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An Expanding and Evolving Open-Source Community for IBM i Developers

Charlie Guarino

February 27, 2024

Arcad Software's Sébastien Julliand on being a project contributor for VS Code for IBM i

Articles

Open Mainframe Project Celebrates 5 Years of Zowe, Looks Back on Growth

Emma Pitzl

October 12, 2023

Since the Open Mainframe Project was founded eight years ago, the program has grown and evolved to become a pillar of the mainframe community, serving as a focal point for the deployment and use of Linux and open-source technology on the mainframe. Over the past near-decade, Open Mainframe has branched out into several other projects […]

E-Books

TechChannel E-book: Streamline Your Modernization Strategies With Open Source and SQL With Db2 for i

TechChannel

December 6, 2021

Modernization strategies come in many forms—each with a unique blend of cost, risk and value. But some strategies are better than others, depending on your organizational needs. Some organizations still have hesitations about adopting the most effective modernization strategies—such as establishing a virtual layer of SQL views within physical data models or leveraging open-source technologies. […]

Articles

5 Reasons to Choose Open-Source Solutions for Software Development

Tyler Boykin

June 16, 2021

Open source has revolutionized the software development industry. Open source means that the software created is released under a license that allows anyone to use it. The code is also distributed along with the software. Some of the most commonly used software systems in the world are open source. For example, the Firefox web browser […]

E-Books

TechChannel E-book: Unlocking COBOL Business Value

TechChannel

March 9, 2021

The ubiquity of both the IBM Z platform and COBOL programming language comes from the forethought IBM put into each in 1964 when the first mainframe was launched. COBOL was optimized for business processing with no need to recompile programs. As a result, it continues to run the world’s economy today. But many COBOL shops […]