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Add support for zVM Layer 3 VSWITCH to ICIC

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center should support both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VSWITCHs that are defined in zVM.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

simultaneous remote connections to the same host

Right now, in IDz client version 16.0.3 we are using, different remote systems pointing to the same host can be configured and distributed by p2c, but simultaneous connection is not possible. Connecting one disconnects the other, and vice versa.
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 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...
7 months ago in IBM Shopz 0 Submitted

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