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    Save progress during deployment of Portal Software Instance

    If connection is lost all progress on that step is lost. This causes several extra hours. Now you can only save progress between steps.
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

    z/OSMF cannot reconnect after TCPIP recycle

    If TCPIP is recycled, z/OSMF makes no attempt to reconnect after TCPIP resumes and, is ready. It does, however, issue messages:[WARNING ] RMI TCP Accept-0: accept loop for ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=1026] throws and...EDC51...
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF Field Filters - Incident Log

    Need the ability to filter on an 'is empty' value within the filter rules within, and also provide 'or' logic within the filtering rules inside Incident Log.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF: Allow user supplied jobcard for "Send Dianostic data" in the Incident log.

    The "Define Job Settings" step in the "Send Diagnostic Data" wizard supplies a (documented) JOBCARD default: //PDWFTP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1) /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=* This jobcard can be modified by the current user and is saved in the /usr/<%userid> d...
    almost 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Auto Load Callable Workflow Steps

    We have callable workflow steps defined in a workflow, and when the step executes, it brings up the Create a Callable Workflow dialog screens even though all of the information is already populated.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Allow software instances to have more than one workflow file

    Even IBM written workflow (e.g. zCX) do have multiple files to have a separation between the workflow itself and the JCL or REXX templates. Like that, the workflow is much more maintainable compared to using inline templates. However when creating...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 5 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF utilPathSelector should return volume and other information for data sets

    When using the z/OSMF utilPathSelector to select data sets, the return type of results is a string array containing a list of selected data set names only. This differs from the behaviour when using it to select files in zFS, which returns an arra...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Highlight/select a range of workflow steps to automate

    Today you can right-click on a workflow step and select Perform. If the step is marked as eligible for automation then the user is asked if they would like to run the step automatically (with various options).It would be nice if the user could sel...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Allow performing of group steps from the list of steps in a group

    When a user clicks on a group (parent) branch in a workflow to view the group, the user is presented with a list of steps in the group. The user cannot launch any actions from this.It would be nice if the user could:1. Select to automate all eligi...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Expose DateTool class to Velocity context during workflow step interpretation

    The use of Velocity is really nice but it would be nice if the DateTool was exposed to the context so we can perform date/time operations. For example, we would like to grab the current date/time for some of the workflow steps to timestamp when a ...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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