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Workspace Z Open Automation Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 13, 2023

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

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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 manual from a browser - thus having to swap away from USS and back in order to issue the 'help syntax' for the command in USS.  For example, I recently could not remember the command I needed was the 'dlockcmd', so I had to swap to a browser, expand the Shell Command Reference section, have my ah-ha moment, "yes that's it 'dlockcmd, i knew it was lock something' and swap back to USS and issue the dlockcmd -h to get the syntax.

 

I fully understand ZOAU has man files and command syntax capability, but it does not offer a way of 'listing' available commands (just a listing), so one can then issue the help/man command.

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Sebastian Torf
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    |     Jan 12, 2024

    Thanks for your submission.


    All available ZOAU commands are located within the /bin directory inside your ZOAU home directory. You can retrieve a listing of all commands by running "ls $ZOAU_HOME/bin", if you configured ZOAU on your endpoint per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zoau/1.3.x?topic=installing-zoau


    Similarly, you can obtain command reference information by invoking man pages for each utility via "man opercmd", for example.


    This should allow you to see which commands are available, and how to invoke them.

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