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Z Open Automation Utilities

Add 'drecall'/'dmigrate' command and auto-recall for commands that read/write to data sets

Recalling and migrating data sets is a common task those who work with z/OS data sets have deal with. I most commonly find myself needing to access data sets that I have not worked with in a long time, and as a result some end up getting migrated,...
5 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Submitted

Provide PDF format documentation

IBM docs is only available in HTML format , the PDF download option is missing. Please add a PDF format of the docs, so it is consistent with z/OS and other products which provided PDFs. I want to use Claude with the docs , so I can modernize our ...
18 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Submitted

Allow zsystem module to gather information on SMF datasets from parmlib

Allow zsystem module to gather information on SMF datasets from parmlib. This would be useful for compliance utilities, SMF parsers and a bunch of other things.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Submitted

Add a '--all'/'-A' option to 'dls' to display all information for all matching data sets

I often find myself needing to see all of the details for a set of data sets using 'dls', but there is no flag that makes it easy to show all details. I use '-bHsTuU', which I cannot memorize and need to copy from somewhere every time. This combin...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Submitted

Have mvscmd.execute_authorized respect PPT settings

I'm trying to run DSNUTILB under zoau. It is an apf authorized program, so I'm calling it using mvscmd.execute_authorized. It starts, but ends with a Db2 reason code 00E40002, indicating that the program is running in the wrong key. Program DSNUTI...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Needs more information

dcp: Allow non-fully qualified paths to zFS files

dcp currently requires zFS filenames to be fully qualified (ie. from the root directory) in order to disambiguate them from dataset names. As a QoL improvement, it would be nice if dcp recognized any name containing a slash (/) as a zFS filename. ...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Future consideration

Add shell interface for TSO XMIT and RECEIVE

Occasionally, I find myself needing to "transmit" and "recieve" data sets using the TSO XMIT/RECEIVE commands. I do most of my work from the z/OS UNIX shell and I usually end up using the 'tsocmd' and 'mvscmdauth' commands below to do this. tsocmd...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Future consideration

Better uncataloged data set support

Occasionally, I find myself needing to work with uncatalogued data sets and unfortunately ZOAU has limited support for uncatalogued data sets and have found myself needing to resort to using JCL utilities like IEHLIST to work with uncatalogued dat...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Future consideration

datasets.exists should work for pds/e (with member)

datasets.exists does not return correct results if a dataset with a member is beeing passed. Now we have to write code - to split the dataset and member- use datasets.exits to check if the dataset exists- use datasets.list_members to check if the ...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Future consideration

Add regexp support to dgrep

Add possibility to search with regexp patterns in dgrep, similarly like grep has. This improves usability of dgrep.
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Future consideration