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Enhance NFS so that I can NFS Mount Striped and large datasets that span multiple volumes

Currently NFS on z/OS does not support NFS Mounting Striped or large datasets that span multiple volumes on z/OS
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Submitted

Request to remove the portmap dump call from z/OS NFS

Portmap dump calls are now identified as threats by standard firewall rules and other platform NFS clients have removed portmap dump calls. z/OS NFS should also provide a configuration option to disable portmap dump calls to prevent firewalls from...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Future consideration

add z/NFS NFS version 4.1 support to properly replace z/SMB version 1

Currently we use z/SMB to mount z/OS file systems on our microsoft windows workstations.Because of a security hole in SMB V1 our security team wants to turn off the SMB V1 support on the workstations.Unfortunately zSMB is stabilized and will never...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Future consideration

Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

Provide support function for coordinating out-of-band access to data sets

IBM provides a function called "zdsfs" for Linux on z Systems that can be used to directly read certain types of z/OS data sets located on dedicated DASDs shared between z/OS and Linux LPARs. As this access currently occurs without explicit coordi...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

I think it would be good to remove the 4000 character restriction for an EXPORT list.

The company I work for was a big DFS user which was made obsolete in z/OS 2.2. When moving to NFS and using the -access method to provide access to USS Filesystems we had to take a very generic approach when specifying machine ids. Even though the...
11 months ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

NFS : add official support for UNC paths from Windows clients

we are using NFS on z/OS2.4. We finished a migration project from DFS to NFS because DFS is no longer supported in z/OS.2.4. Our clients are NFS version3 clients on Windows servers and workstations accessing z/OS NFS by using kerberos. Our Windows...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration