You might also want to look at our (free) Co:Z Launcher tool. It uses SSH under the covers, and allows you to not only launch shell commands from z/OS, but the Linux process can reach back into the MVS jobstep and access z/OS datasets via pipes.
For examples, see: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/cookbook.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Stewart Thomas J <[email protected]> wrote: > This is how I do it - highly recommend using SSH instead of R-anything. Makes > your security auditors happy. > > //SFTPPRF1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM=('SH ssh -o $O1 -l $L $S $CMD') > //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=(,) > //STDERR DD SYSOUT=(,) > //STDENV DD * > L=userid > S=linux.whatever.com > CMD=ls -al > O1=StrictHostKeyChecking=no > /* > > For this to work, you must have OpenSSH on the mainframe side. And establish > SSH keys between Unix System Services and the Linux machine. If you Google > "ssh keys" you'll find lots of sites on how to do that. > > Also, check out the offering from Dovetail: > http://dovetail.com/index.html > > Fancier version of doing some of the same thing. > > Tom Stewart > z/OS Support Services > John Deere > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jones, > Russell > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: REXEC / RSH > > Does anyone have any experience running remote linux commands from MVS batch? > I have found that MVS TSO has REXEC and RSH, but I am been unsuccessful > executing a remote command on linux. I can use rexec/rsh from one linux > system to another, but not from MVS. > > Any help on using these commands, or other suggestions on how to execute > remote commands will be much appreciated. > > Russell Jones > ANPAC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
