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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...
28 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Dual control function for Policy mgmt

In GDPS you can make changes to your policies in option 1 Dasd Remote Copy > 2 Policy Mgmt. With the new GDPSADMIN.DASDCTL profiles the protection possibilities have increased, but having this changed under dual control would be a good improvem...
29 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Dual control function for DASD Config

Within the DS8K there is protection in place that a (malicious) person is not able to delete/alter devices that are part of safeguarded copies. We have a cybervault LCP setup to ensure we have immutable backups of our systems, and activated Dual C...
30 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Add collection of SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.

Define a new table that will maintain SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Product name change.

This product name is too confusing. Clients are confusing it with Watsonx Code Assistant for z. Perhaps another name like Watsonx Concierge for z, Watsonx Curator for Z. I've seen marketing email that even confuses the two products, and refers to ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 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...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

Provide the Python api as a separate pip installabe package

It would be great if the ZOAU python api could be provided as a separate pip installable module. Currently you can use the python assets from within the pax file to assist in local off platform development, but its hard to create scriptable/re-cre...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Update SMF 30 records to show system values that relate to the data in the record.

I raised TS016225304 because when a Boost happens the SMF 30 interval records are terminated early so that they don't accrue information from different system configurations. You get one interval record for the period up to the boost starting, one...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 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...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 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...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

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