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    New informational messages with options of being enabled/disabled

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Extending the generated CPM informational messages, and allowing them to be dynamically switchable in a similar fashion as via the “Planner.ExplanatoryActivationMessage” parm, and the CPO4444I ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Improve CPM LP handling to follow PR/SM best practices

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM the current logic regarding “LP adds” and “LP removes” is unbalanced, and tends towards allowing systems to run with over-configured online LP counts. If PR/SM treats “LP’s Parked by Hip...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 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.
    5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future 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).
    9 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

    z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
    about 1 year 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 ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

    Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
    over 6 years ago in z/VM 3 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 <, <<, > ...
    3 months ago in z/VM 2 Functionality already exists

    MDISKs as ESE devices

    Seems by default, if the MDISK statement is not indicated with -END, it is not treated as ESE device. As per TS013515479, IBM support mentioned: guest I/O simulation for the ESE indications and the ESE indicator is only ever hidden from the guest ...
    6 months ago in z/VM 1 Functionality already exists

    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.
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

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