Stream: WAVEZ 101
Time: 16:30 - 17:15
Mainframes do Open Source too! One mainframer's coding journey
Your speaker has been working with mainframe systems for over 30 years, and has written code of various kinds over much of that time.
From porting Open Source software to MVS Open Edition, to bringing console messages from Linux guests under z/VM into Grafana Loki, Vic has worked on many technologies under IBM Z.
This session will describe some of the more interesting tasks your presenter has worked on over his career.
We'll talk about languages, development environments, editors, techniques, and most of all the limitless source of opportunity that is coding on IBM Z!
Vic Cross works as a Senior Technical Specialist in the IBM zAcceleration Team, a worldwide team focussed on helping IBM clients take advantage of modern technologies, such as OpenShift and Cloud Paks, on IBM zSystems. He has over 25 years’ experience in IBM zSystems, most of which has been working with Linux and z/VM. His IBM career spans almost 20 years in Systems, Lab Services, and Strategic Outsourcing. Vic’s mainframe career started as an SNA networking specialist implementing VTAM and NCP. He is the author of several IBM Redbooks publications, spanning the length of IBM’s support of Linux on zSystems. Vic holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing) from the Queensland University of Technology, and lives in Redland (near Brisbane) in Australia.
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