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z/VM Improve IP wizard

IPWizard functinality need to be improved. we are using portgroup with LACP and (multi) VSwitch configuration to provide TCP/IP connectivity.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/VM and related subsystems to report correct time

ll human-readable (i.e. non-TOD format) date and time values generated by CP, CMS, GCS, REXX, DVF, TCP/IP, RACF, RSCS, and Performance Toolkit components of z/VM must be correct, where "correct" is defined by "UTC plus the time zone offset when th...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

gskkyman command deficiency

gskkyman command line does not allow for importing CA certificates without a key/password. In other words: gskkyman -i -k "database.kdb" -l "Some CA name" -p "ca.pem" will require a certificate file that has an accompanying key file. When you atte...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

collect more data for FTP/TN3270 sessions in MONWRITE

We are enabling all FTP and TN3270 in our environment to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. With FTP we cannot make it default for the entire environment at this time so we must still allow unsecure FTP to occur. PCI compliance “re...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
about 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

RACF won't start in SSI if database disk is unavailable

Running on a z/VM 6.3.0 system in an SSI cluster, the customer's primary RACF database disk became unusable. Symptoms of the unusable database disk include: - When attempting to LOGON to a valid userid, the logon failed with message RPIMGR040T Use...
about 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Inclusion of DEVNO disk definitions on the dirmap report processing

The customer wants the DEVNO disk to be included in the DIRMAP / DISKMAP reports to have a better management with IBM-Wave. In a large installation controlled by IBM-Wave like this, it would improve the management by having all the disk used under...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Provide a user authorization and permissions agent compatible with Red Hat FreeIPA

Red Hat is investing in creating a user and security based tool for identity management and open sourcing the result as FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org). I would like to suggest making a CMS client for FreeIPA to allow VM user management with FreeIPA. I ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Enhance CMS abend handlers with 64 bit support

Now zCMS is becoming the default CMS, applications wanting to utilize 64 bits mode, can switch to AMODE 31 before calling a CMS API, but that is not true for abend handlers.Abend handlers are called with the same AMODE as they were initialzed, but...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO Pipelines

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00057071User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSCMSX96009Title: Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO PipelinesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPO...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

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