IBM Ported Tools V1.2 Problem with Co:Z Toolkit

[jacobsm]

I just installed the new V1.2 ported tools package under z/OS 1.11 and the launcher started to receive TCP/IP internal errors (code 0B1B0473).

Looking at some old forum entries I came across changing the default ssh-shareas option in the configuration file from MUST to YES as a possible solution to this error.

I tried it and it worked under 1.60 and 1.70 of the toolkit.

Just a heads up for anyone else who runs into the problem.

Mark Jacobs
Time Customer Service

[dovetail]

Do this to display the extended attributes for the new Ported Tools 1.2 ssh command:

extattr /bin/ssh

You will probably find something interesting

BTW: We haven't finished testing Co:Z with Ported Tools OpenSSH 1.2, since IBM didn't make it available to us early

We advise against using it in production for now.... Stay tuned.

[jacobsm]

Ported tools 1.2

$ extattr /bin/ssh
/bin/ssh
APF authorized = NO
Program controlled = NO
Shared address space = NO
Shared library = NO

Ported Tools 1.1

$ extattr /bin/ssh
/bin/ssh
APF authorized = NO
Program controlled = NO
Shared address space = YES
Shared library = NO

[dovetail]

As you can see, "ssh" is not marked "Shared address space=NO", which means that _BPX_SHAREAS=MUST will fail and explains why you had to set _BPX_SHAREAS=YES (or NO) for spawning ssh.

Another *very* interesting change is that IBM's version of sftp and sftp-server are shipped APF authorized.