Thanks! Christian On 02/05/2014 16:43, "Richard Könning" <richard.koenn...@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>Hello, >in the request tracker under item #843 there are patches for 0.9.7c >(created and tested on Fujitsu BS2000) and 0.9.7j (updated by Jeremy >Grieshop for z/OS). >Because i saw no actions to incorporate the patches into the official >sources in the last ten years i saved afterwards the work to commit our >patches for newer OpenSSL versions. >If there is interest i can provide patches for lines 0.9.8, 1.0.0 and >1.0.1 too; it will probably take some days because i have first to look >at the patches and maybe remove some non-EBCDIC related parts. >Best regards, >Richard > >Am 29.04.2014 13:52, schrieb mclellan, dave: >> We are active and continuing users of the z/OS port of OpenSSL, have >>just rebuilt 1.0.1c without heartbeats on a maintenance stream and are >>upgrading to 1.0.g on a future release stream. Just as example of >>staying current on z/OS. >> >> We use z/OS on the server side only, and generates server certs from a >>Windows machine, and transfer the certs to USS using binary FTP. The >>server does not require a client cert since we couldn't get that working >>and have never had time to look into it. We don't use the openssl CLI on >>z/OS. >> >> We have even considered the port for Fujitsu BS2000 but don't have a >>business priority for it. >> >> All this to say that we sure hope that z/OS and OpenSSL continue to be >>real, and I'm glad to have read Tim's response. >> >> >> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- >> Dave McLellan, VMAX Software Engineering, EMC Corporation, 176 South St. >> Mail Stop 176-V1 1/P-36, Hopkinton, MA 01749 >> Office: 508-249-1257, Mobile: 978-500-2546, dave.mclel...@emc.com >> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org >>[mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Stephan >>Mühlstrasser >> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:48 AM >> To: Tim Hudson; openssl-users@openssl.org >> Subject: Re: State of EBCDIC support in OpenSSL >> >> Am 29.04.14 10:28, schrieb Tim Hudson: >>> Bug reports on EBCDIC with patches are definitely interesting as there >>> is an active community of OpenSSL z/OS users - at the very least the >>> other users will benefit from any work you have already done. >> >> I can provide bug reports, but at the moment I cannot promise that I >>can come up with corresponding patches as well. >> >> I did some research in the OpenSSL mailing list archives, and from that >>I have the impression that there's little activity from OpenSSL z/OS >>users over the last few years. Are there other places where you see the >>"active community of OpenSSL z/OS users"? >> >>> For the broader context I think you'll find the issue for handling >>> such platforms will usually be the typical one of regular platform >>>access. >>> Checking, adjusting, and confirming patches which are platform >>> specific that are non-trivial basically requires access to the >>>platform. >>> >>> One thing to consider is if you (or anyone else) is able to provide >>> permanent (or semi-permanent) access (via ssh) to a z/OS platform with >>> USS installed that places the user into a standard shell environment >>> with the compilers accessible. >> >> I'm sorry, but I can't help with platform access, as we only have a >>z/OS development system for porting our software, not even a real >>zSeries machine. >> >> I would expect that IBM itself should be interested in a working >>OpenSSL port for zSeries. We have a very old version of OpenSSL on our >>system that we downloaded from the IBM website in the past. This version >>is for example able to print out certificates correctly. >> >> Today the IBM website about open source software available for z/OS >>point to openssl.org for getting OpenSSL: >> >> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/bpxa1ty1.html >> >> "The free unsupported version of OpenSSL previously offered here is no >>longer available. Instead, we refer you to the functionally equivalent >>version available from the official OpenSSL project website." >> >> If someone from IBM is reading this, please consider the request by Tim >>for access to a z/OS platform. >> >> Stephan >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org >> Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org >> Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >> > >______________________________________________________________________ >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org >Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
