Open-source Languages & Tools for z/OS

I am looking for code samples of how to work with MVS datasets and members and other z/OS specific tasks that have been already accomplished with Python.

Thanks

Hi, Miehner.

I hope it will help: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyZOS
It’s Z/OS-API.

Regards,
Andrey

With 2.7.12 Beta2 from Nov 2016 the following script reads a member in a PDS and prints it.

Different to the earlier 2.7.6 release internal Python strings are in ASCII/Latin1 encoding so conversion needs to be done.

It will be interesting to see if in a future release some automatic conversion will be done for text files, especially if they have encoding tags set on the file system.

import codecs                                                         
with open('//MM.JCL(TEST)','r') as f:          # open file in text/record mode
    stream = codecs.getreader('cp1047_oe')(f)  # convert data from EBCDIC to Latin1                       
    for line in stream:                                               
        print line[:-1]  # print line w/o last character (=new line)  

Please see also the discussion in Python sample code files