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Container Extensions (zCX)

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zCX Classic (Docker): Allow complete Automation of the workflow (at least update workflow)

If the zCX image is upgrade with z/OS maintenance, there is a ++HOLD ACTION to do the zCX upgrade workflow to apply the changes done by the PTFs. Currently, this has to be done manually because of enforced manual steps in the workflow. In general,...
12 months 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...
12 months 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.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Specify ROOTVOLSER on upgrade workflow

Currently the ZCX upgrade workflow will allocate a new 4GB ROOT VSAM file (e.g. ROOT2) based on the current SMS attributes of ROOT (as per the documentation). This is a poor assumption on most systems as the workflow will fail if space is not avai...
over 2 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....
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Unable to connect to z/OS Container Extension(zCX) from the WAN

The zCX default bridge subnet 172.17.0.0/16 causes conflicts (sometimes and always in our case) to the WAN workstations IP addresses. We request an enhancement or user customisation to avoid subnet conflicts when identified.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Support Kubernetes for zCX

Add support for Kubernetes for zCX
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Not under 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...
25 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Restore Docker Daemon logging levels by suppressing confidential user config.json information

Currently the Docker Daemon dumps the contents of a user's config.json file into the zCX joblog (SYSPRINT) if there is a syntax error in the Dockerfile (e.g. missing "\" continuation on RUN command or perhaps other situations). The user's config.j...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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