> On 3 Nov 2023, at 10:32 pm, Paul Gilmartin > <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 19:42:15 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >> >> Yes. But you still need the internet ... >> > What's the alternative? Railway Express? Dialup modem?
A lot of customers air-gap their mainframe systems so you can’t use package managers. Colin Paice opened an issue for my pyzfile Python package to document installation methods on air-gapped systems https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/discussion/reading-an-mvs-dataset-using-z-open-automation-utility. Dave Jousma seems to have found a solution to his problem. Rocket provide an off-line channel for ported tools but it’s only available to customers with commercial support, in which case you have the choice of SMP/E. Most customers that are using ported tools for critical work, such as Git, have commercial support. Z/OS Open Tools is a great alternative if you only require free tools. They have ported tools not available from Rocket, such as nano, which most ISPF users will find easier to use then vim. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
