Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-20 Thread Timothy Sipples
That's correct: the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is a standard, included feature of the base z/OS operating system. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is available as far back as z/OS 2.1, although on that particular release a PTF installation is required to get it. Reference APARs

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-19 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Last week I talked with some people at IBM about this, and no one of them mentioned additional costs; AFAIK, this is part of basic z/OS if you have release 2.2 or higher and should come at no cost (with 2.1, it can be installed using PTF or APAR, IIRC). This is NOT z/OS Connect EE, which may

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-19 Thread scott Ford
Bernd, Is my assumption correct a customer must pay for this feature ? We run z/PDT and I was just wondering if we could use it. Regards, Scott IDMWORKS z/OS Dev lead On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:40 PM Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > Thank you all for your valuable answers. > > I found this

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Thank you all for your valuable answers. I found this presentation in the meantime: http://www.newera.com/INFO/11-2017_Web_Enablement_Toolkit.pdf and this: http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/administrator/systemsmanagement/client-web-enablement-toolkit/?page=1 and these pages from IBM:

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
lt;000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wr

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > >> You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the >> one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about > IIRC, IBM used to distribute

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) Here is a list of the tools Rocket Ported I just compiled for my reference for discussions about what would be nice to have in USS … just my opinion, not an IBM

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) Here is a list of the tools Rocket Ported I just compiled for my reference for discussions about what would be nice to have in USS … just my opinion, not an IBM statement. Big priorities for me are bash, python, perl , git, sed. Others are nice to have

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a >"POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a >group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't >have any real

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
os? What about bash? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of > Matt Hogstrom > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 10:52 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the > one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about > hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS > needs a serious

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) You are correct about GPL

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
t; -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of >> Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >> Sent: Sun

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
on behalf of > Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 9:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:55:25 +0100, Bernd Oppol

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
ul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 9:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:55:25 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >> >&

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
9 9:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:55:25 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >Now the problem is: I am limited to HTTP at the moment, but customer's politics >requires me to do HTTPS in the middl

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:55:25 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >Now the problem is: I am limited to HTTP at the moment, but customer's politics >requires me to do HTTPS in the middle and long term. > For batch, would "curl" help? (But that depends on the customer's having the Rocket Ported Tools

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Absolutely On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:35 PM Joe Monk wrote: > Bernd, > > There is a CICS sockets interface for the C language. Ive written code in > it. > > Joe > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:55 AM Bernd Oppolzer < > bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > some months ago,

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread Joe Monk
Bernd, There is a CICS sockets interface for the C language. Ive written code in it. Joe On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:55 AM Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > Hello all, > > some months ago, I wrote a program which allows to call webservices > (HTTP POST or HTTP GET) > from batch programs, written in C or

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread Denis
If your https target has a determinable ip address port combination, then you can let the z/os networking guys onfigure SSL for you by using AT-TLS. Then you don't need to change anything on your program, the encryption will be transparent to your application and from the z/os tcpip stack to

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread scott Ford
ITschak and Berne I seem to remember there is a CICS Sockets interface you can use in batch. We use CICS Sockets in a STC and had considered the batch interface.. Regards, Scott On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 1:00 PM ITschak Mugzach wrote: > I am using the http/https protocol enabler in assembler.

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-10 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I am using the http/https protocol enabler in assembler. Coding is simple. Works well. I only use it outside of cics. Btw, i tried it with other protocols like syslog and it works just fine. ITschak בתאריך יום א׳, 10 במרץ 2019, 18:55, מאת Bernd Oppolzer ‏< bernd.oppol...@t-online.de>: > Hello