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    Properly support JES2 command characters other than $

    Many shops outside of the CCSID 37/1140 usage zone use characters other than $ for their JES2 command character. In the past, I worked in a shop that used a full stop (.) as the command character. ZOAU uses $ exclusively, making it impossible to i...
    7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Support for PDSE datasets on EAV volumes

    We have PDSE ds allocated in EAV volumes, so when we use member_archive in Wazi Deploy we get the following error in the copy step using ZOAU copy command dcp. ZOAU does not support PDSE datasets on EAV volumes (because they are a format 8/9/3 pai...
    10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Enhance Dzip to use ADRDSSU compress

    I've been using Dzip to attempt to backup some datasets. Unfortunately I keep getting B37 abends during the ADRDSSU processing because the temp datasets aren't large enough that are being used. Could we get an option to enable compression during t...
    10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    ZOAU should support VBM datasets

    For some important IBM CIO application we have attempted to deploy IBM Document Control Facility (DCF) datasets using Wazi Deploy. Some of these datasets are VBM format. Apparently ZOAU dataset.create does not currently support VBM files. We need ...
    11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.

    Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.
    11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Add an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID to the output of zinfo command

    It would be great if an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID could be added to the output of the zinfo command, or even the LP ID. Probably would make the most sense under the sys section.
    12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Symbol support in mvscmd

    In a JCL job I can work with system symblols in in-stream datasets if I specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS. I could not find a solution to do so with zos_mvs_raw. JCL Example with &YYMMDD-Symbol (current date): //COPYDS1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=64M //**...
    12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

    Provide a z/OS ENQ query comand

    There are many ways to query the system/dataset ENQs on z/OS but there is no way presently via ZOAU. Please provide an easy to use query capability for ZOAU that does not require operator authority to issue the d grs command. See both ISPF ISRDDN ...
    about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

    It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
    about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Provide ENQ / DEQ services

    We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
    about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

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