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Open Mainframe Project (OMP)

Promotes the adoption and development of open-source software on mainframe platforms.

16 projects

8,272 contributors

$1.1B

Zowe Binary Project

The Zowe Binary Project is a Linux Foundation initiative that provides binary components for mainframe integration, enabling developers to access and work with mainframe resources through standardized interfaces and tools.

Contributors

2,177

Organizations

1

COBOL Working Group

The COBOL Working Group aims to promote the language by changing its perception and making materials more accessible to help more developers and students learn it on their mainframe journey.

Contributors

1,792

Organizations

16

Software value

$4.2K

Zowe

Zowe is an open source project created to host technologies that benefit the Z platform from all members of the Z community (Integrated Software Vendors, System Integrators and z/OS consumers). Zowe, like Mac OS or Windows, comes with a set of APIs and OS capabilities that applications build on and also includes some applications out of the box.

Contributors

1,645

Organizations

202

Software value

$445M

Ambitus

Ambitus fosters a community that will help educate developers about all open source technologies on z/OS

Contributors

1,458

Organizations

213

Software value

$313M

Open Mainframe Project (OMP)

The Open Mainframe Project is intended to serve as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment. The Project intends to increase collaboration across the mainframe community and to develop shared tool sets and resources. Furthermore, the Project seeks to involve the participation of academic institutions to assist in teaching and educating the mainframe engineers and developers of tomorrow.

Contributors

659

Organizations

109

Software value

$6.9M

Galasa

The mission of the Project is to provide an integration test framework for mainframe and hybrid applications.

Contributors

183

Organizations

15

Software value

$17M

Feilong

Feilong is an open source z/VM cloud connector project under the Open Mainframe Project umbrella that will accelerate the z/VM adoption, extending its ecosystem and its user experience.

Contributors

136

Organizations

21

Software value

$3.9M

Software Discovery Tool

The mission of the Project is to develop a library and associated software to enable developers to discover existing open source software tools.

Contributors

52

Organizations

20

Software value

$56M

COBOL Check

The mission of the COBOL Check project is to provide a fine-grained unit testing/checking for COBOL.

Contributors

46

Organizations

19

Software value

$775K

GenevaERS

GenevaERS is the single-pass optimization engine for data extraction and reporting on z/OS. Originally developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers as the Geneva Enterprise Reporting System and acquired by IBM, GenevaERS offers businesses a high-level reporting solution uniquely tuned for big data scanning and improved financial transparency for better decision-making. This project combines the processing power of GenevaERS, the reliability of the mainframe and the dynamic open source community.

Contributors

38

Organizations

13

Software value

$66M

Mainframe Open Education

The Project's mission is to provide an open-source platform for mainframe users to develop essential skills for future hires and to encourage knowledge sharing and community contribution. We aim to align a foundational curriculum with cultivating new mainframe skills for enterprise computing in today's hybrid data center.

Contributors

28

Organizations

8

Software value

$30K

Tessia

A tool to automate and simplify the installation/configuration/testing of Linux systems running on the IBM Z platform.

Contributors

27

Organizations

5

Software value

$4.1M

Mainframe Modernization WG

The purpose of this working group is to oversee the health and maintenance of the s390x port of various Linux distributions to ensure that the s390x port remains a supported architecture for them all.

Contributors

12

Organizations

3

Software value

$5.2K

TerseDecompress

TerseDecompress is a java program that can be used to decompress files which have been previously compressed on an IBM Mainframe using the TERSE / AMATERSE program (on IBM z/OS or IBM z/VM).

Contributors

12

Organizations

4

Software value

$156M

CBT Tape

The mission of the Project is to provide an open library of free software distribution for the IBM mainframe Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS), OS/390 and z/OS operating system environments that continues to evolve to meet today’s modern needs.

Contributors

7

Organizations

2

Software value

$28M

Linux Distributions Working Group

The purpose of this working group is to oversee the health and maintenance of the s390x port of various Linux distributions to ensure that the s390x port remains a supported architecture for them all. To this end, the group will collaborate on shared challenges and successes, work together to nurture new contributors, and make sure they also have the infrastructure they need.

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