Z DevOps Talks - Bruce Armstrong talks Zowe™, The Open Mainframe Project, use cases for Zowe™ and Restful APIs

Hey, welcome back to the show, thanks for joining us! In Episode 5: The Mainframe Strikes Back, we tricked Bruce Armstrong into joining us for an episode. Bruce is an IBM veteran, Offering Manager, and serves on the leadership of the Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe™ Project. Bruce sure lived up to all the hype; he’s a wealth of knowledge when it comes to Zowe™, the mainframe in general, and the Open Mainframe Project. In our latest episode we covered so much ground that we had to split it into Parts I and II. Here are some of the topics we covered:

Zowe™ – what is it and how it was framed
The Open Mainframe Project
Zowe™ as the infrastructure’s plumbing
VS Code and Eclipse Ché making use of Zowe™ services
Wrapping the Zowe™ framework in restful APIs and how that contributes to opening up the mainframe
Use cases for Zowe™
The cultural shift in the mainframe community
How old dogs can teach young pups new tricks
Making the mainframe less remarkable

Care to learn how you too can join the Zowe™ revolution? Bruce recommends the following resources:

The Open Mainframe Project
What is Zowe™?
Git Hub
Zowe™ zTrial
Getting started with Zowe™ Tutorial
Getting started with Zowe™ WebUi
Zowe™ Badge
Zowe™ on Slack