You can easily port packages and modules to z/OS originally written on Linux with additional Linux inspired system calls added to Go on z/OS. With this support, you can communicate with the OS more efficiently.

CGO callbacks now enable a C program called from Go to call back to the original Go program, making the non-blocking operations more efficient and responsive.

Numerous open tools written in Go are now upstreamed to z/OS Open Tools. You can download and use these tools to improve your development efficiency.

Go extends applications into modern cloud environments with the new Go container image option. Clients have the capability to accelerate their transformation to greater portability and agility with the orchestration of the Go container and container runtime for z/OS.

z/OS Containers Platform (zOSCP) 1.1 and IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.22 enable containerized development on z/OS, introducing Go as a supported language. Learn how to start with Go in a container and verify the image.

Learn how Go on z/OS accelerates crypto through vector assembly, special instructions, and various crypto graphic algorithms.

Access z/OS callable services natively from Go without HLASM to avoid programming in assembly language.

Explore the Go compiler and z/OS features with IBM Z Xplore. The latest Go challenge explores additional programming tools and adds accessing VSAM records as part of the challenge.

Discover how to modernize COBOL/PL/I applications and stay competitive by integrating Java, Node.js, Python, or Go, and gain actionable insights for immediate deployment.

bash is removed from the installation prerequisites for Open Enterprise SDK for Go and replaced with Go functions to optimize the building experience.

The Wharf tool is innovatively created to automatically port Go modules to z/OS, making it much easier to use the thousands of open-source modules available from the community.

You can start exploring Open Enterprise SDK for Go by downloading and installing the PAX and SMP/E editions with the blog instructions. IBM Z Xplore also provides easy access to Go on z/OS for training and learning purposes.

You can get in-depth understanding of the capability of GQL, the relation of Go and GQL, and how to implement a GraphQL API that wraps a database containing hockey team information with this tutorial.

Use IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go to accelerate the code for the crypto algorithms to make it run multiple times faster and ensure more security for crypto operations.

Go 1.20 includes initial support for Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) for compiler optimization. It is supported on z/OS.