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    Natively emit Open Telemetry (traces, logs, metrics) from IBM z Hardware

    Enterprise adoption of modern observability practices are moving towards open standards with vendor-neutral instrumentation.IBM z hardware do not have a consistent implementation of logs, traces, and metrics, often requiring complex side-car integ...
    6 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

    Automate SSC Image Update Recovery to Avoid Manual HMC Intervention

    During an update of our IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) on IBM Z, the upload of a new Secure Service Container (SSC) image could not complete successfully. We had to manually access the Hardware Management Console (HMC), set the SSC LPAR to S...
    about 4 hours ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    AT-TLS Command to renew Certificates without manipulating the AT-TLS policy

    Hello, It would be very helpfull to have a command that retrieves the Certificates information out of the ESM (RACF) without updating the parmeter EnvironmentUserInstance within the policy itself. The renewal proces of the certificate is by genera...
    about 6 hours ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

    ICSF CSFPTRL: add options to list objects by from oldest to newest & newest to oldest.

    Currently the sorting options for CSFPTRL - PKCS#11 Token List (ALL, RTL) sort TKDS object sequence numbers based on ASCII A-Z,0-1. For example: this makes it unable to return only the latest public certificate without additional sorting through a...
    about 17 hours ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Submitted

    Add Microsegmentation / eBPF support for zOS platform

    Add support for Microsegmentation, divides network into small, isolated security zones and applies access controls at the workload, application, or even process level rather than only at the network perimeter. Every workload gets its own policy, a...
    2 days ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 0 Submitted

    Add SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z (zOS based)

    Implement SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z, to offload networking and security functions from zOS servers, enabling hardware-accelerated microsegmentation, firewalling, telemetry, and workload isolation at scale.
    2 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Under review

    Could you add a new command ZCX to show zcx instances and their characteristics (Memory,@ip, level, ...)

    today we issue these commands to get statistics for our ZCX : F ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,CONFIGF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKVERF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,NETF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,VERSIONF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,PCIE
    7 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable ADRDSSU to copy ZFS files >4GB from SMS to non-SMS environment

    With zOS V3.2 it may be possible that USS ROOT file grows to a size >4GB which requires VSAM attribute EXT-ADDR. For SMS datasets also the EXTENDED attribute is requred. At this time ADRDSSU isn't able to copy (using COPY or DUMP/RESTORE) to co...
    23 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

    OAM resiliency enhancement

    We're using OAM object support out of CICS and by using the new OAM REST API. We would love to see some resiliency enhancements regarding OAM that would solve some possible "outages" of applications calling OAM in situations when we may face issue...
    12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

    Add signature algorithm and key type fields to OpenSSH SMF 119 subtype's common security section

    Please consider adding two more fields to the OpenSSH common security section used in the SMF 119 OpenSSH subtypes. The fields would pertain to public key user authentication, specifically: Public key type used (RSA, ED25519, ECDSA, etc.) and sign...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Submitted

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