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Z Open Automation Utilities

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Add LIKE capability to dtouch

Add a new optional parameter to dtouch shell command (and corresponding Python API) called --like (or maybe --model) which takes the name of an existing dataset. This argument would override (and could be specified completely in lieu of) other all...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T dls xxxxxxxx.** dls will only list all VSAM datasets using the -t option, but the dls man page does not...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years 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.
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Enable ZOAU to support PDSE Member Generations

Please enable all ZOAU PDS processing to support PDSE Member Generations. Member Generations have been available since PDSE Version 2 was released over a decade ago and more sites are starting to take advantage of them. Using ZOAU should work and ...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

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

Support multiple arguments to mrm

mrm (member remove) currently only supports one dataset at a time. It would be convenient and ergonomic to support removing members from multiple datasets at a time. $ mrm "HLQ.DS1(*)" "HLQ.DS2(*)"BGYSC1702E Wrong number of parameters were specifi...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

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

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...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future consideration

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