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My ideas: Z Open Automation Utilities

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Properly resolve a user's TSO prefix

For the odd shops like ours where a TSO prefix is not the user's ID, this can cause a lot of ZOAU commands/python invocations to fail. ZOAU tries to allocate temporary work datasets under the user's "prefix", but it seems to just grab the user's I...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

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

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 man...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance pcon Time Resolution in ZOAU Command and Python API

I'd like to have the ability to provide a higher resolution timestamp in the pcon command in both the command format and the Python API. Currently, the highest resolution one can request pcon to show is up to the minute. For highly active systems,...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists