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z/OSMF

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Increase timeout value when starting a CEA address space

When the following error is received it means that z/OSMF has timed out when it is waiting for a CEA address space to start SEVERE:Failed to create TSO AS with TsoController.startTsoWithCmd(). retryCount=5, isReady=false isPrompt=false, TSO data: ...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide a way for applications to authenticate through an HTTP/HTTPS proxy within zOSMF

In order to use a one of two functions within zOSMF which need internet access, our network is configured to pass through a filtering proxy service. This service both tracks pages we access and validates that we are allowed to access the page we'r...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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.
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF.

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF, it should be useful it's color can be changed to black so one can work efficiently as traditional ISPF
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Option to automatically create unique workflowname through RESTful API

Workflows created within the z/OSMF Workflow tab have a unique name if the value "Default Name:" is left blank. As a result, all the workflows created from the same .xml will have “- Workflow_%", where % is a increasing number with each workflow c...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Editor Should Support Longer Step Description

We create rich-text descriptions for our workflow steps. They look great when displayed by the z/OSMF Workflow task. Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to make minor text corrections using the workflow editor as it supports only very short ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Icon for links

The defined links in the lowercase "links" folder have all the same icon. A different icon (customizeable) would make the links better distinguishable.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Introduce type=file as variable type for workflows

Workflow variables can currently be assigned a type like "string", "time", "date" in order to correctly pass a certain value to the workflow. We would like to see type "file" added to the collection in order to upload files which then can be used ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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