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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Shell & Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 24, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team,

As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems
to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the
IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have
tested (tar and pax to copy new zFS data back to an HFS) appear to
recreate symbolic links with a current (versus original) link
timestamp. I opened SR 68324,082,000 to ask if there are any options to restore symbolic links via tar or pax with the original timestamps. The IBM SR response indicated that there are currently no options to restore symbolic links with original time stamps using tar or pax and also recommended that I open an RFE to request to have this functionality provided for z/OS USS tar and pax commands. Please consider this request for enhanced tar and pax functionality. Also consider that adding a new switch (-{newchar(s)} for tar and pax to enable this function would likely be preferred versus changing the base functionality of tar and pax so as not to impact any current use cases in place that might rely on tar and pax restores creating links with 'current versus original' time stamps that are already in place for customers today. If this is not clear then please feel free to call or email with further questions.

Thank you.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 25, 2017

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - Shell & Utilities
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Client

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - USS
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Client

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