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Open Enterprise SDK for C++, Python, Go, Node.js

IBM Open Enterprise SDK provide you with the capability for:

  • Modernization

    • Refactor elements of an existing IBM zSystems application into discrete services
    • Co-locate data and your applications on IBM zSystems to improve performance and take advantage of the inherent security of IBM zSystems

  • API Orchestration

    • Expose applications and data through APIs to interoperate with new applications
    • Implement REST services for report generation using data from Db2 on z/OS

  • Application development

    • Extend existing core applications on z/OS with cloud-native applications
    • Application developers on z/OS® can now use one of the fastest growing programming languages natively on the platform
    • Take advantage of rich ecosystem of modules and packages to develop new applications

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python is a Python compiler and interpreter for IBM z/OS®.

Use it to modernize your critical applications by developing APIs, plugins and wrappers to extend business critical applications for faster delivery.

Build new and efficient, or modernize applications using no-charge license Python running on z/OS.

Integrate AI/ML for advanced data analysis.

Access to the Python Standard Library provides you with an extensive set of functions that can save development resources and reduce costs when creating applications. The library includes highly used programming tasks in areas like string operations, cryptology, threading, networking, internet and web service tools, operating system interfaces, and protocols. Developers can make use of these modules to fulfill common application tasks, allowing them to concentrate on implementing business functions while writing fewer lines of code.

Try it

This free edition provides a secure and efficient approach to experience the benefits of the popular Python language, and develop new applications the same way you would on any other platform.

Get IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go at no license charge. Obtain the no-charge SDK for z/OS now and get started quickly.

Try it IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python PAX Edition.

Tutorials

Python AI Toolkit

Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS is a library of relevant open source software to support today's artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. It is a collection of Python packages that can be installed and managed using Package Installer for Python (pip), the common Python package manager. These packages are provided to pip from an IBM-hosted PyPi-style repository, leveraging supply chain security, that makes your software management experience common across your Python environments.

See Python® AI Toolkit for IBM® z/OS® on GitHub.

Get started

See the solution brief Modernize your business-critical applications with IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python.

Install using product documentation, see Installing and configuring the pax format

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go

With Open Enterprise SDK for Go, IBM brings the benefits of the popular Go language to accelerate digital transformation on z/OS. Go's lightweight characteristics enable application modernization and development of cloud native applications in addition to optimizing performance.

Tutorials

Video tutorials demonstrate how to use IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go. Modules include:

  • IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go
  • Interact with VSAM KSDS data sets using Go recordio module
  • Direct access to VSAM databases with Go recordio module
  • Using gRPC and protocol buffer with Go on z/OS
  • Go on z/OS: Connecting Compiled Binary Programs to Go Programs
  • Go on z/OS: Using Go packages to create a RESTful server
  • Go on z/OS: How to access VSAM data bases from Go and CGO
  • Modernizing business critical applications with open languages on z/OS
  • Wharf

Get started

See Start exploring Go on zOS today.

Next steps

See Resources.

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js is a no charge SDK to connect Node.js applications to z/OS resources.

By enabling coding in the popular JavaScript® language, Node.js allows enterprise clients to tap into a massive JavaScript developer talent pool and resources. Now clients can simplify API development and maintenance, access z/OS® based resources from Node.js using direct or RESTful APIs, and co-locate Node.js applications and services to optimize their performance and security.

Quote

The prototype for this modern, event-driven solution using Node.js was completed in a single weekend. I can’t think of another language that can achieve so much, across such varied platforms, with so little effort. ‐ Paul Scott, Chief Architect, Web enablement technologies Phoenix Software International

Tutorials

See seven videos IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js.

Get started

Modernize your applications and orchestrate your services with Node.js, plus connect to your z/OS assets.

Learn how to:

  1. Deploy and test a Node.js LoopBack application on z/OS.
  2. Create and test a Node.js Express app accessing and managing a VSAM dataset on z/OS.

See IBM SDK for Node.js - z/OS IBM Z Trial.

Next steps

IBM C/C++ for Open Enterprise Languages on z/OS

IBM C/C++ for Open Enterprise Languages on z/OS is limited to installing and building native components of modules that are written with the following products:

  • IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go
  • IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js
  • IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python
  • IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS, Java Technology Edition
  • IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS
  • IBM Z Open Automation Utilities

Notwithstanding the above restricted use, C/C++ for Open Enterprise Languages may be used for development of open source software for the z/OS platform to be contributed back to the open source community only.

See IBM C/C++ for Open Enterprise Languages on z/OS.

Programming language checklists

To get started with Open Enterprise SDK for specific programming languages, see the checklists for:

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