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Shell & Utilities

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Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
13 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Under review

Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
16 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS c...
22 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Improve MAN command

The current MAN command uses a z/OS unique man page format and man database. As others port tools (see the z/OS Open Tools project on Github at https://zosopentools.github.io/meta/#/) to run under OMVS this presents challenges and a great barrier ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Future consideration

OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

Improve the OMVS CP command performance

The current cp command is painfully slow when used to copy all members of a PDS in either direction (z/OS PDS to USS or vice versa). It appears the command does an Alloc/Open/Copy/Close/Free for *EACH* member when it should do Alloc/Open/copy each...
7 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 7 Future consideration

Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

USS tar command support with zEDC

USS tar command support with zEDC Express Adaper for compress and uncompress. Currently, we need the third vender software with zEDC for compress, but versatility expands if USS tar command can be used with zEDC express adaptor. The CPU Time is re...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

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