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z/OSMF

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 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

zOSMF Enforce Default save location for all workflows

There is no possibility to define or enforce a default save location for all users. Each User can save a workflow to any location where he/she was write access to. As this can produce a complete mess and no one have an overview about all workflows...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

have z/OSMF exploit shared libraries - todayit is just enabled

The default for Java shared library support is to store the information in memory. This means the first time a Java program is started it loads the libraries, and saves the information in memory. The second time the Java program is started it can ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

z/OSMF store result into log file

We had the situation that an ISV software trys to call an z/OSMF REST API (dataset service). The ISV product only returned HTTP 500. In the z/OSMF logs, also only the HTTP 500 was visible. The error that was seen within z/OS was: ICH408 for $LIBPA...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

z/OSMF Archived workflows add user specified directory path to the API call

POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/<version>/workflows/<workflowKey>/operations/archive In the GUI it is possible to archive workflows to a specific directory. However in the API it don't see the same functionality. Add header where a path can ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Support Intrdr File Encoding header for all Submit Jobs requests

The z/OSMF API for submitting jobs supports a “X-IBM-Intrdr-File-Encoding” header, which has the following limitation:> This header is effective only when the JCL for the job to be submitted is included in the HTTP request body. This header is ...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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