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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OSMF
Created by Guest
Created on May 17, 2017

ability to start RMF dash boards at zOSMF startup

Currently RMF dash boards need to be started by a specific user after that user logs onto zOSMF. These dash boards are limited to use by only the user that starts them and can only go back in time (using retrieve historical data) a relatively small period (depending on how much data the RMF server can keep). It would be useful to be able to tell zOSMF to start up automatically some number of user defined RMF dash boards when the zOSMF instance starts up. Further these dash boards should be shareable between users (some kind of ability to link to the started dash boards). This functionality should not interfere in any way with the ability of a user to start one or more individual dash boards. Security should be implemented to allow only selected users, if desired to be able to connect to these global dash boards. Also to preserve storage it would seem reasonable to limit the collection of samples to no more than 24 hours (I can't see a need to look at this granular data from a period longer ago than that).

Idea priority Medium