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zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift - update workflows so can be run from cmd line

The /usr/lpp/zcx_ocp/workflows/ocp_provision.xml workflow can be run from a command line or via the IBM zOSMF Ansible module, without any manual intervention. Other workflows currently require the first few steps to be done manually from the zOSMF...
10 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Functionality already exists

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
3 months ago in z/OS / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

To have parameter SYSSYM set to ALLOW as default instead of DISALLOW.

Today in zOS2.5 we have parameter SYSSYM set to DISALLOW as default for all jobclass in the system. With all the migration that is happening and will happen from JES3 to JES2 customers will need at some point to change this parameter to allow if t...
6 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Not under consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
11 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

SYSLOGD zIIP eligable

Since z/OS V3R1 backported to V2R5 (PH47666), SYSLOGD provides the possibility to send logs to remote systems. This open's a whole new world, like connecting systems to Splunk in a very easy way. In times of every MIPS count, this new possibilitie...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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