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M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of FTP client port range

Create parm to restrict FTP client ports in the same way FTP server is allowed to restrict passive ports to a specific range.. This will eliminate a common complaint of firewall admins that they don' want to open a large range of ports in the fire...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands

Please look to add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands. The NETSTAT command is already controlled by the EZB.NETSTAT.** profile in the SERVAUTH class.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

syntax checker z/os 2.1 enhance verify valid port portrange statement parms please pmr 69125 Donna

my colleague Nick Down dedeuced that the TCPIP syntaxchecker does not check for consistency between port and portrange statements. This is because the checks are for syntactically correct statements. The syntaxchecker doesn't check for logic error...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

HSM ML2 Tape Selection problem - Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available

Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available in ML2 Table in TS3500 libraries environment.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

ARC0559I floods console, request 1 per volume.

After IPL, had lots of message ARC0559I. Request limiting issuance to once per volume (or minute).
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

HMC health self assessment

The HMC is performing more and more functions, many of which do not require a user sitting at the physical HMC, and so if the HMC is suffering from health issues it may not always be noted in a timely fashion and invoking function remotely may fai...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Add zkey / paes support for the ZFS filesystem encryption

Canonical/Ubuntu is exploring using ZFS native encryption (without LUKS) when deploying on the ZFS Linux filesystem. ZFS is already available on Ubuntu Server for s390x. Currently with LUKS on s390x installers default to using zkey/paes if availab...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Not under consideration

CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_RNLS)

The following DFSMS/CATALOG Health Check is misleading if the system is running CA-MII with GRSRNL=EXCLUDE:CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_RNLS) There is no way to determine which reserves MII is configured to process.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

zAware Feature to Wildcard Messages

The ability to ignore zAware messages with a wildcard and applying changes to all monitored LPARs with one submission.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

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