System concatenation utilities functionality overview

Get a temporary data set name

With ZOAU, you can first generate a valid MVS data set name that is suitable for use as a temporary data set and then create a data set with it in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

temporary_name=$(mvstmp $(hlq))
dtouch $temporary_name

Calling an API in Python programs:

temporary_name = datasets.temp_name(datasets.get_hlq())
datasets.create(temporary_name)

Find a member in a concatenation

With ZOAU, you can search for a member, for example ZFSALLOC, within a data set concatenation, for example IBMUSER1.JCL:IBMUSER2.JCL:IBMUSER3.JCL, in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

dwhence "ZFSALLOC" "IBMUSER1.JCL:IBMUSER2.JCL:IBMUSER3.JCL"

Calling an API in Python programs:

datasets.find_member("ZFSALLOC", "IBMUSER1.JCL:IBMUSER2.JCL:IBMUSER3.JCL")

Display the active link list

With ZOAU, you can display the active link list concatenation in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

pll

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.list_linklist())

Search link list for a member

With ZOAU, you can search for the data set, for example IXZXIT01, in the link list that a module comes from in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

llwhence IXZXIT01

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.find_linklist(member="IXZXIT01"))

Display the active parmlib

With ZOAU, you can display the active parmlib in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

pparm

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.list_parmlib())

Search parmlib for a string

With ZOAU, you can search for a string, for example NODSI, across the parmlib concatenation in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

parmgrep "NODSI"

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.search_parmlib("NODSI"))

Search parmlib for a member

With ZOAU, you can search for the data set that a member, for example ZSCHED00, comes from in the parmlib concatenation in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

parmwhence ZSCHED00

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.find_parmlib("ZSCHED00"))

Display the active proclib

With ZOAU, you can display the active proclib in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

pproc

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.list_proclib())

Search proclib for a string

With ZOAU, you can search for a string, for example IEFRDER, across the proclib concatenation in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

procgrep IEFRDER

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.search_proclib("IEFRDER"))

Search proclib for a member

With ZOAU, you can find the data set that a member, for example XWTR, comes from in the proclib concatenation in the following ways:

Issuing a shell command:

procwhence XWTR

Calling an API in Python programs:

print(zsystem.find_proclib("XWTR"))