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z/OSMF

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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...
about 2 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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

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 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Enhance CFRM Policy Editor to Model Impact of a CF Being Unavailable

The primary reason for using Parallel Sysplex is to improve application availability. A key element to achieving that objective is avoid Single Points of Failure. One aspect of that is controlling placement of CF structures in relation to the syst...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration