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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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

z/OS resilience - GRS

Hello! We faced some crises where the root cause was very similar. An Address Space that held an important component off z/OS. We can share an example when a STC did an ENQUEUE on the RACF Base and did not release it again. To release this ENQUEUE...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Under review

SE workload migration

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2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

RHEL9 support

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

load balancer at infrastructure layer

load balancer at infrastructure layer
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

Swagger ui front end portal

The ability to fully "brand" the Web UI
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Under review

FS9500 HyperSwap testing/integration

"requirement to disable auto lun scan. The client also wants to use FS9500 HyperSwap, and we are seeing the combination of technology (ICIC + FS9500 HyperSwap) does not appear to have been tested."
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Under review

Domain per client

Domain per client with multiple projects, needs complete isolation from each other, can specify rules & parms. Domain is an openstack concept.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Under review

We need remove the limitation on AIX for the VSAM

My client has larger Index they are not able to accommodate all the index in VSAM if we increase the AIX limitation more then 32,768 it will help the client
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Under review