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z/OSMF

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General Settings / Home Page info to be displayed on all pages

Update zOSMF Home Page settings to be displayed on all parges, and not just the login page.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF workflows enable approvers for all flow types

we are looking to utilize zOSMF and workflows to automate some of our processes. There is an approver option, however this is only valid with the 'Run this step as user ID:' option and then only via cloud provisioning. We would like the approver o...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - Workflow "History" Export/Extraction

Given the Auditing requirement "Auditors" like to have evidence of workflow execution and "History Tab" export function can assist in this direction. Therefore an enhancement is required in z/OSMF Workflow history tab for export.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need Log for Mails sent by JES2EDS

When we send job event notification mails with the JES2 NOTIFY JCL statement there is no evidence in the job log, the syslog/operlog or in a z/OSMF log about the sent mail.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Prevent users or group of users to use SSO (Single Sign-on) within z/OSMF

When using SSO within z/OSMF any user defined to z/OSMF can use workflows (for example with a JCL template) to submit a job to another lpar/sysplex if they are also defined to that other lpar/sysplex. We would like to prevent some users or group o...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Change how Timestamps are presented to users

Currently z/OSMF shows timestamps in UTC format https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izua700/IZUHPINFO_API_GetJobStatus.htm it states that "Timestamps are presented in the JSON UTC format: "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss....
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Decrease the provisioning duration in ZOSMF's Capacity Provisioning Manager.

A 4-minute provisioning duration is to long for our mainframe. By the 4-minute mark we have already either shifted the workload balance between our mainframes or turned-on COD manually. We would like this dropped significantly.
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Define job card for a Management Services Catalog service in the service definition as well as in global settings

Is it possible to define the job card being inserted into jobs in the service definition itself rather than just in the global settings in the Management Services Catalog plugin. Also could an option be provided in the service definition to stop a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF System Variables Service should support sysplex scouped variables

Z/OSMF offers a REST API to its own system variable service. Unfortuanally it only supports variables with an scope of system. To get a variables value you have to request an URI pattern like GET /zosmf/variables/rest/<version>/systems/<s...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

REST API Extensibility

zOSMF should provide a way to register and unregister custom API handlers for users and vendors. This feature would allow users to create their own API handlers in whatever language they want and leverage the authentication and existing REST capab...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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