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ZCX / ZOS Communication Server should support multi-IP configurations

For Security-Reasons our firewall blocks traffic to "unusual" ports. So we would like to provide a zCX instance more then one IP like docker on x86 supports. So we can bind connections between host(zcx) and container based on IP-port combinations....
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
4 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

RMF subtype to capture resource usage metrics for zCX runtime and zCX containers

Current zCX workloads can only be measured and controlled by WLM from z/OS perspective. It does not have correlated data points between GP/zIIP utilization going thru container's utilization within zCX. It would be very helpful to understand how m...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

VTAM Connection Network Pending PU Processing

When a Connection Network PU goes into a pending state during connection establishment, VTAM does not perform any INOP Processing as it does for native Enterprise Extender connections. The pending PU remains in the pending state for an indefinite ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Download RECFM U

If i UPLOAD an RECFM U dataset like a DFDSS DUMP, at DOWNLOAD process the receiving file doesn't have the structure has the UPLOAD process had. So the DOWNLOADED file can't be use to restore file. If you can't improve the DOWNLOAD process ca you a...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Include the dataset name in the IGW859I message text

The Itau bank and IBM has a project to activate the DFSMStvs product to run on the GRBE (Itaú OLTP application) to support the online workload.So, it is very important to us to have an improvement for the message IGW859I, today this message doesn'...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 5 Planned for future release

TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generations

TSO Delete currently deletes the PDSE base member (generation 0) and leaves generations -1 and beyond as orphan/ghost members. Delete should delete the base and all generations - with an appropriate message See old idea ZOS-I-3593 this is a fairly...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Future consideration

HSM FLB support of archive function

The current set of available functions does not allow to 'archive' a file
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

EAV impacting Overflow storage group usage

Due to the introduction of EAV volumes in our environment, the number of volumes in our primary storage groups will be reduced such that the number of volumes in the overflow pool can have more than the number of volumes requested for an allocatio...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Future consideration