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z/OSMF

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z/OSMF StorageAPI Get MegaBytes/GigaBytes instead of Tracks, get Used-Percent

Hello, we are using /zosmf/storage/rest/v1/storagegroups for checking our z/OS Storage Groups for enough freespace / storage Monitoring. We found out, that we are only able to get trackNumbers, but not GigaBytes as measurement unit,in ISMF (ISPF) ...
6 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Full AMAPDUPL support, when using "send diagnostic data" in incident log

Incident log send diagnostic data facility collects all the data needed to send to ibm cases in an easy way. Full AMAPDUPL support would help to send this data easy. ATTLS should be full supported
26 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

Misleading e-tag mismatch after uploading to sequential data set

Create a sequential data set with RECFM=VB. In this case I created a data set with my username (4 characters long) as the high-level qualifier: USER.TEST.PS Use the z/OSMF API endpoint to write to a data set (PUT request, /zosmf/restfiles/ds/<d...
22 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide options to cancel active user sessions

It would be beneficial to have options to cancel active user sessions in order to comply with an audit requirement. This would involve providing the following options: Enhancing the Usage Satatistics plugin by selecting a box beside a User ID, the...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Would like z/OSMF Deploy to create the USS directories and mount the zFS files for the SMP/E target datasets defined in the DDDEF's.

In the past when you order IBM software the old ServerPac service would prompt you for the USS path and the zFS files. z/OSMF does this also. Then as one of the last stepsthe product would run a job to create the USS directories and would also mou...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

have z/OSMF exploit shared libraries - todayit is just enabled

The default for Java shared library support is to store the information in memory. This means the first time a Java program is started it loads the libraries, and saves the information in memory. The second time the Java program is started it can ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF store result into log file

We had the situation that an ISV software trys to call an z/OSMF REST API (dataset service). The ISV product only returned HTTP 500. In the z/OSMF logs, also only the HTTP 500 was visible. The error that was seen within z/OS was: ICH408 for $LIBPA...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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