Ah, the default encoding. It seems we *have* to set it to something other
than EBCDIC so we can even get a connection to our master.

The slave is connected via Java Web Start and started like so:

java -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859_1 -jar slave.jar -text -jnlpUrl
http://<ip-of-master>/computer/sva-zpdt-emul/slave-agent.jnlp
-auth <username>:<password>

Without the -Dfile.encoding (or setting it to EBCDIC), the slave can not
get a connection to the master.

Connecting via ssh is not an option, as it's not available on the emulator.

Any suggestions?



On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <[email protected]> wrote:

> This should work out of the box, because we take the encoding of the slave
> into account for obvious reasons.
>
> the "Execute Shell" feature uses the CommandInterpreter class, which uses
> the FilePath.createTextTempFile method to create a shell script. This file
> takes contents as String, then uses the encoding of the slave when it does
> "new FileWriter(f)". So it should write the shell script in EBCDIC.
>
> Does your slave JVM have a proper default encoding configured?
>
>
>
> 2013/6/12 Dirk Haun <[email protected]>
>
>> We're trying to use Jenkins to build our software on OS/390 (using the
>> Hercules emulator, not real hardware, but still). This OS uses EBCDIC as
>> its native character set, not ASCII. We've successfully managed to check
>> out from our SVN repository (yay!), but now we would need to run commands
>> to build the software. And this is where we run into problems ...
>>
>> The problem is that commands that we type into the text field of the
>> "Execute shell" build step need to be translated from ASCII to EBCDIC when
>> run on the OS/390 side. We confirmed that this is the problem by manually
>> translating a simple command to EBCDIC and typing those characters into the
>> text input field - the command was then executed.
>>
>> However, a lot of EBCDIC characters have non-printable ASCII equivalents,
>> so this is not an option in practice (besides it being a pain in the back
>> to maintain).
>>
>> Is there any any plugin that can handle this situation?
>>
>> Alternatively, is there a plugin that would simply let us run a script
>> that's already on the OS/390 side? Please note that again, there's the
>> problem of character set translation - this time with the file name; but
>> since the SVN plugin does work as expected, maybe some part of Jenkins is
>> already doing the right thing.
>>
>> We're stuck at this point, so any help is appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>> bye, Dirk
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