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z/VM Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and simpler way of updating core resident data in ...
about 8 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Increase Timezone zoneid from 3 to 5 characters

The timezone field in SYSTEM CONFIG statements TIMEZONE_DEFINITION and TIMEZONE_BOUNDARY and the CP QUERY TIME command allow 3 characters. Official timezones abbreviations use 1, 3, 4 & 5 characters
about 8 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

need for <50 milliseconds accuracy of STP vs. external time reference

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a new clock synchronization standard of 50 milliseconds applicable to computer clocks that are used to record certain events in NMS securities or OTC equity securities. Firms have six months fr...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 4 Delivered

JPMC MFA requirment

JPMC has decided to make a couple adjustments to the originally communicated plan for MFA on IBM HMCs: Instead of using HTTPS Proxies to control all inbound traffic presented to the zSeries HMCs; JPMC will instead have several network “segments” ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

HMC access to time adjustment messages on the Support Element

Provide functionality for the HMC to extract the Audit log from any attached zSeries processor
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

RoCE for zLINUX roadmap

Roadmap required for zLINUX RoCE support - SBSA. Is there a possibility that this could be delayed?
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Delivered

Provide pre- and post-zEDC byte counts in SMF Type 23 records

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSMVSE14006: Voting Priority=2.4.</p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p>Installations would l...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

'Take Over' support for SE from the zHMC (JPMC request)

After hearing about the HMC Integrated 3270 Console 'Take Over' capability, the JP Morgan Chase team requested that we provide a similar 'Take Over' support for the HMC Single Object Operations to a SE to force the SOO user offline so that another...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

zHMC Multi-Factor Authentication - RSA Token

RSA authentication to be added & work in parallel with LDAP authentication. Meaning the logon screen would ask for a user ID/password (which is authenticated against LDAP server), along with a RSA token field (to be authenticated in parallel a...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

zHMC Display zFLASH allocations via WEB Services API

JPMC would like the ability to issue API commands to display zFLASH allocations at the image profile level. The zOS display command only show active partitions, not images that are deallocated.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

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