Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - July 23, 2026

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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

Recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation

Quorum Was Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Mike Friesenegger - Industry Representative (Chair)
  • Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Sam Golob, CBT Tape
  • Lionel Dyck, CBT Tape
  • Jeff Brown, z/VM Community Tools
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat LLC
  • Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
  • JJ Lovett, Broadcom Corporation

Agenda

  • Mainframe Open Education Annual Review [#494]
  • CBT Tape Annual Review [#530]
  • Review Mainframe Infrastructure Applications [#1060]
    • Approve Project for Mainframe Infrastructure - AI Powered Mainframe Data Modernization has passed
  • Help with reviewing non-OMP project entries in the landscape [#1067]

Notes

CBT Tape Annual Review

Lionel Dyck and Sam Golob presented the annual review for CBT Tape.

Mainframe Open Education Annual Review

JJ Lovett presented the annual review for Mainframe Open Education.

Review Mainframe Infrastructure Applications

John Mertic reviewed the outstanding infrastructure requests.

Help with reviewing non-OMP project entries in the landscape

Mertic requested that community members assist in reviewing the existing project, seeing if any should be updated or removed, and identifying open source projects specific to the mainframe that should be added.