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z/OSMF

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z/OSMF REST API for spawning UNIX shells, executing commands

Users of z/OS UNIX who are already leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs currently have two options when trying to remotely interface with z/OS UNIX: Avoid z/OSMF entirely and use SSH. This has a number of downsides, including re-authentication concerns, in...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide an operator command to display active z/OSMF Users

Currently the systems programmer and operator can display all active jobs, tso users, and shell (sshd) users, but they are unable to display the z/OSMF users. This information is helpful when planning to shutdown a system for a planned (or unplann...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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 / numbe...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: New feature to remove authorizations

Currently, "fixing" a security definition via SCA allows to add a user or group to a profile. We would like to have a new feature to: - list who is currently authorized for access to a specific resource - generate RACF commands to remove certain u...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Workflow steps view: Additional column for a short user note

A column for a short user note for each step would be helpful in the overview of all workflow steps. Today you have Step Notes but they are only visible when you open this step. Workflows with many steps could be much better processed by the user ...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Workflow steps that are skipped should show the reason for skip in the state column

Workflow steps can be skipped by the z/OSMF user who is working with that workflow or by a discovery step within the workflow. For a workflow with many steps it's important to have the overview why a step was skipped directly in the workflow steps...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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