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Z Open Automation Utilities

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ISPF statistics retention for dcp operations

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...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 5 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

Add LIKE capability to dtouch

Add a new optional parameter to dtouch shell command (and corresponding Python API) called --like (or maybe --model) which takes the name of an existing dataset. This argument would override (and could be specified completely in lieu of) other all...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued

The dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued. Should be able to issue this command: dinfo -u @02858.t.cntl …instead of this one: dls -l @02858.t.cntl | awk '{print $1, $NF}' | xargs dinfo -u to list: @...
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Enable ZOAU to support PDSE Member Generations

Please enable all ZOAU PDS processing to support PDSE Member Generations. Member Generations have been available since PDSE Version 2 was released over a decade ago and more sites are starting to take advantage of them. Using ZOAU should work and ...
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add an option to use IBGENER to copy files using DCP

To use IBGENER to copy some files that is having problem using the regular DCP command, good example is the SYSDEBUG/SIDEFILE output from PLI or Cobol compiler to use with File Manager or Debugger.
10 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Provide Capability to Write to SYSLOG

ZOAU would benefit from providing a standard mechanism to write a message to the z/OS system log. In automated processes, it is often imperative to indicate progress or the motivation for the process or even indicate that a process is taking place...
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Future consideration

Provide ENQ / DEQ services

We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

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