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z13 FICON path selection

a z/13 CPU design issue. An IO subsystem algorithm checks path activity and if one becomes less active it swings processing to the remaining normally efficient path. However, it never rechecks the poorer performing path to allow it to return to th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Not under consideration

Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

Automate setting DST in Sysplex with Multiple timezones

We have systems in a sysplex that have different time zones than the one specified via STP. For time zones that change for DST at the same time as the STP time zone we would like the DST change to be automated via STP. This could be managed by int...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

64-bit version of BPXWDYN for C

Please provide a 64-bit version of BPXWDYN
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Provide similar syntax checking for TN3270, PAGENT, SYSLOGD, FTP configuration members to that provided for TCPIP profiles.

Syntax checking is currently available for VTAMLST members and for TCPIP profile members (or elements thereof). Can this be expanded to include TN3270, PAGENT, SYSLOGD and FTP (possibly others) to minimise the likelihood of deploying definitions c...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

PRESERVE OWNERid during COPY/DUMP/RESTORE DFDSS

If a dataset is logically copied/dumped or restored by DFDSS the OWNERID field in the Catalog is reset to NULL. The Customer wants to preserve the previous content of the OWNERID field during DFDSS Copy/Restore because customer uses a function in ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

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