VM Workshop 2026

Over the past couple of years I have worked on providing CMS with a SSH Server capability. I now have a working PoC that enables a full interactive SSH session or a 'one-shot' command mechanism. In addition, I have worked on providing CMS with a Python implementation (3.10+) which necessitated porting OpenSSL (1.1.1k and 3.6.0) in order to use pip3 to install packages from external repositories. Having Python means web-based tools are available including GUIs that enable tooling and applications to be built and run on CMS. Python is able to deal with files encoded in EBCDIC (IBM-1047) and ASCII (ISO8859-1) as I've developed an ASCII layer to multiple OpenExtension APIs. I am also working on a port of Perl 5.42.2 (the OpenSSL test suite uses Perl to automate its tests). This is in its early stages but I hope to have something to share during this session.