IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    10 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

    Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

    DFSMS/VM interaction with DRFAMILY on TS7700

    Please consider adding the ability to interact with DRFAMILY on TS7700 from a zVM LPAR (DFSMS/VM).
    10 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

    Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    DIRMAINT EXTENT CONTROL statements need to check with RACFVM for authorization with SECLABEL Mandatory Access Control

    We require DIRMAINT to respect RACF SECLABELS for DASD devices when working with MDISKs. Our directory and storage management is provided through DIRMAINT. DIRMAINT's EXTENT CONTROL is the single source of storage definitions. We need to have DIRM...
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine

    DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine. This is useful in a RACF environment using sitewide SECLABELs for mandatory access control. The commands affected would be DIRM ADD. An additional operand of SECLAB...
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Support VS-CODE for editing native (Rexx, HLASM, etc.) CMS files

    Currently VS CODE supports editing z/OS datasets on a workstation via the z/OSMF facility. CMS developers would benefit from having the same capabilities for editing CMS files using VS-CODE and its toolsets.
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Increase CP areas to maximum supported size on VM installs

    Historically, VM delivered a modest average size for most CP areas like ckpt, warmstart, and directory. Now that disk is no longer really constrained on most systems and VM management skills are increasingly rare, increasing the reserved areas to ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Expand the CONTENT option for RECEIVE ORDER to allow a more targeted (and smaller) subset of maintenance.

    This enhanced request is for users of SMPE RECEIVE ORDER who want a reduced subset of maintenance to be ordered/delivered via the SMPE RECEIVE ORDER process. For example, CONTENT(RSU2410,RSU2411, RSU2412,RSU25*). Currently there are only 5 options...
    8 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

    SMP/E to update acceptable LKED PARMs / Binder Options

    It has been found that DB2 High Performance Unload (HPU), under DB2 Tools, FMID HINZ510, is trying to use COMPAT=PM5 in their JCLIN's LKED Steps. SMP/E only accepts up to PM4. This is to request SMP/E allow all the available COMPAT options to be s...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

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