Release Notes

Release Naming Convention

PopUp Mainframe release versions are made up of the following segments:

  • The first three characters define the IBM z/OS version included in this PopUp Mainframe release build (e.g. 2.4 or 2.5, etc)
  • A PopUp Mainframe instance runs on a Linux host. The fourth character designates the Linux operating system used (e.g. "U" for Ubuntu or "R" for Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
  • The fifth character is used to uniquely identify different builds of PopUp Mainframe which share the same base z/OS version and operating system (e.g. a, b, c, etc)


Foundation Components

Component Version
RHEL 9.3
IBM ZD&T 14.2.2
IBM z/OS 2.4

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R4 (Dec 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.2 & 15.0.3
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

BMC AMI DevX tools

Component Version
BMC AMI Enterprise Common Components(CMSC/HCI) 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline 22.01
BMC AMI DevX Abend- AID for batch 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for MVS 23.01
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for DB2 23.01
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO and IMS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Coverage 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Total Test
BMC AMI Common Enterprise Services(CES) 23.04.02

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.

PopUp 2.5Ra includes DMFU version 3.0.


Foundation Components

Component Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4
IBM ZD&T 14.2.2
IBM z/OS 2.5

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R5 (May 2022)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.2 & 15.0.3
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

BMC AMI DevX tools

Component Version
BMC AMI Enterprise Common Components (CMSC/HCI) 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline 22.01
BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID for batch 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID Viewer (server) 17.02
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for MVS 23.01
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for DB2 23.01
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO and IMS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Coverage 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Total Test
BMC AMI Common Enterprise Services (CES) 23.04.02

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.

PopUp 2.5Ra includes all Core Managers available from Galasa as of June 2024.


Foundation Components

Component Version
RHEL 9.4
IBM ZD&T 14.2.0
IBM z/OS 2.4

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R4 (Dec 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.2 & 15.0.3
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.

PopUp 2.4Rb includes all Core Managers available from Galasa as of June 2024.


After much innovation, development and rigorous testing, we are proud to unveil the release of our new and improved “Warp Speed PopUp” which has been massively optimized for fast installation and start up.

Foundation Components

Component Version
Ubuntu 22.04
IBM ZD&T 14.0.1
IBM z/OS 2.4

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R4 (Dec 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.2 & 15.0.3
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.


Foundation Components

Component Version
Ubuntu 22.04
IBM ZD&T 14.0.1
IBM z/OS 2.5

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R5 (May 2022)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.2 & 15.0.3
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.


Foundation Components

Component Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.7
IBM ZD&T 13.2.0
IBM z/OS 2.4

Mainframe Subsystems, Applications and Utilities

Component Version
IBM ADCD for z/OS 2R4 (Dec 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server 5.5 & 5.6
IBM Db2 11.1 & 12.1
IBM IMS 14.1 & 15.1
IBM MQ for z/OS 9.1
IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7.1 & 8.0
IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.3
IBM Enterprise PL/1 5.3
IBM Rational COBOL Runtime (EGL) 6.0.1
IBM Debug for z/OS 14.2.3
IBM File Manager 14.1.2
IBM File Manager for Db2 14.1.2
IBM Performance Management Suite for z/OS 5.5

BMC AMI DevX tools

Component Version
BMC AMI Enterprise Common Components(CMSC/HCI) 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline 22.01
BMC AMI DevX Abend- AID for batch 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for MVS 23.01
BMC AMI DevX File-AID for DB2 23.01
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO and IMS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Code Coverage 17.02
BMC AMI DevX Total Test
BMC AMI Common Enterprise Services(CES) 23.04.02

PopUp Utilities, and Open Source products included on the PopUp, are detailed here.


Data Migration Utilities

We augment IBM's Migration Server Utility to reliably transport selected applications and data from a source mainframe onto PopUp Mainframe. IBM's Migration Server Utility is discussed in detail in Chapter 15 of IBM's zPDT Guide and Reference Redbook here.

Corral & Decorral Utility

The Corral & Decorral utility simplifies the transfer of data to and from the transport volumes used by the IBM Migration Server Utility.

This utility produces jobs to be run at migration time, which streamline the copying of data onto the available transport volumes, using space efficiently.

V2.0 - February 2024

Added more automation features to the corral/decorral functionality, allowing for unsupervised execution of corralling and decorralling jobs, improving transfer of data from client mainframe to PopUp.

V1.0

Initial implementation.

Auto-Migration

Provides controlled execution of corralling and decorralling jobs to facilitate unattended migration of application datasets. This is particularly useful when transferring large amounts of data. This tool utilises the Volume Hot-swap facility to seamlessly transfer all files in a conveyor belt like fashion. For more details, see here.


Log viewer v1.0

Provides a readily accessible, user filterable web interface to the Master Console log.


JES Spool Utility V1.0

Monitors JES spool volumes and generates automated email alerts on user specified thresholds.


DASD Volume Creation Utility

  • Creates Linux volumes
  • Mounts volumes into z/OS
  • Initializes volumes
  • SMS conversion

More details here.

V2.0 - February 2024

PL/I INCLUDE member support added.

Now supports more volume types like DB2, CICS, IMS etc..

V1.0

Initial implementation.


GitSync Utility 1.0 - September 2024

A set of tools designed to assist in integrating an IBM mainframe hosted Source Code Management (or SCM) solution with a Git-based solution. GitSync translates z/OS datasets into Unix/Linux files and vice versa.


Master Console Management V1.0

Automates access to the master console from Linux at IPL.


IPL Monitoring V1.0

Monitors the Master Console and automates actions based on console output.


Open Source Products

PopUp comes with the following open-source products pre-installed on the PopUp.

Galasa

Galasa CLI Integration: PopUp includes support for Galasa CLI v0.34.1, to facilitate automated testing and continuous integration processes. Refer to Galasa Site for more information about Galasa.

Galasa has three major components (see below diagram):

  • The Galasa test framework
  • A collection of Managers
  • A test runner


IMON

IMON is a real-time system monitor for z/OS allowing users to quickly locate information of interest. Information is either displayed on a single panel allowing the user to select the information they are interested in, or they can navigate to a specific display with a single command string.


Showzos

Showzos makes MVS control information displayable, providing a wealth of information about your z/OS system, everything from Operating System Information to Software levels and Storage Configuration is provided in a single call. The tool can be web-enabled to allow you to display and use the information from a web browser.


Delphix Plugin Release Notes

Enables the Delphix Continuous Data Engine to interact and function with a PopUp Mainframe instance in order to provide data virtualization capabilities. Provides seamless integration with the Delphix Continuous Data product in order to facilitate highly efficient storage, bookmarking, re-setting and branching of PopUp Mainframe images.


Delphix Mainframe File Utility (DMFU)

Complements the Delphix Continuous Compliance Engine to provide masking capabilities for various mainframe file types including fixed length files (eg QSAM & flat files) and variable length files (eg VSAM).

V3.0 - January 2025

Updated to support Delphix Continuous Compliance version 14 onwards.

V2.0 - February 2024

PL/I INCLUDE member support added.

V1.0

Initial implementation.


Delphix IMS Mainframe Utility (DIMU)

Complements the Delphix Continuous Compliance Engine to provide masking capabilities for IMS databases.

V2.0 - February 2024

PL/I INCLUDE member support added.

V1.0

Initilal implementation.


Mainframe Masking Plugin for Delphix from PopUp Mainframe.


Page last revised on: 2025-03-05