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    Enable FEATURE SHARED=YES in the HCD PROFILE

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    28 days ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

    Include functions in HCD Option 7 'Query Supported Hardware and Installed UIMs'

    As functions become increasingly important customers want a simpler way to determine which function types are supported. Currently the supported functions can only be determined by prompting the function type while adding a new function.
    3 months ago in z/OS / HCD 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

    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

    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

    PAV/HyperPAV alias Support

    Base devices between subchannel sets, aliases associated with and in the same real subchannel set in the active configuration allows these devices to then be referenced by 4-digit RDEV numbers in various commands which only affect active configura...
    about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Deploy an option to suppress warning messages in HCD.

    There are warning messages that come out in HCD that are known to be ok, but still spill out a lot of warning messages that are additional things to review. It would be great to have the ability to suppress warning messages in an IODF and those be...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

    Delete elements like channel , control-unit , unit in IODF with HCD batch

    With PGM=CBDMGHCP,PARM='MIGR,........' we can add or update elements but not to delete elements. It would be fine to be able to delete elements in batch before to do MIGRATE in batch. We have messages : CBDA563I SPACE EXHAUSTED IN WORK IODF NSYSTK...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

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