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z/OSMF

z/OS WLM Policy advisor update

z/OSMF WLM Policy advisor is a handy tool to help analyze performance for the service classes of LPARs in a Sysplex. Its possible to select LPARs heatmaps and check their PIs through time, but there is only information about the LOCAL PIs. It woul...
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Add REST API to automate “Retrieve End of Service Information” in z/OSMF Software Management

In the z/OSMF Software Management task, the General Availability (GA) and End of Support (EOS) values for installed products are only refreshed when a user manually invokes the “Retrieve End of Service Information…” action through the GUI. These v...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Modifying other sysplex policies then CFRM

An administrative feature to modify ARM, LOGR, LOGRY, LOGRZ and SFM policies similar to the currently existing CFRM Administrative Policies feature in the Sysplex Management plug-in of z/OSMF.
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

WLM: REST-API Support for z/OSMF Workload Management task

In our environment, WLM Report Classes are essential for our accounting and chargeback management. However, it is currently not possible to automatically create, modify, delete, or even read Report Classes and Classification Rules when application...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Enable dynamic certificate selection in z/OSMF (Liberty) without requiring a static KeyAlias in server_override.xml

z/OSMF with Zowe and JWTs requires a fixed KeyAlias in server_override.xml. In many environments, certificate labels change with each renewal due to internal PKI policies. This forces administrators to manually update the KeyAlias after each certi...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Make File template content non editable during perform step time in a zosmf workflow

In Production environments we would like the JCL content to be non-editable during step perform time in a zosmf workflow. This would help us enforce controls on the JCL content not being altered in a Production environment
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Easier tool to help with structure sizing during CFLEVEL upgrades

We would like to have a tool that would read the current CF structures and generate a new CFRM policy source with all the structures increased simply based on the current CFLEVEL and a specified TARGET CFLEVEL. The tool would assume that the curre...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Validate result for the BPX.CF service in the zOSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Customers will get a notification "No CF levels are available for sizing calculation" if the BPX.CF service under Security configuration assistant is not defined. If there is a generic FACILITY class profile *.* defined, the validation result for ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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