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Add jobname/userid to BPXP005I messages

Currently, when the BPXP005I message is issued, there is no indication of the originating job name or user ID. As a result, system programmers must manually investigate to determine which user or job is generating the message, significantly slowin...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

Modernization of IBM zOS USS Environment

Looking to modernizing the IBM zOS USS environment to enhance its compatibility with contemporary POSIX standards and utilities. The current system, while robust, lacks certain modern features that are essential for efficient and streamlined opera...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Planned for future release

zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
8 months ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

Correct the USS_PARMLIB healthcheck

The USS_PARMLIB healthcheck compares the active runtime config against the contents of BPXPRMxx and flags any differences. The problem is that is flags ANY differences, even if they are functionally/semantically equivalent. For example, if you add...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

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

Allow the specification of multiple BPXPRM parmlib member suffixes in the "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=" MVS command

We have our OMVS defnitions split up in several BPXPRMxx parmlib members. It would be very handy if I could check the whole configuration for syntax errors with a single command e.g. "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=(A1,B2,C3)", the same way I can specify the...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS Not under consideration

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