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    Support running 64-bit program objects (load modules) with mvscmd

    Running 64-bit programs is needed since 64-bit C/C++/COBOL compilers have been available.
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

    Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
    almost 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

    Enhance mvscmd and mvscmdauth to be able to work with Datasets allocated using SUBSYS Parameter

    As part of our CI/CD Pipeline we want to copy load modules from one System of a SYSPLEX (our BUILD System) to another System on a foreign SYSPLEX (our Test System). In our “old” JCL based build system we do use JCL to call a Software called CSM (C...
    almost 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future consideration

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

    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

    zos_backup_restore ansible module looping over an inventory item with multiple entries + restore HLQ

    Dear colleagues, First of all I would like to apologize in advance if this topic has been posted before, or if it will be created in an inappropriate section of the website interface. I am currently working on developing an MQ upgrade playbook and...
    almost 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration

    OPERCMD add the console on the command

    When you use the OPERCMD, you can't select a specific console you want. If you need it, you need to pass throught a ISA command for example. Maybe add a parameter on the opercmd command to specify a specific console (and in the python api also)
    over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Properly resolve a user's TSO prefix

    For the odd shops like ours where a TSO prefix is not the user's ID, this can cause a lot of ZOAU commands/python invocations to fail. ZOAU tries to allocate temporary work datasets under the user's "prefix", but it seems to just grab the user's I...
    over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

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