Thanks for the information Lionel. It’s good to share the efforts and let folks know. Ideally, from my perspective, IBM should seriously consider adding an OpenTools offering in z/OS so customers do not have to piece meal these important tools. My candidates would be:
bash zsh git gzip python (along with common packages) virtualenv Have a package manager that would allow users to “install” them in their local user instance since everything is shared on z/OS. Rocket did a nice job with Miniconda but it still more of a global solution. I would expect the tools that are most important are those that are part of the CI/CD pipeline, app and infrastructure automation, etc. My view is it would be nice if that the tools were available with the system and that they worked and didn’t turn into an easter egg hunt across projects and vendors … that hurts the platform; imho. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Mar 17, 2023, at 10:20 AM, Lionel B. Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was just pointing out an alternative. Obviously if you need official > support then IBM or Rocket are your only options right now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN