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Hi everyone,I’m working on a small internal workflow and wanted to ask for advice from people using Rocket Open-Source Languages and Tools for z/OS.We have a process where project metadata is exported from a workstation and then transferred to z/OS USS for validation and reporting. The files are mostly CSV and JSON, and they include fields such as project ID, file name, export date, duration, owner, and status. Some of the source files are created after media work is completed in a pc video editor, but the actual task on z/OS is only to validate and process the metadata, not the media files themselves.I’m planning to use Python on z/OS USS to: Read the uploaded CSV/JSON metadata files Validate required fields Normalize date and filename values Write a clean output file for downstream reporting Log any rejected records with a reason My questions are: Are there any z/OS USS file encoding issues I should watch for when reading CSV or JSON files created on distributed systems? Is

Hello We are currently running Git 2.14.4 on z/OS 3.1. We plan to migrate to the z17 hardware and would like to know if there are any required actions to take for this product, such as upgrading or applying any fixes to tolerate the z17s.   Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kind Regards, Mathew.

Hello We are currently running cURL 7.77.0 on z/OS 3.1. We plan to migrate to the z17 hardware and would like to know if there are any required actions to take for this product, such as upgrading or applying any fixes to tolerate the z17s.   Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kind Regards, Eghosa

Not sure if this is the right forum for this.  We recently started using the Data Virtualization Driver v3.1 and are getting a stack overflow that crashes our application every 10 minutes or so in production.  After some research I determined it's due to parameterized queries.  The parameter info is being cached by the driver in the connection pool until it reaches some limit and crashes with a stack overflow error.  If I turn off connection pooling, or hard-code the values into the query instead of properly parameterizing it, it stops crashing.  But I'd rather not do those things if I can help it.  I can easily recreate the error in our lower environments by loading up a query that parameterizes 200 parameters, and then setting it to run 100 times in sequence.  Our production users aren't plugging in that many parameters, but are hitting the cache limit through sheer volume of queries instead. Are there any connection string settings or driver sett

Hello Sergei/Alexander, Greatly appreciated the prompt replies! I removed the "<?xml encoding" lines from all .xml and .dtd (as per Sergey); and upgraded ANT to 1.10 (as per Alexander). A little change - but no joy: Buildfile: /local/vssi/dev/ptk/build.xml                                                                                                                        BUILD FAILED                                                                    /local/vssi/dev/ptk/build/project.dtd:1: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte

Wanted to know if Miniconda supports unzipping of .7z file format which is zipped with 7Zip software. Appreciate any information on this.

Below c++ source code compiled on zOS with Codepage IBM-1047 (Compile options CONVLIT(IBM-1047) gives expected results for the Curl command. Curl command: /home/xxx/rsusr/rocket/bin/ /curl --insecure -v -s -X POST   https://api.test-xxx.hub-xx.xx.com/xxxxservices/exec/cmd - H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "x-api-key: xxx" -H "Authorization: Bearer xxx" -d ‘jsonbody'       Problem arises in test job (COBOL/JCL) when  Source code is c++ compiled on zOS with Codepage IBM-1141 (Compile options CONVLIT(IBM-1141).  DEBUG Curl command result: Expected valueLine:  1 Offset: 0  ERROR Failed to send V1 XE Server request Does CURL support IBM-1141 or IBM-285? Is there any way to convert the Jsondata in the command to IBM-1047? 

Anybody have tried to connect Python on z/OS to Oracle database. I'd appreciate any tips and clues.

Hello everyone, I am trying to setup a Gitlab runner that will SSH from a RHEL into my z/OS USS and execute commands via Rocket Bash. But I am hitting some issues that seems like an encoding issue when my runner is firing the commands and is not getting read correctly on Rocket Bash Running with gitlab-runner 17.3.1 (66269445) on SSH Runner abc123asif, system ID: a_bcde123452c1 Resolving secrets Preparing the "ssh" executor 00:03 Using SSH executor... Preparing environment 00:00 /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/b

I have git v.2.26.2-82 installed on uss, and it works fine until now for "usual" git commands like git clone, branch, commit, merge etc.I now try "git submodule" for the first time and it returns this error :(my userid is EPLMOH)bash EPLMOH@MVSS:~/work/DSC$ git submodule status fatal: 'submodule' appears to be a git command, but we were not able to execute it. Maybe git-submodule is broken? I have this $PATH:/bin: /usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64/bin: /usr/lpp/ported/python/bin: /bin: /usr/lpp/java2140/J1.4/bin: /usr/lpp/Printsrv/bin: /usr/lpp/Tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/: /usr/lpp/wmqi/bin/: /usr/lpp/lotus/bin: /usr/lpp/lotus/bin/tools: /local/eposd/notesdata: /usr/local/bin: .: /_PRDS/ZOAUTIL/SBGYZFS/bin: /u/eplmoh: /usr/lpp: /usr/lpp/IBM/MVSS/UssTools/git/usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/bin/: <---- git /usr/lpp/IBM/MVSS/UssTools/git/usr/lpp/Rocket/rsusr/ported/libexec/git-core: <---- git /usr/lpp/ported/apache-ant/bin: /usr/lpp/ported/autoconf/bin: /usr/lpp/ported/automake/bin:Actual path to gi

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, 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

Hi,  I have curl 8.4.0 with z/OS 2.4 and I am getting these errors: OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 On the first request if failed with insufficient randomness, which points to /dev/random and /dev/random not working correctly, which led me to find out CSF was not started and the SAF resources was not defined. We got past that, the User ID using Curl has READ access to the following CSFSERV profiles : CSNBRNG - Random Number Generate CSFNRNGL - Random Number Generate Long Now, is there any other profile that needs to be authorized for SSL to work ? I did peek the documentation and I could not find any references. curl -V curl 8.4.0 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/8.4.0 OpenSSL/3.1.4Release-Date: 2023-10-11Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftpFeatures: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy Largefile NTLM SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

Hi, Installing Git see below for output display; # conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/zoss-appdev git --override-channels                Collecting package metadata (repodata.json):   done                                              Solving environment:   done                                                                                                                                                                &nb

Hello, we're looking for a version of GnuPG running on z/OS. Is there a version available from Rocket or does anyone know a version somewhere available?  Furthermore can I find a list of all available ported tools from Rocket? Thanks for any help. Kind regards Juergen

Hi Everyone, We are planning to install curl on z/OS 2.2 I have a question related to curl for z/OS Is curl compatible for z/OS 2.2 , if yes, can you please let me know which version of curl is compatible to install on z/OS 2.2 ThanksSrinivas

I've installed Rocket Open AppDev for Z (free solution), but Python doesn't seem to be working quite right. In particular, I'm getting different behavior based on whether I invoke Python via executing the script vs. invoking Python manually and passing it the script.  For example, with the following sample test.py: #!/z/rocket/tools/bin/python print("Hello world!") If I invoke Python explicitly and pass it the script, it works just fine: $ /z/rocket/tools/bin/python test.py Hello world! If I instead invoke the script directly, I get the following. $ ./test.py ./test.py: can't open file '/u/z123/SHELL=/z/rocket/tools/bin/bash': [Errno 129] EDC5129I No such file or directory. That looks like it's somehow interpreting the environment being passed to python ("SHELL=...") as the script name it's supposed to execute.  Indeed, if I then pass the script name as the first argument, it works: $ ./test.py test.py Hello world! Stranger still, I don't see this behavior with scripts that i

Getting next error when using GIT 2.41.0-4 java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Malformed input or input contains unmappable characters: a���a���������a���a���aٖ����a�����a������a���a���������

We are testing upgrade in our Jenkins development environment with following version changes   Jenkins Master version from v2.346.2 to 2.387.1 Git client plugin from v3.11.2 to v4.2.0    Git Version z/OS not changed 2.14.4_zos_b09   We have setup up Jenkins Agent as a started task Setting up the CI Pipeline Agent on IBM Z as a Started Task   We see following errors   Jenkins Console:   org.eclipse.jgit.errors.InvalidObjectIdException: Invalid id: fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config     STDERR info Jenkins Slave Started Task z/OS:   Exception caught during execution of command '<gitInstallFolder>/git/bin/git, config, --system, --edit¨' in '<gitInstallFolder>/git/bin', return code '128', error message 'fatal: Invalid path '/rsusr': EDC5129I No such file or directory.     Check System config location When we check system config information we receive following error git config --list --sys

Something changed in git in terms of file encoding.These files were created using this code:cmd = 'cd' localrep'/'zigirep ,    '&& git show' hcommit':'element ,    '>' filewhere localrep/zigirep, hcommit, element and file are all variables. This is what I have on my work system for this use case using git version 2.26.2-78 t IBM-1047 T=on -rw-rw-rw- 1 SPLBD SYS1 1875 Feb 1 05:03 CHGSTR But with git version 2.26.2-84 I get this: t ISO8859-1 T=on -rw-rw-rw- 1 LBDYCK ZOWEDEV 1875 Feb 1 08:06 CHGSTRTo summarize this - with git 2.26.2-27 the git show generated file is tagged as IBM-1047 and then with git 2.26.2-84 it is now tagged as ISO8859-1.Why the change and how can I control it?

Hi, I was asked to install curl to help diagnose a problem with another product.  I installed miniconda, and that seems to be ok. When I try to use miniconda to install curl, I get: Collecting package metadata (repodata.json):   failed                                                                                                           CondaHTTPError: HTTP 401 UNAUTHORIZED for url <https://condaserver.rocketsoftware.com/api/repo/zoss-appdev/zos-z/repodata.json> I don't have a support contract with Rocket Software. What do I have to do? Thanks Gadi

I'm attempting to run the miniconda self-extracting installer and am receiving the following error.  Thanks for any help you can provide. The license agreement can later be accessed for review at the following path:            /usr/local/miniconda/IBM_LICENSE.txt                                                                                                                                        Please, press ENTER to continue                                                      

Hi all,I am having a problem with sudo 1.8.6p3. I know, I know this is not the latest release, but we're still not ready to deploy miniconda, so please bear with me.The problem is that upon executing some commands I get a SIGPIPE.Example: yesterday I was experimenting with some sudoers rules and I launched this one (real user has been amended):sudo -H -n -u XXXXX -- git ls-remote --tags origin "refs/tags/PROD*"which ends immediately with this error: CEE5213S The signal SIGPIPE was received.The same command executed without sudo (from the correct user) works perfectly.I have tried googling around but I do not find anything. Is this a known behavior fixed in the latest release?Thank you in advanceCris

We have some interest in a zip/unzip that can handle very large files greater than 2GB or 4GB and beyond.'Dan

Hello,There is a new vulnerabilty CVE-2022-37454 for "Extended Keccak Code Package Project Extended Keccak Code Package vulnerabilities"Does this affect any Rocket z/OS Tools?Many Thanks!