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z/OSMF

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ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Workflow steps that are skipped should show the reason for skip in the state column

Workflow steps can be skipped by the z/OSMF user who is working with that workflow or by a discovery step within the workflow. For a workflow with many steps it's important to have the overview why a step was skipped directly in the workflow steps...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF plugin to support SYSPLEX systems with multiple MAS's

We run a 10 system Sysplex and each of these systems has its own JES2 MAS. Currently, the zOSMF Plugin does not have the capability to see all these zOS systems and without this capability, we don't see our site making much use of the zOSMF Plugin.
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST TSO API.

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z. This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops u...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Use TSO Rest services in PARMLIB or a user setting to change the z/OSMF code page

There isn't an option to set the code page for the z/OSMF File editor (magnifying glass). z/OSMF ISPF allows you to specify a codepage for that interactive TSO-ISPF session https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=ispf-user-settings-window Howe...
9 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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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