Install Packages from IBM Python AI Toolkit for z/OS

This guide covers basic tutorial of how to acquire Python packages from IBM Python AI Toolkit for z/OS to your z/OS environment. For detail instructions, please refer IBM website.

Configure a user pip.conf

Create a file $HOME/.config/pip/pip.conf that has these contents:

[global]
index = https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net:443/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/
index-url = https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net:443/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/simple
trusted-host = downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net

This will provide defaults that prevent you from unintentionally referencing the default python package repository at pypi.org. If you you can’t access IBM website using this, your site’s firewall might be blocking it. If it is so, get your network team’s advice for the proxy server setting and try the following pip.conf instead:

[global]
index = https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net:443/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/
index-url = https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net:443/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/simple
trusted-host = downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net
proxy = <your proxy server IP>:<your proxy server port number>

Install the required packages

Packages included in this AI Toolkit is available at IBM Python AI Toolkit Web Interface. The packages required by Smf2pgdb from IBM Python AI Tookkit are shown below.

click
numpy
pandas
SQLALchemy
typing_extensions
python_dateutil
pytz
packaging

You can follow the advice in IBM website to create the requirements.txt as shown below with the hash=SHA setting:

touch requirements.txt
chtag -tc iso8859-1 requirements.txt

After copying the packages shown above into the requirements.txt with the hash information, run the following comand to install it:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Or simply install the packages one by one using the following command:

pip install <package>