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z/OSMF

Reinstate the Servepac Dialogs for product upgrade and installation

This is from a conversation between myself and other IBM tech's. My main objective is in hoping that someday, my complaint about the removal of ServerPac Dialogs will touch the right ears. : IBM is not removing those traditional interfaces nor for...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Allow multiple validation criteria for String type Variables (Type and Length at a time)

1) Problem Statement (Current Limitation)Today, z/OSMF variable validation for String type supports either: Type-based validation (Validators like DSNAME, DSQUAL,ALPHA etc.), orLength-based validation (minLength, maxLength), …but not both simultan...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

TSO commands issued via the REST API may cause data truncation

The REST APIs are extremely convenient since they don't require account information or logonProc.However, there can data truncation when using these APIs. Note:There doesn't seem to be any data truncation when going the long route.Long route: Star...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under 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 ...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Please enable the z/OSMF REST API (GET Messages) to retrieve alerts directly from the LPAR console, in addition to the currently supported SYSLOG and OPERLOG sources.

z/OS provides the capability to suppress specific SYSLOG messages, preventing them from appearing on the console. This feature is particularly useful when we want to control which alerts are forwarded to external interfaces, ensuring only relevant...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Full AMAPDUPL support, when using "send diagnostic data" in incident log

Incident log send diagnostic data facility collects all the data needed to send to ibm cases in an easy way. Full AMAPDUPL support would help to send this data easy. ATTLS should be full supported
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Allow REST API to provide absolute or relative path in REST API zosmf/restfiles/fs/{filepath-name} and/or Provide appropriate messages.

See Case TS016672435 for more details. (For me this looks like a bug, but as you see in the case, Support thinks it is working as designed, so Could we please get this fixed). A larger issue is not to get 500 return codes for REST API usage proble...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

move Workflow 'Start Parallel Automation'

Currently the Workflow 'Start Parallel Automation' is available under the Actions pulldown when in a Workflow. Whereas the 'Perform - Perform Automated Step' is available by a 'Right Click' on the Step. The Automation option shoujld be move or dup...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Capability in zOSMF workflow for 'superuser' to mark complete steps owned by other users

We have custom automated zOSMF workflows that are created and started by system users. Sometimes the steps in these workflows are not successful and are resolved outside the workflow, but we don't have a way for a human to 'mark complete' these st...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Public REST API for available solutions

As a systems programmer I want to be able to identify new PTFs that have been released by IBM and other software vendors but have not been received in my environment yet. This information should be accessible directly from the z/OSMF UI. The Softw...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

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