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    Change vm.max_map_count on zCX Kernel

    To allow running a cluster of ELK (ElasticSearch) containers in a zCX configuration with SWARM, it is necessary to adjust the vm.max_map_count parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf from 65530 to 262144 on zCX Linux system. Without this adjustment, when st...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    ZCX / ZOS Communication Server should support multi-IP configurations

    For Security-Reasons our firewall blocks traffic to "unusual" ports. So we would like to provide a zCX instance more then one IP like docker on x86 supports. So we can bind connections between host(zcx) and container based on IP-port combinations....
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    zCX-Automate the change of IP address for the zCX instance for DR Testing purposes

    We are looking for a way to automate the change of the zCX Instance IP address for DR Testing purposes where we change our DR IP addresses when performing DR network isolated tests.
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

    Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

    zCX - Externalize failure information to the joblog

    Hello, zCX generates FFDC files when a problem is experienced and in the above case zCX restarted. There is no indication of the nature of the problem in the joblog, just that FFDC dumps were captured and zCX was restarted. We have to open a case ...
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    zCX SSH x11 forwarding using xauth & magic cookie

    In our shop x11 to the X-Server running on our personal PC is blocked by the firewall for security reasons. For this reason we've to use x11 forwarding with magic cookie & xauth session authentication. Also, X11UseLocalhost no have to be speci...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Command to display zCX memory SWAP, DATA and ROOT space usage

    There is no command to display how much memory the zCX started task is using, or how much space is being used of the ROOT dataset; determining usage of SWAP and DATA is also difficult.This is separate from the within-docker commands to display ind...
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Provide an option to run the zCX upgrade workflow fully automated

    Currently the first two steps of the zCX upgrade workflow need to be run manually. It would be great, if these two steps can run automatically, so the whole workflow process needs no further manual intervention, once it was started. This would als...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

    Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    zCX restart capability

    Provide the ability to restart zCX. E-mails have been sent to the zCX team.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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