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    z/OS Health Checker HZSPRINT utility enhancemnet

    z/OS Health Check utility HZSPRINT provides the user with good information about the checks in place, however it doesn't show the state of it as it could be verified in SDSF for example. Using the the F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS it provides t...
    9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

    Resolving Persistent Fabric Monitor Exceptions

    Following a valid fabric monitor exception additional exceptions are received highlighting DDB/Manufactured errors. These exceptions persist after the source of the exception is resolved until the check is deleted, and health checker is stopped an...
    12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

    Health check to verify if sysplex root is not mounted READ ONLY

    if sysplex root is not mounted READ only, a rogue unix shell command rm / can remove system symbols - $SYSANME,$VERSION and other files that can cause a plex-wide outage. Am IBM Health Check to warn if Sysplex root is not mounted READ only OR when...
    6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

    Add GLOBAL support for IBM defined healthchecks

    GLOBAL support on the update statement should be added/allowed on IBM defined healthchecks so efficient management of the checks can be achieved. For example take alot of RACF checks, if we pick RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION by default it will run i...
    6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

    Programmatically accessible output

    Currently system programmers may need to check health check reports from multiple systems. Providing the output in a format such as JSON would allow them to consolidate and dashboard on the status of multiple systems much more easily.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Planned for future release

    Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

    Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

    The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Not under consideration

    Health Checks formatted in a dump

    Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

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