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MVS Utilities: An almost real-world example

MVS Utilities: An almost real-world example

I have been working on the open source MVSCommand and MVSUtils for awhile now (also available in pax format for those that just want to use the tools). But, it can be hard to understand without an example, so when I was looking at the Master the Mainframe contest the other day, I had some inspiration.

What is Master the Mainframe? IBM created Master the Mainframeseveral years ago as a contest…

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Working with MVS datasets from USS

A little while back, I talked about mvscmd, which lets me run MVS programs from the z/OS USS environment (the UNIX shell).

I’ve since written a few utilities that make it easier to work with datasets for basic day to day operations. These scripts are all rather primitive, but I wanted to share them – it’s just ‘a small matter of coding’ to provide more robust scripts that are a little more…