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Use NEWNAMEunconditional on zOSMF backup of source datasets

On systems where the HLQ of source datasets only exist on the source system, a catalog error on the target system is encountered when the restore job runs even though RENAMEunconditional is used to rename to a HLQ that exists on the target system....
10 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

[Sysplex Management] Allow to edit preflist of multiple structures at once in the CFRM Policy editor

Currently, if you want to modify the preflist of multiple structures, you must select each structure individually, click "Edit", adjust the preflist order using the "Sort" buttons in the preflist section, and then save the changes. When dealing wi...
26 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF StorageAPI Get MegaBytes/GigaBytes instead of Tracks, get Used-Percent

Hello, we are using /zosmf/storage/rest/v1/storagegroups for checking our z/OS Storage Groups for enough freespace / storage Monitoring. We found out, that we are only able to get trackNumbers, but not GigaBytes as measurement unit,in ISMF (ISPF) ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Provide options to cancel active user sessions

It would be beneficial to have options to cancel active user sessions in order to comply with an audit requirement. This would involve providing the following options: Enhancing the Usage Satatistics plugin by selecting a box beside a User ID, the...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

more flexible data selection in JOBS REST API

current /restjobs/jobs API : supports status=active, but not status=output or status=input -- make this a full choice of available status returns up to 1000 jobs (without exec-data) but provides no way to access any remaining jobs, only to make a ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide an operator command to display active z/OSMF Users

Currently the systems programmer and operator can display all active jobs, tso users, and shell (sshd) users, but they are unable to display the z/OSMF users. This information is helpful when planning to shutdown a system for a planned (or unplann...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Concurrent REST requests for downloading PDS members results in several abended IZUFPROC jobs

Say that I have a sample application that makes multiple, concurrent requests to the z/OSMF REST API to download PDS members. It uses the endpoint for retrieving the contents of a data set member: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=interf...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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