The Mainframe Demystified

Igor Todorovski's Journey into z/OS

Performance and Memory Insights: Tracing with Clang and Perfetto

Enabling Tracing with Clang on z/OS As a member of the zopen community, I get the opportunty to port a wide range of open-source tools to z/OS. It’s always exciting when you get a tool running smo...

Enhancing Vim on z/OS UNIX with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support

As a long-time Vim user who develops directly on z/OS UNIX (yes, call me old school!), one feature that I’ve always wanted is the support for Language Server Protocols. If you’re not aware of Lang...

Porting tmux to z/OS

I’m excited to share my journey of porting tmux, a popular terminal multiplexer, to z/OS! This project builds upon my previous experience successfully porting GNU screen and making it available und...

Exploring ZOSLIB: An open source z/OS library for porting

Ever tried porting your favorite Linux tool to z/OS? As we’ll see, it’s not as simple as grabbing the source and building it on z/OS! My role at the zopen community involves the task of portin...

AI on z/OS: LLaMa and LLaMa.cpp

In the rapidly evolving field of AI, Large Language Models (LLM)’s like LLaMa and the open source inference engine, LLaMa.cpp, are quickly becoming instrumental in bridging the gap between cutting-...

Streamlining z/OS Interactions: Merging z/OS UNIX and TSO/ISPF with c3270

Simplify ISPF login with c3270 and x3270if, and harness the power of ISPF as an API to z/OS UNIX with s3270. z/OS, a robust mainframe operating system, not only provides a z/OS UNIX environmen...

Bash on z/OS: My Journey and Contributions

Bash on z/OS As part of the zopen community initiative, I, along with Mike Fulton, embarked on a journey to port Bash, the renowned shell and scripting language, to the z/OS platform. The moti...