Rocket Mainframe DevOps

Hi Everyone, I am trying to setup my Gitlab Runner to SSH into my z/OS and execute command using Rocket Bash. Bash version - 5.1 When the runner connects to the z/OS and executes command via SSH, am getting the error below: Running with gitlab-runner 17.3.1 (51203123) on SSH Runner 123bcaivz, system ID: a_bcde123472c1 Resolving secrets Preparing the "ssh" executor 00:02 Using SSH executor... Preparing environment 00:01 /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'226@24724323120120320525211206@242205243@': command not found /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'226@227211227205206201211223^@206211^@242205243@': command not found /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'361367362': command not found /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'361': command not found /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'242226244243210205201242243': command not found /usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/bash: line 1: $'{Za244242231a202211225a205225245@2022012422102

Hello, a while ago we found out, that IBM Ported Tools, we’re talking of perl and php mainly, went out of service last month. So we decided to migrate to the versions offered here. The only disadvantage using these tools is, that they are not SMP/E installed, as the IBM versions are. So we decided to create a set of procedures to make these tools SMP/E installable, and finally we succeed. At this time we’re able to install the following Tools via SMP/E, some more will follow: bash curl gzip mc (Midnight Commander) perl php webalizer I write this in order to ask, if there is any interest to know more about the used method, how to make such products SMP/E installable. In this case I would like to share this informations. Regards. Juergen

Status: Waiting for VotesRight clicking an application under Default Application Folder, gives you the option of creating a new package. You can also add the application to it to Favorites. Right clicking an application that has been added to favorites, does not give the same options. You cannot create a package, which makes this view a bit limited. Please consider being able to use the application favorites folder to create new packages, rather than as a placeholder for existing packages. Thanks! Simon.#ZMF#ZMF4ECL

Hello,Is there any plans on porting screen or tmux to USS? It's something I miss when working on USS.Otherwise I saw somewhere that rocket uses gcc to compile (cross-compile?) tools to Z. Is z supported by gcc out of the box, either cross compiling or running in USS?, or is there a fork somewhere, or is it something rocket made in house? I would like to try to compile it myself.Thanks------------------------------Adam Martin BrittIT-ArchitectBECRanders SV Denmark------------------------------

Status: AcceptedThemeIn this case, we would like to exclude the Lib type from ERO processing that we have set up for the package audit report. WhyThat would be interesting for us because we often have completed the area editing and testing but still have to redraw the package audit report and then insert it again through areas that have already been approved. What has already been doneWe have activated the new lib type for saving the audit report in the package as component as named LSA.We have already adjusted the following things:CMN$$AUD.SKL: Suppress the HTML format in the audit report.CMN$$SEX).SKL: Routine to generate the SYSEXEC DD concatenation REXX EXEC LibsCMNEX031.SRC: Do not audit LSA for package audit.CMNEX032.SRC: Defined as Compressed Listing for Baseline Browse LS*.CMNEX035.SRC: No staging or checkout for LS*. LS* is displayed as a compressed listing.CMNEX037.SRC: Execute user defined edit macro?CMNEX201.SRC: Do not audit LSA for area audit.CMN30PDS.SKL: Make NULLFILE p

Hello, I use curl -sSf -u "myid:mypwd" -o myfile.tar <URL to Artifactory maven2 artifact> When I do a ls -alT myfile.tar I get t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r-- How can I prevent curl th convert the Data? Regards Frank

A new version of the ZMF Explorer has been made available in VSCode Extensions Marketplace. If you are running an earlier Micro Focus branded version, it is important that version is removed first before attempting to install the new Rocket branded version.This new version also addresses a couple of minor issues reported in the Community Forum. #ChangeManZMF#Announcement

Hello, I've noticed that the zowe zmf command zowe zmf promote pkg -p 'BKA 000435' --pl 1 --psn 'PROMOTE' --pn 'TEST' -c 'PYTCC002' -t 'COB' has an error. The --component parameter does not work, according to the "ZMF Rest Services API List" url provided by testing the API, this should be named "componentName". URL of the API Test  for Selective Promote IP-Adress:port/.../promotecomponentName=PYTCC002&componentType=COB CLI Output for Selective PromoteCommonRest -createPayload  package=BKA%200000435&promotionLevel=1&promotionName=TEST&promotionSiteName=PROMOTE&component=PYTCC002&componentType=COB We found out that, it works with the --componentarray parameter but the Help on the command is wrong CLI Input for Selective Promote with Componentarray zowe zmf promote pkg -p 'BKA 000435' --pl 1 --psn 'PROMOTE' --pn 'TEST' --componentarray '[{\\"componentName\\":\\"PYTCC002\\"}]' -t 'COB' How it's described in the Help function of zowe zmf

An updated version of the Changeman ZMF plugin for zowe cli is now available.  Please note that you MUST uninstall the Micro Focus branded version of the plugin before attempting to install this new Rocket Software branded version.To uninstall the existing plugin issue the following command:zowe plugins uninstall @microfocus/zmf-cli-plugin  You can then check that the plugin has been removed :zowe plugins list The new version of the Changeman ZMF plugin for zowe cli is now published to npm and so is installed directly from NPM. You will not find this new version in the Open Text MarketPlace location.To install the new version zowe plugins install @rocketsoftware/zmf-cli-plugin This version fixes a few minor bugs previously reported in the Community Forum.  #ChangeManZMF#Announcement#NewRelease-Feature

We have had a corporate directive to remove anaconda software from our systems since Anaconda now requires a license. I'm sure they are unaware of z/OS but is there another method of getting the Rocket stuff or am I off to github to try my luck there ?  < Very sad face />------------------------------Hank OerlemansTechnical SpecialistRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello, I noticed, that since a few days ago, the ZMF Plugin for Zowe, doesn't let me complete "put" requests, like zowe zmf freeze pkg -p "BK# 014585.  This gives me following error message in the Console: PS C:\\Users\\ris0186> zowe zmf freeze pkg -p "BK# 014585"Command Error:The put request appeared to succeed, but the response was not in the expected format:Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0Error Details:Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0PS C:\\Users\\ris0186> I tried the Freeze command with the REST SERVICE site, there it works flawlessly. But if I take the URL and try to call it with Python and the import Requests (did work for me previously) I get the same error.I also tried the Promote command, but same result. If I execute a "GET" request it works. E.g. zowe zmf get ps -p 'BK# *' --cr 'UBRAF' --ds 'Y' --fs 'Y'. I looked in the Logs, but didn't find a lot: [2024/07/04 08:57:57.520] [ERROR] [CommandProcessor.js:943] Handler for packa

My organization is moving off Jenkins in favor of ADO. We are having some issues setting up the Subscribers to execute a pipeline in ADO. Would appreciate any direction.#ChangeManZMF

Hi All, I am facing some issues with Git and Curl when trying to do some token commands.  # git clone https://github.com/BMCDBA/hybrid_communication_proxy.git" href="https://github.com/BMCDBA/hybrid_communication_proxy.gitCloning into 'hybrid_communication_proxy'...fatal: unable to access '

Using ZMF Explorer Extension 2.0.4.  ChangeMan ZMF/ERO base is 8.2.6.   Receiving a Micro-Focus-AMC.zmfexplorer failed to load schema for profile type zmf. #ChangeManZMF

Hello, I've noticed, that the zmf cli plugin for zowe CLI has a double abbreviation on the parameters --buildProc and --basepath  (--bp). If I try to execute the command:  "zowe zmf build comp --package "BK# 015889" --componenttype "COB" --component "#1"--buildproc "COBBD0" --language "COBOLE" --zmf-profile "zmfREST"" I get the error: " Command Error: Rest API failure with HTTP(S) status 404 Error Details: HTTP(S) error status "404" received. Review request details (resource, base path, credentials, payload) and ensure correctness.   Protocol:  https Host:      changeman-rest-t.ad.raiffeisen.it Port:      443 Base Path: COBBD0 Resource:  /component/build Request:   PUT Headers:   [{"Accept-Encoding":"br, deflate, gzip"},{"Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"},{"Content_Length":"586"}] Payload:   'component=%231&componentType=COB&package=BK%23%20015889&buildP

I've the following setup -  VS Code v1.88.1 ZMF Explorer v2.0.5 Zowe CLI v 7.16.6 The zowe.config.json has following -  "zmf": { "type": "zmf", "properties": { "basePath" : "zmfrestk", "host": "hosturl", "port": 8443, "protocol": "https", "rejectUnauthorized": true }, "secure": [ "user", "password" ] }, "base": { "type": "base", "properties": { "host": "hosturl", "rejectUnauthorized": true }, "secure": [ "user", "password" ] } }, "defaults": { "zosmf": "zosmf", "tso": "tso", "ssh": "ssh", "rse": "rse", "zmf": "zmf", "base": "base" }, "autoStore": true On "ZMF Explorer", in the tree view, upon clickin

We're using latest version of ZMF Explorer for VS Code. We would like to release what we've set up till now to users, but we've still some open points. We've seen that it's "too easy" for the VS Code user to navigate through a full list of all baselined sources of a specific application (we may have applications with 10,000  sources...) Same with the list of all packages. I know that it's possible to set up a filter but I don't know if I may define a "default" filter to be distributed to all users so that they would not need to set it up manually. I would also like to be able to filter packages based on their status and not only on their name (in VS Code developers are more interested in DEV status packages than in BAS packages....). Releasing to some users the VS Code ZMF Explorer just made Tomcat exposing ChangeMan REST API to dump a java core because of "too much memory" requested. And this was caused simply by somebody navigating  through baselines and packages without se

Hi, Is it possible to run miniconda-zos-<X.Y>-<yyyy-mm-dd>.run in "silent mode" (with a responsefile or something similar)? /Njål------------------------------Njaal SlettenDNBBergen NO------------------------------

One reasonably common issue that arises, which can result in a multitude of different errors, relates to JCL comment continuations being overlooked. Take for example the following JCL that allocates ISPF panel and messages library concatenations ISPPLIB and ISPMLIB, respectively: Now look at the output created when the job is executed. First the JESJCL output file: And this in JESYSMSG: Note that: a) unlike all other datasets in the ISPPLIB and ISPMLIB concatenations, dataset CMNSUP.INTL.CMN830.PANELS is not preceded by a number in the JESJCL output. b) the JESYSMSG output file shows only one dataset being allocated and released under the ISPPLIB DD statement, unlike ISPMLIB which shows all three datasets being allocated/released. This behaviour occurs because the comment starting in column 55 of the first ISPPLIB DD statement continues into column 72, which is also non-blank. This acts as a comment continuation statement that effectively makes the following card a comment, too, reg

I assume Git has been tested on a z/OS 3.1 system but I am having an issue with performing "git add ." and the only difference I can find is that I'm attempting to do it on a z/OS 3.1 system. This is what I get when issuing git add . fatal: can't add "zGIT-DS-Attributes": file is tagged, set corresponding zos-working-tree-encoding attribute or reset file tag This is correct, the file is tagged IBM-1047 as seen here: $ ls -lT                                                                                    total 2                                                                                                         drwxr-xr-x   2 AUZZ04S  #KYNDRYL       0 Apr 30 00:00 Z-GIT             t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-------   1 AUZZ04S  #KYNDRYL      23 Apr 30 00:00 zGIT-DS-Attributes The repository does have a attributes defined as follows: $ cat .git/info/attributes | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047               #                                                                         # Def

Hi.  I have an old version of unzip that I downloaded years ago.  I'm working with a file now and when trying to unzip it I get the error messages:Archive:  Bill.zip                                                      skipping: DT052024.txt            need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)    skipping: DM052024.txt            need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)I was hoping to download a newer version of unzip, but I'm having trouble understanding the miniconda process.  I do not have access to the internet from my z/OS lpars, so, is it possible to get a repo (or the unzip package) downloaded locally?thanks, Dan------------------------------Dan SmithCrc RepresentativeState Farm Insurance CompanyBloomington IL US------------------------------

Hello, I wanted to ask if there is a possibility to use the zmf-explorer Extension in VS-Code and parallel the zowe-explorer.Zowe Profiles use a tokenValue, while ZMF Profiles use User and Password. I tried to make nested profiles, which works half. If I logon with authentication token in zowe, i am able to connect, but if I then try to logon in zmf, it asks the base profile username and password, and add it afterwards to the baseprofile, even though I didn't specify that the base profile should use username and password, instead only a tokenvalue.In the Profile itself I added "secure: ["user", "password"]" but it asks me nevertheless. in the CLI I can execute commands, but I don't get any answer back: PS S:\\> zowe zmf get pg PS S:\\>in the CLI there is the workaround to create a second baseprofile and specify every time which baseProfile to use, which works, but is't the solution I'd like to use long term.{ "$schema": "./zowe.schema.json", "profiles": {

Do you have an example of HTH  zFS resident HTML component?    We are adding Java support to our ChangeMan ZMF environment. I would like to understand the HTH type.#ChangeManZMF

A new hotfix build of ChangeMan ZMF for Eclipse (ZMF4ECL) 8.3, ZMF4ECL 8.3.0 Hotfix 007 (build 691), is now available for customer use. This build resolves the following issues: OCTCR46A386001 - Unable to revert ZMF package in 'FRZ' status using ZMF4ECLOCTCR46A361002 - ‘SER0524E Requested File ENQ not available’ creating new zFS/HFS component This latest hotfix build is cumulative with earlier hotfix builds and therefore includes the fixes included in all of these, too. As per usual, we recommend customers either running or upgrading to ZMF4ECL 8.3 open a case with the Support team requesting a copy of the latest ZMF4ECL hotfix build.#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF#Announcement

Status: Waiting for VotesThe default 35 character description is plenty in most cases. Some users have requested an option to create a longer description for certain changes.#ZMF