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z/VM

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Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
11 days ago in z/VM 1 Submitted

Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
15 days ago in z/VM 2 Submitted

DFSMS/VM interaction with DRFAMILY on TS7700

Please consider adding the ability to interact with DRFAMILY on TS7700 from a zVM LPAR (DFSMS/VM).
14 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
4 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
almost 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

z/VM RACF userid - TCPIP pair record (console/api/query)

Dear developers.Could you please provide API/Exit/Query for TCPIP connection matching RACF userid ?FTP server provide: SM FTPSERVE QUERY (I can trap and match IP-userid)Telent has also such option: NETSTAT telnetfor LDAP I need at least QUERY like...
2 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Centralized all logs into a single place

z/VM should provide an out-of-the-box capability to ship all service machines logs to a centralized console, similar to what z/OS provides with the SYSLOG.This could include OPERATOR console, *MAINT* machines, TCPIP related informations as relevan...
4 months ago in z/VM 2 Functionality already exists

z/VM enhancement requested for z/OS GUESTS exploiting HYPERPAV

Extending the z/VM MSS (Multiple Subchannel Set) management to allow z/VM and its guests exploiting HyperPAV (e.g z/OS).REQUIRED for customers who are close to the 64K limit of UCB in SS0 of LCSS. More details in the attachement.
almost 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
about 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Future consideration

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes. IBM no longer permits the sharing of RACF DB's with z/OS and z/VM. So why have irrelevant RACF classes visible in z/VM? It is confusing when scan...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration