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Container Extensions (zCX)

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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...
2 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.
2 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 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...
3 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...
4 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Create a zCX Container for Tivoli Warehouse Proxy and Tivoli Summarization and Pruning Agent

We currently run the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and we use the Data Warehouse. IBM has created a zCX container image for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. It would be great if we could also get containerized versions of other Tivoli monitoring agents - ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift - update workflows so can be run from cmd line

The /usr/lpp/zcx_ocp/workflows/ocp_provision.xml workflow can be run from a command line or via the IBM zOSMF Ansible module, without any manual intervention. Other workflows currently require the first few steps to be done manually from the zOSMF...
5 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Need method to repair "admin" ID

The issue is that when logged in as the admin user that was built from the provision workflow, and /home/admin file/directory permissions get changed, including .ssh to something that SSH doesnt like, causes subsequent SSH logins to fail. Since th...
9 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Need to see zCX information from SDSF (requires API)

Sysprogs need to see information about zCX address spaces from SDSF. This requires an API, so SDSF and other products can extract information. Information requested (provide information from the zCX joblog when zCX initializes - i.e. zCX type, ver...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

Enabling CF R/W data structures access from zCX containers/OCP on zCX

As part of a mainframe application modernization project, the customer (that's me) aims to adopt the Application Centric pattern. This involves rewriting certain portions of the application from Cobol to Java and deploying them on zCX thereby capi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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