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IBM Knowledge Catalog is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Ability to leverage the qos of the mainframe to find, understand, curate and access data.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Match 360 is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Able to provide 360 view of clients a cloud native environment in Open Shift on Linux on z
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support for Watson Query on Linux on z

Data virtualization (Watson query) is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Increase the size of the Escalation Database to allow for more events to be stored.

The Escalation database has a maximum limit of records it can hold. (2200 events maximum). One the limit is reached, there is a warning messaged logged indicating the maximum number of events was exceeded. This message is written at program startu...
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

Provide License Strategy during installation for Value Unit Licensing (Host Based Licensing)

During installation of IDz the product defaults to using the Trial License and then allows for the setting of various license types. There is currently no setting for Value Unit Licensing (host based licensing) and if the trial license in effect f...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Support Standard Secure TN3270e (i.e. TN3270e over TLS) console connections

Since this is now supported by OSA-ICC and more customer networks and IBM products are moving towards a "zero-trust" environment, this is often braught up in security audit reviews. Likewise a statement about the encryption mechanism between the S...
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

For z/VM Service downloads via browser function, provide a text file containing all generated download links for copy/paste into GETSHOPZ tool

To use the GETSHOPZ tool in z/VM for downloading/unpacking service files from ShopzSeries, it is necessary to copy and paste the download link for each file into the GETSHOPZ tool. To facilitate ease of use for this tool, it would be helpful to pl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Shopz 0 Submitted

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