Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2007-01-19 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Just for the archives. JDK 1.4.2 SR4 fixed a sun specification bug but introduce problems for us. Since SR4 the JVM ignore the classpath environment variable and also the -cp setting for jar files. This is WAD (works as designed or better specified) since SR4 only MANIFEST.MF should provide

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
I do not have an NFS client, so I cannot NFS mount the z/OS UNIX subdirectories which contain the jar But you could use dfsSMB to create a Windows-type share on your mainframe and map that to a drive letter on your PC. Requires a bit of set-up in order to get security right (and authentication

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, I can say confidently that jar files produced on other platforms should work fine under z/OS. We -always- produce our jars under Eclipse (using Ant and the jar task) using both Windows and Linux.We commonly download open source Java jars and upload them (in binary) for use on

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
Having Java .class files or jars on a NFS, Samba, or other remote file system can have negative impact on the application performance, especially application startup times. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread Phil Sidler
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:25:27 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: files. Finally, I get to my question. Is it OK for me to download the jar files to my workstation? I have absolutely NO idea where to look to see what the license is that would address this issue. For CICS, as an example,

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Sidler Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 3:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products. On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:25:27

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Koller Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products. Roland, do you know if a class

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-28 Thread Roland Schiradin
Shmuel, yep I done this several times (plain Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, Mail, sockets). Exception might exists for graphics of course :-)) or other extensions. Roland Roland, do you know if a class file compiled on Windows - likewise works without modifications as is after ftp to z/OS Shmuel

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-27 Thread Roland Schiradin
John, not sure for CICS but jar files works fine under z/OS. I wrote some Java code under Windows and upload (ftp) them binary to z/OS and execute them without modifications and vice versa. Be aware 1. The mainfest file must be ASCII regardless the development plattform (z/OS!!) 2. JDK 1.4.2

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-27 Thread Shmuel Koller
Roland, do you know if a class file compiled on Windows - likewise works without modifications as is after ftp to z/OS Shmuel From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Schiradin Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:50