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Port the community Ansible (open-source Ansible) to z/OS

Ansible offers a range of benefits for IT automation: - Simplicity and Ease of Use - Agentless Architecture - Built on Python - Configuration Management - Application Deployment - Orchestration - Community Support (Ansible Galaxy) - Idempotence Be...
18 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

Port the dnf package manager with RPM-based distributions for open-source software to z/OS

dnf is a package manager that simplifies software management on RPM-based distributions. Its commands for installing, updating, searching, and removing packages, along with the ability to manage repositories, make it a valuable tool for system adm...
18 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

Simplify FTP with z/OS Data Sets

To transfer a data set from one z/OS system to another via FTP, the target system needs to have compatible attributes set or else you encounter errors such as EZA2590E send error from send_data - EDC5140I Broken pipe. (errno2=0x76697242) EZA2603E ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Submitted

Add a Shell Pipefail Option

The USS Shell does not support a pipefail option on other linux i have a shell option -o pipefail This setting prevents errors in a pipeline from being masked. If any command in a pipeline fails, that return code will be used as the return code of...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

Support in-place editing for sed

The Linux version of sed has a "-i / --in-place" option that allows a sed script to modify a file in-place. The z/OS versions of sed found at /bin/sed do not support this option. Without this option, users resort to a shell redirect and rename usi...
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
11 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Functionality already exists

Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

Allow cp command to access output PDS as DISP=SHR

Currently, the cp command, when copying to a PDS, accesses the library using DISP=OLD. It therefore fails if someone is editing a member in that PDS or even browsing it. Need a way to access the PDS using DISP=SHR, so the cp command will work in t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

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