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

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

Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration