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z/OSMF

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Enhance the z/OSMF programming guide to rotate sideways-tables back to vertical, or re-design them if it's not possible.

Most people read publication online, it is very difficult to read doc sideways, especially there are so many sideways-tables in this doc. Please see table 4 (Event types shipped with z/OSMF) as an example as well as tables from 603 to 615 in chapt...
18 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Support recalling migrated datasets in z/OSMF desktop data set list

This feature would increase the usability of z/OSMF desktop data set list.
21 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Inclusion of error description and possible causes as a comment for excluded PTF's in z/OSMF APPLY/INSTALLTION job.

Adding error descriptions and possible causes as comments for excluded PTFs (Program Temporary Fixes) in a z/OSMF apply or installation job offers several significant advantages. Adding these comments transforms a mere exclusion into a valuable pi...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

An optional option to execute SMP/E ACCEPT with RSU* as default sourceid should be provided within z/OSMF's Software Update process.

This will be a valuable potential enhancement for z/OSMF! While z/OSMF's Software Update focuses on the APPLY process, integrating an option to execute SMP/E ACCEPT with RSU* as a default SOURCEID would offer several significant advantages. Despit...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance of SMF Explorer and SMF REST Services

SMF Explorer and SMF REST Services supports only the following SMF Types now. Type30 Type70-79 Type99 Type113 Reference: https://ibm.github.io/IBM-SMF-Explorer/mappings/guide/ https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=services-smf-rest We would ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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) ...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

Misleading e-tag mismatch after uploading to sequential data set

Create a sequential data set with RECFM=VB. In this case I created a data set with my username (4 characters long) as the high-level qualifier: USER.TEST.PS Use the z/OSMF API endpoint to write to a data set (PUT request, /zosmf/restfiles/ds/<d...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future 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
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple people to interact with a workflow without needing to take ownership

We have multiple systems programmers on our team. In the event that a systems programmer is unwell/ sick , we can't view the "perform" section of a workflow owner by a different user. It would be great if we could view all steps in the workflow wi...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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