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could we have AOPBATCH part of the z/OS and not dependant of having InforPrint Server ?

AOPBATCH is better than BPXBATCH
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Provide option for dubbed processes to inherit environment from init process

Please provide options - a global default in BPXPRMxx and user level option in user's OMVS segment for a "blind dubbed" process to inherit its environment from the "init" process (PID 1). Currently, an address space that is not started by USS Logo...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

OGET and OPUT convert to/from EBCDIC

Allow OGET (copy from USS file to MVS dataset) to convert to EBCDIC (code page 1047). Add a new parm "TO1047" to perform this similiar to OCOPY. For OPUT add parm "FROM1047" to convert to ASCII (code page 037)
5 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

bpxwmigf working with ZFSs (VSAM) as name ends with .D (not .DATA)

Nós temos milhares de ZFSs para serem migrados/redefinidos porém este utilitário possui uma limitação no tratamento dos nomes dos ZFSs. Ele obrigatoriamente espera que os nomes terminem com '.DATA' porém nossos ZFSs possuem nomes próximos de 44 ca...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

z/OS UNIX commands in /bin (cat, echo, touch, vi) as well as /bin/sh redirect should tag files.

I find myself tagging existing files that were untagged EBCDIC to work with new open-source ASCII based tools that rely on automatic conversion. A suggestion from Igor Todorovski ( itodorov@ca.ibm.com ): “Could be achieved by providing a new versi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Mount point and directory hierarchy verification

Just like the SYNTAXCHECK checks the syntax of BPXPRMxx, I'd like to have the ability to compare whatever there is in the BPXPRMxx in terms of mount and mount points against the root file system. A feature that checks if the mount points exist in ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Have bpxwmigf check desired access to filesystem dataset is permitted before starting

It is possible for bpxwmigf to mirror and swap to use the new filesystem but then fail to perform the rename of the target(or source) if ALTER access was not permitted. While no outage occurs, this does lead to additional work to either repeat the...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Expand options for automount

the -f option on automount should allow wildcarding and also accept a 'blank' to show ALL zfs's automount information.
5 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Enable OCOPY to create and maintain ISPF statistics for PDS members

Currently, using OCOPY to update a PDS does not generate ISPF statistics, which would be useful for a number of reasons. FTP allows this now as long as the ISPFSTATS configuration statement is present.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

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