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z/OSMF

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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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Implement an autostart feature for workflows so that instantiating a workflow with an auto-enabled step automatically starts the workflow too

Currently, The POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows endpoint will only create a workflow instance. A separate call to the PUT /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows/{workflowKey}/operations/start endpoint needs to be made in order to st...
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...
10 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" in z/OSMF V2R1 SPE3+

In the August 29 "System z Mainframe Simplification" workgroup call the "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" was presented. By now the view is only a collection of CECs and LPARs including their detail information. There are many more a...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

Make String variable text box re-sizable

I created a string variable called "fileContent" and mapped it to the response body from a GET REST API call. The GET REST API reads the contents of a dataset member. My goal is to edit the file contents in the variable and do a PUT REST API to up...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Override Unique WorkflowName Requirement

Creating an override to bypass the unique zOSMF WorkflowNames requirement
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide a refresh button in instances view for a provisioning instance so it's easy to follow its progress while it's running

During a deprovisioning run, a refresh button is available which allows clients to follow the progress of the deprovisioning run. This allows clients to follow progress of the deprovisioning run without having to leave the Software Services -> ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF ISPF Plugin - TSO Privileged Logon

Via zOSMF ISPF plugin it is not possible to do a PRIVILEGED "SUBSYS(HASP)" TSO Logon.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Make the use of base64-password encoding in z/OSMF workflow REST-API step type optional (or remove it)

Currently, in the REST-API step type of a z/OSMF workflow, you can only provide a password for authentification to a REST-API when the password is base64-encoded. This is a bit bulky, for example when using this step with variables for substitutio...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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