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List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Please enable the z/OSMF REST API (GET Messages) to retrieve alerts directly from the LPAR console, in addition to the currently supported SYSLOG and OPERLOG sources.

z/OS provides the capability to suppress specific SYSLOG messages, preventing them from appearing on the console. This feature is particularly useful when we want to control which alerts are forwarded to external interfaces, ensuring only relevant...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow engine to provide access to zOSMF JWT/LTPA token

When creating a zOSMF workflow step that invokes an External RESTapi, it would be useful to have access to the current z/OSMF user's JWT token in order to use the bearer token in an API call for other z/OS services. APIs that go through Zowe's API...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

add identification for Alias whether its pointing to pds,pdse or ps/

In the datasets listing zosmf rest api's i can see the an entry with vol as ALIAS, but i want to see the details whether its pointing to pds , pdse or ps.
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add GDG identification to the z/OSMF datasets API

In the FTP connection when I list data sets within a qualifier I get the information that a data set is a GDG - in z/OSMF I don’t. Is there a way that I find out that a data set is a GDG?I don’t want to cause an additional job to run as the user, ...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA IRR.DIGTCERT.GENCERT security weakness

The SecurityConfigurationAssistant checks in "advanced configuration" the "z/OSMF Server setup for shared key ring and certificate".It is not mentioned (or configurable) than only ONE of the zwo options (FACILITY with two checks or RDATALIB with o...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful APIs for RACF management

Dear, Our customer ICBC is trying to use z/OSMF to implement RACF management such as password reset, user resume and so on. But now z/OSMF didn't provide any API to implement it. We open this RFE in order to request z/OSMF to provide RESTful API t...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Function to send a broadcast message to all users of z/OSMF

There are times when the z/OS system needs to send a broadcast message to all users to inform them of some system event that is planned. The z/OS Operator SEND command does this for TSO users, as does the TSO SEND command. The shell wall command c...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST TSO API.

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z. This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops u...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improvements deleting variables

In z/OSMF SCA, you can define variables to complete the resources in the "configurable" tab. It would be helpful to have the following options: Remove all variables at once, i.e. return to the initial display with the placeholders for the variable...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration