and how to integrate product-specific components and other open source tools in the developer workflow. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/1997 \nJessielaine Punongbayan and Richelle Anne Craw: COBOL Coding in the Cloud.  Friday August 20th 8:30am EST \nHow do you imagine coding in COBOL? Join this session as we give you a glimpse of our day as COBOL developers working with Eclipse Che4z\, a mainframe development tool that blurs the lines between mainframe and distributed environments. Come and hear about the tips and tricks we learned first-hand; the technologies involved; and the challenges we experienced\, switching from traditional green screen development to Cloud IDEs. We will discuss the benefits of using a cloud managed mainframe stack and how quickly we can provision our development environment and get started with team collaboration. https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/2049 \nJohn Mertic and Joe Winchester: Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? – Friday\, August 20 at 9:45 am EST  \nThe Mainframe computer is over 65 years old\, and has a dual personality of either being viewed as a proprietary thing of the past or else a hidden closed locked down machine as espoused in Hollywood movie plots. The truth is neither\, and a huge amount of mainframe computing workload today comes from open source tooling. This talks show the use of Linux Foundation tools\, especially Zowe\, Jenkins\, modern tools such as VS Code\, IntelliJ\, modern languages like Node.js\, Java\, Swift\, Golang\, and more. A lot of the mainframe’s growth comes not from tech\, but from its ability to build communities and academic learning initiatives. From what was once a platform businesses were leaving due to stagnation\, this talk shows the turnaround and the important lessons to be learned that apply to any technology wishing to survive beyond its 50th birthday.  https://www.codepalousa.com/Sessions/2061 \nLearn more about the conference or register for it here: https://www.codepalousa.com/Default.aspx
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/code-palousa-2021/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:All,Industry Conference,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Zowe
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SUMMARY:I am a Mainframer: Personal Stories and Lessons from the Next Generation of Mainframe Developers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 18 at 8-9 am PDT for a new webinar that explores “Personal Stories and lessons from the next generation of mainframe Developers.” \nFive open source mainframe developers will share their personal journey into the mainframe\, covering what they’re working on\, the challenges and issues (good and bad) and their experiences with customers\, the open source community\, and more.  \nOne of the challenges of open source and projects like Zowe is how it can reinvent a 60 year old computing platform for the next generation of developers and system programmers and architects at tomorrow’s IT companies.  \nThis webinar will shine the light on four key Open Mainframe community members who are playing their part and open the lid on their successes\, failures\, and questions and answers for the secret sauce that is powering Zowe and other Open Mainframe Projects they are involved with. The success of Zowe and the Open Mainframe Project comes in large part from the diversity and background of its committers\, and this panel brings together a group that includes the Zowe Technical Steering Committee lead together with squad members from different companies. \nSpeakers include: \n\nJoe Winchester\,  Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM (Moderator)\nJakub Balhar\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom and Zowe TSC Chair\nLauren Li\, Front-End Developer at IBM\nLeanid Astrakou\, Staff Software Engineer at Rocket\nLeonid Baranov\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom\nAshley (Nan Nan) Li\, Content Designer at IBM \n\nRegister for the webinar here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxwiPaFtRreDN1aONdQa_A.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/i-am-a-mainframer-personal-stories-and-lessons-from-the-next-generation-of-mainframe-developers/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Diversity & Inclusion,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Webinar,Zowe
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