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

    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 more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

    With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...
    12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 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

    Enable Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation for z12

    Please provide MCL updates to allow z12 (EC and BC) to exploit Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation on OSA4s and OSA5s (same hardware as z13
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

    z/VM Lowercase login passwords

    Due to internal rules, customer needs to use lower case and upper case combinations in the z/VM users logon password. They are aware that it can be done by installing RACF, but they think it is very complex and expensive to install RACF only to ha...
    over 7 years ago in z/VM 3 Not under consideration

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