Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - October 9, 2025

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Conference call details

Meetings are hosted on the LFX Meeting Management platform. More details on how to register are at https://tac.openmainframeproject.org/meetings.

Meeting Recording

Link to meeting recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation

Quorum Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Donna Hudi, Phoenix Software International
  • Jeff Brown, z/VM Community Tools
  • Sanjaykumar, Tessia
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
  • Aaron Kippins, International Business Machines Corporation
  • Moumita Paul, International Business Machines Corporation

Agenda

  • Tessia Annual Review [#531]
  • COBOL Working Group Update

Notes

General Updates

Tessia Annual Review

Sanjaykumar presented the annual review for the Mainframe Modernization Working Group.

COBOL Working Group Update

Jeff Brown reported the latest update from the COBOL Working Group, including the planned white papers.