Rocket® Open-Source Languages and Tools for z/OS®

We recently procured Python support for Z from Rocket. Does rocket provide any documentation/reference material?

Hello, we just installed the new distribution of cURL 7.66.0 on our z/OS V2.2 system, but the first test wasn’t successful. We got a system abend S0C1 with the following message: CEE3201S The system detected an operation exception (System Completion Code=0C1) From entry point Curl_vsetopt at compile unit offset +0000000028D40146 at entry offset +000000000000422E at address 0000000028D40146. Are there any ideas, what’s going wrong there? Thanks for any help. Kind regards. Juergen

Having installed m4 1.4.18, build 001 my testcase for bison won’t run any longer. Running $ bison calc.y I get m4:/usr/local/ptz/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:1: ERROR: end of file in string divert(bison: subsidiary program `/usr/local/ptz/bin/m4’ failed (exit status 1) Do I use the previous m4, i.e. v1.4.15, build 0002 all is fine.

Hi, are you planning to port python 3.7 on Z? Is there a roadmap or something similar? Thankyou.

I am trying to execute a simple python code on z/OS USS. The code was working fine until I added code to assign values to a dictionary. When I run my code, it displays unprintable characters in the output at the code location where I assign a value to the dictionary. ie., in line d[“Alias”] = line[0:4] It appears that square brackets ‘[’ are not valid. When I run the same code in my workstation using pycharm editor, it runs fine. So, I am not sure what the issue is. Can anyone help me to resolve this issue ? d = {} file1 = open(inp_file_path,“r”) line = file1.readline().strip() while line!="": d[“Alias”] = line[0:4] jsonstr = json.dumps(d) line = file1.readline.strip() file1.close() print(jsonstr) Here is the output in the job: File “/u/test/python/pyfilr.py”, line 15 dï…"Alias"ï… = lineï…0:4ï… ¬ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

downloaded both PHP packages and transferredd to our USS system using WinSCP as binary, but I can’t unzip either package: MCZ:/Rocket : gzip -d php-7.0.5_b012.170614.tar.gz gzip: php-7.0.5_b012.170614.tar.gz: not in gzip format MCZ:/Rocket : gunzip -d php-7.0.5_b012.170614.tar.gz gzip: php-7.0.5_b012.170614.tar.gz: not in gzip format MCZ:/Rocket : gunzip -d php-5.4.4_b0006.161122.tar.gz gzip: php-5.4.4_b0006.161122.tar.gz: not in gzip format Any suggestions anyone? Thanks, Steve

Apologies if there is an answer already in the other post about PHP not working - I looked and tried what I could to no avail. I’ve got Rocket PHP working from the shell, installed in /Rocket/php/ : MCZ:~/bin : ll /Rocket/php/bin total 107072 -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 18140978 Jun 14 2017 php -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 17977181 Jun 14 2017 php-cgi -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 3837 Jun 14 2017 php-config -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 68855 Sep 26 11:46 php.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 18517848 Jun 14 2017 phpdbg -rw-r--r-- 1 JOCS065 OMVSGRP 4544 Jun 14 2017 phpize MCZ:~/bin : ll total 34 -rwxr-xr-x 1 JOCS065 JOCS2 71 Sep 26 11:35 HelloWorld.php* -rwxr-xr-x 1 JOCS065 20 51 Mar 22 2019 HelloWorld.py* -rwxr-xr-x 1 JOCS065 JOCS2 278 Sep 25 11:20 unzip.sh* MCZ:~/bin : cat HelloWorld.php #!/Rocket/php/bin/php echo "Hello World!"; echo "PHP is so easy!"; MCZ:~/bin : ./HelloWorld.php Hello World! PHP is so

Hi, I’m a long-time z/OS sysprog, a fairly decent knowledge of Linux & USS (with shell scripting and Perl etc) but new to compiling open-source products from their source. I’d like to get the open source product Graphviz (www.graphviz.org) running under USS just so I can use it’s command-line facilities. Does anyone have any advice about how to start and would the Rocket tools Autoconf and Automake help? Thanks, Steve

When attempting to connect to a server using TLS we get UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL. We attempted to debug by issuing OPENSSL commands: openssl s_client -msg -connect :443 Message returned: wrong version number 343598475400:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number:./ s3_pkt.c:365: Issued openssl version command: OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017 I then confirmed that python is pointed to the same version OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017 I’m not sure how to proceed in my setup.

I have just installed your Python 2.7.6 under Z/os 2.1. So far so good. Do you have a couple of sample programs which show how to use the open() to read the three types of files available: 1) Z/os datasets, 2) USS files, 3) DDNAMEs? I am guessing that 3) can’t be done, but certainly 1) and 2) would be great! Thanks

We are installing PHP v.7.0.5 on zOS. The product files were received to USS and installation steps were performed. The bin PATH was setup pointing to 7.0.5 version, The problem is - when I tried to issue a command to check the version, it shows junk value. Any suggestions? $ export PATH=PATH:/usr/lpp/PHP/v7.0.5/bin export CGI_HEADER_ENCODING=EBCDIC export CGI_BODY_ENCODING=NONE php -v &ç&--------Ä%Ñ—ÂÍÑ%È–¢Í>---------------------+èë—ä?øÊÑÅÇÈ--Ä------------èÇ Á-&ç&-åÊ?Íø-!Á>À-á>ÅÑ>Á-Î-------ä?øÊÑÅÇÈ–Ä------------!Á>À-èÁÄÇ>?%?ÅÑÁË-$ Fyi… Same process was followed for v5.4 and it worked fine

Has anyone had this issue where git diff does not show colors correctly? Clearly it’s trying to display the escape sequences but they aren’t coming out right. It works fine for git branch -v so just wondering if there is something I’m doing wrong.

Hi, How can I extract TextMark value using u2py? I got the values of a SVM with this sentence: total = s.args[0].extract(6,1,7).dcount(u2py.TM) But when I try to extract the info I got an error because the function only take 3 arguments: for x in range(1,total): print (s.args[0].extract(6,1,7,x)) ‘’’ Traceback (most recent call last): File “test.py”, line 46, in print (s.args[0].extract(6,1,7,1)) File “/dasm/bin/u2py.py”, line 163, in extract return DynArray(super().extract(*args, **kwargs)) TypeError: function takes at most 3 arguments (4 given) ‘’’ Does anyone knows how can I get the TM value in my for loop? I apreciate your comments. Regards, DASM

I am familiarizing myself with Rocket’s git port on z/OS and have a question relating to editing files that I have cloned. I am going to edit my cloned repo using ISPF option 3.17. However, every line in each of my files has a x’0D’ at the end of the line. This is a Line Feed character. The ISPF editor doesn’t really like embedded hex characters in source. You can’t insert code. When overtyping the cursor jumps over the hex character. There will be a number of other issues editing files using the ISPF editor that have embedded hex chars. Generally in ISPF Edit in 3.17 the editor treats files in a similar way to record based members in say 3.4. There are no x’0D’ appended. This may have an issue if the USS files are transferred somewhere else for processing but that is a different topic The only options I can see with my .gitattributes that relate to this area is to use *** text=auto eol=lf** to try and control the use of crlf. Now whilst I am also having problems with this not working

Hi, We would like to use a couple of tools (or are already using them). At the moment we’re discussing how and where to install the different tools. In the README.ZOS files I found the paths /rsusr/rocket and /rsusr/ported to be the main paths. We want to avoid to break dependencies between the various products. Is it important to have rocket and ported separated or is one of them some kind of legacy? Is there some way to remove a specific version/product from all the subfolders in the ported or rocket folder? Are there plans to provide other/additional ways for installation and maintenance (for example z/OSMF Workflows)? Thanks, Stephan

I was wondering if anyone had an example using Bzip2 in batch on Z, to compress an MVS data set(PS, VB)

Hi. Maybe a codepage issue but I suspect a tagging issue. VIM fires up fine and text is readable; autoconvert is on. However, I get hex interpreted data in the midst of it. Control codes like colon work. ~m50;83H0,0-19CAll20;42HVIM - Vi IMproved22;44Hversion 8.0.2223;39Hby Bram Moolenaar et al.24;29HVim is open source and freely distributable26;36HHelp poor children in Uganda!27; . . . I assume I buffaloed something along the way. Is it likely a mis-tagged file? Our system is running IBM-037; there’s some code in /etc/profile to set that up. Thanks.

Hey all - I’m wondering if I need to do some tweaking on this diffutils_checking.sh. I have installed my diffutils code under /u/ROCKET/diffutils and the checking.sh is under /u/ROCKET/diffutils/bin . I do a cd to that dir and try to execute ./diffutils_checking.sh but I get FSUM5371 not found. I go in and edit the shell, changing the TOTAL_PATH from /rsusr/rocket to /u/ROCKET/diffutils and still have the error. Be gentle…I’m still very new to this stuff! How do I get this working? Thanks! Deb

I’m trying to install bison on my z/os system. I only see one file bison-2.3_b0009.160825.tar.gz and no readme for z/os. What are the correct commands for installing bison? Thanks, Deb Cosentino

The README.ZOS has the comment Extra space savings arise if you download the combined release from the I would expect 3 downloads for python 2.7 & 3.6 & both I do not see a combined release

Regarding Universe for both Linux and Windows, what are the timelines for Python 3.7 and later? The current Personal Edition of Universe for Windows is using Python 3.4.1 which is rather long in the tooth.

When using distutils, my script will spit out commands with references to /u/pdharr/anaconda-build, which is an unknown user on my system. xlc_echocmd -qdll -qdll -qexportall -qascii -q64 -qnocse -qfloat=ieee -qgonum -qasm -qbitfield=signed -L /u/pdharr/anaconda-build/python36/lib -qdll -qexportall -qascii -q64 -qnocse -qfloat=ieee -qgonum -qasm -qbitfield=signed -L /u/pdharr/anaconda-build/python36/lib build/temp.os390-25.00-2964-3.6/helloworld.o /u/pdharr/anaconda-build/pkgs/python-3.6.1-1/lib/libpython3.6m.x -o build/lib.os390-25.00-2964-3.6/myModule.so /bin/xlc -F /u/kporter/python//python-2017-04-12-py36/python36/bin/xlc.cfg -qdll -qdll -qexportall -qascii -q64 -qnocse -qfloat=ieee -qgonum -qasm -qbitfield=signed -L/u/pdharr/anaconda-build/python36/lib -qdll -qexportall -qascii -q64 -qnocse -qfloat=ieee -qgonum -qasm -qbitfield=signed -L /u/pdharr/anaconda-build/python36/lib -Wl,dll -o build/lib.os390-25.00-2964-3.6/myModule.so build/temp.os390-25.00-2964-3.6/helloworld.o /u/pdha

I am having a hard time finding, uploading python to my z/OS. As a matter of fact, I need both python and nodejs for z/OS. Can someone please educate me how to get my problem resolved? I have spent a few days thrashing on this problem, so any assistance will be highly appreciated. Best regards

Hi there! Any way we could get the source for sudo? The default user is currently set as “ROOT”, which is not the name of our “UID 0” ID in RACF. It’s our understanding that a recompile with a specific compile option could fix this for us. Adding an id named “ROOT” into RACF is not going to be an option. Thanks!

Hi, I tried to install sudo (sudo-1.8.6p3_b009.170419) on z/OS 2.3. README.ZOS tells a alot about the installation process. But nothing about the customization of /ect/sudo.conf. When I run sudo with sample.conf delivered as sample an error occured that no sudoers.so was found. If I delete or comment the both lines in sudo.conf: Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so Plugin sudoers_io sudoers.so the execution of sudo fails with a message: unable to initialize policy plugin. How should sudo works with only the deliverd files in package sudo-1.8.6p3_b009.170419? Thanks for your help. Kind regards, Björn