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Z Open Automation Utilities

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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...
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add a 'nodefaults' option to mvscmd and mvscmdauth

The mvscmd and mvscmdauth commands set a default for a number of dcb characteristics when a <ddname>= is added and no specific dcb options are specified. However, some programs will set the dcb (like recfm, lrecl) themselves. For example, th...
10 months 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...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

Enforcing JESSPOOL security rules on JCAN command

When JCAN is used to issue a cancel or purge command, it will issue the operator command $CJ(nnnnnn). This is like what SDSF does, when a line command C/P against the selected job. The significant difference is SDSF can/will perform a check agains...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Provide Capability to Write to SYSLOG

ZOAU would benefit from providing a standard mechanism to write a message to the z/OS system log. In automated processes, it is often imperative to indicate progress or the motivation for the process or even indicate that a process is taking place...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Enhance pcon Time Resolution in ZOAU Command and Python API

I'd like to have the ability to provide a higher resolution timestamp in the pcon command in both the command format and the Python API. Currently, the highest resolution one can request pcon to show is up to the minute. For highly active systems,...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Z Open Automation Utilities should eliminate dependencies on SSVIVERS returned by SSI 54.

SSVIVERS has been a highly-volatile field over the years for both JESes. Historically, these values have been: JES2 Value JES3 Value OS Release'SP v.r.m' 'SP v.r.m' MVS/SP'OS v.r.m' 'OS v.r.m' OS/390 V1.1 through V2.9'OS 2.10 ' 'OS 2.10 ' OS/390 V...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under 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...
about 2 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...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future consideration

Better parsing of LISTCAT output by dsfilter

Using the zOS Open Automations Utilities (zOAU) "dls" command to list datasets, there were inconsistencies in the returned output where at times, some datasets would not be found. The "dsfilter" utility, which is used by "dls" command, calls LISTC...
almost 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration

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