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Questions relating to the IBM z/OS mainframe operating system

z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM mainframes. z/OS offers attributes of modern operating systems but retains functionality originating in the 1960s and each subsequent decade that is still found in daily use. z/OS was first introduced in October 2000 and is the successor to OS/390.

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How to audit who changed the limit on a GDG (Generation Data Group)?

I have a situation where someone has changed the limit of a GDG (Generation Data Group) and I need to track down who made the change. I know the command will be something like: ALTER gdg-base LIMIT(xx) Is this type of change audited by System…
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ASCII Upload from Windows 10 to mainframe adds strange characters to start of file

I've been doing Windows to z/OS mainframe FTPs for a long time and I've never encountered this situation before today and hope someone can help me out. I have a group of files that I need to transfer to our mainframe, but when I do so, somehow the…
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IZUG846W: An HTTP request for a z/OSMF REST service was received from a remote site

I setup z/OSMF and I am receiving this error when attempting to access the url https://my.zos.com/zosmf/restjobs/jobs. { “errorID”:“IZUG846W”,“errorMsg”:“IZUG846W: An HTTP request for a z/OSMF REST service was received from a remote site. The…
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chtag does not work on z/OS UNIX

I'm trying to tag ASCII files on z/OS host shell, so we do not have to specify the code page on the command line. > echo > iso.txt > chtag -t -c 819 iso.txt > vi iso.txt Type in "Hello" then quit and save > ls -T iso.txt t ISO8859-1 T=on …
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REST JES Job Completion notification not working

I am writing a REST client application, destined to be open source, that submits jobs to JES using zOSMF. It works but zOSMF doesn't appear to be calling my notification server when the job completes. This is a page from IBM where I am getting my…
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How do I specify an MVS data set name when using lftp?

We have a Linux server that needs to send a file to a z/OS mainframe using FTPS. How do we specify the MVS data set name we want to create? When we try to FTP the file, it always prepends the mainframe user ID to the data set name.
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Is there a way for a USS shell process to easily access MVS symbols such as `&SYSNAME`?

When writing scripts for execution in USS I'd like to be able to access z/OS symbols like &SYSNAME. Ideally, it would be nice to access them as environment variables but if there is a command sequence I'd be satisfied with that. Here is the…
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How to scroll to top in ISPF Edit or Browse?

Is there a command to scroll to the top of of the file in ISPF? Also, scroll to bottom? Similar to lower case g in vi. Also, is there anything like scroll to top of function or scroll to opening bracket?
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Trouble in starting Jenkins slave(agent) on the USS of z/OS

The Jenkins Master is running on a separate Linux(ubuntu) machine and launching the slave via SSH on USS using java at /usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64. The error log for slave start is as below: [02/14/19 11:44:14] [SSH] Starting slave process: export…
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GIM69207S SMP/E download fails with java.net.UnknownHostException:

I'm in the process of downloading software to install on my z/OS system. I've not used SMP/E Receive to download previously. The DOWNLOAD step ends with a return code 12: --TIMINGS (MINS.)-- …
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CWWKE0018E: An exception occurred while launching the runtime environment: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.crypto.hdwrCCA.provider.IBMJCECCA

I am starting a Zowe 0.9.1 instance on z/OS 2.3; z/OSMF is already up and running. During the initialization of the Explorer Server (ZOWESVR) the following message is being issued in the stdout: CWWKE0018E: An exception occurred while launching…
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Setup for z/OSMF on z/OS 2.3 throws off a security error indicating libIzugJni64.so is not PROGRAM CONTROLLED

I am setting up z/OSMF on a z/OS 2.3 system and receiving the following errors after starting IZUSVR1 and attempting to login to z/OSMF for the first time. The errors are seen in the JES Job log and the console log: BPXP015I HFS PROGRAM…
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Unable to set NOSHAREAS attribute on executable in USS. chattr() error: rv=-1, errno=8B, rsn=EF076043

While installing the ported tools from Rocket on my z/OS instance I am running into an issue while installing sudo. The package is from sudo-1.8.6p3_b009.170419 In the install instructions indicate to set the following extended attribute with the…
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Is there a workaround on Client side for the failing FTP data and control channel association?

I have a Cloud app - SecureGatway firewall - zOS architecure. I'm on the client side. I can open an FTP control connection between the client and the server with the client script (PHP) but the data connection fails. I can also change settings on…
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