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    For virtual concurrent copy try another WSDS in case of a conflict instead of fallback to concurrent copy

    After virtual concurrent copy a withdraw is not instantly performed. In case of a lot of virtual concurrent activity, there's a change that the same target storage gets selected as that used for a previous virtual concurrent copy, but for which wi...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 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

    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

    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

    Display Issue with TSO CQUERY PATHS Command

    After issuing CESTPATH and CESTPAIR to establish a pair from A-Vol to B-Vol, the customer ran the TSO CQUERY PATH command against B-Vol. However, the output displayed the values of SERIAL#, SSID, and LSS for the Primary as those of A-Vol. These va...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration

    change the SDM Extended Format Sequential Dataset I/O driver called by DSS DUMP/COPY/RESTORE so that it will utilize PAVs

    To increase DASD space available to z/OS, IBM decided to increase volume size. Since the size of the volume increased, the number of users of that volume increased. To allow more users access to the volume at the same time, Parallel Access Volume ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 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

    Support logical PARMLIB concatenation for ANTMIN00

    Currently, ANTMIN00 PARMLIB member has to reside in SYS1.PARMLIB or a member with sysname in SYS1.ANTMAIN.PARMLIB. The better solution would be that ANTMIN00 can be located in the logical PARMLIB concatenation. So, please make it possible to locat...
    8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

    Add SDM recovery when HSM cancels TCT activity

    On z/OS, this idea would be a design change to add SDM (system data mover) recovery when HSM (hierarchal storage manager) cancels TCT (tape cloud tiering) activity so that ANTMAIN does not need to be canceled. The SDM recovery should clean up all ...
    10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

    LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

    z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
    about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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