https://github.com/ambitus/ambitus
A guide for mainframers to open source software
https://github.com/ambitus/ambitus
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A guide for mainframers to open source software
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ambitus/ambitus
- Owner: ambitus
- License: cc-by-4.0
- Created: 2019-09-23T13:04:09.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-11T20:29:18.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-11T20:39:37.637Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: ambitus, ibm-zcx, ibm-zos, mainframe, open-source, opensource, zos
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- Size: 169 KB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 27
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Governance: GOVERNANCE.md
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README
# Ambitus
[](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/6264)
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](https://github.com/ambitus/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](https://github.com/ambitus/aionz-solution-templates)
- [cbexplorer](https://github.com/ambitus/cbexplorer) - z/OS control block explorer
- [pyracf](https://github.com/ambitus/pyracf) - Python interface to RACF
- [pyzkiln](https://github.com/ambitus/pyzkiln) - A collection of Python building blocks
- [ztron](https://github.com/ambitus/zml) - A lightweight automation and logging
pipeline for z/OS
- [zml](https://github.com/ambitus/zTron) - Z markup language specification
Documentation and reference information can be found in the [doc](./doc/README.md)
We have several friends and social groups in the mainframe community that you might
like to connect to as well:
- The [System Z Enthusiasts](https://discord.com/servers/system-z-enthusiasts-880322471608344597) Discord channel
- [Therapod Blog](https://medium.com/theropod) on Medium
- [Terminal Talk podcast](https://www.terminaltalk.net/) - Frank and Jeff talk
with members of the mainframe community
- [TFiR Mainframe Matters](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqJap3FMiIH8vb5pi1InruLFZouPGdz_M&si=A-kTWRUBIYWZtKXu) - from TFiR Media
- [z/OS Open Tools](https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/) - for ported infrastructure and tooling on z/OS
## Contributing
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](CONTRIBUTING.md)
## License
All ports retain the license of their respective upstream projects.
All tooling is licensed under the [Apache 2 license](https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html), and any documentation and non-code will be received and made available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
## Governance
Ambitus is a project hosted by the [Open Mainframe Project](https://openmainframeproject.org). This project has established it's own processes for managing day-to-day processes in the project at [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md).
## Reporting Issues
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 [ambitus-private@lists.openmainframeproject.org](ambitus-private@lists.openmainframeproject.org)
For ports at the Upstreamed stage, please report any issues to the respective upstream project.