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z/OSMF

Allow for uncataloged PDS members to be listed via the REST API

Users may have the same PDS in different volumes, most of which may not be in the catalog. In order for them to list members, it would be good to allow the z/OSMF REST API to accept a volser as a query parameter. Operation HTTP method and URI path...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

enhance Parmlib validation API to support symbols from dataset content.

This will be a common scenario where client will prepare their parmlib for other systems and would like to validate the parmlib before IPLing system with that parmlib. So, it's better user experience when symbols are involved to generate warning i...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

z/OSMF Workflows. Straight the skew of archived workflows

The way of working with archived workflows should be refactored. If a user archives a workflows it is dependent on that user if it will be cleaned up or stays there forever. If the underlaying zFS runs full it is very hard for a system administrat...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

more flexible data selection in JOBS REST API

current /restjobs/jobs API : supports status=active, but not status=output or status=input -- make this a full choice of available status returns up to 1000 jobs (without exec-data) but provides no way to access any remaining jobs, only to make a ...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Full AMAPDUPL support, when using "send diagnostic data" in incident log

Incident log send diagnostic data facility collects all the data needed to send to ibm cases in an easy way. Full AMAPDUPL support would help to send this data easy. ATTLS should be full supported
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Job Holded/Released statuses in z/OSMF REST services

Job response document contains only 3 statuses "INPUT", "ACTIVE", "OUTPUT" now. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zjri-json-document-specifications-zos-jobs-rest-interface-requests But we can also hold a job and job will be waiting for r...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

z/OSMF workflows and NCA to resolve system symbols

Currently z/OSMF does not resolve system symbols for tasks such as workflows and network configuration assistant, despite having the capability as described in the APAR PH41196. It would be very important that these features automatically resolve ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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