Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - September 24, 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

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
Kip Twitchell - GenevaERS Representative
Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
Mike Friesenegger - Industry Representative (Chair)
Phil Tully - Citi
Sean Grady - Zowe Representative

Quorum Was Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
Arnold Robbins
Daniel Horak, Red Hat LLC
Eden Nomes
Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
Jeff Brown
Joshua Stitles
Kaili Andre
Len Santalucia
Richard Consiglio, 21CS
Ronin Morata
Victor Taiwo, Zcrafter
Wale Adeoye

Agenda

Gait [#1115]
Infra Request - GNU Awk (gawk) [#1139]
Infra Request - Zcrafter AI MCP [#1101]
Mainframe Modernization WG Annual Review [#529]
COBOL Working Group Review [#581]

Notes

Infra Request - Zcrafter AI MCP

Victor Taiwo provided additional information regarding the Zcrafter mainframe infrastructure request. Voting will take place offline via LFX.

Infra Request - GNU Awk (gawk)

Arnold Robbins provided additional information regarding the GNU Awk mainframe infrastructure request. Voting will take place offline via LFX.

Gait

Richard Consiglio presented the new project proposal for Gait. Voting will take place offline via LFX.

Next Meeting

Due to time constraints, the following agenda items will be discussed at the next meeting:

Mainframe Modernization Working Group Annual Review
COBOL Working Group Review