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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS Explorer
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 27, 2024

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New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted.

In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for the “rm” command (/etc/profile): alias rm="rm -PF"          
This can prevent the accidental deletion of root directory contents and skips directories in file systems that are different from that of the corresponding command-line argument.

We would like to have settings similar to this to restrict the recursive deletion within the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files”.

An other improvement would be when GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” provides more warnings and suggests a possibility to stop the deletion, for example when the user gets an authority error.

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Jason Chung
    Jun 5, 2025

    The development team has a question about your RFE idea.

    Can you let us know if this RFE scenario involve subfolders that are symbolic links, hard links, or mount points?

    Also, a comment from the team: For -P flag, we'll disable root delete in any case (don't think it should be optional). For the -F equivalent, we think it's better for the sysprog to set an option and to default with the restrictive mode.

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  • Admin
    Jason Chung
    Feb 26, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently in line with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

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