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IMPORTANT NOTICE for users of the Rocket port of git for z/OS The most recent versions of git (versions 2.18 and later) available from the official git repository on github and other locations contain support for the working-tree-encoding git attribute. This support is not conditionalized for the platform on which git is being run. The result is that git repository created on z/OS containing a .gitattributes file similar to this: # Default to EBCDIC unless otherwise specified * working-tree-encoding=ibm-1047 git-encoding=iso8859-1 # The git attributes and ignore files MUST be ASCII *.gitattributes working-tree-encoding=iso8859-1 git-encoding=iso8859-1 *.gitignore working-tree-encoding=iso8859-1 git-encoding=iso8859-1 will have problems when cloned to a non-z/OS platform (such as Windows or Linux), as git will attempt to convert files to the specified encoding. For more information about this issue, see this thread on the git maintainers mailing list. Rocket will

I have written a REXX exec to inface to GIT. Specifically I use BPXWUNIX to issue my commands. The issue I have is the output from the command is always in ASCII (ISO-8859-1). Forcing me the perform a conversion before I can read the results. This doesn’t happen if I issue the command in OMVS. I’ve tried using BPXWUNIX using redirection eg x=BPXWUNIX('git status >output.txt',,,,,1) and coding the stdout in the function call eg x=BPXWUNIX('git status',,'output.',,,1) I have my profile setup with export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)" export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=TXT export _TAG_REDIR_IN=TXT export _TAG_REDIR_OUT=TXT Does anyone know how I can get the system/git to perform the conversion to EBCDIC before I get the output ? Regards, Gary

Hi, Is there any way that I can call bluezone emulator via Python. did anybody tried connecting bluzone mainframe session with python? appreciate help on this.

Hi. Running Rocket curl 7.52.1 on z/OS 2.2. Calling curl from a REXX running in TSO via the BPXWUNIX program as in the following example: /rexx/ cmd=’/rocket/bin/curl’, ‘http://www.yahoo.com -i’ stdin.0=0 stdout.0=0 stderr.0=0 env.1=’_BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON’ env.2=’_CEE_RUNOPTS=FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)‘ env.3=’_TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt’ env.4=’_TAG_REDIR_IN=txt’ env.5=’_TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt’ env.0=5 call bpxwunix cmd,“stdin.”,“stdout.”,“stderr.”,"env." say "BPXWUNIX RC="result; say;say “STDOUT >”;say do i=1 to stdout.0;say stdout.i;end say;say “STDERR >”;say do i=1 to stderr.0;say stderr.i;end Depending on the URL passed to curl the output looks something like the following: BPXWUNIX RC=0 STDOUT > :::&:::::::::|.:::/::::(?>::::::::::::::::::::::::(::::::::::::(?>::::::::::::::::::: :::>:::::::/>::::::>:?::>::::::>,:::::?>::>::::::::::::::%/:>:::::>,>?:>::::::::: STDERR > :::::?:/%::::::::::::::::::::::::::::/::::::::::::::::::::::::::::_:

Hi, Can I have the link to see the steps on how to install python on ZOS, please…

Hello All, I have read the page listed below and tried a few things. Any ideas? SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with ‘\\x89’ in file test1.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Are there any (not very obvious) dependencies for curl to run successfully ? I have a z/OS 2.1 system that gets curl: (35) SSL connect error and a z/OS 2.2 system that works fine. P.S. I’m not the Systems Programmer so I’m not aware of any build differences between the two OMVS systems.

Hello! Just wondering if there is a bundle that includes all the ported tools? Thanks!

I am just taking my first steps in using USS as a dev environment and am trying to set it up like the Linux systems I am used to. I am connecting to USS via Putty using telnet. I installed mc and it starts up OK but when I try to navigate around the panels the cursor and backspace keys just produce text. Function keys work OK. OTOH, I installed vim and bash and the cursor keys work normally. I have declare -x TERM=“xterm” declare -x TERMINFO="./share/mc" set as advised. What have I missed? Thanks Robin

Curl put works fine using bash in BPXBATCH and puts file as desired in EBCDIC. //TRANS EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDPARM DD * sh /shared/swp/uss/rok/bin/bash -c ’ curl --user xxxxx:xxxxx –show-error --verbose -k -T ROLITES2.TXT https://files.admin.com/xxxx/yyyy/ ’ //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* Curl get converts same file into ASCII. We tried several options to avoid conversion. Nothing helped. //TRANS1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDPARM DD * sh /shared/swp/uss/rok/bin/bash -c ’ curl --user xxxxx:xxxxxx --show-error --verbose -k https://files.admin.com/xxxx/yyyy/ROLITES2.TXT /home/t7555/ROLITES2.TXT ’ //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* We have moved to Curl 7.52.1 with z/os V2R3 Migration. Former Curl with z/OS V2R1 curl 7.16.1 has no problem. With z/OS V2R3 we have to take it as a sperate Rocket product. It is no more integrated in z/OS. OMVS Profile contains _BPXK_AUTOCVT=“ON” _CEE_RUNOPTS=“FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)” Any hints would be appreciated.

Hi, We want to use PHP to access DB2 tables with VARCHAR columns longer than 255 characters. When a SELECT query is executed, the value of a VARCHAR column of more than 255 characters is not returned … By enabling a trace in the DSNAOINI configuration (APPLTRACE = 1 and APPLTRACEFILENAME = path), we find that the SQLGetData statement returns an SQL_ERROR when accessing this column. Is this a limitation of the ODBC driver? Of PDO? Is there a way to circumvent this limitation? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Denis

You ever bang you head against several issues that a simple solution seems too fuzzy to figure out? Well, that’s where I think I am. I’m dealing with a couple of issues like php mail, sendmail, and the sendmail to cssmtp bridge. Thought I take baby steps to figure out what I may be doing wrong. I’m running zos2.2 and just trying to use sendmail for now. This is the first time I’ve ever played with php. I’ve gotten a helloworld.php program to work. So I grabbed a simple php to mail comments to myself. (of course there is more to it than this line). mail( $webmaster_email,“Feedback Form Results”,$msg ) but I get this error. NOQUEUE: SYSERR(userid): EZZ9892I unable to setreuid from 1 to 0: EDC5121I Invalid argument This is where the fuzzy comes in. I’ve tried so many things to fix the first part, I’m not sure what might work. I believe it’s my configuration but not sure where. The second part I’m not sure about. Any help would be much appreciated.

When I use Make 4.1 and use the make file function, make seems to create the file in ISO8859-1 format (it is tagged as such). Whereas, if I use a Make 4.0 version if creates the file in IBM-1047 format. How do I get Make 4.1 to create the file in IBM-1047 format?

Hello! I’m running a test hello world program using the release python-2017-04-12-py27. It’s a simple hello world, but I seem to run into an error. Are there any hardcoded values to take into account with the new installer? # python /u/myID/pythontest.py CEE3501S The module libpython2.7.so was not found. From compile unit RS25:/u/pdharr/anaconda-build/build/python/python-2.7.13/Modules/python.c at entry point main at stateme t 33 at compile unit offset +000000001B60A174 at entry offset +0000000000000034 at address 000000001B60A174. Ý1¨ + Done(137) python /u/myID/pythontest.py 16778631 Killed ./python The same error occurs while simply invoking python with no arguments. I would appreciate any help in understanding what I can do to bypass the error. Joe

The default gzip distribution available on Rocket’s open source tool download page does not support z/OS 1.13. Users that attempt to run the default distribution on z/OS 1.13 will see this error: “CEE3728S The use of a function, which is not supported by this release of Language Environment was detected” A special distribution is attached here that works with z/OS 1.13. After downloading, transfer the file to z/OS in binary mode and unpack with command: tar -xvof fileName gzip-1.6-zos1.13_b0002.tar (630 KB)

As the title says, I don’t see colors in the ssh screen. I use Cygwin’s ssh to connect to USS. I’m clueless about TERM/TERMINFO/TERMCAP/etc. I read the thread here, but it rambles a bit and I can’t extract a solution from it. Are there any smart people out there who can help? Edit: I am in fact not seeing colors in Git, either. I have color.ui=auto and color.branch.current=red, but git branch -v gives me: image.png761×104 3.35 KB

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Here’s a sequence of commands I just entered in USS: 14:38 /u/tstjv > ls file t IBM-1047 T=on -rwxr-xr-x nl 1 5 Apr 6 14:38 file 14:38 /u/tstjv > sed -i 's/f/p/g' file 14:39 /u/tstjv > ls file - untagged T=off -rwxr-xr-x ---- 1 5 Apr 6 14:39 file As you can see, the EBCDIC encoding is lost. Does anybody know what’s going on? Thanks. Edit: command -v sed yields /rsusr/ported/bin/sed.

Being no GIT expert, I can only assume that GIT stores it data internally in ASCII. I’ve come to this conclusion because of the information in the .gitattributes file eg * working-tree-encoding=ibm-1047 git-encoding=iso8859-1 .gitattributes working-tree-encoding=iso8859-1 git-encoding=iso8859-1 Through trial and error I’ve found that its the “GIT ADD” that uses the info in .gitattributes. But what about “GIT CHECKOUT” ? If I delete .gitattributes, shouldn’t the file come back in ASCII ? As there is nothing telling GIT is should convert it to EBCDIC. This doesn’t seem to be the case. But I don’t understand why not. Regards, Gary

I’ve been doing some testing of the Curl package which you provide for z/OS, and have found it uses significantly more CPU time and is significantly slower than the zLinux build of Curl provided with RHEL7. Does anyone have any idea why there is such a significant difference? In all cases, the test are being run on the same z13 Mainframe, be it running under z/OS or zLinux. z/OS $ curl -V curl 7.42.1 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/7.42.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2c zlib/1.2.8 iconv libssh2/1.4.3 nghttp2/1.0.1 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz CharConv TLS-SRP HTTP2 UnixSockets Metalink $ time curl http://www-cls/mhdata/megafile -o /dev/null % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 3647M 100 3647M 0 0 40.5M 0 0:01:29 0:01:29 --:–:-- 39.5M real 1m29.98s user 1m 6.90s

Hi all, I've a doubt ... I remember, when I migrated V7R1M3C to V8R1M0A at some client, that the displays at HLLX REXX worked just fine ... I mean I'd a rexx with Say "Hello World" at some point and when it was triggerd this message appeard at HLLX STC. Now ... Today I'm with a V8R1M4 migration, in another client, and the same situation doen't work ... why? Have I forgot something or something else is needed. I can't see any display at all ... Only when I force an ABEND ... In this case I get the messages and correspondent HLLX STC ABEND ... Cheers, Joao#ChangeManZMF

Hi all, This is my problem ... In spite of Pass Ticket failure when request to SERNET connection, CMNBATCH still logs to CMNDELAY file ... this obviously represente a problem from my point of view. I've tested this with zMF V8R1M4. Can anyone help me on this one, please ? Thanks in advance Joao#ChangeManZMF

For backout of a CMN zMF package there is no backout of the lower test regions. Is anyone out there currently have customization that performs backout/removal in the lower test regions? When we back out a package, there could still be some lingering objects in the lower test regions. We use 3 sites as parallel streams and sometimes users can start in the wrong stream/site, thus leaving objects around. We always recommend fixing forward, that is creating a package with the -1 version of each object in the package you want to back out, just for this reason of keeping all the lower regions clean. It would be nice to have a flag or choice as to when you really want to use this.#ChangeManZMF

I tried to install Perl 5.24 on z/OS using the instructions of the README.ZOS. So far so good. But when I wanted to test the installation I got the message: “The module libperl.so was not found”. First I checked the LIBPATH again. But the LIBPATH was OK. Then I searched the libperl.so in my installation directory by my self, but the only file I could found was a libperl.a under /mydirectory/lib/perl5/5.24.0/os390/CORE. Is there anything I forgot? The only instruction I have are the instruction of the README.ZOS. Thanks