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Z Open Automation Utilities

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Create tape datasets from Python API to ZOAU

In zOS there are two types of hardware datasets, the datasets that exist on Direct Access Devices (DISKs) and datasets that exist on TAPES. Data in datasets can be too large to be housed on DISKs, so the datasets are put on Tapes so that they don'...
12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

Integrate ZOAU into the z/OS base

ZOAU has become the go to toolset on z/OS for some shops but it is still not something an ISV, or open-source developer, can use as there is no guarantee that every installation will have it. By integrating it into the z/OS base so it is installed...
12 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T dls xxxxxxxx.** dls will only list all VSAM datasets using the -t option, but the dls man page does not...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Delivered

Support multiple arguments to mrm

mrm (member remove) currently only supports one dataset at a time. It would be convenient and ergonomic to support removing members from multiple datasets at a time. $ mrm "HLQ.DS1(*)" "HLQ.DS2(*)"BGYSC1702E Wrong number of parameters were specifi...
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

ZOA helper scripts support through NetView when SDSF is unavailable

As a shop not running SDSF we still need the job interaction and MVSOPER utilities of ZOA. This can be achieved by adding logic to the Helper scripts that interact with SDSF for issuing commands and interacting with jobs, and if SDSF is unavailabl...
over 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

Add support for multiline and >1024character line writes

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...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Delivered

Add support for GDG processing to DCP and MVSCMD commands in zoau

We cannot copy from USS File system to SEQ GDG using DCP or MVSCMD with the (+1) coded DCP Command Fails -bash-4.3$ dcp /bac/var/lib/devops/svcid/zsuserid/joblist 'ZSUSERID.TESTGDG(+1)' 17.47.08 STC00338 IEC034I INCONSISTENT RECORD FORMATS F AND V...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

Permit pjdd to have all JES2 DDName like in SDSF with 'input on' command

pjdd stands for Print Job DDName and today pjdd does not print all Jobs DDName. So the purpose of this ideas is to have all JES2 DDName like in SDSF with 'input on' command
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Delivered

Binary read - Reading MVS DS with x'00'

z Open Automation Utilities provide functions for processing data sets. One of these functions is datasets.read(). Unfortunately datasets.read() stops reading after a x'00' occurs in the input data set. This RFE seeks to eliminate this restriction.
about 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

Provide Executing Program Information in jls

I would like to see the currently executing program as a capability in jls. This would allow automation and scripts to detect any jobs running particular programs (by name) and add another data column to intelligently filter data by. For example, ...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Delivered

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