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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 14, 2024

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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 install software. Manually installing pax archives is archaic despite being quite easy, it would be easier to keep track of software and install it, if we got a package manager similar to what Linux has such as YAY, apt, and PACMAN. This new package manager should be designed with commands and APIs in mind before web interfaces or ISPF panels, to keep it modern and intune with what young people and people from other platforms expect out of a package manger. This package manager could eventually maybe also be extended to replace SMP/E.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Mar 31, 2025

    It doesn't matter much to me which package manager we port (rpm, apt, pacman, etc...). They key is that we need to standardize the use of a package manager that is designed for managing file system-based applications. This includes file system-based program products that are managed using SMP/E today. File system-based products are an afterthought in SMP/E and as a result everything from packaging to installing and managing file system-based products using SMP/E is far more complex and difficult than it needs to be. Moving in this direction for file system-based products and open source tools would go a long way in simplifying and standardizing they way we build and manage file system-based tools and products.

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  • Guest
    Nov 15, 2024

    If this was an extension of SMP/e, like an SMP/e api that would also update the SMP/e db (CSI) as part of the install process, I think it would go a long way in ensuring customer adoption

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  • Guest
    Nov 14, 2024

    Very good idea Emma !

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