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Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
18 days ago in z/OS / General 2 Submitted

Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
9 months ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

Bundle python with the z/OS base system

Including Python as a part of z/OS will offer several advantages, similar to REXX being bundled with z/OS. Python is an extremely versatile programming language with a wide range of applications, from web development to data analysis, artificial i...
10 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
9 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
3 months ago in z/OS / General 0 Under review

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Allow customer to use zIIP via IWM4ECRE - for ML processing

Please allow customer to call IWM4ECRE for zIIP usage for their home grown ML(machine learning) application on hybrid cloud environment. Without being able to use zIIPs it would be prohibitively expensive which does not allow customers to fully ut...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

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