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z/OSMF

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Cut&Paste accross zOSMF instances

To use portions of service definitions (SD) in another SD I can use cut&paste, for example: copy classification groups and paste it at other place. BUT this is NOT possible from another sysplex because I've to open another instance of zOSMF in...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF rest service - Allow user specified delimiters while retrieving a specific range of data using X-IBM-Record-Range

We are trying to retrieve certain number of records from UNIX file which is in EBCDIC format using the below z/OSMF API using X-IBM-Record-Range as 0-100. But the API seem to retrieve all records in-spite of the set limit using X-IBM-Record-Range....
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to send the client certificate via a HTTP header to z/OSMF

The z/OSMF API functionality is for applications to work with system resources and to extract system data. The authentication can only be checked through a certificate (send with the usual http header) or username + password. The authentication po...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Validate z/OSMF workflow File template contents only at runtime and not definition time

The "File template" in a z/OSMF workflow does check for existence of the respective file or Dataset and fails to save / open the workflow if, for example, the dataset is not available. This works as designed and is documented as such.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request to add support for z/OSMF started task to be supported by ARM

We have open a case TS003028593 to existing issue that z/OSMF started task not auto restart and the feed back is zOSMF doesn't support AUTO RESTART. So I am raising this RFE for the requirement of zOSMF using ARM. Please add support for this. thanks.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters

Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters, as a way to indicate that we have files that already contain the NEWLINE characters so that no additional NEWLINE characters get added.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support for generated jobs

We need a simple way of execution of JCL, REXX or shell script that were generated in a previous step of a provisioning workflow.Provisioning XML, that is part of a cloud provisioning template consists of two steps1. Step – generate a JCL by an ex...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Auto Load Callable Workflow Steps

We have callable workflow steps defined in a workflow, and when the step executes, it brings up the Create a Callable Workflow dialog screens even though all of the information is already populated.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log should support OEM FTP

Customer is running OEM FTP software and want to use this with'Z/OSMF Incident Log',editing the JCL before is not an option for the customer.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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