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    Enhance zsh to support tagged shell scripts

    In order to increase compatibility and to be able to reuse existing scripts, the zsh should also be able to execute tagged scripts.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

    Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

    hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

    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 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 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...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

    Add a Shell Pipefail Option

    The USS Shell does not support a pipefail option on other linux i have a shell option -o pipefail This setting prevents errors in a pipeline from being masked. If any command in a pipeline fails, that return code will be used as the return code of...
    5 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

    Enhance OMVS cp command

    Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

    Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

    With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 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...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

    OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

    IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

    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...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

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