What is Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS?

Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS provides miscellaneous utilities that are commonly used on other platforms, and now on the z platform as well. For this release, bzip2 is provided. The following additional utilities are available via the service stream:

• IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager for the Enterprise on System z (IRMM) command line interface (CLI) (APAR: OA22006)
• cURL 7.16.1 (APAR: OA22944)

Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS is an unpriced feature of the IBM Ported Tools for z/OS, an unpriced licensed program.

bzip2 is a powerful data compressing utility. It is widely used on other platforms in the industry and has now been made available to run on z/OS UNIX System Services. Its usage syntax is intuitive and therefore makes it attractive for a wide audience. As with most compression utilities, it provides both compression and decompression capabilities.

IRMM CLI permits a z/OS administrator to fully administer, control, and monitor the distributed tape infrastructure from z/OS. Additional information and updates of IRMM can be obtained from the IRMM Web site.

cURL is an open source tool that can transfer data from or to a server or servers, using one of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction. cURL offers a variety of useful functions like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer, resume, and more. It is a command-line UNIX application, and runs in the z/OS UNIX System Services environment.

Ordering Information

To order Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS, most customers can go to IBM ShopzSeries Web site. For all other customers, please contact your local IBM representative.

Note:  When Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS is ordered, it will be sent with IBM Ported Tools for z/OS (which contains the OpenSSH function). An order of IBM Ported Tools for z/OS will not include Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS. OpenSSH and Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS functions can be run independently.

Product Documentation

• IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS Feature User's Guide PDF

The latest version of the Program Directory and License Information document can be found here.

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