Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - January 22, 2025

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Conference call details

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Meeting Recording

Recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Mike Friesenegger - Industry Representative (Chair)
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
  • Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation

Quorum Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
  • Michael MacIsaac
  • Jeff Brown, COBOL Working Group
  • Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation

Agenda

  • COBOL Check [#578]
  • TAC Vice Chair Election [#933]
  • Mainframe Infrastructure Status [#596]
  • LF Engineering Services [#957]

Notes

COBOL Check

Mark Bylok reported that there is interest inside IBM to support the project, but there are no individuals willing to lead the project at this time. Mylok offered to provide an update at the February 26, 2026 meeting.

TAC Vice Chair Election

Mike Friesenegger reported that the TAC is in need of a Vice Chair nominee.

Mainframe Infrastructure Status

Friesenegger and Michael MacIsaac spoke with IBM and reported that only second-level logical partitions (LPAR) will be made available to Open Mainframe Projects sub-projects at this time. Bylok offered to speak with IBM individuals internally to assist with securing a first-level LPAR.

LF Engineering Services

Tom Slanda said that he and John Mertic were meeting with LF Engineering next week to discuss onboarding.

z/VM Community Tools

MacIsaac and Jeff Brown provided an update from the z/VM Community Tools project. Brown added that recent contributions need to be tested on modern infrastructure.