On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:46:34 +0000, Timothy Sipples wrote: >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-32-unlocks-value-z17 > >What’s your favorite new feature? > Support has been added to enhance the capabilities of the data set file system by representing data set characteristics such as record length, logical record length, and data set type as extended attributes. Additional enhancements allow z/OS UNIX users direct access to their jobs on the JES spool.
Will those new xattrs apply to zFS files? It would nice to specify DD PATH= and have RECFM and LRECL merged automatically as has long worked (undocumented) for FILE DATA. And even to have a directory path open as DSORG=PO. -- Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
