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Z Open Automation Utilities

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Parse/Read job step log even if it is in BINARY

When ZOAU read all job log STEPs it skips "CHECK1 SMPLOG 164" due to the fact that sometimes this step is in BINARY mode. The problem is that the Return Code detail message is within that step and it cannot be extracted. Looks like this step is a ...
10 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

ZOAU should support VBM datasets

For some important IBM CIO application we have attempted to deploy IBM Document Control Facility (DCF) datasets using Wazi Deploy. Some of these datasets are VBM format. Apparently ZOAU dataset.create does not currently support VBM files. We need ...
3 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Provide a z/OS ENQ query comand

There are many ways to query the system/dataset ENQs on z/OS but there is no way presently via ZOAU. Please provide an easy to use query capability for ZOAU that does not require operator authority to issue the d grs command. See both ISPF ISRDDN ...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Add possibility to specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS on a dd_input (zos_mvs_raw)

In a JCL job I can work with system symblols in in-stream datasets if I specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS. I could not find a solution to do so with zos_mvs_raw. JCL Example with &YYMMDD-Symbol (current date): //COPYDS1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=64M //**...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

Allow passing a Volume with the Move and Copy utilities to use on uncatalogged datasets

During our DR customization, we load our DASD to a floor system to make changes prior to IPL, for example changing Profile parms for TCPIP so we come up with DR IP addresses, or pointing to a DR DNS (with a TCPDATA move) or IPLing with a different...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Needs more information

ZOAU zIIP eligibility

We're using Python on Z and ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core with zoau under the hood for increasingly large portions of our z/OS CI workload.While Python, in which ibm_zos_core written, is zIIP eligible, we suspect that zoau's modules are not (ou...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Add an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID to the output of zinfo command

It would be great if an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID could be added to the output of the zinfo command, or even the LP ID. Probably would make the most sense under the sys section.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.

Enhance AMATERSE (for dzip/dunzip) to use the integrated accelerator for zEDC on Z supported processors.
21 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Improvement for the zos_copy / ibm_zos_core collections module (based on ZOAU’s dcp utility)

For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

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