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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 23, 2024

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/project/pyCSM/ 
PyDS8K https://pypi.org/project/pyds8k/ 

PyCSM requires:
Package Version
------------------ ---------
certifi 2022.6.15 - we already have 2022.12.7
charset-normalizer 2.0.12 - we already have 3.0.1.post0
idna 3.6 - current version 3.4 - need upgrade to 3.6
pyCSM 1.0.7
requests 2.28.0 we have 2.28.2
setuptools 58.1.0 we have 67.1.0
urllib3 1.26.9 we have 1.26.14

PyDS8K requires 
Package Version
------------------ ---------
configparser 6.0.0 
httpretty 1.1.4

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    EVAN RIVERA
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    Mar 19, 2024

    Thank you for your idea. Your idea is not being considered because it does not fit in the product roadmap for Python AI Toolkit for z/OS. In discussing with DS8K and CSM, for any issues with the pyds8k or pyCSM libraries a case should be opened against DS8K or CSM components for support.