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VM Support for Synchronizing System Time with External Sources

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00066801User Marketing Field Requirement Number: Title: VM Support for Synchronizing System Time with External SourcesSubmitted By: Karen Thompson/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: G23G / 607(752-5742)FPOC: Daniel Griffi...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Perform NSS backup with out tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR090711629User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR090711629Title: Perform NSS backup with out tapeSubmitted By: Johnathon Pandich/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: Endicott NYFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endicott/IBM Submitte...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

CP QUERY BYAUTO command

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0326132235User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0326132235Title: CP QUERY BYAUTO commandSubmitted By: Yanique Watson/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: z/VMFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endicott/IBM Submitted Date: 03/26/201...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Restricting telnet access to specific users via RACF

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR081506624User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR081506624Title: Restricting telnet access to specific users via RACFSubmitted By: Francois Lafreniere/Quebec/IBMOriginators Area: NS Software SupportFPOC: Daniel Gr...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

VM firewall software

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0220132327User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0220132327Title: VM firewall softwareSubmitted By: Francois Lafreniere/Quebec/IBMOriginators Area: NS Software SupportFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endicott/IBM Submitted ...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Integrated 3270 Console support for 3270 data streams longer than XFA0

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0530071317User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0530071317Title: Integrated 3270 Console support for 3270 data streams longer than XFA0Submitted By: Kurt Acker/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: z/VMFPOC: Daniel Grif...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Allow NOCOPY or INCREMENTAL to specify in CP Flashcopy.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR080406653User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR080406653Title: Allow NOCOPY or INCREMENTAL to specify in CP Flashcopy.Submitted By: Amin Mawani/CanWest/IBMOriginators Area: IBM Global Services - Canada HOWTOFPOC...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

New CEATOOL Parameter to delete an Incident by the SVC-Dump Name

The CEATOOL has actually only the parameter RETPD to filter which Incidents should be deleted.We need a new parameter to filter the incident deletion by the name of the svc-dump name stored in the sysplex dump directory.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration

Autoreserve BPXPRM INADDRANYPORTS

In BPXPRMXX you can specify INADDRANYPORT which is used for bind calls. The stack has no indication that these ports have been reserved for this use and you can put a port definition in place without error. however when you attempt to use the port...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Order of mdisk allocation in the upgrade installation method

The procedure used in the upgrade installation method should FIRST allocate the biggest MDISKs. DIRMAINT might be unable to allocate MDISKs if not doing so whereas the total amount of available disk space is large enough..
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration