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Workspace Z Open Automation Utilities
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Created on Nov 29, 2023

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Add support for multiline and >1024character line writes

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Currently, ZOAU is limited in its ability to write to a z/OS dataset. Currently, the maximum character length for a line is 1024. Splitting a longer string into multiple lines requires multiple calls to datasets.write() since this function takes a string instead of a list, and therefore does multiple open/write/closes of a dataset, which is not efficient.

ZOAU Exception when trying to write longer lines:
zoautil_py.exceptions.ZOAUException:
{'rc': 8,
'stdout_response': '',
'stderr_response': 'BGYSC0709E Unable to write line to dataset, line exceeds maximum length of 1024.\n',
...
}

It would be great if ZOAU supported writing lines of longer length as well as the ability to do multiline writes with a single call.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Sebastian Torf
    Reply
    |     Feb 21, 2025

    Thanks for your suggestion! This feature was delivered as part of ZOAU 1.3.3.0 as part of the zoau_io Python module. Details can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zoau/1.3.x?topic=whats-new-zoau#version-1-3-3-0

  • Admin
    Sebastian Torf
    Reply
    |     Dec 14, 2023

    Additional write capabilities are in plan for the zoau_io Python module. This will be the preferred method going forward for more advanced data set operations instead of datasets.write()

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