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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 23, 2015

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z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant Backstores Location

Currently under z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant, there is no option to specifiy where files are stored. This causes issues in our environment where 87 copies of z/OSMF exist. We currentlly have /var/ directory setup that is maintanence specific and as we change we lose access to files and have to re-import from old ZFS dataset.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server
    Component - Other
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zSeries Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - z/OSMF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 24, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #66926 in product z/OS.

0 MERGED

zosmf Configuration Assistant saveData location (and all other user data files) should be able to be specified in PARMLIB

Merged
the owners of the configuration data want to specify their filesystem (directory) as the destination for saving configuration data. I currently replace backingStore with a symlink to their directory. When v2r3 version started it created /app/data/...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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