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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...
    4 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.
    5 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.
    6 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.
    8 months ago in z/VM 1 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

    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

    Install pipe filter ftpget should support TLS

    The install pipe filter ftpget should support TLS because many (most?) sites now require TCP/IP communications to be secure and not done in plaintext. FTP servers in some sites are configured to reject non-TLS connections. The install procedure us...
    over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Rise limits of Guest Coupling simulation support

    We try to run zOS systems within a sysplex with large DB2 group buffer pool structures. These structures cannot be allocated if zOS is running in zVM because they are bigger than the given (undocumented) limit. The intention is virtualize systems ...
    over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Customization of the RACF password policy

    To set a general password policies along the all infrastructure
    over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Create new class B command to refresh stored DASD info without VARY OFF/ON the device

    At present, for CP to see updated DASD info (like VOLSER, VTOC, etc), a device must be varied off/on to refresh the data. If the disk has been relabeled by a guest using full-pack minidisk, then the guest sees different information than a user wit...
    almost 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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