Shell Programming and Scripting

I have cygwin installed on windows server and when I do

echo $SHELL the output is

/bin/bash


I have created a ssh tunnel from this windows server through cygwin to ibm -i series which is running Q-shell.

I am trying to invoke a utility wsadmin (used for scripting) on ibm-i from the cygwin terminal and I get the error



wsadmin : syntax error at line 12: '(' unexpected

But when I login through the IBM-i client tool and run the same command it works fine.


How can I run the Q-shell commands (on IBM-I) from cygwin terminal(on windows server) without affecting the current scripts using the /bin/bash on cygwin. Is there a setting I am missing ?

Please show exactly what you have done, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke (blanking confidential things, of course.) It's very hard to tell what's not working without seeing this.

I am trying to invoke a scripting utility called wsadmin on ibm-iseries.

Steps below to invoke the scripting client on I-series through IBM-I command line utility

1. login through the ibm-command line client

2. Start the QSHELL using the command STRQSH

3. Navigate to the folder where my scripting utility (wsadmin) is present and ran

4. wsadmin -lang jython

5. The output is as below

The java.version property was detected as input. This property is used as out
put only and has no effect on JVM initialization.
WASX7209I: Connected to process "dmgr" on node BoxManager using SOAP connec
tor; The type of process is: DeploymentManager
WASX7031I: For help, enter: "print Help.help()"
wsadmin>

6. I get the wsadmin prompt successfully which is what I am looking for.


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I wanted to invoke the same utility on the IBM-I series from a windows machine


Now I installed cygwin on a windows machine and set up a ssh tunnel to IBM-I series machine mentioned above ...so I could run the wsadmin utility on IBM-I series from cygwin.


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Verified the ssh tunnel by logging in using the command

ssh user@ibm-i and I was able to login to the IBM-I series machine

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I navigated to the path where wsadmin is present and ran the same command

wsadmin -lang jython and I got the error


wsadmin : syntax error at line 12: '(' unexpected


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My question : Is there some settings that needs to be done to run Q-SHELL COMMANDS on cygwin ?

Thank you, that's very helpful, rules out a lot of problems I'd been wondering about.

Are you logging in with a different user than you usually would? I wonder if it ended up with a different default shell somehow.

Please let me know if my explanation isn't clear.

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This is the first time I started the wsadmin utility from cygwin terminal. I verified the user I am logging in with on cygwin terminal has full execute permissions. The shell on IBM-I is QShell but the default on cygwin shows /bin/bash.

Cygwin's user and shell shouldn't matter, once you log into the IBM server.

Cygwin's unusual terminal might cause issues, but I wouldn't expect it to cause that issue -- not recognizing the same script on the same local machine. Obviously the file itself hasn't changed. Maybe the interpreter, the environment, or your user credentials have.

I'm wondering what the difference is between how you log into the IBM server here, and how you would log in otherwise. I don't mean the ssh tunnel -- I mean things like username and credentials on the IBM machine. Things which would affect your profile, envirionment, etc on login.

I don't suppose it'd be as easy as running . /etc/profile first...

Just a clarification so we are on the same page


Attached figure showing the windows 2003 machine and the IBM-i machine.

I use the ibm-client to login to IBM-i and it works

then I use the cygwin terminal to run the same command I get an error