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z/OSMF

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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

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

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

Ability to set $LIBPATH from the IZUPRMxx parmlib member

Enable the ability to set z/OSMF $LIBPATH through the IZUPRMxx parmlib member instead of the override file which is not documented.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Show JCL statement numbers in JESJCL output in the Status tab

When a JCL error happens, statement numbers are displayed in JESYSMSG. SDSF shows these statement numbers in JESJCL but z/OSMF's Status tab for JESJCL is missing these statement numbers. This means a customer needs to go to SDSF to view JESJCL in ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - Support for symbols in query processing for MVS datasets and USS files

We would like to be able to send requests to z/OSMF, through the Zowe CLI component, using symbols in MVS dataset names and USS filenames, such as the symbol &SYSUID, but any symbol known to the z/OS environment, (confer the list of symbols vi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflows as a self-service platform - Workflow Enhancements

We thought of using z/OSMF Workflows as a self-service platform where other teams could execute frequent requests made to us sysprogs independently, that way we would only need to take part in the initial workflow design and creation inside z/OSMF...
about 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Workflow needs a place to document author, version, change log, etc.

Hi, Currently, the workflow editor doesn't provide a place to keep track of the usual data that developers need. Things like author, version, changes, etc.For example: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow to add new CFRM structure from REST API

In today's world the z/OS Tech would have to list the CFRM policy, edit the output clear all the header information , page breaks, etc .. then add the "new structure" to the policy code then activate the new policy. So, it would be nice to have so...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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