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    Prepare a single-phase power feature code for the IBM Z power supply

    Japanese data center facilities are mainly single-phase. When IBM Z is selected, we would like you to prepare a single-phase power supply mechanism that can be installed in the existing equipment environment.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

    Passphrase support for master console logins

    Using MFA on z/OS, and need passphrase support for logging on to the master console. Most other login entry points are passphrase enabled
    about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 4 Delivered

    Add support for either DNSSEC or DoH

    Nowadays, security is an important concern in every IT area. Data privacy and integrity should be provided for data at rest and data in transit. Traditional DNS protocol running over UDP plaintext is vulnerable for attack, for example DNS spoofing...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

    Provide REST API for Software Update Plugin

    Please provide a REST API that will provide subset of functionality for performing automated updates.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

    Improve BCPII availability during SE switch

    During a concurrent SE switch BCPII is unavailable drint at least 10 minutes.I ask you to reduce this time less than 1 mn
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Delivered

    Create z/OS Unix symbolic link with ZOSMF Rest API

    We would like to see the ability to create and delete symbolic links added to the ZOSMF File Rest API.
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

    Enhancement on SDSF SMSV Panel

    It is good to add 2 more columns showing the VTOC used percentage and Fragmentation Index on the panel SMSV.
    10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

    zfsadm shrink should provide a means to automatically specify -size without running aggrinfo or calculating from fsinfo

    zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. -size must be taken either from aggrinfo, or calculated from fsinfo, then manually added to the zfsadm shrink command. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically ...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 3 Delivered

    Increase LPAR usage precision in CPC report

    In current RMF3 CPC report the LPAR usage precision is limited to one decimal.On CPC with high number of processor (we have > 80 CP) one decimal means approximate 10% of one processor. If one processor rating is 1000 MIPS, 10% are 100 MIPS. A 2...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Delivered

    Save Cloud Credentials, in ICSF, via Batch job instead of GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel.

    we would like to be able to save credentials (GCP Service Account Json file) via a Batch job instead of manually updating them (GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel). This could be done by submitting a batch job from a pipeline service, in combination with a new K...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

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