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IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS

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GZIP and OpenSSL for Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS

It would be very useful to have GZIP and OpenSSL in the Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS. It ist always good to have such basic tools at hand.
about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add sftp support to curl

We need this feature to upload dumps. At the moment it is not included: % /usr/lpp/IBM/foz/v1r1/bin/curl -Vcurl 8.13.0 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/8.13.0 OpenSSL/3.4.0 zlib/1.3.1Release-Date: 2025-04-02Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

Add neovim to Open Enterprise Foundation

Neovim is much better than vim, which is already part of OEF
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Add cmake to Open Enterprise Foundation

Cmake is much easier to use than make and many would appreciate its inclusion. It can be hard to get zOpen into an enterprise environment, so it would be nice to be able to get cmake through OEF, then we can use it together with the XLC 2.1 compiler.
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Replace legacy POSIX tools with their modern open-source equivalents

On behalf of the zopen community... to improve usability, script portability, and developer experience on z/OS UNIX System Services, it's recommended to replace legacy POSIX tools with their modern open-source equivalents. Many default z/OS UNIX u...
6 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 2 Future consideration

GIT support for national characters in filenames

Hi, Opening rfe to resolve issue in case TS016694999. We're having issues with git clones where filenames and paths in repos have been created with Swedish national characters in iDZ or VSCode. At clone the swedish characters are creating issues t...

Add a 'current' symlink to the Open Enterprise Foundation directory

We want to add the PATH statement in our main profile dataset without the use of a version in the path. We are thinking about a solution like java is implemented. We can use a /current symlink to point to the newest version of OEF for z/OS. This w...
8 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Fix typos in SMPE install jobs

Hi, Almost all the SMPE jobs includedw with "IBM Open Enterprise Foundation 1.1.0" , contain text in cols 73 to 80. It'd be great if the text stayed within columns 1-72 so less manual editing was needed. Thanks, Travis
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Include additional open-source tools for System Administration/Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and Development.

Enhance development ease of use, expand system administration/automation capabilities and continue to transfer Linux skills to the z/OS platform. A suggestion for the next set of tools to add: System Admin: sudo, gpg, openssl CI/CD: groovy/gradle,...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 5 Future consideration