GenevaERS Architectural Direction Update
Based upon the Active Project Status achieved in August 2021, the project team reviewed and updated it architectural direction. The following slides give a sense of progress made to date...
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GenevaERS is an Active Project!
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...
Project Update and Goals
March 15, 2021 is a milestone of sorts: it is 25 years to the day later than predicted by one pundit as the date the last mainframe would be turned...
GenevaERS Sister Projects: Polycephaly and OzE
The GenevaERS project is teaming up and providing support for two other Open Mainframe Initiatives; Polycephaly and the Open z/OS Enablement or OzE project. Polycephaly Polycephaly is intended to be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GenevaERS History Overview and Participants
The following is notes about the beginnings of GenevaERS, as compiled by Randall for a reunion of team members in April 2019 in Chicago. The content is supplemented by 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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Training Module 20: Overview of SAFR User-Exit Routines
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 20,...
Training Module 19: Parallel Processing
The slides for 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 19, Parallel...
Training Module 17: Format Phase Views
The slides for 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 17, Format...
Training Module 18: Extract Time Summarization and Other Functions
The slides for 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 18, Extract...
