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Provide a Pipelines stage to read TRF files

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00064244User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSCMSX97307Title: Provide a Pipelines stage to read TRF filesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / (919)572-2963FPOC: Daniel Griffi...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

Request a VLAN parameter on the NICDEF directory statement

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0111082558User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0111082558Title: Request a VLAN parameter on the NICDEF directory statementSubmitted By: Joseph Hust/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: CPIO Level 2FPOC: Daniel Griffit...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

VM/ESA needs to support guest sharing of Parallel Access Volumes

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0216015356User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0216015356Title: VM/ESA needs to support guest sharing of Parallel Access VolumesSubmitted By: Guy Deschenes/Quebec/IBMOriginators Area: ITS 514-626-7260FPOC: Dani...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Need support for greater than 4-member cluster

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR101811575User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR101811575Title: Need support for greater than 4-member clusterSubmitted By: Cathy Cramer/Des Moines/IBMOriginators Area: Technical AdvocateFPOC: Daniel Griffith/End...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Performance Toolkit should create VMPRF Summary files to be processed by Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0113044550User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0113044550Title: Performance Toolkit should create VMPRF Summary files to be processed by Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390Submitted By: Bernard Royole Degieu...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Hardwaresupport for SSL connections ( PCIXCC etc. )

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0628063934User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0628063934Title: Hardwaresupport for SSL connections ( PCIXCC etc. )Submitted By: Erich Amrehn/Germany/IBMOriginators Area: Technical Marketing Competence Center D...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

Permit Performance Tookit to process more than one input files

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0111076645User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0111076645Title: Permit Performance Tookit to process more than one input filesSubmitted By: Silvana Carina Hermida/Argentina/IBMOriginators Area: SWGFPOC: Daniel ...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

RACF z/VM needs the Help Desk functionality of RACF z/OS.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0123127345User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0123127345Title: RACF z/VM needs the Help Desk functionality of RACF z/OS.Submitted By: William Garvin/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: IBM - z/VM Software Servic...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Allow partial pack minidisks to reside both wholly or partially above cylinder 65520

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0308133010User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0308133010Title: Allow partial pack minidisks to reside both wholly or partially above cylinder 65520Submitted By: Chris J Barwise/UK/IBMOriginators Area: UK STGFP...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Enhancement to support the z/OS function PASSWORD(MINCHANGE(minimum-change-interval) in z/VM RACF

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0405123351User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0405123351Title: Enhancement to support the z/OS function PASSWORD(MINCHANGE(minimum-change-interval) in z/VM RACFSubmitted By: William Garvin/Poughkeepsie/IBMOrig...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered