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z/OSMF

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Let zOSMF assume that PMR numbers for PDDU are IBM ones?

Hi, When in Incident Management in zOSMF and selecting "Send Diagnostic Data" a PMR number must be entered. It is assumed that the PMR number is not an IBM one unless a box is checked. The default should be that it is an IBM PMR and the checking o...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Conditional visibility of variables in UI

I want to be able to hide certain input fields based on content of a variable.Example: CICS=YES/NO. If CICS==YES, then CICS_OPTIONS variable is visible.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF: http_access.log file should keep access control list when rolled over

We currently have an additional ACL (Access Control List) on the http_access.log file in the /zosmf/data/logs/zosmfServer/logs directoy. Since we are not allowed to change the owner/group of this file (As z/OSMF will then automatically change it b...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

In z/OSMF workflow, the users should have the flexibility and choice to decide whether the job card should be added

To provide the users the flexibility and choices.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

In z/OSMF workflow, should support the manual intervention(especially for the abnormal jobs) without suspending the engine

We have good understanding of our jobs, so should let the users decide whether to suspend the workflow engine for the manual intervention.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSPT - Ability to refresh/synch all XML files from GUI (CP&M - Template refresh)

We were provided an "ExternalVariables.xml" file by IBM that included updates to validation variables for our environment. After we replaced the file in our USS directory we refreshed the Template via the zOSMF/PT GUI, but it did not pick up the c...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Support additional headers in unsuccessful z/OSMF API requests

Currently when the z/OSMF API responds with a request status other that 200, additional headers are not included. This can be an issue if you are working with cross site requests as the required CORS headers are not included in the server response...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Support to Provide Resource Inventory Managementy

When using Ansible or other orchestration technologies it would be helpful to have z/OSMF CP&M act as a resource manager for resources on z/OS. Ideally, having z/OSMF enable the following functions: 1. Provide a unique ID to associate multiple...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/osmf rest api should return pds(e) membername base64 encoded

PDS(E) membernames are 8 bytes each byte has a hexadecimal value except some reserved values. Z/osmf rest api considers all membernames as being text and returns membernames after codepage translation. Though this is ok for all ispf created member...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Define a suffix to the SYSIN DD JESSPOOL dataset name

Sending documentation to IBM using the PDDU option via the incident log, the proxy password is passed via SYSIN DD on the FTP step, After the job submissioin, authorized users can view the SYSIN dd via SDSF on JES spool, but the users's password s...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

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