I am a Mainframer
Hosted by Steven Dickens · Open Mainframe Project
4.9from 21 ratings
- 99
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 21
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 133K
- YouTube views
About I am a Mainframer
The Mainframe Connect podcast includes the I am a Mainframer series, Riveting Mainframe Voices series, and other content exploring relevant topics with mainframe professionals. The I am a Mainframer series explores the careers of those in the mainframe ecosystem. Hosted by Steven Dickens. The podcast is sponsored by the Open Mainframe Project, a Linux Foundation project that aims to build community and adoption of Open Source on the mainframe by eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe, demonstrating the value of the mainframe.
- Publisher
- Open Mainframe Project
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Oct 2018
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 99 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
I am a Mainframer: Jakub on Zowe, Open Source, AI, and the Future of z/OS
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mainframe Voices: What Can Only Be Learned from a Human and not A.I.?
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
I Am a Mainframer: Geoffrey Decker on Teaching Mainframe Skills and Building the Next Generation
Inside a recent episode
I am a Mainframer: Jakub on Zowe, Open Source, AI, and the Future of z/OS
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's like ZOS is not an island. It's not going to be an island anymore. We need to integrate with the rest of the continent. How do we do that? Zoe is one of the options and answers. So it's a real problem. There is a real problem and Zoe is solving at least some parts of it effectively. So can you talk to that community engagement? I remember the three vendors that kind of got us started, Rocket Software, Broadcom and IBM, obviously. Can you speak to kind of that community engagement and what you're seeing in your role kind of leading the TSC? So, first of all, it really depends on whether we are talking about the part that's more like client-side oriented, so the VS Code or the IntelliJ, where we even have some contributors that are coming from the customers that are using the tools, not just contributing the issues, but even contributing directly to code, fixing things and improving things. […]
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- Jakub
- Rishi Misra
- Niall Ashley
- Germanas Šamrickis
- Bruno Laurent
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 133,108
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 13 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- Quality
- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts I am a Mainframer?
Steven Dickens host the show. Published by Open Mainframe Project.
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