Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

The context: I am installing for the first time Java in mainframe Z/OS 390. I am about to follow the procedures found in "SDK8_64bit_readme.txt". There is certain step which states: (4) Create an HFS or zFS filesystem dataset into which you'll later expand the pax file. Mount this filesyst...

Sorry for the poor analogogy but it will help me to ask my question: in Windows, even though I don't have admin privilege, I can just copy the entire Java folder to any folder and then I can start my application by going to Command Line, browse to the Java directory just copied bedore and ...\bin\ja...

I have developed two applications based on Spring 4 and Java 8 (one is Spring Batch with no web involved and other is Spring Boot with Tomcat embedded). My local machine is Windows but I need to install both in z/OS390. If I understood correctly, there are two options to get Java 8 for z/OS: one thr...

Thanks, Robert. I have new doubts related to "non-SMP/E format" versus "Shopz" options but I will open new question.

Simple as declared in subject of my question is: where is Java 8 for z/390? Someone may answer http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/ but please click on it and you will see "...version 7...". I have developed two entire application over Java 8 and now I need to deploy them in ...

I tried vi, ed and cat and none of them worked for me. Any other suggestion will be appreciated. -rwxrwxrwx 1 ABC9999 XYZ 1486 Jan 19 09:24 users.xml $ vi users.xml FSUM9140 Terminal "dumb" has insufficient capabilities for Curses. $ ed users.xml 1486 ,p --Ì_%-ÎÁÊËÑ?>-------Á>Ä?ÀÑ>Å--ñë|--...

Robert, thanks. I didn`t know PA means Program Attention. I found such option for my case.

Enrico-sorichetti, if there is no way to figure out which is the file format in Unix, just tell me this. Based on my research, file command would tell me this but as I pasted the print I get this message "magic file /etc/magic: EDC5129I No such file or directory". By the way, whenever I ha...

I am very interested on this question. Any clue will be appreciated. For instance, a suggestion on how to figure out which is the file format may help me.

I was in front of OMVS screen and suddenly I pressed pf3. I moved me to the screen showed in the attached file. After this, I can type either "omvs" which opens a new omvs screen or "ish" which opens ishel window. The problem is that after I hit pf3 to close ishel or I type exit ...

Around two months ago I created here a question ( Why I can read a file via UDLIST but I can't via cat command ) because I was getting the message "...ISRP521 ... record with length grater than 32750... not supported by ISPF". Then, someone answered my question informing to use iconv -f IB...

I have found in some jython scripts created by other employe certain special character Ý where I would expected [. For certain time, I removed it from the jython script and I ignored the reason for such special charactes appering but now I see again during a very simple command: $ sh manageprofiles....

I am getting the error below when I try to start the application I deployed to certain Websphere 8.5 server which I have administration role. WASX7017E: exception information: ADMN0022E: Access is denied for the startApplication operation ... because of insuficient credentials. If I try to deploy us...

I am quite new on working with Unix. In fact, I have been Java developer for long time but most of the time working with Windows and a bit with Linux from Workstation side (e.g. Ubuntu). I am very glad I discovered ibm-mainframes forum as many challenges with Unix/Mainframe I have been helped here. ...

Robert, we say in Brazil "gol de placa". In portuguese it means a very beatiful gol in a soccer game under a dificult moment. Thanks! I am transfering the ear file from my windows machine to mainframe via Open Text FTP feature and, in my configurations, it was set up to Auto-Select. There ...

William, with this possibility in mind ("it could be an ASCII/EBCDIC issue"). Is there a way to check this? I generated the ear file in my Windows machine. Then I copied such ear file from my local machine to z/OS300 via Open Text Connectivity version 14.04 using FTP feature. Is there an U...

Someone much more experience in Unix than me created a JCL Job which basically calls certain very simple jython. In this jython there is a simple call to wsadmin.sh in order to deploy a simple ear file. It was happening successfuly until someone upgraded Websphere from 7 to 8.5. I checked everything...

Robert, thanks. After I added -t between the two formats, my file got converted. Then I tried oedit but I got the message "...a record length greater than 32750...". So, I used wc -l to see how many lines. I got 92080. So I did split command and now, after I got the file splitted in many s...

I was editing certain jython file several times and suddenly, I can't edit anymore the file. If I type "b" on left side of such file in UdList the file will be openned and show me the file exactly as I left. On other hands, since last Friday, if I type "ea" I can't edit anymore t...

Thanks.I will continue typing "exit" command.