IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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    z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

    Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
    almost 7 years ago in z/VM 3 Future consideration

    zSORT should be able to use Virtual Flash Memory instead of using disk in case of memory shortage

    Today, many financial companies use Virtual Flash Memory (VFM) in their zSystems. However, this feature has a limited number of users on z/OS. And there's also TBs of memory on VFM. Why DFSORT or DB2 SORT utilites do not use VFM to improve the per...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

    Extent CP Flashcopy with IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy (Preserve Mirror)

    Make IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy also known as Preserve Mirror available for CP Flashcopy. This way flashcopy will not affect the PPRC duplex state and GDPS will not complain. The system stays hyperswap ready during the flashcopy. Which is now not t...
    about 6 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

    Add parm to increase SORTIN and SORTOUT buffers to improve reading and writing throughput

    DFSORT's ability to read and write SORTIN and SORTOUT files appears restricted enough to impact the throughput of both Standard files and Striped files. For SORTIN large Striped files can be read 4 times faster by OPTIONs COPY or EASYTRIEVE. CPU u...
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

    Support for FTP client mutual SSL authentication

    Please allow the z/VM FTP client to support mutual SSL authentication
    over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

    Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Allow DFSORT to run on zIIP

    Enable EXCP access method for DFSORT and allow CPU processing for DFSORT steps to run on zIIP engines.
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

    Hyperpav on MDISKS for GDPS compatibility

    Today, Hyperpav is available on Fullpack minidisks only.
    almost 6 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    11 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    Allow Sort Work (Temp datasets) to go multi volume

    Could you please enhance DFSMS DFSORT to allow work files (Sort work/temporary files) created during SORT processing to go multi volume. Other temporary datasets can now go multi volume apart from SORT work datasets.
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

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