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    Give better warning when hitting Finish without performing step in workflow

    When manually processing a workflow step, the user can hit Finish from the Instructions tab by accident and the step gets marked Complete. While there is text above the instructions, that text is not real "visible" as the customer's focus is on th...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Ability to set the max LRECL for our site of have it contingent on the type of step

    We've been tripped up by this setting quite a bit when creating our own workflows. Usually (almost always) when we perform a step that is JCL, we need the max LRECL to be 80 (the default is 1024). Unless you know that will be a problem when run yo...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Ability to disable the default jobcard in z/OSMF or have it as conditionally added if one isn't found in the JCL.

    When using z/OSMF workflows, we seem to be forced to use the default jobcard regardless of whether or not the JCL we are using has one already. It's not a huge deal but it gives people the impression that they are getting a JCL error if they aren'...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF workflow granularity for DELETE

    It used to be that only the owner of a workflow could delete it. Now it is anyone who has access to <saf-prefix>.ZOSMF.WORKFLOW.ADMIN Recommend that perhaps by making the workflow Restricted or Private also means that it cannot be deleted ex...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

    Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    API/ Plugin to be used for data transferring to vendors- using zOSMF FTP servers definition

    Create an API or plugin to be used to transfer data to vendors. we already have all vendors defined on zosmf FTP server definitions I know incident log has this features, including adding any dataset to an existing incident log entry, but we´re no...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

    An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Option to return all properties of an (archived) workflow via z/OSMF REST Api

    The REST Api to get properties of an (archived) workflow returns only a subset of all existing values in the /var/zosmf/data/app /<workflow> files. Provide an additional option on the query parameter "returnData" to fetch all data. - E.g. "a...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    ability to start RMF dash boards at zOSMF startup

    Currently RMF dash boards need to be started by a specific user after that user logs onto zOSMF. These dash boards are limited to use by only the user that starts them and can only go back in time (using retrieve historical data) a relatively smal...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF: Allow mass-update for Workflows in the Workflows GUI

    Allow some sort of "Mass update" function for the workflows in the workflows GUI. Currently, there is no way to modify multiple workflows when you are not the owner of the workflow.
    almost 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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