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require persistent connectivity for SPLUNK in DATAPUMP

We send data to SPLUNK and recent update has broken the process. Product needs persistent connectivity, like it is has with InfluxDB to function.
1 day ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

Validate result for the BPX.CF service in the zOSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Customers will get a notification "No CF levels are available for sizing calculation" if the BPX.CF service under Security configuration assistant is not defined. If there is a generic FACILITY class profile *.* defined, the validation result for ...
2 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
23 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Support for 32 TB of real memory per LPAR via feature statement

Would like to be able to have fewer, larger LPARs. If the reconfigurable memory is the limiting factor, then for cases where reconfigurable/dynamic memory is not needed, it should be possible to include a config file statement that disables/bypass...
9 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - SSO should support JWT

In our environment we are not allowed to use LTPA for authentication anymore and would rely on JWT to keep Single sign-on working in our zOSMF instances. Or even create an integration with OAuth2/OIDC.
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Integration of Data Privacy for Diagnostics (DPfD) into z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard for sending data

We need to upload a lot of data, e.g. dump data, which quite often contain sensitive customer information. To make the process more transparent and integrated, we would like to request an optional step to be added to the z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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

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...
9 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration