Gary Thornhill, PopUp founder and CEO, had the privilege of presenting a fully featured PopUp demo to a group of mainframe and tech enthusiasts at Tech Field Day at SHARE Kansas City, 2024.
The delegates came from a wide range of backgrounds including appdev, mainframe education, security, DevOps, mainframe services, and Open Mainframe Project.
“What is PopUp? Well, we can popup a full mainframe platform in under 10 minutes, in the cloud or on prem.
We are proud that PopUp runs on IBM zD&T under the covers – tried and true industry-leading z/OS virtualisation software.”
Welcome to the Wonderful World of PopUp Mainframe!
PopUp was born out of a direct need to provide customers with mainframe environments so they can action the mainframe transformations they desire.
PopUp is pipeline-ready, and can be fully administered in a distributed way, using APIs to spawn, clone, and tear down a PopUp just like other virtual machines.
Using PopUp to deploy and test code quickly, test the latest security features, meet regulatory requirements, and test upgrades of Z can liberate your teams to achieve their goals more quickly than before.
Modern mainframes are incredibly efficient, cost effective, and provide better per-core performance than the alternatives.* Migrating workloads away from the mainframe requires careful consideration.
Using PopUp to augment your physical mainframe by enabling faster, cheaper testing on ephemeral environments is a fast track to modernising your mainframe processes and continuing to reap the benefits of the physical mainframe.
Gary discussed the key features of PopUp. Some of the call out points are:
PopUp provides system and helper utilities. For example, to help automate archiving, and CPU utilisation monitoring to assist in capacity management.
We have extended the Delphix Continuous Compliance engine to enable masking of ANY mainframe data sourcein a consistent, robust fashion across the entire organisational data estate, maintaining referential integrity across all systems, whether they be mainframe or distributed.
Using PopUp & Delphix for Data masking
PopUp Integrates fully with Delphix to utilise the industry-leading data masking capabilities against mainframe data.
Data can be masked on the physical mainframe, or on the PopUp, depending on your needs. Then we use Delphix Continuous Data self-service portal to provision compliant copies.
“Being able to rewind a full production-like mainframe environment at the touch of a button is absolutely massive for productivity and cutting time-to-market.
Marty McFly would be right at home with the 4D mainframe. Think of it as the ‘undo’ button for a mainframe.”
PopUp is a great way to train people new to the mainframe, as PopUp is a disposable, completely isolated environment with zero risk to the physical mainframe – perfect for training.
“With PopUp everyone is welcome and able to be productive with tools of their choice.”
Use cases on the PopUp are only limited to your imagination
Just some use cases for a dedicated mainframe environment:
Development
Use with a desktop IDE
All aspects of Testing including Regression testing against mainframe
Software evaluation
R&D
Proof of concept development
Offshore or 3rd party environment
Training environment
Use of a mainframe data “gold copy” on demand across the enterprise
Checkpoint, forward and rewind data
What we’ve all been waiting for… the demo!
Gary’s demo covered:
Spinning up a PopUp Mainframe in the cloud through the Azure MarketPlace. The PopUp can be ready to go in 6-8 minutes
Deploying and configuring an application using a GitHub Actions pipeline (covering tasks which would usually be done by a sysprog, automated testing of the UI through Selenium)
Masking the sensitive data through Delphix Continuous Compliance
Creating the baseline ‘Gold copy’ PopUp containing the masked data and full application
Enabling easy creation of on-demand virtualized PopUp instances with fast, efficient checkpointing
Provisioning compliant dev environment through the Delphix self-service portal
Developer commits code change into Git, pipeline is kicked off to generate, test and deploy the change onto a PopUp, then do UI testing
Failure of automated UI testing
Rewinding the entire PopUp environment back to the previous version (not just the data, the entire app) through the self-service Delphix portal
How a developer can understand what went wrong and fix it without any environment overheads
Some great questions from the audience…
Cameron asked if we need to install DB2. Answer: No, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS and other apps come out of the box with PopUp and are available in 10 minutes.
Mark asked if there is an option for customers who can’t move unmasked data off the mainframe. Answer: Yes, masking can be done on the physical mainframe, and only the masked data ported onto the PopUp.
“Using PopUp allows organisations to easily start doing DevOps and automation on the mainframe in exactly the same way they do for their distributed applications today.”
Thanks to all the fabulous delegates who attended and joined in the conversation with energy and insight.
What a great experience! Thanks to the Tech Field Day team, in particular Stephen Foskett, for running such a great session.
We are very proud to announce that PopUp Mainframe has been awarded Highly Commended in the category ‘DevOps Tool/Product of the Year’ at the DevOps Excellence Awards 2024.
Gary Thornhill, PopUp founder, at the awards ceremony
We are thrilled to be recognised alongside some well-established players in the DevOps space.
For many organisations, mainframe is often the last piece to achieve automation. Most businesses have established automation and DevOps ways of working for the distributed teams, but haven’t managed to apply these to the mainframe areas yet.
Adopting DevOps for the mainframe poses some unique challenges. These include a lack of dev and test environments in which to trial automation, new ways of working and new tools, as well as lack of innovation opportunity. Compounding this, there is a skills shortage in mainframe and sometimes resistance to change.
At PopUp, mainframe modernisation and mainframe DevOps is at the heart of everything we do.
Our mission is to empower mainframe businesses to deliver changes faster, cheaper and better with on-demand environments for dev and test. We see this as a necessary pre-requisite for organisations to move into this final ‘Automation & DevOps frontier’ (where ALL teams, including mainframe, can embrace automation and DevOps practices), and truly achieve their agility aspirations at all levels.
PopUp enables customers to take mainframe on their DevOps journey by creating fully functioning z/OS instances on-demand, on-prem or in the cloud, and controlling them through pipelines. This overcomes dev and test mainframe unavailability – the number one blocker to mainframe DevOps.
PopUp liberates mainframe teams, enabling automation, DevOps innovation and continuous improvement with no risk to the physical mainframe.
PopUp helps fast track DevOps initiatives in the following ways:
Aiding the implementation of automation and pipelines (e.g. with BMC tooling pre-installed on a PopUp)
Continuously improving ways of working and increasing collaboration
Helping to create real, lasting cultural change
Increasing productivity by reducing wait times
Modern tools boost the productivity of all team members
A catalyst for mainframe innovation and fast feedback
PopUp also provides additional features to boost your DevOps journey which are not available on the physical mainframe. For example, PopUp can be replicated to create multiple z/OS clones including applications and data, and mainframe instances can be deployed and torn down using APIs or pipelines. In conjunction with Delphix, mainframe instances can be bookmarked at any stage, then they can be rewound or fast forwarded to the snapshot using a self-service portal.
Curious to know more about DevOps for the mainframe, how ephemeral mainframe instances can accelerate your projects, or automating your mainframe processes? Contact us.
In IT, mainframe is often the last piece to achieve automation. Many organisations have established automation and DevOps ways of working for the distributed teams, but haven’t managed to apply this to the mainframe areas yet.
As we see it, the main challenges in adopting DevOps for mainframe are:
Lack of dev and test environments in which to trial automation, new ways of working and new tools.
Culture, mindset, and ways of working changes (and ensuring those are sustained in the long term).
Inability to innovate due to locked down systems and timeboxed access to the physical mainframe.
Governance processes which are entrenched and inflexible.
Mainframe skills shortage and difficulty attracting new joiners.
Create a right-sized virtual z/OS instance with the right data and applications to suit the use case (not just a full copy of the LPAR).
We developed PopUp to help solve some of these pressing business problems.
At PopUp, our mission is to empower mainframe businesses to deliver changes faster, cheaper and better with on-demand environments for dev and test. We see this as a necessary pre-requisite for organisations to move into this final ‘DevOps frontier’ (where ALL teams, including mainframe, can embrace DevOps). This is necessary for businesses to truly achieve their agility aspirations at all levels of the business.
How does PopUp fast track mainframe DevOps initiatives?
PopUp enables an organisation’s mainframe DevOps initiatives to take off, in a number of ways. PopUp enables companies to eat the elephant of mainframe DevOps by starting small and making progress quickly.
A. Pipelines & Automation
Automation and pipelines are a must for any DevOps journey. PopUp aids the implementation of automation and pipelines by:
Enabling users to spin up and manage fully functioning z/OS instances through a pipeline via RESTful APIs.
Making it easy to align mainframe pipelines with pipelines for distributed systems.
Providing mainframe teams with automation tools pre-installed and pre-configured on the PopUp.
Using the built-in test automation tools, developers can write unit tests and run them through automation in a PopUp.
Providing test automation tools which can be used to build a full regression test pack.
Making it easy to include code validation in pipelines.
Integrating out of the box with Git.
B. Increase Productivity by Giving Developers Mainframe On-Demand
The main bottleneck in mainframe delivery is lack of mainframe environments. This causes a huge knock-on effect when teams have limited slots on the physical mainframe, and have to schedule those far in advance. PopUp delivers z/OS environment capacity to teams at the speed its needed. This newfound availability of mainframe instances in turn enables fundamental changes to the teams’ ways of working.
Team members no longer need to wait days or weeks for their slot on the mainframe, instead they can do their work as needed. Once the biggest blocker is removed, wait times and idle time are reduced through every stage in the delivery process. This has a massive impact on productivity, as well as team satisfaction.
C. Modern tools boost the productivity of all team members
There are more and more tools available which allow developers to interact with mainframe systems without ever logging into a mainframe green screen. Modern mainframe tools provide a host of benefits including intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces, automatic code completion and syntax checks, debug tools, automation, and instant feedback.
However, it’s not always easy to adopt modern tools on the physical mainframe. On PopUp you are free to install or use any modern mainframe tools you wish and experiment in an isolated, completely risk-free environment. Mainframe teams can then realise the benefits of modern mainframe tools with no risk to the physical mainframe. Modern tools not only improve productivity of new joiners (who can be very productive using intuitive tooling even without prior mainframe experience), but vastly increase the productivity of existing team members too, who experience the same benefits.
D. DevOps with Compliant Data
One challenging element of ephemeral environments is getting the right data. Using PopUp in combination with Delphix, production data can be masked and moved onto the PopUp. This gives developers and testers the ability to test against fully compliant production-like data. The benefit of using prod-like data for testing is hard to overstate – it facilitates better test scenario creation and increased test coverage.
Another powerful feature of Delphix & PopUp is creating a Gold Copy image which includes masked data. This Gold Copy can be cloned as needed to provide a full z/OS instance with compliant data, ready to go. The test data can also be refreshed easily, ensuring that dev teams always have recent, prod-like, compliant data.
E. PopUp is a catalyst for mainframe innovation and fast feedback!
PopUp brings increased opportunity for innovation to mainframe teams since they can work and experiment in 100% safe, disposable environments. In a risk-free mainframe sandbox, you can be confident in experimenting with new capabilities which cannot be risked on the physical mainframe. This gives the opportunity for fast feedback on new tools and capabilities without needing to install anything on the physical mainframe.
Using Delphix alongside PopUp allows users to provision copies/clones of a PopUp, snapshot the instance during testing, then just rewind / forward-wind to any of the snapshots as needed. There is no need to worry about breaking the PopUp. This gives app teams tremendous flexibility and independence to develop, test and deploy changes faster.
F. Ready-made cloud z/OS environments
PopUp is available to buy directly through Azure MarketPlace and can be up and running in less than an hour. This provides near-instant z/OS compute capability in the cloud to service DevOps initiatives.
PopUp is also compatible with other cloud environments.
G. Accelerate your DevOps journey with new talent
Skills shortage is a big challenge in the mainframe space and can derail DevOps initiatives. Mainframe businesses need to attract a new generation of mainframe engineers, who usually want to use cutting-edge mainframe tooling, like desktop IDEs and automation tools.
Modern mainframe tools come out of the box with PopUp. So PopUp simultaneously appeals to traditional mainframe engineers who may prefer green screen (and enjoy the ability to spin up their own mainframe environments on-demand), as well as new mainframe engineers who prefer modern tools. Using PopUp, you can hire people with no green screen experience and be confident that they will still be able to integrate with and develop mainframe systems.
H. PopUp – Git integration is a cinch
Most DevOps initiatives rely heavily on modern version control tools. Git is regarded by many as the best, easiest to use, and the most effective one available and it’s everywhere in the world of distributed applications – but not yet for mainframe. PopUp enables Git integration with mainframe source out of the box, giving yet another boost on your DevOps journey.
How does PopUp help to create real, lasting DevOps cultural change?
This is often one of the trickiest parts of a DevOps transformation journey. It can be particularly difficult in mainframe teams which may have been operating in similar ways for decades and have no appetite to change.
It’s easier to make incremental cultural changes than forcing a completely new way of working in one go. PopUp provides the vehicle for this as users can adopt PopUp at their own pace alongside their existing ways of working on the physical mainframe.
PopUp empowers users as they benefit from the self-service capability, and that results in appreciation and uptake from the mainframe teams.
PopUp gives extra features to boost you on your DevOps journey
One amazingly powerful thing about PopUp is that it provides capabilities which physical mainframes cannot. This opens the door for deeper innovation and new working practices:
Replicate PopUps to create multiple z/OS clones including applications and data
Deploy and tear down mainframe instances using APIs or pipelines
Baseline and version PopUp instances
Take snapshots of PopUp throughout projects using Delphix
Return to a baseline (rewind), and fast-forward to snapshots
Switch a PopUp off when it is no longer needed. When it is brought up again it is exactly as it was – there are no ongoing maintenance costs as you have for a physical mainframe.
We are very proud to announce that PopUp Mainframe has been listed as a finalist in 2 categories at the DevOps Dozen Awards 2023!
This recognition is particularly special to us as we are a very small, very young company, competing against some established players in the mainframe space.
The UK PopUp team (or “PopStars” as we call ourselves) attended the GSE conference at Whittlebury Park from 30th Oct – 2nd Nov 2023. It was a very well-attended event, brimming with mainframe enthusiasts, and copious deep discussions on all aspects of mainframe.
Thank you to the organisers, it was well run and enjoyed by all.
Legal & General – PopUp Mainframe driving Pensions Application Transformation
There were many highs across the four day event – the best was probably our founder, Gary Thornhill, joining one of our customers on stage to present their story.
Vamsi Bhogireddy and Javeed Miyandad from L&G shared how they transformed their pensions application with the developer experience at the heart of the project.
Using PopUp Mainframe to provide ephemeral z/OS instances in Azure, they reduced development cycle times with purpose-built, pre-configured tooling, driving pipeline automation and agility… whilst increasing the quality of deliverables.
What else we got up to
The team were joined by a brand new addition to the PopUp team – ‘mini PopStars’ in the form of lego minifigures.
The ‘mini PopStars’ got to meet their idol – the human-sized lego z16.
The PopUp team got up close and personal with a Formula 1 car.
We even let the ‘mini PopStars’ have a go at driving!
Our PopUp pants were a big hit and were snapped up quickly. If you missed out on a pair this time, come along to a future event for some more unique merchandise.
GSE attendees were lucky to be the first people to get their hands on our brand new PopUp Handbook.
The Handbook is your guide to getting the most from PopUp on your mainframe modernisation journey. It covers the future of mainframe, how to eat the elephant of mainframe modernisation, shift left testing, increasing agility, accelerating batch testing and many more topics.
Read The PopUp Handbook here. If you want your own copy, join us at one of our upcoming events.
Watch this webinar with PopUp’s Gary Thornhill and Muthiah Maruthappan.
The Billing System transformation programme at National Grid was severely hampered by mainframe test environment unavailability across multiple systems.
Dev & Test mainframe environments were already close to capacity, so mainframe modernisation initiatives required acquiring expensive new hardware. One mainframe modernisation proof of concept (using z/OS Connect to improve mainframe access) could not proceed without additional environments.
National Grid’s cloud-first policy fuelled the desire to:
create dev and test environments in the cloud
offer self-service
remove third-party dependency
improve agility with on-demand access
and reduce cost
The new self-service capability has transformed National Grid’s ability to deliver transformative change across billing systems. Using Delphix and PopUp Mainframe running on Azure, National Grid accelerated their projects. The company is now planning the next stage of their mainframe modernisation: spinning up new mainframe environments with the latest secured data using automation pipelines in minutes.
Delphix and PopUp on Azure empowered National Grid with autonomy over their mainframe systems and the ability to increase productivity. National Grid can now immediately innovate to solve business problems using ephemeral mainframe environments spun up on demand. They also plan to redevelop some of their legacy .NET processes using modern tooling.
PopUp Mainframe’s Gary Thornhill joins the Microsoft Cloud team to discuss how to get more from an existing mainframe.
They discuss pragmatic options to:
improve costs
refine a business process
creating value from data
evolving DevOps
Gary talks about how PopUp can support mainframe businesses on their journey to delivering changes faster, cheaper and better using on-demand environments.
PopUp Mainframe, the mainframe-on-demand solution, today announced that PopUp Mainframe is available as a fully packaged cloud offering on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. With the Azure cloud service, Azure customers can now leverage PopUp Mainframe’s mainframe modernisation capabilities to spin up new mainframe environment in minutes.
“Being able to spin up a fully functioning mainframe environment in minutes is a complete game changer for business.
PopUp is designed to mirror an organisation’s physical mainframe environment and supports any and every mainframe application as-is. PopUp accelerates organisations’ ability to make change by providing the ability to spin up and tear down mainframe environments with self-service.”
Modern development teams require agile, flexible environments to be able to deliver quick change reliably and enable business competitiveness. But the reality is that fixed, shared mainframe environments cause environment bottlenecks that hinder projects, slow time to market, and result in quality issues and spiralling costs.
The shortage of mainframe test environments is a big blocker to any project across the enterprise which relies on mainframe. Many projects involve a change only in the “front end” but depend on testing the “back end” (i.e. mainframe) even when it is not changing, and suffer from lack of mainframe test environments.
How does PopUp Mainframe solve this problem?
PopUp Mainframe is a complete virtual mainframe environment, running on x86 hardware, which can be provisioned and deprovisioned on demand. Read more about PopUp Mainframe here.
High-speed provisioning of dev and test environments becomes a reality with PopUp Mainframe – it provides agile test environments that you can quickly save, delete and restore via self-service.
What can PopUp Mainframe be used for?
PopUp Mainframe can support all kinds of development testing – including unit testing, system testing, regression testing, integration testing, UAT, and break-fix testing.
Note: The ZD&T license terms don’t allow pre-production testing, stress testing or performance testing.
What does typical mainframe testing look like compared to testing with PopUp Mainframe?
During a mainframe test cycle, traditionally the team would use a dedicated LPAR or have a MIPS allocation for their test phase and a strict time window to complete the testing in. With PopUp Mainframe, all that changes.
PopUp Mainframe is a complete, fully functioning substitute for physical mainframe. To the user there is no difference in the experience using a PopUp Mainframe compared to physical mainframe. It is a hardware emulator with z/OS installed and can run the full IBM mainframe stack to mirror exactly your physical mainframe envs. This means that PopUp Mainframe runs REAL MF CODE + any 3rd party software needed, so testing using PopUp Mainframe can give 100% test coverage and confidence that the code will behave identically on the physical mainframe.
PopUp Mainframe integrates seamlessly with mainframe IDEs such as IBM Developer (IDz) and Topaz (Compuware), ensuring the developer can use the tools they are comfortable with.
How does it save time, cost and effort?
The savings and benefits of using PopUp Mainframe for mainframe testing don’t just apply to the mainframe teams, they extend to any team which requires a mainframe environment for their testing – potentially most development teams across the enterprise.
Cost savings
Testing can represent a significant proportion of the cost of maintaining a mainframe platform as mainframe test environments often have a large MIPs allocation. Using PopUp Mainframe for testing instead of the physical mainframe will greatly reduce total mainframe MIPS consumption thereby reducing mainframe running and licensing costs. The test processes using PopUp Mainframe will be running on commodity x86 hardware, at a fraction of the cost of physical mainframe.
Using PopUp Mainframe for test environments means MIPS can be reallocated to the business critical production transactions.
With PopUp Mainframe, when a mainframe test environment is no longer needed, it can be switched off and it will no longer consume any resources. When the mainframe test environment is brought up again it will be exactly as it was. This means there are no ongoing maintenance costs for PopUp Mainframe, compared to huge overheads for maintaining and supporting the physical mainframe.
Time and effort savings
The long process required to provision a mainframe test environment (if one is even available) can severely delay project delivery. With PopUp Mainframe, teams no longer need to wait for their mainframe test environment, and any project requiring testing with the mainframe will complete much more quickly. Projects no longer have to wait, worry about or plan for mainframe environment allocation slots or test time-windows. This is a direct cost saving for project delivery and will result in much faster business change, therefore enabling business to be more competitive. This increased delivery speed is particularly vital for those following traditional quarterly mainframe release cycles.
The effort and time taken to provision mainframe test environments manually can also be saved. This is typically a time-consuming and error-prone activity and requires large maintenance, scheduling, and coordination overheads by the test environment management team.
The many benefits of PopUp Mainframe
Aside from just the cost, time and effort savings, there are many benefits of using PopUp Mainframe for your testing…
Scale and replicate test environments on-demand
PopUp Mainframe overcomes the issue of insufficient dev and test mainframe LPAR availability/MIPS allocation. With PopUp Mainframe, mainframe test environments can be provisioned on-demand and scaled according to changing requirements. Mainframe test environment constraints will depend on the availability of commodity x86 hardware.
PopUp Mainframe gives you the flexibility to match environment provisioning to the business needs and adapt your delivery models in line with agile practices. Teams can elect to have one PopUp Mainframe for a specific project, or give individuals their own (identical or different) mainframe environment to work in.
Test automation and integration with CICD pipelines
PopUp Mainframe gives the ability to implement mainframe test automation capabilities, improving test efficiency and drastically reducing the length of mainframe project deliveries. Needless to say there are many benefits of test automation including fast feedback which improves developer productivity.
PopUp Mainframe can also be integrated with CICD pipelines, so a new mainframe test environment can be provisioned and torn down as part of your existing (or new) pipeline. This immediately frees up teams to focus on the development and testing rather than management and setup of test environments.
Introducing test automation and integrating mainframe test environment provisioning into a CICD tool has the potential to completely transform the way and speed that mainframe projects are delivered.
PopUp Mainframe runs on any x86 platform deployed anywhere
PopUp Mainframe can run on almost any existing enterprise hardware – desktops, servers, laptops, containers, VMs and in the cloud. This means that the mainframe test environments are very accessible. They can be provided for external users or for users to work on a project in isolation. This also improves enterprise security, keeping your core mainframe secure and aiding compliance.
As mentioned above, large cost savings can be achieved when using commodity x86 hardware to provision your mainframe test environments on-demand compared to running and maintaining a large physical mainframe system. PopUp Mainframe can also run in the cloud – on prem and/or multi cloud, bringing all the benefits of cloud infrastructure.
Improved quality of testing
With PopUp Mainframe, mainframe test environments are guaranteed to be available and the environments are cloned from approved gold copy images so there is low risk of environment config issues/inconsistencies. This generally results in increased mainframe test coverage, even given the same time window as pre-PopUp Mainframe. Mainframe testing can become more comprehensive with negative testing, failure testing etc.
Shift left
Using PopUp Mainframe means that projects can test with the mainframe earlier in the lifecycle and throughout the project, rather than just having 1 test window planned well in advance, or even skipping the mainframe testing entirely. This means that defects are found earlier in the lifecycle, saving on dev/test costs. It also reduces risk as projects can guarantee that they will be able to complete their mainframe testing.
No more test environment config issues
Using isolated mainframe test environments which are created from a gold copy mean you can be confident in the state of the test environment – as you are testing on the exact same environment each time. This reduces errors and time spent on environment config and setup. It also reduces the risk of release as the testing will give you more confidence that the code will perform as required in production.
Version your mainframe test environment, create snapshots, fast-forward and rewind
With PopUp Mainframe, golden copy images with different topologies and different software are created for different requirements. These can also be version controlled.
As with other virtualisation software, snapshots can be taken during development and testing. This provides rewind and fast-forward capabilities within mainframe test environments which are not possible using a physical mainframe.
Reduced business risk
Being able to spin up mainframe test environments on-demand, use automation to test and validate changes enables teams to deliver change in smaller chunks rather than large, infrequent releases. This drastically reduces business risk as each individual change is much lower risk and can be more easily fixed/rolled back if needed compared to a big bang release.
Reduced reliance on niche skills
With PopUp Mainframe, mainframe test environments can be made available to non-mainframe resources via self-service tools complete with pre-configured test packs. This will reduce your dependence on niche, expensive mainframe skills and enable projects to complete more quickly and cheaply.
What impact can PopUp Mainframe have on wider teams, and the enterprise as a whole?
The impact of adopting PopUp Mainframe for mainframe testing on your organisation can be huge. Providing fit-for-purpose mainframe environments on-demand allows mainframe teams (and teams dependent on mainframe test environments) to deliver as fast as other technology areas which already follow agile and DevOps approaches.
This liberates the whole enterprise (including the mainframe teams which have been previously left-behind) to adopt agile and DevOps practices which has a much bigger business impact than piecemeal adoption.
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At PopUp, mainframe modernisation and mainframe DevOps is at the heart of everything we do.
A. Pipelines & Automation
C. Modern tools boost the productivity of all team members
D. DevOps with Compliant Data
E. PopUp is a catalyst for mainframe innovation and fast feedback!
F. Ready-made cloud z/OS environments
G. Accelerate your DevOps journey with new talent
H. PopUp – Git integration is a cinch
The UK PopUp team 
Vamsi Bhogireddy and Javeed Miyandad from L&G shared how they transformed their pensions application with the developer experience at the heart of the project.
Using PopUp Mainframe to provide ephemeral z/OS instances in 
GSE attendees were lucky to be the first people to get their hands on our brand new 
