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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

Integration of Data Privacy for Diagnostics (DPfD) into z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard for sending data

We need to upload a lot of data, e.g. dump data, which quite often contain sensitive customer information. To make the process more transparent and integrated, we would like to request an optional step to be added to the z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard...
18 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

[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

Allow recursive delete to remove symbolic links when issuing a Restfiles delete request

It would allow entire directories to be deleted instead of everything except symbolic links. This currently leaves them around and they need to be removed via a different type of REST request.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

allow provide separate TTLSGroupAction for each rule while generating TLS policy using Network Configuration Assistant

Automatically generate unique TTLSGroupActionRef values per AT-TLS rule.Or allow users to enable this behavior via a configuration toggle or policy setting.This option would:Improve diagnostic granularity in NETSTAT TTLS and related tooling.Suppor...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Support Intrdr File Encoding header for all Submit Jobs requests

The z/OSMF API for submitting jobs supports a “X-IBM-Intrdr-File-Encoding” header, which has the following limitation:> This header is effective only when the JCL for the job to be submitted is included in the HTTP request body. This header is ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

No ISPF stats during LOAD creation with zosmf APIs.

I need to transfert Load (binary) member from a system to another using zosmf API. Getting the load is not a problem but transfering the load using the zOSmf APIs, the created members do not have ISPF statistics. Here is an example of logs: 2025-0...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

The z/OSMF APP Center should only show icons for the APPs that the end user has access rights to

Seeing APPs in the APP Center that the end users are not authorized to or don't know what they are used for, is confusing to the end users, who in turn raise problem tickets because they are not authorized to use an app or don't know what the app ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under 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