Zowe learning resources

Learn more about Zowe from these blog posts, videos, and other resources.

Blogs

• Zowe blogs on Medium (opens new window)
• Zowe blogs on Open Mainframe Project website (opens new window)

Want to contribute a blog? Details for how to contribute to the Zowe blogs on Medium (opens new window) site are at Zowe Blog Guidelines (opens new window).

Videos

As well as Zowe videos (opens new window) owned and managed by the community, there are a number of external youtubers who host Zowe related content.

• Zowe Demos playlist from Bill Pereira (opens new window)
• Mainframe Bytes channel from Jessielaine Punongbayan (opens new window)

Webinars

Find out what's happening with Zowe in the Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar Series.

• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: October 2020 (opens new window)
• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: January 2021 (opens new window)

The OMP Youtube channel (opens new window) also offers other webinars about Zowe.

• Treat Yourself to a Guided, Comprehensive Tour of Zowe Desktop Applications (opens new window)
• Zowe Webinar Feb. 22, 2019 (opens new window)
• Open Mainframe Project Webinar: Zowe Virtual Hackathon (opens new window)

Community

Join us on Slack

• Slack invite link (opens new window)
• Introduction to Zowe Slack channels (opens new window)

Learn more about the community

• Zowe community GitHub repo (opens new window)

  Find out information about Zowe sub-projects, GitHub repos, mailing lists, community meeting minutes, contribution guidelines, and so on.

Connect with the community through meetings

• Zowe meeting calendar (opens new window)

  You can join one of the Zowe meetings to get latest Zowe updates and get involved in different squads and initiatives.

Training

Courses

• Zowe Basics (opens new window)

  Interskill Learning offers a free training course that introduces the components that comprise Zowe and the benefits of using Zowe and how its capabilities can be extended.

Trials

• Zowe trial (opens new window)

  The Zowe trial hosted by IBM is a fully configured z/OS environment with Zowe preinstalled and set up along with a set of integrated easy-to-follow tutorials that walk you through the basics of Zowe and gives you hands-on experience of extending Zowe. This no-charge trial is available in two hours for three days.

• Get started with the Zowe Web UI (opens new window)

  This online tutorial hosted by IBM guides you to add new apps to the Zowe Web UI. It provides a public hosted Zowe instance that allows you to perform the steps in a z/OS environment.