TSC Meeting - 2024-01-02

[jbostian]

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Participants:

[ ] Charles Korpics
[ ] Dieter Wellerdiek (had technical difficulties, but intended to join)
[ ] Elija Swift
[x] Frank DeGilio
[ ] Giancarlo Frix
[ ] Jim Porrell
[x] Joe Bostian
[ ] Leonard Carcaramo
[ ] Michael Colavita
[ ] Yoel Ben-Avraham
[ ] Zach Burns

Minutes:

• Joe: planning to revive zTron, based on comments that Frank has made about the function that this project should provide.
• Joe: Also planning to extract the core programatic path from the old PyRacf code to demonstrate how to make a call from Python to an AMODE31 z/OS application
  • This old code called IRRSMO00 in RACF using a combination of Python, C, and assembler
  • The bulk of the work was devoted to marshalling data from pointer/length output to NULL-terminated output
  • There are several z/OS interfaces that can be modernized through Python in this manner
• Frank: we have had input from certain end users expressing an affinity for the OSS/Linux philosophy of creating small tools that do one thing well, and combining them into pipelines that do useful things.
  • This aligns with the approach we're advocating here, so we want to encourage the user to share more details about their ideas.