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Modifying other sysplex policies then CFRM

An administrative feature to modify ARM, LOGR, LOGRY, LOGRZ and SFM policies similar to the currently existing CFRM Administrative Policies feature in the Sysplex Management plug-in of z/OSMF.
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

WLM: REST-API Support for z/OSMF Workload Management task

In our environment, WLM Report Classes are essential for our accounting and chargeback management. However, it is currently not possible to automatically create, modify, delete, or even read Report Classes and Classification Rules when application...
22 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Reinstate the Servepac Dialogs for product upgrade and installation

This is from a conversation between myself and other IBM tech's. My main objective is in hoping that someday, my complaint about the removal of ServerPac Dialogs will touch the right ears. : IBM is not removing those traditional interfaces nor for...
4 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Submitted

Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enable dynamic certificate selection in z/OSMF (Liberty) without requiring a static KeyAlias in server_override.xml

z/OSMF with Zowe and JWTs requires a fixed KeyAlias in server_override.xml. In many environments, certificate labels change with each renewal due to internal PKI policies. This forces administrators to manually update the KeyAlias after each certi...
26 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Submitted

Easier tool to help with structure sizing during CFLEVEL upgrades

We would like to have a tool that would read the current CF structures and generate a new CFRM policy source with all the structures increased simply based on the current CFLEVEL and a specified TARGET CFLEVEL. The tool would assume that the curre...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

Integration of Data Privacy for Diagnostics (DPfD) into z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard for sending data

We need to upload a lot of data, e.g. dump data, which quite often contain sensitive customer information. To make the process more transparent and integrated, we would like to request an optional step to be added to the z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration