unpax checksum error trying to install zowe pax file convenience build

[outtheresomewhere]

Trying to install Zowe on z/OS V2R4. One of the pre-reqs is IBM SDK for node.js. I downloaded the IBM SDK node.js pax file:

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 18.0 | ibm-node-v18.14.2-os390-s390x-202303231340.pax.Z

without error. When I try to unpax it on our z/OS V2R4 system, I get this error:

pax: checksum error on tape (got f962, expected 0)

I have  attempted this three times, downloading/uploading with three different FTP clients, in BINARY transfer mode; there is plenty of space in the filesystem and in the directory I am unpaxing into.

Has anyone seen this error before? I am stuck on this error...

Mike Shaw

[balhar-jakub]

@ojcelis or @Joe-Winchester Can you try pointing in the direction of someone who can actually help? I don't think we have the knowledge directly within Zowe community.

[Joe-Winchester]

Hi @outtheresomewhere, I did a quick verify myself and didn't run into any problems. Steps I took:

• Download from https://www.ibm.com/products/sdk-nodejs-compiler-zos and followed link from Download pax edition button.
• Did an sftp put to my home directory. Checked using df . that it had quite a bit of space beforehand.
• Ran `pax -ppx -rf . Output shown below.
• Did a quick cd into the bin directory and verified with node --version.

  /u/winchj/node_18:>ls -E
  total 148448
  -rw-r--r--  --s-  1 WINCHJ   TSOUSER  75952286 May  4 15:00 ibm-node-v18.14.2-os390-s390x-202303231340.pax.Z
  /u/winchj/node_18:>pax -ppx -rf ibm-node-v18.14.2-os390-s390x-202303231340.pax.Z
  /u/winchj/node_18:>ls -E
  total 148464
  -rw-r--r--  --s-  1 WINCHJ   TSOUSER  75952286 May  4 15:00 ibm-node-v18.14.2-os390-s390x-202303231340.pax.Z
  drwxr-xr-x        7 WINCHJ   TSOUSER     8192 Mar 23 20:12 node-v18.14.2-os390-s390x-202303231340
  /u/winchj/node_18:>