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z/OSMF

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Define KEYRING_OWNER in PARMLIB instead of local_override.cfg

If you use a shared KeyRing (one certificate for all services on one LPAR) you have currently to alter /global/zosmf/configuration/local_override.cfg inserting a line "KEYRING_OWNER_USERID=certOwnerID"The KEYRING_NAME is configured in IZUPRM00.Thi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflows. Straight the skew of archived workflows

The way of working with archived workflows should be refactored. If a user archives a workflows it is dependent on that user if it will be cleaned up or stays there forever. If the underlaying zFS runs full it is very hard for a system administrat...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Option to allow z/OSMF dataset API to return error message rather then HTTP error response code

When we use a client to make numerous z/OSMF API dataset calls, if an error HTTP response code is returned, z/OSMF ( Liberty ) closes the established TCPIP connection. This is expected Liberty behaviour as this conforms to the published open RFC s...
10 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

z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide multi-step indications in zOSMF Workflows regarding which system a workflow will actually be executed on

In order to prevent errors and provide better indication to users about the actual system on which a workflow will execute (as it may be different from source system), please consider the following: - Display the SYSAFF value already in the JOBCAR...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Job Holded/Released statuses in z/OSMF REST services

Job response document contains only 3 statuses "INPUT", "ACTIVE", "OUTPUT" now. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zjri-json-document-specifications-zos-jobs-rest-interface-requests But we can also hold a job and job will be waiting for r...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

List data set members and USS files with control characters in the name

Product: Zowe CLI, Zowe Explorer, Postman Actor: User attempting to list members in a partitioned data set or list files in a USS directory when one of the names contains a control character in the range \x00-\x1f (such as \x0a = LF and \x10 = DLE...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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

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