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rm -r protection when spanning multiple file systems

A user accidentally issued an rm -r .* * command from /The user was unaware that he did this. This deleted files across thousands of our USS file systems. There needs to be a warning message when this kind of destructive command is issued that spa...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

Enhance 'date' command to support Julian date conversion

Very often there is a need to convert a Julian date to regular-date and back. In other Unix/Linux version this can be done e.g. by commands like:date -d "2007-11-30" +%j. One can write a REXX scripts performing this conversion ,,, but much better ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

Improve skulker performance

With SFTP, each transfer creates a log file. With heavy usage, this can create thousands of log files daily. Using skulker to delete these files is no longer feasible since it can only delete around 4K files per hour using almost an entire engine ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

No SYSLOGD messages (open- and close session) written out using "su"

We have no SYSLOGD log messages written out for users who are using the "su" command in a z/OS UNIX session, while "telnet", "ssh" and other remote access commands do write out login- and logout-messages. This messages are importand to have a comp...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

grep support recursion

Provide native support for recursion in grep, both -r and -R.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

Support extra wide output from "ps"

As we start to set up a Java environment on z/OS, we are finding that some of the tools that we have on Linux (RHEL in our case) are not available on z/OS. Please support extra wide output in the ps command, similar to how Linux gives the -w optio...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

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