Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - November 12, 2026

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Conference call details

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Meeting Recording

Recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Kathleen Nordstrom on behalf of Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
  • Mike Friesenegger - Industry Representative (Chair)

Quorum Was Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
  • Kip Twitchell - GenevaERS Representative
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Mike MacIsaac, z/VM Community Tools
  • Jeff Brown, z/VM Community Tools
  • Sarah Julia Kriesch, openSUSE
  • Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat LLC
  • Mark Ackert, Broadcom
  • Len Santalucia, Converge Technology Solutions Corp
  • Rick Troth, ZTRUST Working Group
  • Brian Hugenbruch, International Business Machines Corporation

Agenda

  • ZTRUST Working Group Annual Review [#901]
  • Linux Distributions Working Group Annual Review [#532]
  • TAC Vice Chair Election [#933]
  • Infra Request - Green Screen Séance [#1190]

Notes

ZTRUST Working Group

Rick Troth presented the annual review for the ZTRUST Working Group.

Linux Distributions Working Group

Sarah Julia Kriesch and Elizabeth Joseph presented the annual review for the Linux Distributions Working Group.

TAC Vice Chair Election

John Mertic reported that Mike Friesenegger is stepping down as chairperson at year end, and Mark Bylok will assume that role for 2027. Mertic added that nominations are open for vice chair and voting members should reach out to Mertic or Tom Slanda if they are interested.

Green Screen Séance Infrastructure Request

Mertic reviewed the Green Screen Séance infrastructure request, which is a hackathon project proposing tooling that connects 3270 applications to MCP. Discussion ensued, and the representatives agreed that the project is probably early-stage and an upstream collaboration with Zowe MCP may be the better path.