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z/VM

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z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
about 5 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

Extent CP Flashcopy with IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy (Preserve Mirror)

Make IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy also known as Preserve Mirror available for CP Flashcopy. This way flashcopy will not affect the PPRC duplex state and GDPS will not complain. The system stays hyperswap ready during the flashcopy. Which is now not t...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

Support for FTP client mutual SSL authentication

Please allow the z/VM FTP client to support mutual SSL authentication
almost 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Hyperpav on MDISKS for GDPS compatibility

Today, Hyperpav is available on Fullpack minidisks only.
about 4 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

z/VM enhancement requested for z/OS GUESTS exploiting HYPERPAV

Extending the z/VM MSS (Multiple Subchannel Set) management to allow z/VM and its guests exploiting HyperPAV (e.g z/OS).REQUIRED for customers who are close to the 64K limit of UCB in SS0 of LCSS. More details in the attachement.
almost 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

UCD agent on z/VM

Would it be possible to have a UCD agent running on z/VM.We do have Workflow from our UCD server to deploy/run jobs on UCD agents on z/OS.We have a requirement to run cp commands or rexx on z/VM.
almost 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

RVARY password reply handling should be changed

When issuing RVARYPW (reply after having issued rvary command) it is displayed in clear text in operator's console log. This is a big difference to z/OS reply handling and should be changed in z/VM. The input to this reply should be hidden to avoi...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add flash memory to z/VM paging

The idea is to enable z / VM to use the flash memory as paging area system instead of dasd disks to increase agility.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Future 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...
almost 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Not under consideration

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