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Saving job output from Deployment Jobs in zOSMF Software Management

Currently, the zOSMF Deployment Jobs task has no capability to actually save the various job output(s) to a dataset.Can use the SDSF XDC command to capture the job output(s), which is a very manual process, but was wondering if it can all be drive...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Management - Include Link to APAR info from screens that show PTF/APAR

We are looking for the Software Management plugin to add a link directly to the APAR information for screens that show PTFs/APARs so that it is faster to get that information.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

SMPE Output in XML/JSON

Exporting in a format such as JSON/XML would allow for users to read in the SMPE output and manipulate the information to build a more automated process.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Provide REST API for Software Update Plugin

Please provide a REST API that will provide subset of functionality for performing automated updates.
11 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhance zosmf SMP Features

I have tested SMP APPLY PTFS with zosmf gui. Basically it works, but there are some quirks 1) The "corrective" type of apply should present a list of all ptfs received and not applied yet so i can choose from a list If i want to apply all ptfs rec...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Management ability to hide Software Instances

Within z/OSMF's Software Management plugin, we need the ability to hide or separate the viewing of the different Software Instances to secure sensitive information and also ease of use.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Management Remote Deploy Ports Specification

We need a possibility to specify a range of TCP/IP port numbers that z/OSMF can use for remote software deployment to communicate with other systems. If there is no such possibility various ports from the ephemeral port range are used and must be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Panel GIMISIDT should display full dataset name

Panel GIMISIDT only displays 26 characters of a dataset name that could be 54 characters if a member of a PDS(E) is used. There is a lot of whitespace on this panel, but if that isn't enough, use a multi-line display for each row in the table.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Continue to GIM69207S or similar message til JAVA message text is complete

Keep issuing GIM69207S or similar message until you provide all the text of the underlying message. In this case, the rest of the java message text might only take one or two additional GIM69207S. No fancy continuation notice in the extra messages...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

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