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Provide documentation/ability to onboard UMS APIs into Zowe API Catalog

Would be a 'one stop shop' for all available APIs
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Functionality improvement for z/OS Connect EE Plugin

Is there a possibility that copy/paste functionality be added to the z/OS Connect EE Plugin. Specifically, the ability to copy data in and out of Copybooks and swaggers on the workbench/plugin. Currently, developers would need to ftp the copybooks...
5 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to filter out users from the UMS user list.

This was discussed in support case TS018120853. We have set up UMS, and noticed a lot of users in the UMS user list that we would rather not see there. The cause is the fact that UMS picks up all the users that have access to the respective IZP SA...
5 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Possibility to list lsf jobs for multiple users with bjobs -u option

It will be useful for people to check lsf jobs for all their accounts in a single command. bjobs -u "abc xyz" It should list lsf jobs for both abc and xyz.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Functionality already exists

LSF podman nvidia cdi mig mode support

Recently ,we are trying to integrate podman with nvidia gpu and lsf together per nvidia official document Installing the NVIDIA Container Toolkit — NVIDIA Container Toolkit, it suggests podman using CDI to read nvidia gpu device but when do integr...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release

Provide a mechanism in DB2 Admin foundation to prevent it from attempting to auto discover the specified DB2 instances

Currently DB2 Admin foundation attempts to discover all DB2 instances. Wells Fargo is a large shop with many DB2 instances. Currently we have the discovery limited to a few hours to cut the violations down but it would be better if we could either...
about 3 years ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 2 Future consideration