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Long Reach Required for OSA-Express7S 25GbE and 25GbE RoCE

Support for Long Reach fiber (Single Mode) is required on z15 25GbE RoCE and OSA Express7S.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

Create a spreadsheet dur SMF 113

In an old version of RMF under the Windows application there is an IBM RMF Performance Management application. Under this application there was the HIS and CSV Reporting which analyzed the SMF 113. It seems that IBM with the new versions, IBM deci...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Not under consideration

zERT Report Export

Under zERT Report panel, provide the ability to export the CSV file directly to either a desktop location (via http or ftp), or to the current z/OS location. A progress monitor would also be helpful during the export operation.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add IKEv2 Message Fragmentation support to IKED

Add support for IKEv2 Message Fragmentation to IKED as described in RFC 7383
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Supply QUIESCE / RESUME command for an Application Instance VIPA

To prevent the broadcast of a Application Instance VIPA, we would like to have a similar QUIESCE / RESUME command as available for Sysplex Distributed VIPA. Example command:V TCPIP,,QUIESCE,JOBNAME=ABCDEF and to resume (broadcast the IP address) w...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need a description field for connection rules in NCA

When creating IPSEC or ATTLS rules there is no free form area of us to add information in to put in information for the rule and the title is a limited set of characters.The requirement maps give us some of that but really we need this at the LPAR...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Allow SID on OUTDD for IFASMFDL program

System: SMF Logstream Dump programActor: Any user of SMF data IFASMFDL program is used to dump SMF data from logstreams. Description IFASMFDL program does not allow SID on the OUTDD statement. Multiple jobs have to run to dump unique SID to separa...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

New RACF command to synchronize database name table and range table.

Be able to dynamically activate a new RACF configuration regarding chnages to RACF range and database name table without a need for sysplex wide IPL.We use multiple RACF databases and want to merge them into one without the need for a sysplex wide...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide RMF metric id for every individual data object.

All data returned for an RMF DDS Report Request should also be available as single metric.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

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