The Ambitus project is a community for developers of open source software for z/OS or Linux on IBM Z. The repositories here accommodate teams working on larger projects, while smaller efforts may be a hosted in the pyzkiln repository. Developers, data scientists, Linux system administrators, and traditional z/OS system programmers may all find resources to use here.

Key repositories in this organization include:

• AI on Z Solution Templates
• cbexplorer - z/OS control block explorer
• pyracf - Python interface to RACF
• pyzkiln - A collection of Python building blocks
• ztron - A lightweight automation and logging pipeline for z/OS
• zml - Z markup language specification

Documentation and reference information can be found in the doc

We have several friends and social groups in the mainframe community that you might like to connect to as well:

• The System Z Enthusiasts Discord channel
• Therapod Blog on Medium
• Terminal Talk podcast - Frank and Jeff talk with members of the mainframe community
• TFiR Mainframe Matters - from TFiR Media
• z/OS Open Tools - for ported infrastructure and tooling on z/OS

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.