What Should We Port to z/OS in 2025? Cast Your Vote!

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

We’re planning our next ports and the zopen community needs your input!

We’ve already ported hundreds of open-source tools to z/OS. Now it’s your turn to tell us what you want to see next.

👉 Vote now: https://your.feedback.ibm.com/jfe/form/SV_d0Fkezuy2r001CK

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

Results as of May 9, 2025
zopen_tool_poll_may9_2025.pdf

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

Thank you to everyone who voted. We received a total of 78 votes! Here are the final results:
zopen_2025_poll.pdf

Rank	Software	Category	Votes	Porting Status
1	ansible	DevOps, Development	34	Started - GT
2	Coreutils (with z/OS extensions)	Core Utilities, Shell	29	Started - GT
3	Valgrind	Development, Testing, Monitoring	17	Started
4	clang-format	Development, Editor	16	Done
4	Jenkins	DevOps, Build System, Development	16	Done
5	CCache	Build System, Development	14	Done
5	zsh	Shell, Core Utilities	14	TBD
6	Gradle	Build System, Development	13	Partially Done
6	lldb	Development, Testing	13	TBD
6	OpenSSL (Accelerated)	Security, Networking, Library	13	OpenSSL ported, but accelerated work incomplete
7	binutils	Development, Core Utilities, Build System	12	TBD
8	Apache HTTP Server	Networking	11	Started - Haritha
9	Ollama	AI, DevOps, Development	10	Started - Sachin
9	rpm	Build System, Development, DevOps	10	Started - PES University
10	nginx	Networking, Security	9	Started - Laurance Tonke
10	PostgreSQL	Database	9	Started
11	htop	Monitoring, Core Utilities, Shell	8	Started (not active)
11	LuaJIT	Language, Development	8	Started (not active)
11	mongodb-community	Database, JSON	8	TBD
11	SSHFS	Networking, Security, Core Utilities	8	TBD
12	Apache Tomcat	Networking, Web Framework, Development	7	TBD
12	Elasticsearch	Database, JSON, Development	7	TBD
12	nmap	Security, Networking, Testing	7	TBD
13	dnf	Build System, DevOps	6	TBD
13	fish	Shell, Core Utilities	6	Partially Done
13	grpc	Networking, Development, Library	6	Started GT
13	llama.cpp	AI, Library, Development	6	Partially Done - PES
13	MySQL	Database	6	TBD
13	Procps (ps, top, watch)	Monitoring, Core Utilities	6	Partially Done
13	ruby	Language	6	TBD
13	telnet	Networking, Testing, Core Utilities	6	started (via inetutils)
13	TensorFlow	AI, Library, Development, Math	6	TBD
14	cloc	Development, Core Utilities	5	TBD
14	gnutls	Security, Networking, Library	5	TBD
14	libffi	Library, Development	5	Started
14	Midnight Commander (mc)	Core Utilities, Shell, Editor	5	TBD
14	mkcert	Security, Development, DevOps	5	TBD
14	openjdk	Language, Development	5	TBD
14	OpenVPN	Security, Networking	5	Started - GT
14	p7zip	Compression, Core Utilities	5	TBD
15	Apache ActiveMQ	Networking, Library, Development	4	TBD
15	btop++	Monitoring, Core Utilities, Shell	4	TBD
15	CockroachDB	Database	4	TBD
15	Couchbase	Database, JSON	4	TBD
15	HAProxy	Networking, Security	4	TBD
15	kubectl	DevOps, Networking, Development	4	TBD
15	libedit	Library, Shell, Development	4	TBD
15	Libunwind	Library, Development	4	TBD
15	mariadb	Database	4	TBD
15	mongosh	Database, Development, Shell	4	TBD
15	Puppet	DevOps, Development	4	TBD
15	readline	Library, Shell, Development	4	TBD
15	samba	Networking, Security	4	TBD
16	Apache Arrow	Library, Development, Database, AI	3	TBD
16	Apache Cassandra	Database	3	TBD
16	Apache CouchDB	Database, JSON	3	TBD
16	Apache ZooKeeper	Networking, Database, Development	3	TBD
16	erlang	Language	3	TBD
16	etcd	Database, Networking, DevOps	3	TBD
16	graphviz	Graphics, Development, Documentation	3	TBD
16	icu	Library, Development	3	TBD
16	kerberos5	Security, Networking, Library	3	TBD
16	libtorch	AI, Library, Development, Math	3	TBD
16	ohmyzsh	Shell, DevOps, Development	3	TBD
16	RabbitMQ	Networking, Development	3	TBD
16	rclone	Networking, Core Utilities	3	TBD
16	Zabbix	Monitoring, Networking	3	TBD
17	AntLR	Development, Build System, Library	2	TBD
17	brotli	Compression, Library	2	TBD
17	ffmpeg	Graphics, Development, Library	2	TBD
17	Fluentd	Monitoring, Networking, DevOps	2	TBD
17	ONNX Runtime	AI, Library, Development	2	TBD
17	OpenCV	AI, Graphics, Library, Development	2	TBD
17	postfix	Networking	2	TBD
17	zeromq	Networking, Library, Development	2	TBD
18	Apache Solr	Database, JSON, Development	1	TBD
18	Apache Storm	Networking, Development	1	TBD
18	asdf	Development, DevOps, Build System	1	TBD
18	composer	Build System, Development, Language	1	TBD
18	Fail2ban	Security, Monitoring	1	TBD
18	fastfetch	Core Utilities, Shell, Monitoring	1	TBD
18	Hibernate	Library, Database, Development	1	TBD
18	InfluxDB	Database, Monitoring	1	TBD
18	Logstash	Monitoring, Database, Networking, DevOps	1	TBD
18	pandoc	Documentation, Development, Core Utilities	1	TBD
18	Scala	Language	1	TBD
18	squid	Networking, Security	1	TBD
18	stable-diffusion.cpp	AI, Graphics, Development	1	TBD
18	WireGuard	Security, Networking	1	TBD
18	wrk	Networking, Testing, Development	1	TBD
19	Chef Infra Client	DevOps, Development	0	TBD
19	ClamAV	Security	0	TBD
19	Consul	Networking, DevOps, Database	0	TBD
19	Envoy	Networking, Security, DevOps	0	TBD
19	GlusterFS	Networking, Database	0	TBD
19	lzo2	Compression, Library	0	TBD
19	mutt	Networking, Shell	0	TBD
19	OPA (Open Policy Agent)	Security, DevOps, Language	0	TBD
19	OpenBLAS	Library, Math, Development	0	TBD
19	pre-commit	Development, Source Control, DevOps	0	TBD
19	smartmontools	Monitoring, Core Utilities	0	TBD
19	syncthing	Networking, Core Utilities	0	TBD
19	trivy	Security, Testing, DevOps	0	TBD
19	unbound	Networking, Security	0	TBD

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