Webinar: Open Source on the Modern Mainframe
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The document summarizes an agenda for an Open Mainframe Project event. It includes introductions of several mainframe-centric open source projects hosted by the Open Mainframe Project: Ambitus, Feilong, Polycephaly, Zorow, and Zowe. It provides overviews of the missions and benefits of each project. It also discusses the Zowe Conformance Program and how to get involved in the Open Mainframe Project community through various activities and events.
Webinar: Open Source on the Modern Mainframe
- 1. Open Source on the Modern Mainframe April 17, 2020
- 2. Agenda • Welcome and introduction - Len Santalucia • Ambitus - Joe Bostian • Feilong - Mike Friesenegger & James Vincent • Polycephaly - Jerry Edgington • Zorow - Hiren Shah • Zowe - Sujay Solomon • Zowe Conformance Program – Joe Winchester • How to get involved • Q/A
- 3. For the last 20 years, The Linux Foundation has provided unparalleled support for open source communities through financial and intellectual resources, governance structure, IT infrastructure, services, events, and training. Dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects, The Linux Foundation is working with the global technology community to solve the world’s hardest problems through open source and creating the largest shared technology investment in history. The Linux Foundation is the umbrella organization for more than 300 open source projects accelerating open technology development and commercial adoption. Some of the game-changing initiatives hosted by The Linux Foundation include: 3 Open Mainframe Project - part of The Linux Foundation ecosystem of sustainable open source
- 4. Mission of the Open Mainframe Project: Build community and adoption of Open Source on the mainframe • Eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe • Demonstrating value of the mainframe on technical and business levels • Strengthening collaboration points and resources for the community to thrive
- 6. Mainframe-centric projects hosted Learn about all Open Mainframe projects at https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects
- 7. Supporting a strong open source ecosystem on mainframe is crucial to sustainability. The Open Mainframe Landscape is key to identifying and understanding the dynamics. Visit https://l.openmainframeprojec t.org to learn more. Showcasing the commercial ecosystem building from Open Mainframe Project hosted project
- 8. Ambitus Joe Bostian, Open Source and Analytics Architect for IBM z Systems and co-lead of OMP’s Ambitus project
- 9. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/ambitus Mission: To build a community of users who want to better understand how their existing open source environment can be implemented and operated on a mainframe. This is a community of architects, developers, and users with experience in enterprise environments who need to use their z/OS or Linux on Z platforms more effectively through cross-platform open source frameworks and interfaces. Benefits: ● Understand the set of common open source environments that exist on the modern mainframe ● Gain access to examples and best practices that illustrate how mainframes excel in open environments ● Discover how to to eliminate inefficiencies in enterprise open source deployments by applying the unique functional strengths of IBM Z What’s next: We will continue to build out our portfolio of open source configurations and library of how-to information to assist new users in bringing their workloads to IBM Z. We will also be providing assistance to open source maintainers and committers who are thinking about supporting IBM Z through their projects.
- 10. Feilong Mike Friesenegger, Solution Architect for the SUSE Alliances team and co-lead of OMP’s Feilong Project James Vincent, Senior Systems Architect for Velocity Software and co-lead of OMP’s Feilong Project
- 11. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/feilong Mission: • Contribute and further develop the RESTful API server that simplfies interaction with the IBM z/VM hypervisor. Benefits: • The RESTful API server makes using z/VM easier especially for developers without deep knowledge of z/VM. • Develop self-service Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation of VMs, networking and storage used by z/VM. • The z/VM Cloud Connector is included in an IBM product and can be integrated with VMware and OpenStack. • An implementation of the RESTful API is available in a third-commercial z/VM cloud management product. What’s next: • Already have a strong codebase to contribute and further develop thanks to the IBM contribution to the project. • Move CI/CD infrastructure under Linux Foundation and connect to Z resources from Feilong partners. • Provide Feilong contributors access to z/VM resources to develop, test and document features. • Support OMP summer mentorship project - Feilong - Ansible Module. • Increase the Feilong membership and bi-weekly project meeting attendance.
- 13. Polycephaly Jerry Edgington, Senior Systems Analyst at Western & Southern Financial Group and lead for OMP’s Polycephaly project
- 14. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/polycephaly Mission: - To allow developers to be just developers, regardless of what platform the application is being developed for - Minimal knowledge for z/OS system programmer to support - Reuse existing Jenkins and Git knowledge to support the zSeries platform Benefits: - Requires minimal z/OS system programming experience - Treats z/OS just any other platform - Reuses technology most likely already running, with expertise to use it - Quickly allows non-z/OS developers to develop on z/OS What’s next: - Expansion of the current code to base to allow for more features, functions and subsystems, like DB2 - Improved integration with Jenkins and its code, and exploiting more of its features - Improve documentation to allow for easier installation and transition to Polycephaly
- 15. Zorow Hiren Shah, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
- 16. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/zorow Mission: ● Provides a repository for z/OS systems programmers and product vendors to contribute and share z/OSMF workflows ● Build community of z/OS System programmers to collaborate around z/OSMF workflow technology ● Modernize z/OS System management via use of z/OSMF and workflows Benefits: ● We can centralize workflows from clients and numerous IBM offerings, for common systems management tasks ● Systems programmers can collaborate on various workflows to reduce complexities by using familiar templates that integrate seamlessly with their respective enterprise operations. ● Tenured systems programmers can be energized to transfer their systems management skills to the early tenured systems programmers What’s next: ● Continue to build portfolio of various system management and configuration workflows ● Encourage customers to participate and contribute to the zorow community ● Provide educational materials such as videos to help customers to build their own z/OSMF workflows
- 17. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/zorow What is a z/OSMF Workflow: The z/OSMF Workflow is a framework that supports z/OS System Programmers (Workflow provider) to define a guided flow (workflow) through steps to accomplish a system management or configuration task. The z/OSMF Workflow is useful to: ● Assist people unfamiliar with how to perform a given task, or a task that they perform rarely ● Ensure that all tasks are performed in the right order and only when their dependencies have been met ● Ensure that all steps are completed, even if many of the tasks have been delegated to a number of different colleagues ● Monitor and track progress toward the completion of the task ● Provide a history (audit trail) of the steps performed for a task ● Perform the same tasks on multiple systems z/OSMF workflow Examples: ● Provision z/OS middleware ● Expand zFS file system ● Upgrade z/OS version
- 18. Zowe Sujay Solomon, Chief Z DevOps Advocate for Broadcom and member of OMP’s Zowe Leadership Committee
- 19. zowe.org Mission: ● Reduce the learning curve ● Attract new people to z/OS ● Simplify architecture Benefits: Zowe is an integrated and extensible open source software for z/OS with a coherent and curated set of user and programmatic interfaces that: ● Provide consistent access to z/OS systems and services ● Leverage industry standard methodologies and standards familiar to the vast majority of today’s developers and IT staff ● Are commonly accepted as a standard within the mainframe community What’s next: ● SSO experience for all users of z/OS ● SDKs for popular languages/runtimes like Python and Node.JS enabling developers to easily with z/OS services ● Mobile Framework for z/OS Services
- 26. Zowe Conformance Joe Winchester, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and member of OMP’s Zowe Leadership Committee and Zowe architect
- 27. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/zowe/conformance Mission: ● Zowe is designed and architected to be software platform for z/OS products to build plugins, apps and extensions. Benefits: ● Give users the confidence that when they use a product, app, or distribution that leverages Zowe they can expect a high level of common functionality, interoperability and user experience. ● Conformance provides Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators (SIs) and end users greater confidence that their software will behave as expected. ● The Zowe Conformance Program is administered by the Open Mainframe Project
- 28. Zowe CLI out of the box
- 29. Zowe CLI as an extensible platform
- 30. Zowe desktop as an extensible platform
- 32. Other Open Mainframe projects and contacts Lead: James Caffrey Repo: https://github.com/OpenMainframeproject/ade Lead: John Arwe Repo: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/atompkg- language-zvm-asm Lead: Klaus Egeler Repo: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tersedecompress Lead: Robert Dahlberg Landing Page: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/mentors hip-program
- 33. Get involved!
- 34. A Few Ways to Participate Subscribe to Open Mainframe Project Mailing Lists Attend Upcoming Mainframe Events Get the latest development updates from the technical communities Engage in the discussion on Slack Start or join a local Open Mainframe Meetup Participate in the Forums
- 35. Join us at Open Mainframe Summit • 2 day event, to be held at the Marist College Executive Center in NYC • CFP open now! • Register today: https://events.linuxfound ation.org/open- mainframe-summit/
- 36. 36 Follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the- open-mainframe-project Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OpenMFProject Make sure you are follow us on social!
- 37. Questions?
- 38. Thank you!