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    Add an option to use IBGENER to copy files using DCP

    To use IBGENER to copy some files that is having problem using the regular DCP command, good example is the SYSDEBUG/SIDEFILE output from PLI or Cobol compiler to use with File Manager or Debugger.
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

    Provide WTO Capability

    This may be similar to https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOAU-I-15 in that the desire is to write to an operator console. To expand on this idea, I would like to have a reply option that will block the caller until a reply is issue...
    over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future consideration

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

    Add functionality to pass string to jobs.submit

    Currently, jobs.submit allows one to pass a USS file or dataset path to run JCL. This may be inconvenient when one has dynamic JCL, they would need to write out their JCL to a USS file/dataset, then pass that to jobs.submit. This would be a change...
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

    ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Receiving meta information when listing members

    z Open Automation Utilities provide function to check meta information when listing a data set (like created or last changed). It would be really usefull to have this function as well for member listing.
    about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance Python API zsystem.read_console to use OPERLOG

    The current capability of the Python API only captures the syslog of the system that the API executes on. If a user wanted to automate some function / task that required capturing messages from the console in a sysplex environment that contains mu...
    about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

    Update zoau mvscmd to support --cmd= for tso commands

    The zoau mvscmd supports the --steplib= for a --pgm=program. Please add an option to invoke a tso command such as --cmd=command and then the --args= would be parameters passed to the tso command. This would fill the void the default tsocmd lacks a...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under 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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