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z/OSMF

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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...
almost 5 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...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF to support APIs into Service Management Tools

Need to have z/OSMF API's link to our Service Mangement tool for the workflow task. We use Service Manager 9.3 on a daily basis for our change process and we need to be sure we can incorporate the tool with z/OSMF workflows.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Ability to add/delete/change a choice dynamically to list of choices for a Workflow variable

In my workflow I have a REST step to get a list of some specific datasets. In this step it would be nice to be able to work with a choices list for any workflow variable.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

F021 ? Automatically refresh job results workflow status not automatically updating

F021 – Automatically refresh job resultsworkflow status not automatically updating
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF Print Workflow in landscape format

Currently the "Print Workflow" functionality is primarily intended for portrait format use.Especially for large tables it might be very helpful to be able to print in landscape format.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support <suspend/> element in workflow with parallel step execution

We would like to use the parallel feature introduced with workflows but it does not support the <suspend/> flag. We would like it to support this flag.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Standardizing diagnostic data collection process

Standardizing diagnostic data collection process of each component and products and then make process automation.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Let ?Create Workflow? to set ?Users can take ownership of steps automatical

In z/OSMF Workflow, Allow "Create Workflow" process to set "Users can take ownership of steps automatically" rather than requiring setting only in WF Editor. For same reasons as "set Owner on all steps to User" in Create Workflow. Particularly for...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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