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Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 15, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

OMVS OVIEW command or "read only" option for OEDIT

Would like to request that an OVIEW command be added to the OBROWSE, OEDIT commands.

This would give the user (often a sysprog with a high level of system access) the ability to look at a file in the edit/view interface, but just in a view session, not an edit session.

This would help to reduce accidental edits, etc.

The OEDIT command already has the behavior of dumping the user into a view session if they do not have write access to the file, so the behavior shouldn't be hard to add.

Add an option, perhaps "-ro" to the OEDIT command which would behave similar to the "-R" option of the vi editor.

Then perhaps an OVIEW command which could just silently call OEDIT, passing that option and any others the user specified.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 14, 2024
    This was delivered in z/OS V2R5 in September 2021.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 23, 2021

    .This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 23, 2020

    This is extremely easy to do but will require more time in documentation than it takes to implement.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 16, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #93074 in product z/OS.

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