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    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 7 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 5 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Unique directory name only possible

    Working for Kyndryl Resiliency Services, we start clients under z/VM. The fact is that our clients name their partitions with a too generic name, like PROD, SYST, DEV... and they need to preserve their names to run their DR scenarios. It appears t...
    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 11 years ago in z/VM 1 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 3 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 3 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Enable CFVM Thin Interrupts for shared ICFs

    When sharing a physical ICF between real CF LPARs and a VM-mode LPAR (for use by CFVMs), the real CF LPARs can set the dynamic dispatch mode to "Thin Interrupt" to reduce ICF usage by any particular LPAR. z/VM use of an ICF in a CF Virtual Machine...
    over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Increase sysout of TRSOURCE

    System: zVM Actor: System Programmer needing to trace Description: We have a large data stream via UDP Multicast and eventually when we use TRSOURCE we can not even capture 10 seconds of data due to limiting the size of the buffer. We need an alte...
    over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Capacity to configure and monitor vswitch buffer

    System: zVM Actor: System Programmer needing to monitor and manager the size of vswitch. Description: We have a large data stream via UDP Multicast and we find that vswitch is discarding packets when your buffer fills. We need to have the capacity...
    over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Enhance z/VM RACF so that digital certificates can be stored in RACF

    Please enhance z/VM so that digital certificates can be stored in the RACF database.
    over 8 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

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