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Shell & Utilities

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.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Add composite patterns to sh

Composite patterns are a regular expression-like extension to shell glob patterns. For example, the composite pattern *(a) matches zero or more "a" characters. Composite patterns are useful. In my experience, they are often used in KornShell scrip...
3 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future 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 ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Enhance zsh to support tagged shell scripts

In order to increase compatibility and to be able to reuse existing scripts, the zsh should also be able to execute tagged scripts.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Skulker file latch across systems in a sysplex for shared file systems

Hello developement team, in case TS020247393 you have clarified actual behaviour of skulker, which is just doing file latching per system. It would be useful in a sysplex environment to enhance this latching across all systems in the plex in order...
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 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 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Allow 'su' to inherit options from the parent shell

Hello IBM, Without the 2nd 'errexit', the script below continues further execution, despite /var/xxxxxxxxxxx being non-existent ('su' does not inherit the 1st 'errexit'). If the commands following the 'su' are dangerous, system-wide actions (not h...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Allow for Unix soft link to zOS files

Right now you can not create a soft link from Unix to zOS MVS. This impacts some applications in where we can store configuration data. For example if we want to have our FTP.DATA file in MVS but use the default /etc/ftp.data we would have to copy...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

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