On August 12, 2021, the Technical Advisory Committee of the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project approved GenevaERS’s promotion from an incubation to active project. The following were the points made during the presentation, and a video extract of the meeting.
Presentation Points
Background
- Initially developed as a product and consulting services asset from late 1980’s through early 2000’s when purchased by IBM as part of acquisition of PwC Consulting
- Original name was GenevaERS until IBM Acquisition when it became known as Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting or SAFR
- Effectively a Map-Reduce Engine more than 10 years before development of Map-Reduce in 2004 by Google
- Drives incredibly high throughput focused on z/OS on IBM Z Mainframes
- A score of very large, enterprise customers over its history, continuing to be supported under contract for some customers
- Released as Open Source by IBM in May 2020
- Approved as incubation OMP project July 9th, 2020
- Project Renewal Status on August 12, 2021
TAC Project Status Application
- All OMP Requirements met as listed at https://github.com/genevaers/community/tree/master/tsc
- Demo System, including: https://github.com/genevaers/demo#readme
- Downloadable executables https://github.com/genevaers/demo/releases/tag/v1.0.0
- Sample GenevaERS configuration (XML format)
- Sample Execution z/OS Scripting (JCL)
- Users Instruction
- Code Released:
- Java (Frontend Workbench) https://github.com/genevaers/wb
- z/OS Assembler (Performance Engine)https://github.com/genevaers/pe
- Website (GenevaERS.org, new Linux Foundation GenevaERS.Com soon)
- Adopters: Continuing GenevaERS customers•Committers: 17 team members from multiple organizations
Next Steps
- Public Build Processes
- Enhanced Documentation
- Renewed Spark Integration Efforts
- Other Enhancements
Project Mission Statement
The Linux Foundation has formed an LLC to legally hold the GenevaERS Intellectual Property. The terms of the entity can be seen on this Open Mainframe Project GitHub site.
The mission of the GenevaERS Project, as stated in this document is:
1. Mission and Scope of the Project
a. The mission of the Project is to radically improve business systems using Business Event principles while processing significant data volumes to achieve :
● Accurate, fast and transparent outputs,
● Respond quickly to changing business needs, and
● Minimize costs over time.
b. The scope of the Project includes collaborative development under the Project License (as defined herein) supporting the mission, including documentation, testing, integration and the creation of other artifacts that aid the development, deployment, operation or adoption of the open source project.
(Technical Charter for GenevaERS a Series of LF Projects, LLC Adopted March 25, 2021)
