Building Native Node.js 12 Addons on z/OS

Petr Plavjaník
5 min readJul 20, 2020

Here I will show how you can build a native C++ addon for Node.js on z/OS.

It takes a little effort but it can be done! IBM has ported Node.js to z/OS so you can run Node.js server applications on z/OS. You can download it from the IBM website: IBM SDK for Node.js — z/OS — Overview.

You can install the base Node.js to z/OS by following instructions in this story:

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Petr Plavjaník

Petr’s main areas of expertise are mainframes and automation, and using modern development tools and languages such as Java, Python, and Node.js on z/OS.