5:00-5:30pm Networking
5:30-6:00 Dave Reich | The Observationist
6:00-7:00pm Meet Zowe! - Bring your laptop if you want to follow along.
See the first joint effort Open Mainframe platform in action. Experience the tooling that provides leading edge development capabilities for the Z Systems open source community. Learn how all mainframers (millennial & experienced) can exploit this technology to easily interact with the mainframe. This new framework will enable an ecosystem of software solutions intended to provide a simple, intuitive environment for a variety of IT professionals performing administrative, development, test & operation tasks on z/OS.
Zowe was recently named as a one of the finalists for the Best DevOps Open Source Project category by Devops.com. The Devops Dozen is an annual award dedicated to honoring the best devops projects & programmers.
Learning Objectives: This lab allows users to get "hands on" experience with the Zowe UI & CLI. Users will go through a set of tasks, exploiting the abilities Zowe has to offer.
For more about Zowe: https://zowe.org/home/