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z/OSMF

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Enhance the z/OSMF programming guide to rotate sideways-tables back to vertical, or re-design them if it's not possible.

Most people read publication online, it is very difficult to read doc sideways, especially there are so many sideways-tables in this doc. Please see table 4 (Event types shipped with z/OSMF) as an example as well as tables from 603 to 615 in chapt...
12 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Support recalling migrated datasets in z/OSMF desktop data set list

This feature would increase the usability of z/OSMF desktop data set list.
14 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months 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...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 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
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

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) ...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

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...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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...
3 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 ...
7 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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration