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    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

    SMF - Add additional parameter to dump 30min before/after midnight

    The dump utility IFASMFDL/P require a (new) parameter when dumping a full day to include 30min before the day and 30min after the day to avoid the need to dump 3 days worth of data to validate a single day.This would be partially related to anothe...
    7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    SMF record full day validation with DATE and DUMP option

    Currently the IBM recommended way to verify SMF signatures is to use RELATIVEDATE and ARCHIVE which is not the perfect solution for all situations. We need the same support as introduced with OA57046 as well for DATE and DUMP options. This because...
    7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 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

    SMF/ICSF - Increase input validation for SMF record signing

    Defining a TOKENNAME for either RECSIGN or ARECSIGN in the SMFPRMxx member is only validated to be exactly 32-characters long. However, one can activate the member with SET SMF=00 without throwing an error (even there is no associated private/publ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 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

    When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

    See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    PAV/HyperPAV alias Support

    Base devices between subchannel sets, aliases associated with and in the same real subchannel set in the active configuration allows these devices to then be referenced by 4-digit RDEV numbers in various commands which only affect active configura...
    about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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