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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.
about 17 hours ago in z/VM 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...
8 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

Optimize DMR to Minimize Performance Impact During 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...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under 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...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 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

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

Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
9 months ago in z/VM 3 Functionality already exists

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

Mask LPAR data in multi customer environment

We are a service provider managing multiple customers sharing the same mainframe CPC.Our need is to avoid a customer can read LPAR usage data belonging to other customer (different group capacity).In other words we have multiple LPAR group (one fo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration