The document outlines the state of mainframe DevOps as of June 23, 2020, emphasizing the contributions of key figures like Sujay Solomon and Mary Johnston Turner in advancing open source and cloud management solutions. It discusses methods such as design thinking and a phased approach to improve processes in DevOps, including testing automation and performance monitoring using tools like Zowe. Additionally, it highlights the importance of continuous delivery and collaboration to optimize application performance in mainframe environments.

1. State of Mainframe DevOps
JUNE 23, 2020

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SUJAY SOLOMON
Broadcom &
Zowe Leadership Committee
Sujay Solomon is the Chief Z DevOps Advocate for
Broadcom’s Mainframe Division.
He is a recognized industry evangelist of open source and
DevOps on the mainframe and an award-winning speaker at
popular IT conferences such as SHARE, IDUG, DevOps
Enterprise Summit (DOES), and IBM Think.
Sujay was a co-creator of the mainframe devops tool, CA
Brightside, which won the DevOps.com 2018 “Most
Innovative DevOps Solution of the Year”.
Sujay is a leader of the popular Zowe open source project,
hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project.
MARY JOHNSTON TURNER
Research Vice President for Cloud
Management – IDC
Mary Johnston Turner is Research Vice President for
Cloud Management, part of IDC’s Infrastructure and
Operations Management software research team.
Her research focuses on emerging software and
solutions for cloud, container and DevOps IT
operations, cost optimization, automation,
performance, and analytics.
She contributes to vendor analysis, enterprise IT buyer
advisory and custom consulting activities.

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Agenda
• IDC study
• Broadcom Design Thinking
findings
• Shift-left testing example
(Zowe-enabled)
• Q & A
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Leaders Recognize
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is way of thinking and working in collaborative manner to solve problems. It originated
in the design community but is an effective method for many kinds of problem and involves cross
disciplinary groups.
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Phased Approach to DevOps & Mainframe
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Process
Tracing
Developer
Experience
Test
Automation
Continuous
Delivery
• Quality gates
• Traceability of
builds and
approvals • Git
• IDEs
• Reduce 3270
• Reduce QA
cycle time
• Automate
functional testing • Full binary-level
traceability
• Synchronize
delivery across
platforms

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CA MAT Performance on Commit (NEW)
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Using Zowe to shift-left & automate mainframe performance testing
Check
against the
baseline
via zowe CLI
Commit
change
Build
Deploy
Run Test
Michelle receives
email
Michelle
ANALYSES
performance
and re-measures
via CLI in IDE
WOW!
application
was already
measured at
the time of
degradation!
Ravi creates CI/CD pipeline
Ravi
DevOps &
CI/CD architect
Michelle
Modern
developer/QA
Michelle receives notification, if her code change introduced a
performance issue, enabling her to fix it immediately instead of going
through hours of complicated analysis if discovered later
Michelle uses CLI from her IDE of choice to measure her
application and discover where the problem lies is in seconds.
Subject:
Performance
ALERT
Michelle fixes the problem in application
Ravi includes automatic
performance testing of batch
workload into the CI/CD
pipeline, which allows him to meet
business requirements on quality
of the code, that is deployed to
production.
Zowe CLI extension: CA MAT Detect Zowe CLI extension: CA MAT Analyze

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Q&A
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• Download the
IDC InfoBrief
• Request a
Design Thinking
workshop
Visit mainframe.broadcom.com/devops

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