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I'm a bit confused about the instructions for upgrading Git from 2.14 to 2.26.There are some notes:Once you change a repository with Git for z/OS 2.26.2, this repository won't be compatible with previous versions of Git for z/OS. It is vital that entire team will move to the new version of GitandWhen you clone the repository with Git for z/OS 2.26.2, you need to run git status command. You might see that Git marks some files with the attribute as modified, even if you didn't modify them. ...We recommend to update the files in the index (commands: git add ; git commit).Typically different people will be working with separate clones of the repository and different branches, so at what point does the incompatibility occur?Presumably you can still clone a repository and check out old commits with the old version?Does the commit for files that 2.26 marked as modified interfere with merging branches, either on z/OS or via pull request?What happens with e.g. git bisect?I'm not sure what "It i

There seems to be a problem with git blame on z/OS. For example if I run git blame -L 14,+1 PARMLIB/IEASYS00 on a copy of a repository on my laptop I get this: 41657ed0 (Gary Freestone (U70021A) 2020-06-10 11:30:25 +0000 14) GRS=STAR, MASTER OF GRS COMPLEX 00013100 If I run the same command of z/OS I get the following: fatal: file PARMLIB/IEASYS00 has only 1 line Running git blame PARMLIB/IEASYS00 on z/OS I get this: 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2020-07-01 00:38:39 +0000 1) <<|ä........................ íèç|²ñ! èñ|+.<ñ³è... FFFFFFFF44D9A4C9998AA884E8A4FFFF6FF6FF4FF7FF7FF44FFFF4F5444444333222222222222222222222455445454544424455222 000000000D5630364493354085302020007001000A38A390E000001D01CCF3D00C000000000000000000001548F29A149FE0C934000 Note:I only receive a single line of output. The second and third lines are hexadecimal display of the line I’m receiving. The first few characters after the date and time are X’414C4C4F433D30302C’ which i

Hi Team,Is there any documentation explaining the usage of "Diffutils". I see the installation bin folder is having 'cmp', 'diff', 'diff3' and 'sdiff' binaries.Can we compare Z/OS files directly using Diffutils? Please help us to understand.------------------------------Sai PraneethLead ConsultantWipro TechnologiesChennai India------------------------------

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Hi TeamWe are trying to install Miniconda. And the Installations are almost complete and we get the below login authentication for Rocket's secure conda server.When we try with Rocket Software Login and Password It fails.And also we are trying to install GIT using Miniconda. Can someone please really help us out with it. installing: yaml-0.1.6-1 ...installing: zlib-1.2.11-4 ...Building the "base" Anaconda environmentDone.---- installing extra_pkgs to the base env ----conda-repo-cli-1.0.1+2.g39f4600-py_0.tar.bz2:Downloading and Extracting Packages*-None | | ########## | 100%Preparing transaction: doneVerifying transaction: doneExecuting transaction: doneCreating .condarc file...Configure to use Rocket's secure conda server? ÝY/n¨ Authenticating to Rocket's secure conda server...yUsername: Password:Username: Password:ÝLOGIN¨ Error logging in...ÝERROR¨ Invalid Username password combination, please try againPassword:------------------------------Deepak Jithuz/OS System ProgrammerSelf Regis

I'm getting the following when trying to install using the appdev manifest 1.1.txt.(test) -bash-4.3# conda install --file appdev_manifest_1.1.txtSolving environment: failedPackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:- zip==3.0=10- unzip==6.0=12Current channels:- https://conda.anaconda.org/zoss-appdev/zos-z- https://conda.anaconda.org/zoss-appdev/noarchTo search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you'relooking for, navigate tohttps://anaconda.organd use the search bar at the top of the page.I see this out on the public channel for unzip.   Do I have the wrong mainfest? ------------------------------Michael BabcockRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

hi dear Rocket supporter,We are testing Git for z/os to try to migrate our mainframe source code from ClearCase to Git. As we are a banking in China, so we need to make sure Git for z/os support Chinese character. We tried the below configuration:Then, I update the txt file on git server,  add a new line with "中国银行" which are four Chinese characters, as below Then, I checkout the update on z/os uss, I got the wrong code page translation, the ending '0f' is lost.fyi, you can see "中国" is correctly displayed, because I added the "中国" from the z/os uss end, then push to git server. But if I do the update from the git server end and then checkout the update from the z/os uss end, the error occurred. Please could you help to take a look at this problem? Thanks a lot!Xiaohang WangIBM z software presales------------------------------Doria Wangclient supportIBM China Company LimitedBEI JING China------------------------------

Hello I can see R 3.3.0 is scheduled for availability by 2017 end or early 2018. Is there any older working version of R still available for download at this site. IBM websites / redbooks all refers to Rocket website for R download. Does R support or will support z/OS datasets Has anyone tried that and care for sharing there experience. Kind regards Prabhat

I’m trying to get started. We have a Jenkins agent running in OMVS, maybe not properly, but...it’s a start.i am looking at installing the Rocket OpenSource tools, but...if I want to run Ansible, for which ZOAU requires a later version of python, and seemingly requires the IBM-distributed version (3.9.x) and not the Rocket-distributed version (3.7.x?).IF I start by installing the Python that comes with z/OS v2r5, which is the later version, does Conda recognize that it’s installed and not try to install a second version?I think that’s all I need to know at the moment, but I’m sure I’ll have more questions as I go.Thanks,R;

I believe I have miniconda installed correctly. I left the default config files, and I'm using the base environment.When I try to do a search on the free repo, I get the following: (base) bash-4.3# conda search p* Loading channels: failed CondaHTTPError: HTTP 401 UNAUTHORIZED for url <https://condaserver.rocketsoftware.com/api/repo/zoss Elapsed: 00:01.360496 The remote server has indicated you are using invalid credentials for this channel. If the remote site is anaconda.org or follows the Anaconda Server API, you will need to   (a) remove the invalid token from your system with `anaconda logout`, optionally       followed by collecting a new token with `anaconda login`, or   (b) provide conda with a valid token directly. Further configuration help can be found at <https://conda.io/docs/config.html>.------------------------------Richard SmrcinaVelocity Software------------------------------

I see the latest version of cURL in Conda/AppDev is 7.73.  Are there plans to roll out 7.75 in the near future?Some of our App. Developers are requesting cURL 7.75 for a connection from the zSeries to AWS in the cloud.Thank You,Ross Vaughn

Hi,(Apologies if this is a duplicate I seem to be having trouble posting)Can someone point me to the doc on how to specify my credentials in miniconda?If I issue a conda command I getCondaHTTPError: HTTP 401 UNAUTHORIZED for url <https://condaserver.rocketsoftware.com/api/repo/zoss-appdev/noarch/repodata.json> I'm pretty sure I have a support account, but haven't figured out how to specify my credentials.I've seen the previous post about the 401 error, suggesting using a different channel, but with my firewall already configured for condaserver I thought I would try and use this channel.Thanks!Jeff A

​Hi,the issue in 3.6.1 shown below for opening a z/OS file, I see some discussion from  couple of years back in the forum that says the functionality should be coming, not sure why it even dropped between 2.7 and 3.6. Does anyone know if opening a z/OS dataset is possible yet in 3.6.1?EDC5129I No such file or directory.: "//MY.PDS(TEXT)'"using: f= open("//'MY.PDS(TEXT)'",'rb')regardsSteve------------------------------Stephen McAuliffeSystems EngineerBank of AmericaBromley United Kingdom------------------------------

Dear Rocket Community,i got a quick usage question regarding git-2.26.2-pl524_78 and i hope u guys can enlighten me.I`ve "installed" git-2.26.2-pl524_78 and its dependencies (bash-4.3.48-2, gzip-1.9-4, perl-5.24.4-4) into userspace under USS (OS/390 TEST 26.00 04 8561) and also set some environment variables like:export GIT_SHELL=$HOME/rocket/bin/bashexport GIT_EXEC_PATH=$HOME/rocket/libexec/git-coreexport GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=$HOME/rocket/share/git-core/templatesexport PATH=$PATH:$HOME/rocket/binexport MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/rocket/man/export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)"export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ONexport _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txtexport _TAG_REDIR_IN=txtexport _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txtexport _ENCODE_FILE_NEW=IBM-1047export _ENCODE_FILE_EXISTING=IBM-1047The git client and bash seem to work fine.Now i was under the assumption that checked out repositorys (ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8) are automatically converted to local codepage IBM-1047. That does not happen somehow. Files are still in the remote

I am following: https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/introduction.html#a-simple-example and haven’t been able to get the example to build correctly on z/OS with python 3.6.1 I noticed a few oddities: the code was trying to run a script xlc_echocmd which I don’t have. I created a dummy one that just forwarded to xlc as a hack the code was referencing libraries and packages out of /u/pdharr/anaconda-build. I created a dummy user of that name and then created symbolic links over to my installation tree directories xlc was being driven with a -o option at the end of the command. xlc doesn’t like that and wants the -o option at the start. I manually did the link to see what would happen and ended up with SYMBOL Py_InitModule3 UNRESOLVED. My question - has anyone successfully built a native python extension for z/OS with python 3.6.1? If so, what am I missing in my config?

I have miniconda installed, and trying to download the git client for z/OS.  But, when I search for it, I get a message:PackageNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channel: - gitCurrent channels:- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/zos-z- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/zos-z- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/noarch- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/zos-z- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/zos-z- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarchTo search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you'relooking for, navigate tohttps://anaconda.organd use the search bar at the top of the page.Not sure what I am doing wrong.------------------------------Jerry Edgington | Sr.Technical AnalystIT Technical OperationsEnterprise Systems400 Broadway | Cincinnati, Ohio 45202513.629.1826 direct 513.629.1787 fax WesternSouthern.com------------------------------

Hello,I am posting this on behalf of one of our users, git doesn't seem to work when specifying an absolute path that is a symlink, i.e /tmp: git clone git@github.ibm.com:zostools/tnz /tmp/xxxxxx-tnzfatal: More than 32 nested symlinks on path '/tmp/xxxxxx-tnz'  but when specifying the relative path it works: git clone git@github.ibm.com:zostools/tnz xxxxxx-tnzCloning into 'xxxxxx-tnz'...remote: Enumerating objects: 1189, done.remote: Total 1189 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1189Receiving objects: 100% (1189/1189), 1.31 MiB | 14.28 MiB/s, done.Resolving deltas: 100% (848/848), done. I believe this to be because of the z/OS-unique symbolic links involved: XXXXXX@AQMVSOE /tmp>ls -ld /tmp /$SYSNAMElrwxrwxrwx 1 BPXROOT DEFLT1 9 May 18 2012 /$SYSNAME -> $SYSNAME/lrwxrwxrwx 1 BPXROOT DEPTD60 12 May 18 2012 /tmp -> $SYSNAME/tmp On a system without this fake /$SYSNAME defined, I get this error instead of the one above: -

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Anybody got any clues as to whycurl -k -s -v -o htmlu.txt "https://my.url"when issues in a shell script using sh /tmp/my.stdin would give Protocol ""https" not supported or disabled in libcurl when the exact same command cut/pasted onto the OMVS shellworks fine ?Hank------------------------------hank oerlemansSenior Technical SpecialistSelf RegisteredNorth Sydney NSW Australia------------------------------

Hello,  After installing Miniconda (v 1.2.1) I tried creating a new environment and installing a package to it, for example:  conda create -n curl conda activate curl conda install .. curl The conda create and activate worked fine but the install produced several messages like as follows: IBMUSER:/u/ibmuser: >conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/zoss-appdev gzipcompile command returned 65280Failed to load /u/ibmuser/.ffi/i_.so: CEE3501S The module /u/ibmuser/.ffi/i_.so was not found. No ffi call function could be found or createdcompile command returned 65280Failed to load /u/ibmuser/.ffi/v_iiPi.so: CEE3501S The module /u/ibmuser/.ffi/v_iiPi.so was not found. compile command returned 65280 I was able to circumvent the error but copying the missing files from the Miniconda install lib/ffi directory, but I wonder if I missed something during the Miniconda install/config? Regards Greg------------------------------Greg KeukenSystems ProgrammerIBM------------------------------

Hello,I would like to upgrade our existing curl installation (installed from the pre-conda channel). Our problem now is that I couldn't use our mainframe internet connection for using a public or secure conda channel to transfer the software. So my question is: Is it possible to transfer the zos-z/curl-7.73.0-0.tar.bz2 file from Files :: Anaconda.org  and use this as a file channel for conda install - -file ... and do I specify this file directly in this command? Thanks in advance for any help.Kind regards.Juergen

Somebody noticed that with the "old" sudo (the one which was downloaded), i.e. sudo 1.8.21p2 005-nokrb it happened that when having an entry like this in /etc/sudoersJOHNDOE  ALL = (PRODUSER) NOPASSWD: /u/produser/bin/daily_cleanup.shand then user JOHNDOE doessudo -u PRODUSER /u/produser/bin/daily_cleanup.shthe following error messages pop up:sudo: unable to change to runas uid (189, 189): EDC5139I Operation not permitted.sudo: unable to execute /u/produser/bin/daily_cleanup.sh: EDC5139I Operation not permitted.The same time in syslog there pops up an ICH408I messageICH408I USER(JOHNDOE ) GROUP(BASE   ) NAME(DOE, JOHN        )   BPX.DAEMON CL(FACILITY)                                           INSUFFICIENT ACCESS AUTHORITY                                     ACCESS INTENT(READ   )  ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE   If user JOHNDOE gets READ access to BPX.DAEMON then above sudo command works fine.Questions: 1. Is this a known error? 2. If yes is it fixed in the forthcoming sudo_nokrb package which

HelloIt looks like Git environment variables which are set by default miniconda installation don't exist:GIT_EXEC_PATH=/conda_dir/libexec/git-coreGIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=/conda_dir/share/git-core/templatesbut we have it in Git pkgs directory:GIT_EXEC_PATH=/conda_dir/pkgs/git-2.26.2-pl524_78/libexec/git-coreGIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=/conda_dir/pkgs/git-2.26.2-pl524_78/share/git-core/templatesWhat are the best practices for this?Do we need to set up this variables manually to pkgs directories or create empty directories in conda_dir?RegardsDarek

Hello!  When running miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run on z/OS 2.4 via zPDT (mADCD) I'm getting the following syntax error:``` IBMUSER:/S0W1/tmp: >./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run --path ~/miniconda/ ./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run: line 53: syntax error near unexpected token `$'04360'' ./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run: line 53: ``???0d(?'`````` ls -alT miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run appdev_manifest_1.1.1.txt t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 OMVSKERN SYS1         659 Jun 24 13:52 appdev_manifest_1.1.1.txt t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 OMVSKERN SYS1     81071562 Jun 24 14:07 miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run```Confirmed EBCDIC: ``` IBMUSER:/S0W1/tmp: >od -h -N 20 miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run  0000000000    7B  5A  61  82  89  95  61  A2  88  15  15  7B  40  81  93  93 0000000020    96&nb

This is sudo version 1.8.21p2Whe I ran sudo there were complaints about setuid bits aso. After I have corrected all that stuff the sudo binary looks like follows:# ls -lEn sudo---s--x--x -p-- 1 0 0 11964416 Apr 7 06:13 sudoIf I run `sudo -l` as a normal user I getsudo: kerb5: unable to parse 'DEMNT15': Configuration file does not specify default realmWhere and how do I specify a default realm?Thanks, Manfred------------------------------Manfred LotzIBM------------------------------