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    require persistent connectivity for SPLUNK in DATAPUMP

    We send data to SPLUNK and recent update has broken the process. Product needs persistent connectivity, like it is has with InfluxDB to function.
    1 day ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    Support for 32 TB of real memory per LPAR via feature statement

    Would like to be able to have fewer, larger LPARs. If the reconfigurable memory is the limiting factor, then for cases where reconfigurable/dynamic memory is not needed, it should be possible to include a config file statement that disables/bypass...
    8 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    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

    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...
    9 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

    With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
    9 months ago in z/VM 3 Functionality already exists

    DFSORT AI Engine

    Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 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

    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...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under 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

    DFSMS/VM interaction with DRFAMILY on TS7700

    Please consider adding the ability to interact with DRFAMILY on TS7700 from a zVM LPAR (DFSMS/VM).
    9 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

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