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Python - Add MSAL library from Microsoft to call Azure API for authentication

We have a use-case to automate PKI calls using APIs in Azure but that requires the MSAL library from Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/msal-overviewHowever, when running the python script that relies in msal the ...
about 1 month ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 2 Submitted

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Add support for ZFS in zoautil_py.datasets.copy()

It should be possible to copy a whole ZFS dataset, not just a zFS file.
3 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Submitted

Including KafkaProducer in Python AI Toolkit for z/OS

This benefits the users who are trying to collect data residing in a z/OS environment and publish to Kafka
6 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add pyzfile to the supported packages

Pyzfile (pronounced pie-zee-file) is a Python package for performing I/O on native MVS record oriented data sets. All access methods are supported including QSAM, BSAM, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS) and hiperspaces. This library is a wrapper over the z/...
over 1 year ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased inventory for data-science packages

We're looking for an increased data science package inventory that includes sentence-transformers, sentence-transformers, fasttext, jellyfish, phonetics, RapidFuzz, spellwise, SymSpell for python 3.13+
5 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Future consideration

Onboard confluent-kafka python packages to IBM AI toolkit repository

This is an essential python package that is widely used by our clients in distributed platform, this package will provide the necessary support for our developers to interact with confluent kafka product on mainframe.
almost 2 years ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include the SKTIME Python module for machine learning of timeseries data as part of the supported packages

sktime is a Python library designed for time series analysis, offering tools for forecasting, classification, and regression. It provides a unified framework for working with different time series models, making it easier to compare, tune, and int...
9 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Future consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
almost 2 years ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration