Open Mainframe Project is a Collaborative Project managed by theLinux Foundation to encourage the use ofLinux-based operating systems andopen source software onmainframe computers.[1] The project was announced on August 17, 2015, and was driven byIBM, a major supplier of mainframe hardware, as well as 16 other founding members, that includedSUSE,CA Technologies,BMC Software,Compuware as well as clients and partners such as RSM Partner, Vicom Infinity, L3C LLP and ADP, and academic institutions such asMarist College andUniversity of Bedfordshire.[2] Coincident with the announcement, IBM also announced a partnership withCanonical to make theUbuntu operating system available for their high-end z Systems hardware.[3][4][5][6]
Development priorities for the project in 2016 includeOpenJDK,Docker, andHyperledger.[7]
In February 2016 the Linux Foundation announced new members had joined the Open Mainframe Project:Hitachi Data Systems, Sine Nomine Associates,East Carolina University, and DataKinetics, a 35% expansion in the overall membership. Canonical, the organization behind Ubuntu, has also joined. Part of the announcement was the launch of a summer intern program.
Zowe is the first open source project forz/OS. It was announced in August 2018 atSHARE in St. Louis together with the open beta release of version 0.9 that contained contributions from[IBM,Computer Associates, andRocket Software.[8] Version 1.0 was released in February 2019.[9] In September 2019Phoenix Software International obtained Zowe conformance for their (E)JES Command Line Interface plugins and REST API extension.[10]
Zowe narrows the skills gap between new and legacy z/OS developers by offering the choice to work with z/OS either through aCommand Line Interface, a "Zowe Explorer"Visual Studio extension,[11] a web browser served from the Zowe Application Framework, or through REST APIs and web sockets served through the API Mediation Layer.[12] Zowe is an extensible platform for tools, and provides the ability for extension through CLI plugins,[13] new applications to be added to the web desktop, and onboarding of REST APIs to the API Mediation Layer.
The Zowe conformance program provides certification accreditation to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) building and distributing Zowe extensions.[14]
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