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JES2 Resource Group support regarding Job Output commands

Currently, it's documented that $POJQ,/RESGROUP=xxx works to purge all job output that is associated with jobs in a JES2 Resource Group. Using this command results in: $HASP003 RC=(82),PO JQ RESGROUP - INVALID FILTER KEYWORD According to the PMR t...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 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

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

Introduce ZHPF for JES2 spool I/O

Allow JES2 to use ZHPF for it's spool datasets.
6 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Support JobPgmList in JES2 SYSOUTGroup policies

We recently had a case where we had a specific, hard-to-change program, dynamically creating a sysout dataset that we wanted to get rid of. A JES2 policy was the easiest way. However, since JobPgmList is not available to SYSOUTGroup policies, we h...
8 months ago in z/OS / JES2 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

Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
8 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
10 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
10 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration