In our case, we have about 3 home directories and all 3 belong to sysprogs. Because of our environment, the only people who even go into OMVS are the sysprogs and we can run the scan as superuser, so no security violations either. In our environment, if an application developer was curious about python (or 'go' or any other language) they would come to us and ask.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: About Python and REXX Including scanning all your colleagues home directories and cutting SMF records for each security violation? > On 5 Jul 2024, at 21:18, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > > Depends on the size of your filesystem, and how often you need to do > something like this. We don't really use OMVS beyond what is required by the > system. I just did what Dana suggested and it took about 10 seconds to tell > me I don't have python3 on my system. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of David Crayford > Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 7:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: About Python and REXX > >> On 5 Jul 2024, at 20:25, Dana Mitchell >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Also, in OMVS,issue command: >> >> find / -name python3 > > Is this a joke? Searching the entire file system is not a good idea! > >> >>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 14:37:29 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>> >>> In OMVS try the python command For version 3,1, it's python3. Or >>> just have a look around the OMVS directories. >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 8:02 AM <Thomas> <Berg> < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> A question: >>>> >>>> * How do I check if Python is installed/availible in an existing >>>> z/OS? (I can't ask anyone for the moment due to an organisational >>>> mess at this >>>> site.) >>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO >> IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from > disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering > this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in > reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in > electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
