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z/OSMF

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Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Properties of Workflow Screen needs to allow others in the group to see all tabs

If a racf group in addition to to a individual are assigned to to a task/step, the members of the team that were not the individual owners of a task/step could not see any of the info in the Dependencies, Perform, Status, Input Variables, and Feed...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

We are trying to access z/OSMF over an Apache HTTPD proxy, unfortunately the proxy does not allow us to forward the client authentication certificate. The authentication is done on the proxy and then the proxy forwards the HTTP header-based authen...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST API steps should allow multiple return codes as "expected"

zOSMF workflows will not be 100% complete when there is a Failed step. A workflow becoming "complete" is very important when using callable workflows. Values generated for instance variables in the called workflow will not be updated in the callin...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF file transmission delay

When uploading or downloading a large file it seems like nothing happens, but eventually the screen will pop up. Just an immediate confirmation that file transfer has started and then when completed or stopped would suffice.
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Job Output More Fields

Ability to display, sort, or filter job output based system or start time/date. Currently, only JOBNAME, Job ID, Status, Owner, Max-CC and Type are options.
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide optional tagging parameter for zOSMF Files API

Currently, there is no capability to set a file tag when creating a file using the zOSMF REST API for files. Adding an optional parameter to set the tag of the created file will ensure that the file lands in USS with the appropriate tag (when requ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add GIT functionality when using "dataset and file search"

It would be very handy if a GIT plugin would be available to perform GIT functions on USS files. In our shop we use GIT for version control for some of our configuration files. We now use other interfaces to issue the GIT commands but it would be ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase timeout value when starting a CEA address space

When the following error is received it means that z/OSMF has timed out when it is waiting for a CEA address space to start SEVERE:Failed to create TSO AS with TsoController.startTsoWithCmd(). retryCount=5, isReady=false isPrompt=false, TSO data: ...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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