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    RMM MCATTR

    Currently, The EDGRMMxx parmlib option operand MCATTR enables the use of SMS management class attributes that are relevant for tape management by DFSMSrmm. These attributes are the ‘Expire after Date/Days’, ‘Expire after Days Non-usage’, ‘Retentio...
    3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 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

    Extended Format (EF) support for PDA logs

    A huge space savings can be realized if RMM could tolerate EF at startup of STC. With EF, zEDC could be leverage for a significant space saving. This has long been realized with HSM, why not with RMM? Presently, RMM will tolerate the use of EF if ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 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

    DFSMSrmm CDS extents notification

    Currently when RMM CDS that is defined as extended format and multivolume, when it runs out of space on volume, even though it can be extended to another volume, following message is received based on CDSFULL parameter, default is 95%. If the CDS ...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 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

    DFSMSrmm: Correct PFKEY description for help panels such as EDGHD02F

    There are many help panels such as EDGHD02F that does not have correct description for PF7, PF8 and PF10. The keys do work and we can navigate, however, the description for them is incorrect when you enter PFSHOW. There are numerous panels upwards...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

    DFSMSrmm: Ability to patch CDS records

    Currently there are certain situations where certain records in the CDS, records such as volume, data set, vrs, owner... are in error and TSO RMM commands cannot be used to fix the issue as reported by EDGUTIL VERIFY(ALL) and customer is forced to...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 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

    Introduce RMM defaults table (DEFTABLE) operand that can request DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume.

    The EDG_EXIT100 parameter list has an input value PL100_CAN_IGNORE_FILE2_TON that can be used to request that DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume. This is useful to help minimize the overall size of the RM...
    9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

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