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- System Disk Storage guidelines - Paul
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- Open discussion on direction of advanced topics - Mike
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- Q&A
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## Meeting Minutes:
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Attendees: All Core team members & 13 other community participants
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1. Core Team members introduced themselves
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2. Sudharsana shared a quick update on COBOL Course
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- new pdf v 2.0.1 available
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- Two challenges available in Course #2
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3. Paul shared that he is working on Disk Storage guidelines and will share soon
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- Request to be mindful when allocating system resources
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4. Mike reviewed the github repo arrangement and started a discussion around the community contributing to Course #2
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* Envisioning a chapter covering advanced COBOL content / topics
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* The challenges that exist in this chapter currently can be labs for this chapter
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* Paul shared about his work with a community member on COBOL/Db2 labs & programs - requested for community help
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* Gagan, David and Raven eager to help. They will reach out to Paul Newton via Slack for access to existing content
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* The team will work with Paul to help create the content for Chapter #2
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* If any community member has other ideas for Course #2, we request you to create an issue.
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* The core team meets weekly to review issues and PRs. Thank you for your contribution!
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5. Q&A
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#### What is possible to do within the zOS instance?
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Paul responded the goal of this course is to address beginner level COBOL with modern tooling. To that end, the goal is to introduce learners to zOS and enterprise COBOL
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#### What is the end product? Any strategy to market to universities
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The course on OMP was created with the intent and goal for academics / universities to take this and use for a semester COBOL Class.
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Sudharsana talked about IBM's Academic Initiative team and happy to connect David with the team to further explore opportunities with UNCC
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Cameron Saey mentioned a series of classes offered at ECU.
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#### Any plans to merge this content with Master the Mainframe?
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No. MtM is to give a broader understanding of Mainframes and zOS. While there is a little overlap this course is primarily focussed on COBOL.
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#### Next Meeting
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Tues, Aug 11th 8 a.m PST / 11 a.m EST

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