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z/OSMF

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zOSMF Properties of Workflow Screen needs to allow others in the group to see all tabs

If a racf group in addition to to a individual are assigned to to a task/step, the members of the team that were not the individual owners of a task/step could not see any of the info in the Dependencies, Perform, Status, Input Variables, and Feed...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Running REXX containing dialogues should issue an error in case of user interaction when using REST interface

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 up...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF FTPS - storing Transfer ID permanent

Since FTPS you have to use the transfer ID and password for sending data to IBM PMRs. There is no option to save the Transfer ID and password permanent. At the moment every z/OSMF user saves his own Transfer ID and password in an text file and use...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Display logging options in use for z/OSMF

With the 'F zosmfserver, D IZU' command only the logging options are displayed which z/OSMF has read from PARMLIB\ at startup.We need a way to display what logging options are effectively in actual use.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Files API - Fully Support Migrated / Archived z/OS Data Sets

z/OSMF appears to detect migrated / archived z/OS data sets by the pseudo VOLSER name of `MIGRAT`. However, ISV products, like CADISK, may be configured to archive data sets on a VOLSER of 'ARCIVE`. z/OSMF should detect ARCIVE data sets as being m...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF WLM View Access for staff members who can't update WLM

Please update z/OSMF to allow users who are not allowed to update WLM access to view WLM.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Import/Export capability for z/OSMF provisioning resources

Today - a lot of configuration needs to be done in order to publish a provisoning template in z/OSMF CP&M. This shared or dedicated resource pool require configuration of instance details, Job statement and the different resource pools for net...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF StorageAPI - GetVolumeList MissingField: PhysicalStatus

We are using z/OSMF Storage API for checking, if all Devices are online. So if anyone varies a disk offline, the check (in CheckMK) gives us a hint. Currently we had the problem: A StoragePool was extended with two more disks, the Pool-Freespace w...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration