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    z/OSMF SCA: Improvements deleting variables

    In z/OSMF SCA, you can define variables to complete the resources in the "configurable" tab. It would be helpful to have the following options: Remove all variables at once, i.e. return to the initial display with the placeholders for the variable...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Prevent recalling HSM migrated datasets when calling REST to get list of data sets on a system

    REST API: List the z/OS data sets on a system recalling HSM migrated datasets and it does not support X-IBM-Migrated-Recall header to prevent this. This causes from time to time big delay and request often is timed out. In any case this behaviour ...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 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...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Dynamically resolve variables in <fileTemplate> element

    Currently, variables in the <fileTemplate> element of a workflow need to be statically defined in the workflow properties file.z/OSMF would become more flexible by dynamically resolving these/any type of variables at runtime.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

    z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Workflow editor - Possible to create jobcard .

    Be able to define specific jobcard for a jcl step when create a workflow definition file in workflow editor.In the specific jobcard, to be able to use variables as well, like for other jcl.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Please enable the z/OSMF REST API (GET Messages) to retrieve alerts directly from the LPAR console, in addition to the currently supported SYSLOG and OPERLOG sources.

    z/OS provides the capability to suppress specific SYSLOG messages, preventing them from appearing on the console. This feature is particularly useful when we want to control which alerts are forwarded to external interfaces, ensuring only relevant...
    6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under 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...
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

    Warning about problems during code page conversion while uploading and downloading text data

    Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe Actor: User editing data from z/OS datasets, members, or UNIX files on a workstation and using a different encoding than IBM-1047 on the mainframe (e.g. IBM-870, IBM-037, IBM-273...) in the text mode P...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Issue a joblog error/warning message when the Java level is below the zOSMF requirement

    The documentation for each zOSMF version notes the Java level prerequisite requirement for latest version of zOSMF. Often customers have trouble bringing up the server due to running an out of date version of Java but there is no clear message tha...
    12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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