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Add FEAT command to FTP server

Add support for FEAT command to FTP server on z/VM
over 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

Add CAC Support to SSL Server

We rely on a CMS based application web server to handle HTTPS connections. The web server is assembler based, and uses the IUCV socket APIs to communicate with z/VM TCP/IP. The web server currently supports SSL natively with client certificate aut...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Allow DIRMAINT to sense actual physical volume sizes when volumes are added to available disk pools

Any DIRMAINT user
about 2 years ago in z/VM 6 Delivered

zHPF phase 1 support for normal minidisks,not only for fullpack minidisks in z/VM, so that it can be used by z/VSE V6.2 guest

For better I/O performance I need strongly the zHPF support in z/VSE V6.2 for my DL/1 database minidisks. These disks are normal minidisks and NOT fullback minidisks. But because "a few zHPF features are limited to fullpack minidisks or attached D...
over 5 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

zVM dynamic reconfiguration capability to support devices in Subchannel set 1

Make possible dynamic reconfiguration for new or existing devices to reside in Subchannel set 1 - 3390A or 3390D devices.
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 4 Delivered

More than 2TB memory limit for z/VM

Customer's Oracle DB 19c is growing rapidly as the end-users increase from 14k to 20k. In the coming year, they expect to reach 60k users. More memory is required to eliminate performance and log-in issues. The current z/VM 7.2 LPAR only has 2TB r...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

CMS/zCMS & Pipe updates to support TLS

The IOCTL interface in TCP/IP supports client and server transition to and from TLS, but only from C and Assembler. Rexx and CMS Pipelines needs to be updated so those environments can use TLS encryption as well.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

CMS Tape I/O 64K buffer relief

The current bottleneck with z/VM tape processing is tape I/O block size which is currently limited to 64K. Newer VTS hardware technology is not restricted in this way. IBM analysis shows that performance would improve significantly by reducing I/O...
over 3 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

MONWRITE should permit a filemode with the CLOSE option on the DISK operand

The MONWRITE utility permits you to specify the filename, filetype, and filemode on the DISK operand OR you can specify CLOSE on the DISK operand. However, if you want to use CLOSE you can not specify the filemode and the output always goes to the...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

z/VM DEFINE CPUPOOL command with 2 decimals

As cpu:s become more effective, we need more granularity on CPU POOL definitions. Easiest way would be to add one decimal for the CPU POOL definition, so that currently possible 2.1 could be defined as 2.15 for example.
over 8 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

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