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PBOM0210-1314 RACF Recovery of deleted Userids

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Frank.LeoSubmitters Company: Bank of Montreal PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PBOM0210-1314 RACF Recovery of deleted UseridsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedClos...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

PFITS0812-1528 RACF certificate NOTRUST risk due to automatic time conversation local time / UTC

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFITS0812-1528 RACF certificate NOTRUST risk due to automatic time conversation local time / UT...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Jim.FyffeSubmitters Company: Fifth Third Bank PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

PLAC0213-1578 Reduce power consumption for System z I/O configuration

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0213-1578 Reduce power consumption for System z I/O configurationHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Statu...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

Consistent view of shared spool items in an SSI environment

In an SSI environment, provide a consistent view of the READER files owned by a USER from the perspective of a CLASS D user/identity (not the owner), similar to the way PRINT and PUNCH files are handled, regardless of whether or where the owner is...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

support for huge pages for Oracle running on Linux in z/VM environment

Provide z/VM support for running Oracle DB in Linux for System z (running as z/VM guest) with huge page support. Please note, we know from customer tests that using huge page support makes really a big performance difference (when running in LPAR)...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

z/VM-RACF without DASD/ECKD storage

Remove current existing pre-requisite for needing DASD/ECKD attached storage when using z/VM-RACF.There are customers who do not use DASD/ECKD storage. Especially these are new System z customers running Linux on the mainframe. Typically these new...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Relocation of z/OS guests

Baseler Versicherungen is planning to consolidate three subsidiaries at one location. Due to operational procedures the plan is that every subsidiary becomes a tenant on z/VM; under z/VM a parallel sysplex will be deployed to increase availability...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Provide z/VM guest access to Server Time Protocol (STP) info

z/VM must provide a mechanism so that guest Operating Systems, such as z/OS and z/VSE, can get or be notified of a local time change when STP provides one to the Virtual Machine.
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

TKDS Support with Encryption Facility

Encryption Facility (EF) currently supports the ICSF CKDS and PKDS. The TKDS was implemented in ICSF after the initial EF support. Would be great to add that final KDS to the list of supported key stores.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

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