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z/OSMF

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z/OSMF plugin to support SYSPLEX systems with multiple MAS's

We run a 10 system Sysplex and each of these systems has its own JES2 MAS. Currently, the zOSMF Plugin does not have the capability to see all these zOS systems and without this capability, we don't see our site making much use of the zOSMF Plugin.
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

move Workflow 'Start Parallel Automation'

Currently the Workflow 'Start Parallel Automation' is available under the Actions pulldown when in a Workflow. Whereas the 'Perform - Perform Automated Step' is available by a 'Right Click' on the Step. The Automation option shoujld be move or dup...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Public REST API for available solutions

As a systems programmer I want to be able to identify new PTFs that have been released by IBM and other software vendors but have not been received in my environment yet. This information should be accessible directly from the z/OSMF UI. The Softw...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF RESTful APIs for RACF management

Dear, Our customer ICBC is trying to use z/OSMF to implement RACF management such as password reset, user resume and so on. But now z/OSMF didn't provide any API to implement it. We open this RFE in order to request z/OSMF to provide RESTful API t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout

Adding timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout can help user easyly idetified the server startup ended time.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration