Best comment of the thread - ask your sysprog. If you ran that command where I work it would take over an hour, take huge amounts of CPU and you would be pinged by a sysprog pretty quickly when you started lighting up the SecOps dashboards.
> On 5 Jul 2024, at 21:54, Pommier, Rex <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> wrote: > > 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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > David Crayford > Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 8:29 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > 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 <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> 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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On >> Behalf Of David Crayford >> Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 7:42 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: About Python and REXX >> >>>> On 5 Jul 2024, at 20:25, Dana Mitchell >>>> <000006541c3d849c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> 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 <wayn...@gmail.com> >>>>> 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> < >>>> 00000619bfe39560-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO >>> IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from >> disclosure and may be legally privileged. 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