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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.
8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under 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...
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Enhance setfacl with the -R option

The setfacl command in z/OS seems to be missing the -R (recursive) option that is available on Linux. I don't know about Aix or Solaris or HPUX. But it seems reasonable that the recursive option should be available on the setfacl command. http://l...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Increae maxlinesize for diff and patch

diff and patch have a line size limit of 1024 characters. This is small for today's computing environment. It should be increased to a much larher value.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

PFI0411-1394 ISHELL or ISPF 3.17 Copy unix-file to pds-member does not work

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0411-1394 ISHELL or ISPF 3.17 Copy unix-file to pds-member does not workHomework Assigned: N...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Not under consideration