IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go aligns with the open-source community and announces Go 1.25 including community and z/OS specific enhancements.

Go 1.25 introduces z/OS Enterprise Data Compression (zEDC) support. This capability is fully integrated into Go and can provide users with greatly improved performance for compression/decompression without changing code.

Explore our milestone with porting Gitlab Runner and the ease of porting Go modules to z/OS.

Leverage the ability of Go to directly call 64-bit COBOL, and for COBOL to call back into Go

The updated multi stage build Go container now includes new enhancements like read and write datasets with direct access to Db2 and more

Access virtual IBM Z data using go-recordio and IBM Data Virtualization Manager (DVM)

The Go 1.23 compiler now supports a dedicated driver to access Db2 natively on z/OS.

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.23 supports IBM z/OS Container Platform 1.1 Kubernetes and several additional capabilities.

A refactored Wharf tool now works 2x faster and covers more porting use cases.