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Open Zesame: Dual Development with Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools
Open Zesame: Dual Development with Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools
🖥🖥 ‘Open’ can feel like a buzzword at times, eliciting jamais vu, feeling less and less like a meaningful descriptor and more like a…
Adam Munawar Rahman
Aug 26
Finessing Jenkins Nodes to Run on z/OS
Finessing Jenkins Nodes to Run on z/OS
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Christina Del Nano
Jul 24
Create a single volume SYSRES? Are you Crazy?
Create a single volume SYSRES? Are you Crazy?
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Kevin Miner
Jul 12
The Useless Box in COBOL, C and Assembler on an IBM mainframe.
The Useless Box in COBOL, C and Assembler on an IBM mainframe.
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Frank van der Wal
Jul 8
Open Source Deployments on z/OS
Open Source Deployments on z/OS
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Joe Bostian
Mar 19
Performance experience with new EzNoSQL for z/OS feature
Performance experience with new EzNoSQL for z/OS feature
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Jakob Lang
Feb 21
Installing Miniconda in z/OS UNIX
Installing Miniconda in z/OS UNIX
Making z/OS UNIX more and more UNIX like
Aaron M. Kippins
Apr 27, 2023
Go-ing Native: Porting Grafana k6 to z/OS with Go
Go-ing Native: Porting Grafana k6 to z/OS with Go
🖥🖥🖥 After a grueling night of ‘git’ clones and ‘go’ installs, I slammed the Enter key for the final time and witnessed as a flurry of…
Adam Munawar Rahman
Mar 3, 2023
Swarming Stressed Servers: Open-Source Load-Testing on z/OS Mainframes with Locust
Swarming Stressed Servers: Open-Source Load-Testing on z/OS Mainframes with Locust
🖥🖥 It’s 6 pm. I scan my text editor to paint the finishing whitespace on my test script. Satisfied, I swap to a terminal window and hit…
Adam Munawar Rahman
Jan 17, 2023
What We Learned in 2022
What We Learned in 2022
🖥 As we come close to the end of the year, I wanted to take some time to reflect on what we learned in 2022. This year, Theropod published…
Luisa Martinez
Dec 15, 2022
How I Converted My Team From OMVS Lovers to SSH Devotees
How I Converted My Team From OMVS Lovers to SSH Devotees
🖥🖥 Some years back I was working with a z/OS team on an analytics project using mostly Open-Source software. At the time we started this…
David Rice
Nov 4, 2022
Application Modernization on mainframes: What are we talking about?
Application Modernization on mainframes: What are we talking about?
🖥 🖥 🖥 Application Modernization on z/OS can be broken down into different subcategories/ Even still, it is a rather a big piece to chew…
David Rice
Oct 26, 2022
Auto-conversion in z/OS UNIX
Auto-conversion in z/OS UNIX
🖥 🖥 🖥 Open source software plays a significant role in application modernization. On an EBCDIC platform such as z/OS, porting open…
Milos Lalovic
Sep 19, 2022
The Saga of PunchPy and ATOCS
The Saga of PunchPy and ATOCS
Written by Samantha Wareing & Andrew Wilt
Samantha Wareing
Aug 16, 2022
3270 is terminal?
3270 is terminal?
🖥🖥 With all the development in mainframe modernization, you might think that the traditional way to access the mainframe would be the…
Neil Johnson
Jul 18, 2022
Stop Failing Fetches! Safely Modifying the z/OS Linklist
Stop Failing Fetches! Safely Modifying the z/OS Linklist
You too can safely manipulate linklisted data sets without causing fetch failures! Learn how to wrest control over a data set in use.
Steven Perva
Jul 13, 2022
Ride the Open Source Wave for z/OS
Ride the Open Source Wave for z/OS
🖥 Open source software has long played a crucial role in the IT industry. It has never been easier or more important to be part of the…
Luisa Martinez
Jun 6, 2022
Operationalizing Microservices in z/OS
Operationalizing Microservices in z/OS
So, you’ve written some really cool code in Node.js or Python for your z/OS system. That’s great! Let’s turn it into a started task!
Steven Perva
May 9, 2022
IPL z/OS without an automation or an HMC .
IPL z/OS without an automation or an HMC .
It was a cold, dark, and stormy late winter night, the kind of night that cuts through a winter coat to drain all the heat from your body…
Kevin Miner
May 3, 2022
Mainframes and Early Professionals
Mainframes and Early Professionals
My story.
Toby Keegan
Apr 22, 2022
Developing Containers on zCX
Developing Containers on zCX
While z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) is able to run containers, it can also be used as a general purpose development environment.
Anthony Giorgio
Apr 21, 2022
z/OS Modernization, when all you really need is a knife.
z/OS Modernization, when all you really need is a knife.
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Mike Koester
Apr 18, 2022
Making Security and Compliance Approachable on IBM zSystems
Making Security and Compliance Approachable on IBM zSystems
Maintaining compliance with the right set of regulatory standards is critical for companies with many of these standards being required…
Paul Jennas II
Apr 5, 2022
z/OS system managed VTOC? All in favor, say “aye!”
z/OS system managed VTOC? All in favor, say “aye!”
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Mike Koester
Feb 23, 2022
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