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How do you run The Open Mainframe Project's Galasa in a Jenkins Pipeline? #Galasa contributor Dan Donnelly, Software Tester at IBM, gives you the steps in this new #tutorial. Read it here and let us know if you did it: https://hubs.la/Q02qv7r-0 #OpenMainframe #testing #opensource

Here is the date and time for the first of these series and we thought we would start with one of the critical roles in the mainframe shops, but not often well understood. z/OS System Programming. Yugesh pothuru has kindly accepted to do this session. Thanks Yugesh. He has more than a couple of decades of experience with z/OS system programming. If you are not following him here, I encourage you to do so, as he often posts, tricks & tips on z/OS System Programming. Broad idea for the session is: Intro to zOS System Programming What are typical skills required How important is this role in an org How should you prepare yourself to be on this role What are career options as you move up the ladder on this role Date & Time: Saturday, April 6, 2024 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM IST. WebEx details to register are posted in the #MainframerIndia slack group ( link to join the slack group, if you are already not part of it, is in the first comment)

📢 Breaking news PopUp Mainframe, the virtual, on-demand mainframe, today announced the general availability of their latest release: ✨ Warp Speed PopUp ✨ 🚀 Our new and improved ‘Warp Speed PopUp’ has been massively optimised for fast installation and start up. ⏱️ Our latest version of PopUp (version 2.4Ua) now boasts an installation and start up time of just 10 minutes. This represents an approximate 10-fold improvement on the previous version, which, whist no slouch, took between 45 and 90 minutes for installation and start up. 🗜️ Data compression has also been built-in at the storage level, resulting in a monumentally compact footprint for the Warp Speed PopUp which is now 5x smaller than any previous version of PopUp Mainframe. ⚙️ With BMC Software AMI DevX tools preinstalled and configured on the PopUp, and in conjunction with Delphix, users can achieve complete #mainframe #DevOps with the ability to snapshot, rewind and fast forward their mainframe to any point in time. https://buff.ly/3V4R0wD IBM #Delphix #BMC #PopUpMF

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Discover why Galasa is a game-changer in the realm of mainframe testing. Unleashing its potential can revolutionise testing processes, leading to more efficient and reliable results. Stay ahead of the curve by integrating Galasa into your mainframe testing toolkit. Read more in this article: https://bit.ly/3Uc9zPc #PlanetMainframe #MainframeTesting #Galasa #TestingTool

At team PopUp Mainframe we are incredibly excited with this latest release. We can have a Mainframe running in the cloud or on prem in less than 10 mins with the BMC Software DevOps Tooling preinstalled and preconfigured. This is a game changer for the Mainframe Industry as organisations can start their #mainframemodernization journey without any disruption to their existing setups or any need to install new tooling which can be arduous. We have developed bespoke git plugins so literally you can move some source code to git and start doing CI/CD in a day. As we all know #devops has been around for a while but because of the siloed nature of #mainframe; although the technology is there the antiquated processes combined with the lack of innovation as meant many organisation are still working waterfall with all manual testing. Often this is because the mainframe is outsourced to one of the big SIs and therefore stands still as they are in the body business and reducing headcount is not their business model :-) Mainframe has a bad rep for being expensive when actually the cost per transaction is far lower than any other platform and is also the greenest technology because of the compute power on one or more machines. What is expensive is the cost of change because of antiquated ways of working and manual testing and inflexible long term outsourced contracts. PopUp Mainframe allows you to throw off the shackles with clean environments so you can shed technical debt and move to full CI/CD at a fraction of the cost utilising BMC Software and Delphix. Using Delphix allows you to mask data from production using the compliance product and then using the Continuous Test product you can self service full virtualised mainframe environments to repeat cycles of testing using the BMC tooling. At any point using Delphix you can branch a whole Mainframe and give it to another team to test and rewind that also! #PopUp will change the landscape because if you are not working like this your Mainframe change will be simply too expensive and your business in which ever domain will be uncompetitive. People have been talking about migrating off Mainframe for years and it is high risk, expensive and completely unnecessary. #Mainframe is by far the fastest and most reliable technology in the world and #PopUp is the enabler to modernise. In a world where data is growing exponentially along with transaction volumes, (do you know Mainframe accounts for 70% of the worlds transactions??) coming off the Mainframe is nonsensical when it is straight forward to transform it. I invite you to have a read of what we are doing and contact us if you would like to know more 🎉 Mike Xenakis, Bruce Patience, Veronika Westerlund, Stuart Ashby, Tim Hunt, Howard Brown, Faisal Majid, Atul Bhovan, Jack Holroyd, Gary Hallam, Deron Miller, Jedidiah Yueh, Hannah Cole, Stuart Williams, Matthew Eldrett, Tom Hockton

Testing and development are critical stages in ensuring the reliability and #appsecurity. #IBM Z Virtual Test Platform is a sophisticated testing solution designed to replicate the behavior of an actual IBM Z #mainframe system in a controlled virtual environment. In this blog we discuss the business use cases and main features of IBM Z Virtual Test Platform and how embracing this platform can revolutionize testing and development for IBM Z mainframes. Read Now https://ow.ly/ku2S50Qmyfj

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Client: IBM/ Banking: Role: IICS (Information Intelligent Cloud Services) Admin  Location: Atlanta, GA Rate: $65/hr - $70/hr depending on experience Duration: Long term Availability: Immediate   In-depth knowledge of IICS architecture, secure agents, meta repository and their working Building generic frameworks like ingestion, audit, error handling etc using IICS. Performance Testing and maintenance for new connectors/drivers. Supporting Monthly Major and minor IICS releases. Testing all the new features/updated features/ impacted functionalities before releasing the updates. Defining conventions and implementing best practices for all development teams to follow. Building features to verify best practices and send out alerts when any discrepancy is encountered. Checking on all possible Vulnerabilities and security flaws arising from audit scans and fixing those in a timely manner. Onboarding new applications and requesting resources (Secure agent servers/ org-suborg/ connectors etc) Operations and Support activities related to any application code/ connectors/ databases/ secure agent servers. User access management. SAML/ Groups/ Access Level permissions. Using IICS Rest API and enhancements. Technical guidance to application teams whenever any unresolved issue is encountered, or new framework guidance is required. Change Management – Resolving Incidents, Raising the Incidents, Change request for Major/Minor and standard release etc. Source Control/ GitLab Related Activities - analysis, Onboarding, Access Management, repository management. Python backed migration Script Development and maintenance. Knowledge on Agile methodologies. Python and bash scripting knowledge. IICS – GitLab integration knowledge.