Getting Return Code 1792 with CURL 7.52.1 using mainframe z/OS and BPXBATCH

Hi,

Current version works only in USS. It will be fixed in next release.
Could you try to use the following syntax:

curl --verbose http://www.yahoo.com | iconv -f 819 -t 1047

Hi Tatyana
Thank you for looking at this and for the suggestion. I did try the command you sent. It got rid of the return code 1792 (it got RC=0) but still the same garbled message in STDERR. The only thing that gets printed in the STDOUT is system name, date and time.
z/OS DSYS 01.00 02 2964
Fri Sep 15 08:31:02 CDT 2017

If I understand your reply this command won’t work with z/OS BPXBATCH until the next release of CURL. I’ll try again when that release is available.
Thanks again for your help.
Jack

Can you try running a test with a job that looks something like this?

 //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH
 //STDOUT  DD SYSOUT=*
 //STDERR  DD SYSOUT=*
 //STDPARM DD *
 SH /rsusr/ported/bin/bash -c '
 
 export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON ;
 export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)" ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_IN=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt ;
 export _BPXK_JOBLOG=STDERR ;
 export _EDC_ADD_ERRNO2=1 ;
 export PATH=/rsusr/ported/bin:/bin ;
 export LIBPATH=/rsusr/ported/lib:/usr/lib ;
 
 curl --verbose http://www.yahoo.com
 
 '
 /*

You will need to change all occurrences of /rsusr/ported to the directory in which you have installed the ported tools.

Hi jcallen
Thanks for the JCL. I tried it but got a not found condition.

/usr/lpp/rocket/bin/bash: FSUM7351 not found
z/OS DSYS 01.00 02 2964
Tue Sep 19 08:14:47 CDT 2017

I don’t see ‘bash’ in my /usr/lpp/rocket/bin directory. Should I change it to my product, curl?
Jack

Do you have the latest bash (4.3) from Rocket installed? If not, you are likely to have problems, as earlier releases of bash didn’t work as well with IBM’s enhanced ASCII support.

In any case - you need to use the appropriate paths for your installed binaries. The intent here is to use bash as the shell from which curl is then run.

Hi jcallen
I did not download Bash in conjuction with installing Curl. Is Bash required or needed to run Curl on the z/OS mainframe?
Thanks.
jwbutler

(My apology for a slow response; I was away on a business trip).

Bash is not strictly necessary, but you are likely to have fewer problems with it.

That said - you should be able to run the suggested test job (from above) using /bin/sh instead of bash.

Hi jcallen
I tried changing my
SH /usr/lpp/rocket/bin/bash -c ’ to
SH /usr/lpp/rocket/bin/bin/sh -c ’

… and also tried
SH /usr/lpp/rocket/bin/sh -c ’

but it keeps getting messages like this;
/usr/lpp/rocket/bin/sh: FSUM7351 not found
I don’t think there is an ‘sh’ folder or file. Should I try downloading Bash? Would that help? Or is it something else?
Thanks.
jwbutler

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Here’s the whole script again:

 //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH
 //STDOUT  DD SYSOUT=*
 //STDERR  DD SYSOUT=*
 //STDPARM DD *
 SH /bin/sh -c '

 export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON ;
 export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)" ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_IN=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt ;
 export _BPXK_JOBLOG=STDERR ;
 export _EDC_ADD_ERRNO2=1 ;
 export PATH=/usr/lpp/rocket/bin:/bin ;
 export LIBPATH=/usr/lpp/rocket/lib:/usr/lib ;

 curl --verbose http://www.yahoo.com

 '
 /*

jcallen
Thanks for clarifying that for me. That part works and now it runs for a few minutes but it’s back to getting the return code 1792 and printing garble in the STDERR.
Also, right after I opened this discussion, Sept. 15th I think, Tatyana mentioned this. "Current version works only in USS. It will be fixed in next release."
Does this mean that I have to be in USS. Since I’m trying to run Curl from z/OS batch with the BPXBATCH program is originating the CURL commands from z/OS part of the problem I’m having?
Or could this be a fire wall problem?

Thanks.
jwbutler

Hello

any new ideas about this topic? I have the same problem. I tried

BPXBATCH SH +
. /usr/lpp/rocket/u_prof_cont_samp; +
/usr/lpp/rocket/bin/curl -k https://xx.xxx.xxxx.xx/hello.html

and get

Logged on using a terminal on device not a tty
Welcome to z/OS 2.2 Unix System Services
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…è?È/%…êÁ[ÁÑÎÁÀ…ìÃÁÊÀ… ÎÁÊ/ÅÁ.ëøÁÁÀ…èÑ_Á…èÑ_Á…èÑ_Á…{ÍÊÊÁ>È.

Regards
Dirk

Does the following job work?

//STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH
//STDOUT  DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR  DD SYSOUT=*
//*
//* Replace the value of TOOLSDIR with the path to curl.
//*
//* Make sure every line of the shell input ends with a semicolon,
//* and DO NOT add any comment lines; they will cause the remaining
//* commands to be treated as comments.
//*
//* The output of curl is redirected to a file. If it is allowed
//* to go to STDOUT as allocated to SYSOUT, all lines will be
//* truncated to the LRECL, and since there are often no newlines
//* in HTML, the output will be truncated.
//*
//* The output file will be encoded (and tagged) as ASCII.
//*
//STDPARM DD *
SH /bin/sh -c '

 TOOLSDIR=/rsusr/ported ;
 export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON ;
 export _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)" ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_IN=txt ;
 export _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt ;
 export _BPXK_JOBLOG=STDERR ;
 export _EDC_ADD_ERRNO2=1 ;
 export PATH=${TOOLSDIR}/bin:/bin ;
 export LIBPATH=/${TOOLSDIR}/lib:/usr/lib ;
 set -x ;
 curl --version  ;
 curl --verbose -k https://www.google.com > ~/curltest.txt ;
 echo "Done, with return code $?" ;
 '
/*