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    Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

    Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Provide an operator command to display active z/OSMF Users

    Currently the systems programmer and operator can display all active jobs, tso users, and shell (sshd) users, but they are unable to display the z/OSMF users. This information is helpful when planning to shutdown a system for a planned (or unplann...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    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 ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    PKI client service within z/OS to access external PKI for certificate request/(auto)approval

    PKI Services (z/OS2.5) supports the following EST functions:1. cacerts: requests the EST CA certificates (the whole chain of the issuers' certificates) using Simple PKI Request.2. simpleenroll: requests a certificate with supplied public key using...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

    Increase / disable the size limit of 100 MB for uploading files from our workstation.

    Some vendors don´t have the option to sFTP files direct from their servers to mainframe environment. SMEs needs to download required data (from vendor web site) in their workstation and upload it using WINscp or any other vendor tool (license cost...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future 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 ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Provide more granularity for control access to different paths under /global/zosmf

    There is a need to distinguish between zOSMF ADMIN GROUP (IZUADMIN) and the USS OWNER GROUP of z/OSMF's USER_DIR path. Users defined in the z/OSMF administrator's group (IZUADMIN) should NOT necessarily have access to all the USS directories under...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Concurrent REST requests for downloading PDS members results in several abended IZUFPROC jobs

    Say that I have a sample application that makes multiple, concurrent requests to the z/OSMF REST API to download PDS members. It uses the endpoint for retrieving the contents of a data set member: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=interf...
    4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

    User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    add GDG support to z/OSMF Dataset Rest API

    When I make a post request to the /zosmf/restfiles/ds API for a GDG creation (+1), it returns a "404 not found". I expected, that a new generation dataset is created with the disposition sent within the post body. However, z/OSMF RESTFiles does al...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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