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Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Provide support function for coordinating out-of-band access to data sets

IBM provides a function called "zdsfs" for Linux on z Systems that can be used to directly read certain types of z/OS data sets located on dedicated DASDs shared between z/OS and Linux LPARs. As this access currently occurs without explicit coordi...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Not under consideration

VIEW should have the same support as BROWSE for working with OPEN data sets

We are using ISPF VIEW to filter events in an open LDAP LOG data set (in use by LDAP) for example.After a certain runtime from LDAP, and using ISPF VIEW to filter messages, VIEW terminates with I/O error during opening the LOG.ISPF BROWSE is getti...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

SRCHFOR within SDSF

ISPF allows the use of a SRCHFOR primary command from the data set list. The command will search for text within each data set in the list and identify which data sets contain the text. SDSF should support a SRCHFOR command to search the job steps...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 5 Not under consideration

Message & SMF record needed when RACDCERT automatically replaces / deletes a certificate

When adding a certificate to RACF that qualifies to replace an existing certificate, a message and SMF record is needed indicating that this took place. For example : "Certificate with label xxx was replaced by this certificate <with label yyy&...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow GDK APIs to run on zIIP

Please consider allowing the GDK APIs (primarily gdkget and gdkwrite with a streaming receive/send exit) to be called in with some ability to offload to a zIIP processor. I believe the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit only supports task (TCB) mode, but...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

Update OSPF,LIST,ALL display to include ABR status

Update the D TCPIP,,OSPF,LIST,ALL command to add a status YES/NO of whether the given OMPROUTE instance is operating as an OSPF area border router. There doesn't appear to be any existing indication of this other than knowing that there are interf...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Warning Message to OMPROUTE When Adapter Unexpectedly Attaches to OSPF Area 0.0.0.0

An EZZxxxxx message should be issued by OMPROUTE when an OSPF interface attaches to area 0.0.0.0 by taking the default value of Attaches_to_Area under OSPF_Interface because it was not specified. Creating a warning message when this situation occu...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration