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Z Open Automation Utilities

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Supporting HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Need a way of listing available ZOAU Commands (reference list) from USS

ZOAU ibm documentation site has a 'Shell command Reference' section in the ZOAU manual - which is very useful. It would be just as useful to be able to get a "reference list" of available ZOAU commands from USS - instead of needing to open the man...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 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,...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration