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Crypto ID in toggle on/off panel

When isolating a crypto engine we have to verify the crypto deactivated in ICSF with the crypto engine on the toggle off/on panel. It would be beneficial if we could verify the serial number from ICSF with the toggle off/on panel before taking the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

MONITORING CF LINKS

IBM defined a specific msg-ID IXL158I to identify CF Link with status NOT OPERATIONAL but we don't have msg-ID when the link is ONLINE-DEGRADED. Instead, link DEGRADED is provided as a result of the command /D CF,CFNM=CFXX but isn't the more effic...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

RVARY password reply handling should be changed

When issuing RVARYPW (reply after having issued rvary command) it is displayed in clear text in operator's console log. This is a big difference to z/OS reply handling and should be changed in z/VM. The input to this reply should be hidden to avoi...
about 8 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

LE's Heap Latch should be FIFO, not LIFO

Serialization via LIFO has the negative effect of leaving the first task in to never obtain the resource when processing is very busy. FIFO allowed everyone the chance to get in and get out with little delays even during a busy time.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

NEW!! SubGroup / SuperGroups for LPAR Controls and capping

We have found a need to control different groups under a common cap for a mainframe server. We would like the ability to have test systems with lesser priorities set to a subset value of a larger cap controlling all LPARs (including test) in this ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 8 Future consideration

Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Allow Multiple Input PDSs to be Sequentially Unloaded in a Single COPY/COPYGROUP Operation

Requirement: IEBCOPY should allow multiple input partitioned data sets to be unloaded when the objective is to produce a single output file in sequential format. This restriction is undocumented in the utility manual and can only be found in the m...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

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