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Z Open Automation Utilities

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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 ...
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Add module to interface with TSO

It would be useful to have a clean and direct interface to send TSO commands from ZOAU. ZOAU is usually seen as the gateway to the MVS portion of z/OS, so it can cause some confusion to only see OPERCMD and MVSCMD in the documentation. Furthermore...
9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Access to z/OS Logstreams

z/OS Logstreams are used by CICS as Journals available to application programs. Currently there is the IXGxxxx assembler programming interface and the LOGR SUBSYS facility to read them as if they were BSAM or QSAM. Could ZOAU support them via the ...
12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Allow passing a Volume with the Move and Copy utilities to use on uncatalogged datasets

During our DR customization, we load our DASD to a floor system to make changes prior to IPL, for example changing Profile parms for TCPIP so we come up with DR IP addresses, or pointing to a DR DNS (with a TCPDATA move) or IPLing with a different...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Provide a facility similar to jls but which returns information like SDSF DA instead of ST

On Spark we start jobs (master, worker, executor, driver) and we can control which jobname it assigns. I'm assuming that the IAZXJSAB CREATE interface is used somewhere in Unix-land to register that name. I can see and work with those names and ow...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

dcat, dhead and dtail support for multiple command line dataset names

Being able to process a list of dataset names would provide additional capability, like the Unix cat command.
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

mrm should require a flag to remove all PDS members

Instead of this: mrm @02858.T.CNTL2 Use something like this: mrm -i @02858.T.CNTL2 # prompt or mrm -r @02858.T.CNTL2 # recursive The -i or -r flags would be similar to the "rm" command in Unix.
9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

jls should not default to '/*' (all jobs)

We have a very large JES2 spool environment and with new zoau users, it is very likely that this will occur often. Instead, it would be helpful to have jls default to the user's logged on id. In my case it is @02858, so I don't have to use:bash-5....
9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review