Join this roundtable session to learn the latest approaches to integrating the mainframe into modern devops tooling and practices to accelerate delivery and drive true cross-platform applications. The panelists will discuss the challenges and opportunities that led to the creation of the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project and the Zowe initiative. Launched last August, Zowe is the first open source project based on IBMz’s 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.

1. Bridging Modern
DevOps & the
Mainframe
Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019
Sponsored by:

2. Panelists
John Mertic is the Director of Program
Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his
leadership, he has helped ASWF, ODPi, Open
Mainframe Project, and R Consortium accelerate
open source innovation and transform industries.
John has an open source career spanning two
decades, both as a contributor to projects such as
SugarCRM and PHP, and in open source leadership
roles at SugarCRM, OW2, and OpenSocial. With
an extensive open source background, he is a
regular speaker at various Linux Foundation and
other industry trade shows each year. John is also
an avid writer and has authored two books “The
Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business
Applications” and “Building on SugarCRM” as well
as published articles on IBM Developerworks,
Apple Developer Connection, and PHP Architect.
Joe Winchester is an IBM Senior
Technical Staff Member working for IBM as
part of the IBM Z Systems software
division. He is based in Hursley, UK.
Before joining Project Zowe where he is
lead of the Onboarders squad, Joe was the
architect of IBM's CICS Tools portfolio as
well as the technical lead for the z/OS
Explorer Aqua platform. Joe has extensive
experience with open source having been a
member of the Java Community Process as
well as a committer and team lead for the
Eclipse Foundation.
Rose Sakach is a product manager
at CA Technologies, a Broadcom
company, responsible for solutions
that integrate mainframe developers
with Agile tooling and enable DevOps
for the Enterprise. Rose has over 30
years of experience in technology
roles including application
development, systems programming,
operations, product administration,
consulting services and product
management.

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Where did
mainframes
come from ?
The first s/360 was released 55 years ago. Code built for
this runs unchanged on today’s machines.
Mainframes were used by NASA to help put an astronaut on
the moon
In 1991 Infoworld published “… the last mainframe will be
unplugged in 1996”.
Most people working on a mainframe have never seen one

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The modern
mainframe
70% of the world data is stored in mainframes
Used by 25 of the world’s top banks and 70% of Fortune 500
companies
Mainframes process 30 billion business transactions per day
around the world. In comparison there are 68,542 google
searches every second globally.
68% of world’s production workload capacity, 6.2% of total
server spend
Every year students at over 1,000 universities across 67
countries are taught mainframe skills

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Simplify architecture
Improve co-existence
Reduce operational overhead
Enable rich ecosystem of Free and Commercial
solutions
Reduce learning curve
Improve productivity
Platform neutral
interfaces
Cloud line experience
Attract new people
Demystify the platform
Enhance interaction and consumability
Promote open community of practivey

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Zowe is an open source project
hosted by the Open Mainframe Project, a project
of the Linux Foundation, which hosts several
mainframe focused open source projects
Pronounced as “Zoe” – [zoh-ee] in English
Not an acronym – just a simple, fun and easy
name
Using the spelling “Zowe” allowed us to
trademark
Zowe was publicly announced at SHARE St.
Louis and Open Source SummitVancouver in
August 2018. Open beta until GA Feb 2019
Zowe was initially contributed by IBM,
CA Technologies (a Broadcom
company), and Rocket Software

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First open source project on
z/OS.All code is licensed
under the Eclipse Public
License version 2.0
An extensible framework for
connecting applications and tools
to mainframe data and applications.
API CLI Web Desktop
Aims to make the mainframe an
integrated and agile platform within the
changing IT architectural landscape.

8. Technical drill-down & demo
Joe Winchester, IBM
Michael Bauer, CA Technologies (Broadcom)
Thursday,April 11th
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webinar

9. Microservices
API Mediation Layer
Web Desktop
Command Line
Interface (CLI)
CODE
PLAN
BUILD
TEST MONITOR
DEPLOY
RELEASE
OPERATE
Plugins
Plugins
Plugins
Plugins
Plugins
Plugins
IDE | Lightweight Editors
Plugins
Components

10. Project Documentation
(includes user + install guides)
Learn more
And
Get Started

11. Q&A
Technical drill-down & demo
Thursday,April 11th
John Mertic
jmertic@linuxfoundation.org
Joe Winchester
WINCHEST@uk.ibm.com
Rose Sakach
rose.sakach@broadcom.com
Today’s panelists:

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Vicom Infinity Voice Assistant (VIVA) uses
ZOWE API Gateway to interact with z/OS to
users voice commands

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