The Ambitus project is a community for anyone who wants to understand how open source software works on IBM Z (also known as the mainframe). There are more similarities than differences between the mainframe and other platforms. The content provided by members of this community should be of use to developers, Linux system administrators, and traditional z/OS system programmers.

This project has two major branches:

• How-to and example information showing how code from other platforms can be developed, deployed and managed for the mainframe.
• A home for projects being ported to the mainframe. These ports are downstream from the original project, and upstream from the IBM Z platform. Developers can make their efforts more visible to others as they work, and share their experiences more easily. The goal is for teams to upstream their changes over time to the original project, enhancing the adoption of IBM Z as a supported platform.

If you're new to the platform, you may first want to review some things to know about IBM Z. This can be especially useful for developers.

Whether you are a user who wants to know more about the mainframe, or you have a project to bring to the platform, we hope you find a home in the Ambitus community.

You can contribute to any of the porting efforts following the contribution policies defined in each repository.

All tooling can be contributed to using the guidelines at CONTRIBUTING.md

All ports retain the license of their respective upstream projects.

All tooling is licensed under the Apache 2 license, and any documentation and non-code will be received and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Ambitus is a project hosted by the Open Mainframe Project. This project has established it's own processes for managing day-to-day processes in the project at GOVERNANCE.md.

To report a problem, you can open an issue in respective repository. If the issue is sensitive in nature or a security related issue, please do not report in the issue tracker but instead email [email protected].

For ports at the Upstreamed stage, please report any issues to the respective upstream project.