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z/OSMF

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z/OSMF Stack affinity

When using z/OSMF to send diagnostic data we are not able to specify an IP-stack for the FTP send process.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Dynamic Vipa usage

We operate with two Tcpip stacks, one for internal customers and the other for external clients. When trying to use Dvipa for z/OSMF URL we had problems. We eventually had to add a local_override.cfg file to our configuration to have z/OSMF have a...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ability to remove lines from drop down lists in ZOSMF.

Drop down lists, for instance when starting the <<workflow editor>> or <<Create Workflow>> functions, saves the last used definition filenames and workflow variable input filenames. That is very convenient, but there is no ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OS console services - solKeyReg -> sol-key-detected:false -> fail the workflow step

In z/OSMF workflow REST API step, it's very inconvenient to check the response to API request and possibly fail the workflow step. Eg.: <requestBody substitution="true">{"cmd":"S BLABLA","system":"${_workflow-systemName}","sol-key": "^(?![\\...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

IZUPRMxx AUTOSTART function description is incomplete

The V2R3 z/OSMF Documentation describing the IZUPRMxx member in SYS1.PARMLIB ought to follow the same layout conventions found in the MVS Initialization Reference publication. It is also unclear from the documentation what the default behavior is ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Link between called workflows in Archive

When workflows call other workflows, a connection is made between them, there is a link set up in the calling workflow to the called workflow, to easily find it and open it up. When the workflows have been archived, the link is no longer there, an...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Management of Runtime Libraries

I want to be able to track a manage runtime environments of deployed software. I have one set of runtime libraries in sysplex.But I have multiple running instances using shared runtime libraries. For example one instance per system image in sysple...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Allow the order of variables in Workflow Editor to be rearranged

Variables defined in the Workflow Editor are arranged in order when they were created. The order is not particularly interesting per se. However, when exposing workflows to an external page. (By means, for example a portal), and want to dynamicall...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide more job details in the step status panel of workflows in z/OSMF.

System: z/OSMF WorkflowActor: Provide more job details in the step status panel of workflows in z/OSMF. We are planning to use Z/OSMF for Workflow automation/orchestration to replace our Consistently repeatable processes which have multiple steps ...
over 4 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 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration