Installing MFPandas

Installing MFPandas is easily done via pip:

mkdir mystuff
cd mystuff
pyhton -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install mfpandas

Installing MFPandas on z/OS

Jørn Thyssen figured out a way to run MFPandas natively on z/OS. Assuming you’ve python already installed follow these steps:

mkdir mystuff
cd mystuff
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip3 install pip --upgrade
pip3 install xlsxwriter
pip3 install --index-url https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/simple --trusted-host downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net --only-binary :all: pandas
pip3 install --index-url https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/simple --trusted-host downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net --only-binary :all: python-dateutil
pip3 install --index-url https://downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net/repository/python_ai_toolkit_zos/simple --trusted-host downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net --only-binary :all: pytz
pip3 install –no-deps mfpandas

See the IBM https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daefz/1.1.0?topic=feature-installing-required-python-packages for more infomation on the ‘special’ pandas install…