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    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    18 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Submitted

    Configure OSA 5S outside of HMC

    OSA 5S cards can only be configured from the HMC, which is traditionally a CE roll. CEs generally are not familiar with having to code OSA card parameters such as loading the SNA microcode on an OSA card. Mainframe networking support team does not...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Future 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...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 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

    Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

    The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

    Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

    Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    OSA-ICC 1GE Fiber Cards need to support VLAN TAGGING in the ICC Server Configuration Panels

    IBM is discontinuing the Copper based OSA that support OSA-ICC consoles. The only available OSA-ICC cards in the future will be FIBER based 1GE cards. In our environment all of our FIBER switches require VLAN tagging. This IDEA is to support a VLA...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

    z13 FICON path selection

    a z/13 CPU design issue. An IO subsystem algorithm checks path activity and if one becomes less active it swings processing to the remaining normally efficient path. However, it never rechecks the poorer performing path to allow it to return to th...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Request to Add Full dynamic Activate support in SACF Lpar on Z14 and above

    Reference case: TS003931886When there are no requirements for a ZOS LPAR or ZVM LPAR, there is still a need to configure resources beyond coupling facility. The SACF Activation LPAR needs to be able to handle equivalent of the Dynamic Activate fun...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Not under consideration

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