Zowe learning resources

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

Blogs

• Zowe blogs on Medium
• Zowe blogs on Open Mainframe Project website

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

Videos

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

• Zowe Demos playlist from Bill Pereira
• Mainframe Bytes channel from Jessielaine Punongbayan

Webinars

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

• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: July 2021
• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: April 2021
• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: January 2021
• Zowe Quarterly Update Webinar: October 2020

The OMP Youtube channel also offers other webinars about Zowe.

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

Community

Join us on Slack

• Slack invite link
• Introduction to Zowe Slack channels

Learn more about the community

• Zowe community GitHub repo

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.