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    Manage host attached DASD with Cinder to attach and detach to ICIC VMs

    In some storage performance needs scenarios (i.e. Openshift ODF Disks) is required to have very good disk performance, that cannot be achieved using QCOW2 files. So it could be vey useful to direct attach/deatch a DASD (online in the hosts and not...
    5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    ICIC Compatibility with Pure Storage (Terraform Dependency)

    IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) currently does not support integration with Pure Storage platforms. This limitation prevents ICIC from being deployed as the infrastructure management layer. This constraint has implications because Terraform...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Update environment checker

    There are some scenarios and situations that are not included as part of the environment checker that can have impact on the ICIC services. ICIC should ensure that logrotate settings are correct, check for required directory permissions and secont...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Option to change "instance_name_template" after installation to modify the virtual machine prefix

    During installation, there is a property in the config.properties file that defines the virtual machine prefix for the deployed systems. The property is called "instance_name_template" and gets set in the nova configuration to define the virtual m...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Global change for default_admin_userid after installation

    During ICIC installation, there is an optional parameter for z/VM configuration, "default_admin_userid," that when populated will add a LOGONBY statement to the z/VM User Directory of virtual machine deployments. This parameter is set on the confi...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Authentication logging and auditing to include user names

    Currently the keystone and audit logs in ICIC use the user's unique id from openstack while logging the activities. The mapping for user id to user name is available through openstack commands on the management node. If the log files are uploaded ...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

    Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
    over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    ICIC should provide the ability to drop MACID from the NICDEF Directory Entry

    By default ICIC defines a MACID for the NICDEF entry when a VM is created. We have configured our zVM LPARs to utilize a SYSTEM MAC PREFIX but when a MACID is provided the LPAR uses the USER PREFIX for the MAC Address. In order for us to set the U...
    12 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

    Allow manual setting of the ANSIBLE_HOST parameter

    When the OpenStack Inventory plugin is used against ICIC the ANSIBLE_IP gets set to any of assigned IP addresses for the VM at random. For multi-interfaces VMs we should be able to set the preferred interface to use for ANSIBLE_IP.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

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