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    Would like z/OSMF Deploy to create the USS directories and mount the zFS files for the SMP/E target datasets defined in the DDDEF's.

    In the past when you order IBM software the old ServerPac service would prompt you for the USS path and the zFS files. z/OSMF does this also. Then as one of the last stepsthe product would run a job to create the USS directories and would also mou...
    10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

    z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Workflow steps that are skipped should show the reason for skip in the state column

    Workflow steps can be skipped by the z/OSMF user who is working with that workflow or by a discovery step within the workflow. For a workflow with many steps it's important to have the overview why a step was skipped directly in the workflow steps...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF SCA: New feature to remove authorizations

    Currently, "fixing" a security definition via SCA allows to add a user or group to a profile. We would like to have a new feature to: - list who is currently authorized for access to a specific resource - generate RACF commands to remove certain u...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Define KEYRING_OWNER in PARMLIB instead of local_override.cfg

    If you use a shared KeyRing (one certificate for all services on one LPAR) you have currently to alter /global/zosmf/configuration/local_override.cfg inserting a line "KEYRING_OWNER_USERID=certOwnerID"The KEYRING_NAME is configured in IZUPRM00.Thi...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    ZOWE User Redbook

    So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

    Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

    It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Allow recursive delete to remove symbolic links when issuing a Restfiles delete request

    It would allow entire directories to be deleted instead of everything except symbolic links. This currently leaves them around and they need to be removed via a different type of REST request.
    2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    allow provide separate TTLSGroupAction for each rule while generating TLS policy using Network Configuration Assistant

    Automatically generate unique TTLSGroupActionRef values per AT-TLS rule.Or allow users to enable this behavior via a configuration toggle or policy setting.This option would:Improve diagnostic granularity in NETSTAT TTLS and related tooling.Suppor...
    2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

    The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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