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curl 7.42.1 (i370-ibm-openedition) Accessing ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/s390/holddata/month.txt by an HTTP proxy through a firewall, for example: http_proxy=http://redacted.com:80 ALL_PROXY="$http_proxy" export http_proxy ALL_PROXY The data arrive so that: The first few thousand bytes when translated from EBCDIC to ASCII (that’s right!) appear as EBCDIC. The remainder of the file is good EBCDIC. curl -q 'ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/s390/holddata/month.txt;type=I’ curl -q ‘ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/s390/holddata/month.txt;type=A’ … produce identical bad results. – gil

who can help me generate and execute an additional member in the x dataset?#ChangeManZMF

Many of us will have come across the S047 abend ("An unauthorized program issued a restricted Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction") that we cannot immediately explain.  We know that our executable library is authorised (or authorized, for those reading in North America).  We have double checked member PROGxx in SYS1.PARMLIB or re-issued our ‘SETPROG APF’ command but this has failed to explain the problem.  Therefore there must be something seriously and fundamentally wrong with the application or the execution environment, yes?  Well, no.  Usually not, at least.  However, where do we start investigating potential causes of the abend?  Here is a quick checklist to set the wheels in motion. 1.  SYS1.PARMLIB(PROGxx) or SETPROG APF command Well, obviously enough, we start with the possibilities listed above.  Are you absolutely sure that your libraries have been authorised?  That your IPL was executed with the correct LOADPARM sett

OpenSSL 1.0.2k for z/OS is now available on the Rocket Community portal.

Installing git for z/OS can be a challenge for systems programmers without much Unix System Services (USS) experience. This article provides relatively detailed instructions, as well as a script that can help automate the process. Before starting, you’ll need to go to the Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS page and create a (free) Rocket Community account, if you don’t already have one. That will enable you to access all of the open source tool downloads. These instructions assume that: You will first download the installation files to a Windows system. You know how to transfer binary files from a Windows system to a z/OS Unix file system. Here we go! Create a folder on Windows into which you will save the installation files before transferring them to z/OS. Download the 4 necessary files off the Rocket download site, for gzip, bash, git and perl. The file names (at the time of this posting) should be: gzip-1.6-edc_b0005.160229.tar bash-4.3_b018.170518.tar.gz git-2.

I’m calling REST API services with cURL and get a JSON payload back. Using cURL 7.16.1 the response is in ASCII, however using cURL Version: 7.42.1 Build Number: 0013 the response comes back in EBCDIC. Additionally to the EBCDIC output there is error message curl: (56) Illegal or missing hexadecimal sequence in chunked-encoding.This all could be seen in the trace files. As we run all that in z/OS 2.2 I would prefer the EBCDIC response, but how to react to the error message? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Werner

The download area shows: git-2.3.5-src_b013.170517.tar but no accompanying binary tar archive. Is this intended? Thanks, Manfred

Status: DeliveredDeliveredi would like to suggest that Serena deliver a member in zmf control file (CNTL) for the define and initialization of cmnvpool dataset that is used by HLL exits.  Right now we have to CUT and PASTE the JCL required for define from delivered manuals, it would be much easier if JCL was delivered with product.

HI I am working on a operating system Z/OS v2r2 Http server is installed and is correct on my lpar. /etc/webap1/bin/apachectl -v Server version: IBM_HTTP_Server/9.0.0.0-PI54808 (Unix) Server built: Jan 20 2016 17:19:40 Php is the tool of Rocket and is installed in : /PRODUITS/ROCK/php EUID=0 /PRODUITS/ROCK/php/ Type Filename _,Dir ,. _,Dir ,… _,Dir ,bin _,Syml ,CHANGES.ZOS _,File ,fichier.php544.tar _,Dir ,include _,Dir ,lib _,Dir ,man _,File ,README _,Syml ,README.ZOS _,Dir ,share _,Syml ,VERSION.ZOS /PRODUITS/ROCK/php/bin/php -v PHP 5.4.4 (cli) (built: Nov 21 2016 03:25:49) Copyright © 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright © 1998-2012 Zend Technologies I made the export in the .profile of the user of the stc. (start server Apache) export PATH=$PATH:/PRODUITS/ROCK/php/bin export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/PRODUITS/ROCK/php/man/ When I want to see my page html, the command (php) are not interpreted. Html page : Standard HTML Page with PHP HelloWorld <?PHP pr

We have the 4.2.53 version of bash and are having problems with BPXBATCH when using the exec command. bash -version GNU bash, version 4.2.53(2)-release (i370-ibm-openedition) Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html If the last line of my .profile contains an exec for the bash shell When running a batch TMP with BPXBATCH it produces no output. (ie appears to run but just returns the READY prompt). This is what I ran //ADDIT EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=0M,TIME=1440 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * BPXBATCH SH ls -la /* Same results for PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM=(‘SH ls -la’) This is what is in my .profile exec /sysn/rs/bin/bash

I have installed most of the Rocket ported software, just for my own use (it’s good to be a sysprog). I am reading up on TCL and using it in learning mode on my Linux desktop. In the book, and on Linux, the TCL scripting command is “tclsh”. In your port, in /tcl-8.5-11/bin there is the command “tclsh8.5” with a symlink to it of “tcl”. I think it would be more consistent with what I’ve seen elsewhere if there were also an symlink of “tclsh”. Of course, in the “UNIX” arena, I am a GNU/Linux aficionado, so I prefer my z/OS UNIX to looks a bit like what I’m used to in Linux.

Now available for download on the Rocket Community portal, please find a new release of cURL for z/OS. This port of v7.52.1 was implemented with z/OS enhanced ASCII support. This means it will work with both ASCII and EBCDIC files but be sure your files are tagged. Don’t forget to read the README.ZOS file.

Hi, I’m running bash script with the bash 4.3 implementation and notice a, to me, strange behaviour. The script file does not have any tag and I get one error when trying to execute it. After the try, the script file has been tagged with ISO8859-1. When trying again, I get another error since the script is no encoded in ASCII. I then tag (chtag) the script file with EBCDIC (IBM-1047) and then the script runs perfectly well. So far so good, but I have some scripts that are delivered to me in a RO filesystem. When running one of those, I get the first error and of course the script file will not be tagged after the try. The older version of bash, 4.2 does not have this behaviour. It runs my scripts perfectly well without any tagging whatsoever. Would it be possible to direct 4.3.46 to behave as 4.2? I have the following relevant environment variables set. _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)" export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt export _TAG_REDIR_IN=txt export _T

Just downloaded then ftp’d to z/OS -rw-rw-rw- 1 RXT025 OMVSDIS 296615 May 2 13:53 unzip-6.0_b0006.161123.tar.gz installed via /bin/cat /zusr/home/RXT025/gz/unzip-6.0_b0006.161123.tar.gz | gunzip -c | /bin/tar -C /zusr/home/RXT025/unzip -xUXovf - result running is cd /zusr/home/RXT025/unzip/bin RXT025@SYSS:bin, Tue May 02, 02:16 PM $ unzip -l í>!Ñø?à øÊÑ%Âñ>Ã?!ñ&(/Ñ>È/Ñ>ÁÀÂäëøÑÁ%ÁÊëÁ>ÀÂÍÅÊÁø?ÊÈËÍËÑ>ÅÇÈÈøÏÏÏÑ>Ã?:Ñø?ÊÅ:ÑøÂÍÅÇÈ_%ËÁÁêá à(áÃ?ÊÀÁÈ/Ñ%ËíË/ÅÁÍ>:Ñø$!)$?øÈË$?ÀÑÃÑÁÊË))ÃÑ%Á$:Ñø)$%ÑËÈ)$ÌÌ%ÑËÈ)$ÀÁÌÀÑÊ)àÁÃ/Í%È/ÄÈÑ?>ÑËÈ?ÁÌÈÊ/ÄÈÃÑ%ÁËÑ>%ÑËÈÁÌÄÁøÈÈÇ?ËÁÑ>Ì%ÑËÈÈ?ÁÌÀÑÊÃÑ%Á$:Ñø)/ÂÁ/ÏÑ%ÀÄ/ÊÀ!!Ñøñ>Ã?_?ÀÁÍ>:Ñø!Ã?ÊÍË/ÅÁøÁÌÈÊ/ÄÈÃÑ%ÁËÈ?øÑøÁ>?_ÁËË/ÅÁË%%ÑËÈÃÑ%ÁËËÇ?ÊÈÃ?Ê_/ÈÃÃÊÁËÇÁ>ÁÌÑËÈÑ>ÅÃÑ%ÁËÄÊÁ/ÈÁ>?>ÁÈÈÁËÈÄ?_øÊÁËËÁÀ/ÊÄÇÑÎÁÀ/È/ÍÍøÀ/ÈÁÃÑ%ÁËÄÊÁ/ÈÁÑÃ>ÁÄÁËË/Ê:ÀÑËø%//ÊÄÇÑÎÁÄ?__Á>È?>%Î%ÑËÈÎÁÊÂ?ËÁ%ËÇ?ÏÎÁÊËÑ?>Ñ>Ã?èÈÑ_ÁËÈ/_ø/ÊÄÇÑÎÁÈ?%/ÈÁËÈÌÁÌÄ%ÍÀÁÃÑ%ÁËÈÇ/ÈÃ?%%?ÏÑ>Ì%ÑËÈÀÁÌÈÊ/ÄÈÃÑ%ÁËÑ>È?ÁÌÀÑÊ_?ÀÑÃÑÁÊË>>ÁÎÁÊ?ÎÁÊÏÊÑÈÁÁÌÑËÈ

If you attempt to clone or checkout a very large git repository (one with a great deal of history), you may get this message: bash-2.03$ git checkout --track -b v0.12-zos-ascii origin/v0.12-zos-ascii fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: EDC5124I Too many open files. (errno2=0x07360344) bash-2.03$ The problem is that git, by default, attempts to mmap the entire pack file (in the .git/objects/pack directory) into memory, and in this case that’s a very large file (about 235MB): bash-2.03$ ls -l .git/objects/pack total 494592 -r--r--r-- 1 jcallen ussuser 7578432 Jan 26 11:23 pack-13c65cae0f429287bcff36df4d582d30125aa766.idx -r--r--r-- 1 jcallen ussuser 245499367 Jan 26 11:23 pack-13c65cae0f429287bcff36df4d582d30125aa766.pack bash-2.03$ The z/OS port is 31-bit program, so that represents a sizable chunk of the entire 2GB address space. Fortunately, git provides some knobs to control memory use. A stackoverflow item provided the necessary clues. I used these commands to crank down th

git log gives error: cannot run less: EDC5129I No such file or directory. as a first line. Perhaps you should add some documentation in the included pdf document about how to set up git log to use more because there is no less out of the box in z/OS UNIX. There are either environment variables PAGER or GIT_PAGER or git specific core.pager config option. – Manfred

Tired of having to enter your information in order to download z/OS open source? Well we did not like the old system either and we finally have implemented a new one. Now, anyone, whether a Rocket customer or not, can download any z/OS open source product from Rocket’s Community Portal. If you do not have a login to the Community Portal, you still need to enter your information, but you will only need to do this once. To login to the portal or to request an account go to this page: https://my.rocketsoftware.com/RocketCommunity/RCLogin Once you have logged in, you will see a Downloads button at the top of the page. Select the category “z/OpenSource” on the left side of the page and the list of products will appear on the right side of the page. Click the link to the left of the product you want and then download the version you want.

I took a look at the perl 5.24 installation which is Tool: perl Version: 5.24.0 Build Number: 002 and found that its directory structure has some oddities. There are duplicate directories lib/perl5/5.24.0/os390/ lib/perl5/5.24.0/5.24.0/os390/ Most of the files are duplicates but not all as arithmetic shows: $ find lib/perl5/5.24.0/5.24.0/ -type f | wc -l 1628 $ find lib/perl5/5.24.0/ -type f | wc -l 3151 – Manfred

Release notes for Git 2.3.5 for zOS.pdf says on page 2: perl 5.24 Note: This version of perl is not yet appropriate for general use. Is this still true? – Manfred

We have a software product that makes extensive use of Perl 5.8.8 – yes, I know, that’s an 11-year-old version. We’ve tried a couple of times to update to more recent versions of Perl, but with all the Perl modules that our code depends on plus our own custom modules it rapidly turned into a compatibility nightmare, and both times we gave up. Now we’d like to port our product to z/OS, so we’re looking for a Perl ~5.8.x version for z/OS. I believe IBM used to provide 5.8.7 (which should also work for us) as part of their Ported Tools program http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/ported/perl/ , but they withdrew support for it in 2013, and I don’t know where to find a copy (nor what the legal status of using such a copy for commercial purposes would now be). Does Rocket provide a Perl version of around that vintage (I don’t see one on the website), or does anyone here know where if might find or how to obtain such a thing (possibly a copy of the Ported Tools one that IBM u

Subject: Creating a custom report Description: I am looking to create a report from CM ZMF V8.1.0, with the following information: Package names (for a given time range) List of SRC components in each package Work release # Creator Lines changed in each SRC/ Total lines of code in that SRC There are some reports close, but nothing with SOURCE LINES CHANGED/TOTAL SOURCE LINES. I can obtain this info by using package lists, and further use of 'VC' and compares, but would like a report or XML that I could run more readily in batch or online from TSO. Does anyone have a similar report or advice?#ChangeManZMF

Announcing availability of Python 3.6.1 beta 1 for z/OS. To download, go to Rocket Corporate web site download page: http://www.rocketsoftware.com/zos-open-source/python?ver=3.6.1 Multiprocessing still not implemented. Expect beta 2 in a few weeks with Anaconda support. Expect beta 3 in a couple months with multiprocessing support.

The beta 2 release of Python 2.7.12 for z/OS is no longer available. Instead there is now a beta 3 release of python 2.7.13 and a beta 1 release of python 3.6.1 (see other post). Python 2.7.13 To unpack this distribution: gzip -d -c python-2017-04-12-py27.tar.gz | tar xoUXf - Then follow instructions in PYTHON_README.ZOS. This release fixes the following: · SciPy and many other math, science, graphics and other packages are now included · File tags are now heeded when reading text files

When using -z option (zEDC), is it possible to unzip in other plataforma, like Windows?

I installed CURL 7.42.1 on our mainframe z/OS USS file system and then tried to run a curl command for the first time using batch BPXBATCH. curl -v http://www.yahoo.com/ It got this message “IDN support not present, can’t parse Unicode domains”. What does this message mean?