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z/OSMF

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z/OSMF REST API for spawning UNIX shells, executing commands

Users of z/OS UNIX who are already leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs currently have two options when trying to remotely interface with z/OS UNIX: Avoid z/OSMF entirely and use SSH. This has a number of downsides, including re-authentication concerns, in...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Delete AboutPage.jsp link from Welcome Page on z/OSMF

This AboutPage is a huge security problem because a guest can see a lot of informations that he don't have to know
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow REST API to provide absolute or relative path in REST API zosmf/restfiles/fs/{filepath-name} and/or Provide appropriate messages.

See Case TS016672435 for more details. (For me this looks like a bug, but as you see in the case, Support thinks it is working as designed, so Could we please get this fixed). A larger issue is not to get 500 return codes for REST API usage proble...
26 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Issue a joblog error/warning message when the Java level is below the zOSMF requirement

The documentation for each zOSMF version notes the Java level prerequisite requirement for latest version of zOSMF. Often customers have trouble bringing up the server due to running an out of date version of Java but there is no clear message tha...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase / disable the size limit of 100 MB for uploading files from our workstation.

Some vendors don´t have the option to sFTP files direct from their servers to mainframe environment. SMEs needs to download required data (from vendor web site) in their workstation and upload it using WINscp or any other vendor tool (license cost...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improve handling of variables

Remove current restrictions: - Allow for "." in variable values - this is useful to replace values e.g. for dataset names which may consist of one or more qualifiers - Replace the same variable name in any pattern, even if the the position / numbe...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

zOSMF - Dataset and File Search - Favorites for search strings

Currently you can only add favorites for files using the "Send to Desktop" option from the 3 dots next to a file, but not a favorite for the search that brought up a group of files. For example, There are 6 libraries for a product that you manage ...
28 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: New feature to remove authorizations

Currently, "fixing" a security definition via SCA allows to add a user or group to a profile. We would like to have a new feature to: - list who is currently authorized for access to a specific resource - generate RACF commands to remove certain u...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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