Recording from the November OPM Webinar
GenevaERS TSC Chair Kip Twitchell and Solution Architect Sandy Peresie present at the monthly Open Mainframe Project
Announcement – GenevaERS Webinar
November 18th 11 AM US Eastern time Join us to learn about GenevaERS Open Mainframe Project. GenevaERS, a single-pass optimization engine driving the data supply chain executing on z/OS. GenevaERS offers businesses a high-level reporting solution uniquely tuned for big data scanning and improved financial transparency for better decision-making. This project combines the processing power…
Open Mainframe Project Mini-Summit Europe
Kip provided an overview of the GenevaERS project at the mini summit held Friday October 30th 2020.
GenevaERS Goes Open Source
Swapnil Bhartiya, founder and Editor-in-Chief of TFiR, interviews Kip Twitchell about GenevaERS
Lucky #13 – the GenevaERS Proposal
In the summer of 2020, Kip Twitchell presented SAFR / GenevaERS to the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
GenevaERS Intro
Learn about our first phase of work; a proof of concept utilizing Apache Spark Learn more about our proposed architectural direction for Geneva
Recordings and minutes from the Technical Steering Committee meeting on September 8th 2020 are now available
All recordings and minutes are stored in the tsc – meetings folder out on GenevaERS community GitHub Direct links for the 8th are: Meeting minutes Part 1 of the video recording Part 2 of the video recording Audio recording
Sign-up and Commit to the Spark-GenevaERS POC
Organization of the project continues, but much progress has been made. Check out the Community Repository on GitHub, and its Governance and Technical Steering Committee Checklist to see what’s been happening. But don’t stop there…. Get Connected The first Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting, open to all, is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at…
Lucky 13: GenevaERS is an Official Open Mainframe Project project
On Thursday July 9th, GenevaERS was approved an Incubation Project under the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project. Comments from the approving Technical Advisory Committee included (paraphrased): “This project showcases the types of applications that Z is very important to.” “Would like to see capabilities to cleanse data before feeding into Spark for machine learning.” “Yes,…
Application For Linux Foundation Project Status
The GenevaERS has applied for incubation status under the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project. The application can be viewed here. To graduate from Incubation Stage, or for a new project to join as an Active Stage project, a project must complete the proposal process plus: Have committers from at least two organizations. Have achieved and maintained…
Proposed GenevaERS 5.0 Architectural Direction
The following are some initial thoughts on the next version of GenevaERS as an Open Source project might go: Workbench Currently the only way to specify GenevaERS processes (called a GenevaERS “view”) is through the Workbench, which is a structured environment allowing specifications of column formats, values to be used in populating those columns, including…
Initial Open Source Work: Metadata Translation
Existing customers have been working on using GenevaERS metadata in related processes outside of GenevaERS. Our first contributor to open source, Sandy Peresie, took on the challenge of building a process which reads Geneva metadata XML file and produces an output of selected elements in COBOL. This was an experimental project, the first of the…
SAFR Technical Update
The following update was provided to GenevaERS/SAFR alumni in June 2020, reflecting the work that has progressed for the last several years.
SAFR Open Source Rationale
The following slides were used with existing customers to explain the rationale for SAFR Open Source in April 2020
Training Module 22: using Pipes and Tokens
The slides used in the following video are shown below: Slide 1 Welcome to the training course on IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting, or SAFR. This is Module 22, using Pipes and Tokens Slide 2 Upon completion of this module, you should be able to: Describe uses for the SAFR piping feature Read a…
Research on Next Generation SAFR: 2017
The following is an R&D effort to define the next generation of SAFR, composed by Kip Twitchell, in March 2017. It was not intended to be a formally released paper, but the ideas expressed herein have continued to resonate with later assessments of the tool direction. Proposal for Next Generation SAFR Engine Architecture Kip Twitchell…
Consolidated Data Supply Chain: 2016
The following slides were developed while consulting at 12 of top 25 world banks about financial systems from 2013-2016. Although not specific to GenevaERS, it delineates the causes of the problems in our financial systems, and the potential impact of GenevaERS supported systems and the Event Based Concepts. Additional details can be read in this…
Training Module 21: The SAFR Write Function
The slides used in the following are shown below: Slide 1 Welcome to the training course on IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting, or SAFR. This is Module 21, The SAFR Write Function Slide 2 Upon completion of this module, you should be able to: Describe uses for SAFR Write Function Read a Logic Table…
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