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    Avoid Remote VL CP Penalties By Utilizing Local Resources When Drawer Fit Fails

    On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

    Enable System Recovery Boost for DMR Events Triggered By Drawer Swaps

    On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

    Rust language

    “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 11 Future consideration

    Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

    We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

    Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

    Allow customer control of ssh host keys in the SSH CLI container

    When configured with LDAP (“ZCX_SSHD_LDAP_ENABLE TRUE”) the SSH CLI container is generating new host keys every restart, this prevents using ssh key authentication and host verification, the latter is a security issue as the identity of the host c...
    5 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

    Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

    After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

    DFSMSdss COPYDUMP function would include an option to Tape REBLOCK

    DFSMSdss DUMP tape created using Large Block Interface , reduces its usability for other components, besides RESTORE and COPYDUMP.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 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.
    9 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Add sudo to the OEF

    sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

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