Although our web team informs me they have a fix, it may take a couple days to deploy it. With your permission, I can get your email from the administrator and reach out to you directly with a direct download link for Python and any other tool you need. Let me know.
Regards,
-Peter

Hi Peter,

would you please send me a direct download link for Bash 4.2.53. I have the same issues with the download like everybody else.

Hi,

Please use this link. It is for a more recent version of Bash.
Regards,
-Peter

Thanks. Can you provide a link for curl as well, as I am having the same problem with that.

Here is a link for cURL

Hi Peter - sorry to bug you but I am a little out of my comfort zone with
tar files and the like. I used gunzip on the .gz file and then tar -xf on
the resulting tar file. When I execute bash -version I get garbage:

/u/…/bin/bash -version

å+í-Â/ËÇ–ÎÁÊËÑ?>-----------ÊÁ%Á/ËÁ–Ñ----ÑÂ_-?øÁ>ÁÀÑÈÑ?>–ä?øÊÑÅÇÈ--ä-------ãÊÁÁ-ë?ÃÈÏ/ÊÁ-ã?Í>À/ÈÑ?>--ñ>Ä--<ÑÄÁ>ËÁ-å&<Î----å+í-å&<-ÎÁÊËÑ?>---?Ê-%/ÈÁÊ--ÇÈÈø-Å> Í-?ÊÅ%ÑÄÁ>ËÁËÅø%-ÇÈ_%---èÇÑË-ÑË-ÃÊÁÁ-Ë?ÃÈÏ/ÊÁ--?Í-/ÊÁ-ÃÊÁÁ-È?-ÄÇ/>ÅÁ-/>À-ÊÁÀÑËÈÊÑÂÍÈÁ-ÑÈ–èÇÁÊÁ-ÑË-+|-ï êê +èß–È?-ÈÇÁ-ÁÌÈÁ>È-øÁÊ_ÑÈÈÁÀ-Â`-%/Ï–#

(This is under the OMVS shell) Looks like some kind of UTF8/EBCDIC
conversion occurred that shouldn’t have, or didn’t occur that should have.

Any idea what I’ve done wrong?

Cheers.

Hi Peter, I got the same loop problem when trying to download PYTHON on Z, Could you give me a direct link ? thanks