October 2024

To:          Broadcom Mainframe Customers

From:      Broadcom’s Open Mainframe Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Open Mainframe Project Zowe® V3 Long Term Support (LTS) Release

On behalf of the Broadcom Open Mainframe team in partnership with the Open Mainframe Project Zowe Community, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high quality, innovative software and services. Today, we are pleased to announce Zowe V3 LTS is now generally available.

For a complete list of Zowe V3 features visit the What’s new section in Zowe Docs.

You can obtain a distribution of Zowe V3 from Broadcom, from any Zowe V3 conformant Support Provider, or from zowe.org. For customers who are licensed for a Broadcom product that recommends or requires Zowe V3, we encourage you to download Zowe from the Broadcom Support Portal under My Downloads. Doing so ensures a consistent maintenance experience. Broadcom offers this distribution of Zowe as a portable software instance (PSWI) for use with IBM z/OSMF or as a pax file for native SMP/E batch processing. 

Should you need any assistance in understanding new features, or implementing this latest release, our implementation services partners can help.  Please contact your local account representative for more information on how they can help.

For a list of Mainframe Education courses recommended by role, please visit the Learning Paths and select the desired product. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high-demand; therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release.

Please review our End of Service/End of Life Policy at Broadcom Maintenance Policy Handbook.

Thank you again for your business.