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Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
18 days ago in z/OS / USS 2 Submitted

Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
18 days ago in z/OS / USS 3 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...
2 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

uss share memory needs to have flag to say 31/64 bit

I wanted to connect to the Java Shared memory. When I used shmctl it came back with a length of 0. When I used shmat with address of 0, it came back with invalid parameter. I had to compile my program as 64 bit for it to work. We need a way of tel...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

take advantage of SDB when allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH

While allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH Program, FORCE SDB only has an affect if the data set is not opened between the allocation and un allocation. The only program I can think of that does that is IEFBR14. But when we are using BPXBATCH, file...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Planned for future release

how to identify the JVM's type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.

Our goal is how to identify the jvm type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.Current method used is to examine the USS callable Service BPX1GTH to scan the returned values. The returned values are truncated, and the item searc...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Externalising the ZFS ucat Automount allocation error’s in SYSLOG.

A change is needed for the 'UCAT' option of the 'ALLOCUSER' parm in automount. A error message should be externalized to SYSLOG when the creation of the end users zfs fails because there is no ALIAS in the master catalog. Currently the only way to...
8 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Add interface to JES2/3 to be able to submit jobs via SFTP script similarly as FTP

First, the facility is on the regular FTP to JES2 job submission. This is not available on an SFTP process, this interface should be similar to the FTP. How it should work: When a client sends data in this case to the zOS mainframe, after the file...
8 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade to the BPXPRM## syntax checker

Please add a check to the syntax checker for BPXPRM* parmlib member. If a /* is entered and another /* is entered please note at least a message that an */ was not seen before the /*.
10 months ago in z/OS / USS 2 Not under consideration

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