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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

    z/OS IPL simulation

    It should be very valuable to test an upcoming IPL in case of z/OS upgrade or other system parameter change. The simulation could consist of various checks for example ipl & catalog volume address verification, IPLPARM LOADxy syntax check, var...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 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

    Error message to be produced when LNKLST concatenation datasets experiencing severe performance degradation, especially Sys1.LINKLIB.

    This will indicate that there is a problem with LNKLST concatenated datasets, and that LNKLST is is under performance degradation constraints, when datasets were removed and added back to the LNKLST concatenation.Current error messages for LNKLST ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 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

    VLF SMF 41 SUBTYPE 3 - MISSING COFPURGE statistics

    Currently VLF statistics tracks ADD, DELETES, TRIM activity. One of the most important activity in terms of VLF CPU usage is the PURGE activity (COFPURGE). SMF 41 should track also COFPURGE. The purge activity consumes when the cache has many entr...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 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

    System Recovery Boost SMF record to know how much CPU used in ZIIP instead of GCP

    During System Recovery Boost (SRB) some work, that is not eligible for zIIP, is dispatched on zIIP's in case there isn’t sufficient standard CP capacity available. There is existing SMF to count how much there is zIIP eligible time spent on CP's, ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

    RTM fencing storage for CANCEL command per TS014858949

    Per TS014858949, we are requesting RTM fencing off a piece of storage to be able to issue the CANCEL command when memory is an issue. This sounds practical and safe to implement, and we could benefit from such an improvement.
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 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

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