ZNAME(8)

💅 ZNAME(8) — like, the whole vibe

okay so bestie, quick intro: this one lives in the System Administration Commands section of the manual, and it's called zname. It's also section 8, so yeah, it's a real admin-tool girlie. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

zname — prints info about the IBM Z hardware. That's it, that's the whole job. She tells you what the machine is. Iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

zname [OPTIONS]

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

So by default, zname shows the model name. And if any piece of info isn't available? It hits you back with <unavailable> instead. No cap, that's literally the fallback string. 💀

• -a, --all — print all the available info. the full dump. the whole meal. 🔥
• -c, --capacity — print capacity info. 🍓
• -d, --debug — bump the debug level: once for console trace, twice to trigger a dump. so like, one tap = trace, double tap = dump. careful with that second one bestie 😭
• -h, --help — print usage info and dip. exits right after. 🫶
• -i, --cpuid — print the CPU identifier. 🧚
• -j, --json — dump all available data in JSON format. ⚠️ known limitation, and I need you to hear me: no character set conversion or proper escaping is performed. so like… it's giving raw. it's giving unescaped. go in knowing that. 💀
• -m, --model — print model info. 🌈
• -n, --name — print the model name (this is the default, she's the main character). ⭐
• -u, --manufacturer — print manufacturer info. 🎀
• -v, --version — print version info. 💜

👑 RETURN CODES 👑

Successful zname commands return 0. Slay. ✨

But if an error happens? zname writes a message to stderr and completes with a return code other than 0. so like, vibe check your exit codes, fr fr. 🙈

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• zhypinfo(8) — her sister page, go say hi 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — brought to you by qclib, dated September 2020. mwah, go print some hardware info 💅✨