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IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) new function APARs.
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New Function APARs for z/OSMF
| Functional Brief | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.4 | ||||||
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| z/OSMF Feedback collection enhancements. | PH56716 | 03/27/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| New REST APIs for parmlib syntax validation. | PH56207 | 03/03/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| z/OSMF Desktop data set and file search supports remote sysplex. | PH56708 | 03/03/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| REST TSO API supports surrogate user. | PH56564 | 02/09/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Workflows task adds support for defining a universal policy for archiving workflows that are not covered under any existing policy rule. | Base | Base | PH47656 | 7/07/2023 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Security Configuration Assistant adds support for managing SDSF security requirements. | Base | Base | PH48846 | 3/01/2023 | N/A | N/A | |||
| z/OSMF Desktop is enhanced to support opening multiple search windows, plus other enhancements. | Base | Base | PH47653 | 6/20/2023 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Enables workflow users to have their runAsUser workflow steps signed so that the steps can be automatically executed under their credentials during workflow automation. | Base | Base | PH43962 | 12/21/2022 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Adds storage management REST APIs for adding volumes to a SMS storage group and performing SCDS modification, validation, and activation. | Base | Base | PH44884 | 12/15/2022 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Enhances the z/OSMF Desktop to allow uploading and downloading of sequential data sets, data set members, and z/OS UNIX files. | Base | Base | PH44157 | 10/03/2022 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Adds support to the z/OS jobs REST API for notifications of additional job events. | Base | Base | PH44152 | 10/18/2022 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Adds security validation to determine whether security profiles are set up properly after running the job IZUNUSEC or before starting the z/OSMF server. | Base | Base | PH45350 | 09/23/2022 | PH45350 | 09/23/2022 | |||
| Sysplex Management is enhanced to support comparing CFRM policy changes and exporting policies in a comma separated values (CSV) formatted file. | Base | Base | PH44343 | 06/29/2022 | PH44343 | 06/29/2022 | |||
| z/OSMF Systems task is enhanced to support verifying the connection status for other z/OSMF instances. | Base | Base | PH44158 | 06/16/2022 | PH44158 | 06/16/2022 | |||
| Security Configuration Assistant is enhanced to help fix missing security profiles through the task UI or a REST request. | Base | Base | PH39327 | 06/13/2022 | PH39327 | 06/13/2022 | |||
| z/OS data set and file REST interface adds HTTP headers for creating and removing z/OS UNIX symbolic links, mounting a file system with nosetuid option, and specifying a TSO/E region size and logon procedure. | Base | Base | PH44068 | 05/25/2022 | PH44068 | 05/25/2022 | |||
| Workflows task is enhanced to support policy-based, automatic archiving of workflows. | Base | Base | PH39153 | 03/10/2022 | PH39153 | 03/10/2022 | |||
| Sysplex Management is enhanced to support bulk copying of structures, and importing and exporting CFRM policies. | Base | Base | PH39687 | 03/08/2022 | PH39687 | 03/08/2022 | |||
| The Security Configuration Assistant REST interface is new. This set of APIs allows an application to validate security requirements for specified users and resources. | Base | Base | PH41248 | 01/19/2022 | PH41248 | 01/19/2022 | |||
| Compare utility is added to the z/OSMF Desktop. | Base | Base | PH39605 | 12/30/2021 | PH39605 | 12/30/2021 | |||
| New REST API for retrieving the run-time value of z/OS system symbols. | Base | Base | PH41196 | 12/29/2021 | PH41196 | 12/29/2021 | |||
| New REST API for retrieving DFSMS data class and storage class information. | Base | Base | PH40099 | 12/24/2021 | PH40099 | 12/24/2021 | |||
| Incident Log supports using HTTPS for sending Problem Documentation Upload Utility (PDUU) data. | Base | Base | PH39848 | 12/22/2021 | PH39848 | 12/22/2021 | |||
| z/OS data set and file API enhancements. | Base | Base | PH39690 | 12/08/2021 | PH39690 | 12/08/2021 | |||
| New REST API for working with sysplex CFRM policy data. | Base | Base | PH39685 | 12/08/2021 | PH39685 | 12/08/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Desktop is enhanced to support copying, renaming, and changing the mode of z/OS UNIX files. | Base | Base | PH39637 | 12/08/2021 | PH39637 | 12/08/2021 | |||
| New REST API for retrieving SYSLOG messages, based on timestamp and direction. | Base | Base | PH38968 | 12/02/2021 | PH38968 | 12/02/2021 | |||
| New z/OSMF plug-in: z/OS Management Services Catalog (zMSC). | Base | Base | PH40810 | 11/30/2021 | PH40810 | 11/30/2021 | |||
| Storage management REST services are rolled back to z/OS V2R4. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH40837 | 11/17/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Sysplex Management CFRM Policy Editor is rolled back to z/OS V2R4. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH40176 | 11/10/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Desktop enhancements and feedback collection function are rolled back to z/OS V2R4. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH40017 | 11/03/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Workflows plug-in is enhanced to support z/OS Management Services Catalog (zMSC). | Base | Base | PH40841 | 10/31/2021 | PH40841 | 10/31/2021 | |||
| Enhancements for provisioning a new z/OS monoplex system. | Base | Base | PH40058 | 10/8/2021 | PH40058 | 10/8/2021 | |||
| IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management adds the ability to provision a new z/OS monoplex system. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH37859 | 9/6/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Workflows and Workflow Editor tasks add polling options for REST API steps. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH38975 | 08/06/2021 | |||
| New REST API allows the requester to issue a TSO/E command with one stateless call, instead of having to call several REST APIs and managing an associated TSO/E address space. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH35244 | 07/02/2021 | |||
| New REST API allows the requester to retrieve operations log (OPERLOG) data, based on a specified starting time stamp and direction. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH35930 | 07/02/2021 | |||
| New REST API allows the requester to change a z/OS password. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH34912 | 06/02/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Desktop Editor supports displaying a data set name or z/OS UNIX file path as a link. Also, the Incident Log supports opening diagnostic data with the z/OSMF Desktop Editor for a modern editing experience. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH34912 | 06/02/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF ISPF is enhanced to support global settings, which can be shared among users. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH34102 | 04/02/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Security Configuration Assistant supports z/OS components, features, products, or a self-defined JSON format of the security requirement file. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH29907 | 03/15/2021 | |||
| z/OSMF Workflows is enhanced to support keyword searches of workflow step contents. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH27725 | 03/15/2021 | |||
| IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS adds enhancements to simplify administrator tasks for defining resource pools for templates and managing provisioned instances of templates. Also, the default domain now supports manual security mode for creating templates and tenants. | Base | Base |
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| Enhancements to z/OSMF Workflows includes faster load times for the main table, support for opening the z/OSMF desktop search function within the Workflows task to search for workflow definitions or variable files, allow the deletion of workflows in batch, and basic authentication for cross z/OSMF communication. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH28532 | 12/30/2020 | |||
| The minimum expiration limit for z/OSMF user sessions is lowered to 15 minutes from the previous minimum of 30 minutes. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH30398 | 12/28/2020 | |||
| The z/OS jobs REST services and the z/OS data set and file REST services now support basic authentication when connecting to z/OSMF on a remote system. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH28507 | 12/28/2020 | |||
| The z/OSMF Desktop UI is enhanced to support creating z/OS data sets, based on a predefined profile, an existing data set, or with new properties. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH30398 | 12/28/2020 | |||
| The z/OS Operator Consoles task adds a side view for WTOR/HOLD messages. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH30881 | 12/23/2020 | |||
| The z/OS data set and file REST services can queue requests if common event adapter (CEA) creates its maximum allowed number of TSO/E address spaces. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH29745 | 12/23/2020 | |||
| The z/OSMF Desktop search function supports a type-ahead search for z/OS data sets and z/OS UNIX files. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH28692 | 12/1/2020 | |||
| The z/OSMF Diagnostic Assistant now displays z/OSMF data file system usage and supports the clean-up of z/OSMF first failure data capture (ffdc) data and dump files, based on policy. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH25691 | 8/26/2020 | |||
| Support the automatic deletion of z/OSMF workflows on completion. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH24190 | 6/25/2020 | |||
| New operator commands SET IZU and SETIZU are added to allow you to change the IZUPRMxx parmlib member settings dynamically. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH24088 | 6/24/2020 | |||
| Enhancements to the consoles services and the Operator Console UI task allow the use of simplified console settings. Also, the automatic display of message help now also supports JES2 messages. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH24072 | 6/24/2020 | |||
| From the z/OSMF General Settings page, you can enable or disable z/OSMF plug-ins and services dynamically. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH24527 | 6/25/2020 | |||
| The z/OSMF desktop editor adds syntax highlighting. Also, users can create their own links on the desktop or in a desktop folder. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH24527 | 6/25/2020 | |||
| Enhancements to the z/OS jobs REST services. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH23046 | 5/27/2020 | |||
| The z/OS data set and file REST interface services are enhanced to allow the specification of code pages, carriage return line feeds (CRLF), and the compressed file format gzip. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH22030 | 5/3/2020 | |||
| The z/OSMF Diagnostic Assistant is enhanced to allow for the specification of z/OSMF logging levels. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH18776 | 4/3/2020 | |||
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The z/OSMF Workflows task is enhanced to support saving job output in a user-defined directory. Also, the workflow definition name is displayed.
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Base | Base | Base | Base | PH21919 | 3/25/2020 | |||
| z/OSMF start-up time is reduced. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH19227 | 01/20/2020 | |||
| z/OSMF supports the latest level of WebSphere Liberty. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH17867 | 01/06/2020 | |||
| Security Configuration Assistant can be used to validate groups. Also, support is added for variables. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH17871 | 12/13/2019 | |||
| The z/OSMF desktop user interface can be used to search, browse, and edit UNIX files and directories. Also, JCL can be submitted from a data set or file; the job output can be viewed in the new Job Output task. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH16076 | 12/12/2019 | |||
| A workflow can be created from a workflow definition file that resides in a remote sysplex. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH14185 | 12/10/2019 | |||
| The z/OSMF Sysplex Management GUI can be used to create a couple data set (CDS). | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH15554 | 12/02/2019 | |||
| z/OSMF supports the use of JSON web tokens. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH12143 | 11/20/2019 | |||
Cloud Provisioning for z/OS is enhanced to support:
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REST data set and file services are enhanced to support:
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Base | Base | Base | Base | PH15263 | 10/30/2019 | |||
| z/OSMF Workflows task is enhanced to support reading workflow artifacts under the user's identity. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH15059 | 10/03/2019 | |||
| Most z/OSMF V2R4 functions are rolled back to V2R3. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH15504 | 09/24/2019 | |||
| z/OSMF Diagnostic Assistant can collect z/OSMF diagnostic data with one click. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH11606 | 8/07/2019 | |||
| z/OSMF supports using a client certificate for logon. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH12781 | 8/02/2019 | |||
| The Software Management task allows you to define data set and product properties as workflow variable properties for a software instance. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH11650 | 6/19/2019 | |||
| The z/OSMF Workflows task adds controls for securing global variables. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH05139 | 2/13/2019 | |||
| For users who export a workflow n a printable format, new attributes are added for controlling the output file, such as cover page and front matter. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH05139 | 2/13/2019 | |||
| You can use the Swagger interface to display information about the z/OS data set and file REST services and the z/OS jobs REST services. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI96461 | 1/23/2019 | |||
| The z/OSMF desktop interface is enhanced to support searching data sets, as well as basic browse and edit functions for data sets. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH01770 | 12/27/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF workflows can use array variables. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH03053 | 12/18/2018 | |||
| z/OS Operator Consoles plug-in supports separate display of WTOR and HOLD messages. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI99365 | 11/21/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF RMF plug-in is enhanced to support IBM Cloud Provisioning for z/OS enhancements. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH02455 | 11/15/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF RMF plug-in is enhanced to support automatically updated metric help. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH00039 | 10/9/2018 | |||
| Adds DISPLAY command for z/OSMF. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH00712 | 10/03/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF Sysplex Management task is enhanced to provide modify functions for structures, CFs, CF connectivity paths, and couple data sets of sysplex in the enterprise scope. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI99307 | 9/28/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF workflows can be exported in a printable format. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PH00582 | 9/26/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF Incident Log task is enhanced to support SalesForce case. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI96024 | 9/12/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF adds a new style of user interface (UI) based on Angular. Users can select the new UI at log-in or continue to use the classic interface, which is now the default. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI96462 | 6/14/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF is upgraded to release 18.0.0.1 of WebSphere Liberty. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI96793 | 5/29/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF Workload Management plug-in is enhanced to support the memory limit attribute for the tenant resource group. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI96460 | 5/2/2018 | |||
| Changes the default mount point for the z/OSMF data directory to /global/zosmf. In previous releases, the mount point was /var/zosmf. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI92211 | 4/30/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF REST TSO/E address space services are enhanced to support starting TSO/E address spaces and running TSO applications on a remote system in the sysplex. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI92905 | 3/27/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF ISPF plug-in supports remote systems in the same sysplex. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI94193 | 3/27/2018 | |||
| Adds support for remote systems in z/OSMF workflows. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI92884 | 3/20/2018 | |||
| Adds support for parallel step execution in z/OSMF workflows. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI92305 | 3/20/2018 | |||
| Software Management task supports portable software instance acquisition. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI80825 | 2/22/2018 | |||
| z/OSMF REST TSO/E address space services are enhanced to support the roll back of z/OS Operator Consoles plug-in from V2R3 to V2R2. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| Roll back z/OS Operator Consoles plug-in from z/OS V2R3 to V2R2. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| Roll back z/OSMF V2R3 Core enhancements from z/OS V2R3 to V2R2. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| IBM Cloud Provisioning for z/OS adds support for CPU metering and capping, composite templates, moveable instance support for templates, shared resource pools, restart provisioning workflows. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI88944 | 12/04/2017 | |||
| Roll back z/OSMF V2R3 Incident Log enhancements from z/OS V2R3 to V2R2. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| z/OSMF RMF plug-in is enhanced to support Container Pricing for IBM Z and enhancements to IBM Cloud Provisioning. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI89935 | 12/13/2017 | |||
| z/OSMF Workload Management plug-in is enhanced to support Container Pricing for IBM Z and enhancements to IBM Cloud Provisioning. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI89361 | 12/13/2017 | |||
| Adds function to Software Management task to support of non-SMP/E Managed products. | Base | Base | Base | Base | PI79666 | 6/9/2017 | |||
| Adds support to IBM Cloud Provisioning for z/OS for sysplex provisioning, manual security mode, and the template actions editor. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| z/OSMF RMF plug-in supports sharing sysplex definitions across all z/OSMF RMF users. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| z/OSMF Workload Management plug-in supports level 031 of the WLM service definition. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
| Adds new function to the z/OSMF Workload Management plug-in in support of IBM Cloud Provisioning for z/OS. | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | Base | |||
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