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z/VM

Be able to use EXEMPT MEDIUM and then being able to exempt High ciphers

You can't individually EXEMPT high ciphers when using the EXEMPT MEDIUM parameter. It is tedious going through and using EXEMPT statements for all the LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH ciphers you do not want enabled just to force IBM Personal Communications ...
2 months ago in z/VM Under review

z/VM should support reflective_relay and cisco ACI

This capability would solve real-world networking issues for zVM. The current OSA implementation has no way to associate mac addresses with vlan tags, so we can't use cisco ACI + bridge domains to segment traffic into multiple vlans on a single su...
4 months ago in z/VM Future consideration

Increase the SET LKFAC limit above 250 users for use by guest operating systems (TPF)

Increase the MPLF virtual DASD locking limit above the 250 user limit using SET LKFAC. In 1998 the LKFAC limit was increased from 64 users to 250 users (VM61408). One of the reasons for this increase was to allow more TPF guests to run LKFAC to su...
4 months ago in z/VM Future consideration

Improve Initial RACF installation procedures

While performing an initial installation of z/VM V7.4 with RACF, the IBMUSER id is used for initial logon. If the CP Directory has an ACIGROUP entry for IBMUSER that is not SYS1, the initial logon fails after password change, since IBMUSER's ACIGR...
5 months ago in z/VM Future consideration

new option for Filelist

I needed an exec to scan all members of my A-Disk (or any disk) to locate a string of data. So, I wrote it and works great. I imagine that many other CMS Users would benefit from this as well. Then I got thinking that if the results were returned ...
7 months ago in z/VM Not under consideration

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.
7 months ago in z/VM Is a defect

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 months ago in z/VM Future consideration

Provide an equivalent to ISPF data shifts

When editing HLASM source code, it is sometimes desirable to shift the opcode, operands and comments to the left or right without losing any significant characters. In ISPF, this an be done by using (, ((, ) or )) in place of <, <<, > ...
11 months ago in z/VM Functionality already exists

Allow RACF to protect the Enable attach/detach crypto as a separate class of device from non-crypto devices

With the expansion of security concerns surrounding workload and therefore the increase in demand for crypto functionality. It has become imperative that we control the access to the crypto domains, which could be done by restricting attach/detach...
12 months ago in z/VM Future consideration

Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
about 1 year ago in z/VM Future consideration

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