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Shell & Utilities

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Allow for Unix soft link to zOS files

Right now you can not create a soft link from Unix to zOS MVS. This impacts some applications in where we can store configuration data. For example if we want to have our FTP.DATA file in MVS but use the default /etc/ftp.data we would have to copy...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Allow 'su' to inherit options from the parent shell

Hello IBM, Without the 2nd 'errexit', the script below continues further execution, despite /var/xxxxxxxxxxx being non-existent ('su' does not inherit the 1st 'errexit'). If the commands following the 'su' are dangerous, system-wide actions (not h...
12 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

I am using XVFB in the USS. I need to be able to issue HOST commands to limit hosts that can connect to XVFB.

This would let us control the Xvfb Server
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Change of behaviour for the USS 'tail' command

The USS 'tail -1 <file>' command is outputting 2 lines if the final line in a file does not end with a new-line character: >cat tt aaa bbb ccc>>od -h tt 0000000000 81 81 81 15 82 82 82 15 83 83 83 0000000013 >tail -1 tt bb...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Keep owner of .sh_history on shell initialization

On shell initialization the .sh_history in the home directory is recreated (with the previous content) and the owner is set to the current UID, that started the process. This leads to problems, if the user changed his UID (e.g. switched to UID=0) ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Need -w option on z/OS Unix grep command

Update z/OS Unix grep command with the -w option. Here's the failing command being sent from a non-Z Linux host to z/OS Unix for execution: grep -sqwF "$key" "$keyfile" Here's the definition of -w that I have seen: "-w, --word-regexp Select only t...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

z/OS UNIX - Improvements to mv Command

Regarding the z/OS UNIX mv command ... We believe the mv command should always move a file asis, i.e. it should not only move the file as regards to name, content and size, but also retain all of its attributes, including security attributes. Th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future 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...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Port the tree command to Unix System Services

Either port the tree command or create an equivalent command for Unix System Services
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

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