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z/OSMF

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In z/OSMF z/OS Operator Console and Settings System it is impossible to remove a Lpar.

I would like to request a mechanism for permanently remove systems. From PMR 01142,420,631 created in 18/12/03 the Development's view the results of remove a Lpar in z/OSMF are expected with current design. Their recommendation is to open a RFE to...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Z/OSMF Email Notification facility

The Z/OSMF email notification facility uses smtp along with a userid and password,We do not use smtp for our email.we use Outgoing mail transfer agent (MTA): mta.kp.orgPort: 25We don't use any USERID/Password to connect to the MTA and we don't use...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Separate place and editor for Actions.xml

editor for Actions.xml is now only available when creating a template. This is too late. we would like to do this earlier and aspart of the development of the workflow.Also we want to have an editor for this separately, much like the workflow edit...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

access system variables of any system in workflow xml

I need access to system variables of other system. eg ${_sys-system-variablename}
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

advanced mapping json rest response to velocity variables

advanced mapping of json variables from a REST response to workflows variables (for example how you can get a value for a variable from this list? (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.izua700/izuprog_API_Sy...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log - Delete incident function should use a delete purge

When deleting incidents in the Incident Log plug-in the PURGE statement should always be used.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve actions in cloud provisioning template

I want to display more information when user invokes an action on software service instance before user click OK button to proceed. (see screenshot below) 1) currently <instructions> tag and <workflow> tag cannot be together under <...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful API for initial dump analysis feature

Dear, Our customer ICBC learned that we've delivered the initial dump analysis feature in z/OSMF incident log plugin. Then they request us to provide one RESTful API for this feature. Thanks!
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Docoments and messages need to be improved to provide users more information about multi- webispf function in z/OSMF

For z/OSMF users who want to enable multi-webispf functions in zOS JES3 systems in the sysplex, they need to know more information besides what zOSMF is provided currently. The zOSMF documents and the messages provided to users need to be improved...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Set slip and other diagnostic data capture parameter in z/OSMF

Sometimes the component or products which generating dump is not the root cause component, the dump for related component cannot be captured timely. The customer understands that nowadays it is still very hard to be smart enough to intelligently c...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration