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    Enhance jsub to be event driven

    It would be great if we could enhance jsub to be notified by an even when the submission has finished, rather than by polling the JES log. In our testing, especially for short running jobs, which make up the majority of our test suite, we have fou...
    6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    ISPF statistics retention for dcp operations

    For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 7 Planned for future release

    API messages for Capacity on Demand start

    My customer would like to be able to better automate making sure that they don't exceed their CoD contract. Right now the check is based on when the model number of the CoD'd system changes but it would be useful if an API message/webhook could be...
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Under review

    Support of jls command with JCL statement /*ROUTE XEQ in ZOAU for different systems

    Customer is getting error "BGYSC3503E Failed to retrieve job list." with Wazi Deploy 3.0.5. and zoau v 1.3.6 when using different systems. It however works with WaziDeploy 3.0.5. and zoau v 1.2.5.1. ZOAU should provide the possibility for jls comm...
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    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

    Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

    Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Planned for future release

    Improve performance of the dcp command

    When copying from USS to MVS, the cp command fails if the dataset is already shared. dcp works but is slower than cp. It would be very useful if dcp could be faster and closer to the performance of the cp command.
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

    ZOAU zIIP eligibility

    We're using Python on Z and ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core with zoau under the hood for increasingly large portions of our z/OS CI workload.While Python, in which ibm_zos_core written, is zIIP eligible, we suspect that zoau's modules are not (ou...
    about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

    Enhancements to dtouch for VSAM datasets

    It’s important for dtouch (for VSAM) to support the most common IDCAMS parameters as dataset allocation is foundational. be able to specify LRECL (RECORDSIZE) average and maximum be able to specify SHR options (the default is 1,3) provide su...
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    Parse/Read job step log even if it is in BINARY

    When ZOAU read all job log STEPs it skips "CHECK1 SMPLOG 164" due to the fact that sometimes this step is in BINARY mode. The problem is that the Return Code detail message is within that step and it cannot be extracted. Looks like this step is a ...
    11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

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