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    LP recommendations related messages showing on both observed and managed systems

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM, when using the option of sending recommendations to the observed system’s CFZCIM, customers could benefit from another message, which confirms this was written to CPOSERV’s Joblog too. ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Management capabilities for CPM messages

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Clients use other products to control Defined Capacities, which produce separate WTO’s when actions are taken, making the CPM messages to be superfluous, needlessly filling the CPOSERV’s Joblog...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    New informational messages with options of being enabled/disabled

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Extending the generated CPM informational messages, and allowing them to be dynamically switchable in a similar fashion as via the “Planner.ExplanatoryActivationMessage” parm, and the CPO4444I ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Improve CPM LP handling to follow PR/SM best practices

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM the current logic regarding “LP adds” and “LP removes” is unbalanced, and tends towards allowing systems to run with over-configured online LP counts. If PR/SM treats “LP’s Parked by Hip...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Allow RACF to protect the Enable attach/detach crypto as a separate class of device from non-crypto devices

    With the expansion of security concerns surrounding workload and therefore the increase in demand for crypto functionality. It has become imperative that we control the access to the crypto domains, which could be done by restricting attach/detach...
    6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

    For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
    6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

    We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
    7 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    SSHD Support for zVM OS

    SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
    9 months ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

    Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

    Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
    9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

    z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
    about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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