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An easy to use pre-installation CFSizer

This is a really old request for having an easy to use pre-installation CFSizer. I'm sure others have made the same request. A search in RFE reveils sort of same requests - but for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to see the full request.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Installation default jobcard

Currently Workflow default job card and the REST Jobs API requests can only be changed by individual users. We need the ability to change the current default jobcard for all users. For example, currently the default MSGCLASS is 0 we would like to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

drivining z/OSMF REST API from uss without credentials

I want to be to invoke z/OSMF REST API while I'm logged in uss without providing credentials that I have passed when I logged to uss.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Field Filters - Incident Log

Need the ability to filter on an 'is empty' value within the filter rules within, and also provide 'or' logic within the filtering rules inside Incident Log.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enable editorCompare for uncataloged data sets

Applications wishing to exploit the editorCompare function can only do so for cataloged data sets, as there is currently no way to specify a volume. The editorWithPath function allows for a volser specification, so ideally editorCompare would supp...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow user supplied jobcard for "Send Dianostic data" in the Incident log.

The "Define Job Settings" step in the "Send Diagnostic Data" wizard supplies a (documented) JOBCARD default: //PDWFTP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1) /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=* This jobcard can be modified by the current user and is saved in the /usr/<%userid> d...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF cannot reconnect after TCPIP recycle

If TCPIP is recycled, z/OSMF makes no attempt to reconnect after TCPIP resumes and, is ready. It does, however, issue messages:[WARNING ] RMI TCP Accept-0: accept loop for ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=1026] throws and...EDC51...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Highlight/select a range of workflow steps to automate

Today you can right-click on a workflow step and select Perform. If the step is marked as eligible for automation then the user is asked if they would like to run the step automatically (with various options).It would be nice if the user could sel...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration