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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 13, 2024

Include additional open-source tools for System Administration/Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and Development.

Enhance development ease of use, expand system administration/automation capabilities and continue to transfer Linux skills to the z/OS platform.

A suggestion for the next set of tools to add:

System Admin: sudo, gpg, openssl

CI/CD: groovy/gradle, wget

Development: man-db, nano, gzip, jq, which/whereis


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 8, 2024

    Hi,
    Would add zip/unzip also to the list

  • Admin
    Hyder Naqvi
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    Sep 16, 2024

    A bulk are under future consideration

  • Admin
    Hyder Naqvi
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    Jul 19, 2024

    Thank you we will assess these ideas.

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2024

    Suggest also adding the updated man command to support the linux format man pages and the man database.