Just wrapped up my talk about the Open #Mainframe Project #Linux Distributions Working Group with Sarah Julia Kriesch!

Slides here: https://princessleia.com/presentations/2023/Open_Mainframe_Summit_-_Linux_Distributions_WG_2023.pdf

#OpenMainframeSummit #IBMTechXchange

The last keynote of the #OpenMainframeSummit this morning was... mine! Many thanks to my colleague Sudharsana for taking a picture during my talk about the Open #Mainframe Project Mentorship program, which uses the #Linux Foundation Mentorship infrastructure.

Listened to the "#Mainframe Myths Debunked! - with Jennifer Velasquez and Kirk Chadrick" episode of #IBMZ DevOps Talks today while on the train, and they talked about languages, git, developer environments and more! Lots of good stuff packed in a small podcast!

I think I enjoyed the "#COBOL is easy" bits the most. I keep saying this and people don't believe me 😅 Kids these days have it... harder! It's way different, but concept-wise it's quite straight forward.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qyYI9HwMAiqbe5ReW90uN

This is an explanation of CICS programming (for IBM mainframes). Much of the worlds commerce and government is absolutely tied to this stuff.
#cics #mainframe

@enno wir bieten #mainframe #hosting bei @ungleich an, just in case

wow, time flies, 23 years ago I started to work for this company, started in domestic payments system with COBOL, DB2 and z/OS
and now many years later doing #gcp cloud move
not the #mainframe of course, this will probably stay forever...

Multics Simulator
https://multicians.org/simulator.html
#ycombinator #Multics #simulator #emulator #Github #GitLab #operating_system #timesharing #time_sharing #computer #software #mainframe

@feditips
Wow, quite a collection!

MVS was a gem in its time, and released open source (long before closed source wss invented). Nice to see the #mainframe represented.

And from memory TK5 (a turnkey MVS/Hercules emulator system) has BREXX included (or it's easy to add. I forget)

Arsh Pratap was a mentee last summer and joined me as a *mentor* this summer for the Open #Mainframe Project Software Discovery Tool, so I'm excited to share that he's been voted onto our Technical Steering Committee! 🥳

I love how valuable this mentorship program has been to the project, half of our TSC is now former mentees. 👏

https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/software-discovery-tool-discussion/message/84

Stray Pointers Podcast - Episode 3
Long-time computing professional and entrepreneur Randy Carson discusses his career path in Information Technology.
#microcomputer #mainframe #podcast

https://sites.libsyn.com/481983/stray-pointers-microcomputers-mainframes-and-more-chatting-with-randy-carson-of-c2c-consulting-llc

I have put my new Beware the IEBIBALL #mainframe "movie" poster on my office wall! 😂

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes - Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS's Austin, Texas... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962519 #generativeai #mainframes #ibmwatson #mainframe #biz⁢ #cobol #tech #java #ibm #ai

Ars Technica: IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes https://arstechnica.com/?p=1962519 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #generativeai #mainframes #IBMWatson #mainframe #Biz&IT #cobol #Tech #Java #ibm #AI

IBM plant Modernisierung von COBOL-Anwendungen durch Künstliche Intelligenz

Das anstehende KI-Tool watsonx Code Assistant for Z von IBM soll beim Übersetzen von COBOL zu Java unterstützen und somit Mainframe-Anwendungen modernisieren.

https://www.heise.de/news/IBM-plant-Modernisierung-von-COBOL-Anwendungen-durch-Kuenstliche-Intelligenz-9282753.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Java #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mainframe #news

The Open #Mainframe Project has put together a list of 5 reasons to attend the Open Mainframe Summit in September: https://openmainframeproject.org/blog/5-reasons-to-attend-open-mainframe-summit-2023/

My mentorship keynote is among them! 🥳 Putting this talk together this talk while I'm wrapping up a really exceptional summer with my latest round of mentees on the Software Discovery Tool is really special ✨

This is just so cool, this person build a custom #mainframe with all the toggle switches, blinkenlights and all I want. I'm so jealous, I need one of those. Now what other projects do I need to sacrifice on the altar of nerdhood to find the time to build my own...

Ping @wfk @georgsassen

http://www.philizound.co.uk/plasma/plasma.html?i=1

A Mainframe Computer for the Modern Age - The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/21/a-mainframe-computer-for-the-modern-age/ #directprogramming #retrocomputing #minimainframe #mainframe #registers #hardware #memory #panel #retro

Caught up on an #OpenMainframe Project podcast from June today with an interview with Zareen Rydhan, a test engineer with Rocket Software. It was really nice to hear her perspective as a more generalist engineer from Silicon Valley.

Her shock when encountering use of a 3270 terminal in production (very common!) is what I hear ALL THE TIME from the rest of the tech industry.

I think it's easy to forget how unusual it is, living here in #mainframe land.

https://openmainframeproject.org/blog/i-am-a-mainframer-zareen-rydhan/

Echte Computer haben Türen: Großrechner regieren immer noch!

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7089316151679225856?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

#Mainframe #IBM #zSeries

Finally got to listen to the latest z/Action! podcast about unboxing the IBM z16 rack mount.

I've spent a lot of time in data centers, so this was a fun one for me. And it literally came with a blue bow 😁💙🎀

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/lee-sullivan1/2023/07/20/zaction-podcast #mainframe #IBMZ