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z/OSMF

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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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add auto refresh/update

When checking the status of running automation workflows or when user needs to manually do steps they are often mashing the refresh button in order to see status changes. Suggestion to add a method to automatically update on changes or refresh in ...
over 1 year 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...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months 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...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA IRR.DIGTCERT.GENCERT security weakness

The SecurityConfigurationAssistant checks in "advanced configuration" the "z/OSMF Server setup for shared key ring and certificate".It is not mentioned (or configurable) than only ONE of the zwo options (FACILITY with two checks or RDATALIB with o...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Make workflow variable exportable to reuse them as input file

At the moment, the only possibility to save the variables of a workflow is to write a script, which writes them into a file by executing the echo command for every variable. This is not handy at all if you have a lot of variables. It would be grea...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration