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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OSMF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 26, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

z/OSMF SCA: Improve handling of variables

Remove current restrictions:

- Allow for "." in variable values - this is useful to replace values e.g. for dataset names which may consist of one or more qualifiers

- Replace the same variable name in any pattern, even if the the position / number of variables differs - we have variable parts in our profiles which occur incombination with different variables, e.g. <group> is used in "<group>.<net>" and in "$SUFFIX.<group>.<something-else>". Giving a value for "group" which should be used for all occurences currently does not resolve all of those resource names.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 5, 2024

    Often products suggest a single qualifier for their data sets, however, customers might have their own naming conventions and we need to be flexible to support that. For automated operations, for instance, customers don't just put all SMP/E data sets behind HLQ "SYS1". Instead, they use prefixes like "SYS1.ING", "SYS1.NETVIEW" or "SYS1.GDPS".

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