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    Allow customer control of ssh host keys in the SSH CLI container

    When configured with LDAP (“ZCX_SSHD_LDAP_ENABLE TRUE”) the SSH CLI container is generating new host keys every restart, this prevents using ssh key authentication and host verification, the latter is a security issue as the identity of the host c...
    2 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

    Allow modification of the core_pattern in zCX.

    Currently the core_pattern (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern) in zCX contains string “|/usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh %e %p %s” even though /usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh is not supplied by IBM. This prevents capturing core dumps in containers.
    2 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 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...
    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

    Fluentd as one of default Docker logging drivers

    Currently we have json-file and jornald are the only default logging drivers that zCX supports. It's common to export logs to different analytics platforms what is posible by ussing fluentd container. Sometimes can be problematic to specify fluent...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Allow a custom subnet mask for zCX OpenShift nodes

    Currently, only the default subnet mask 255.255.255.0 can be used for zCX OpenShift nodes. We need to be able to configure a custom subnet mask to fit our network configuration.
    7 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 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

    Multiple Image Registry for zCX

    This is a request for Enhancement in z/OS Container Extensions (zcx or classic zCX). zCX currently allows only one secure image registry & its certificate to be specified in its configuration. If we want to change the image registry, we need t...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

    We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
    9 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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