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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Allow RACF to protect the Enable attach/detach crypto as a separate class of device from non-crypto devices

With the expansion of security concerns surrounding workload and therefore the increase in demand for crypto functionality. It has become imperative that we control the access to the crypto domains, which could be done by restricting attach/detach...
4 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add GLOBAL support for IBM defined healthchecks

GLOBAL support on the update statement should be added/allowed on IBM defined healthchecks so efficient management of the checks can be achieved. For example take alot of RACF checks, if we pick RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION by default it will run i...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Health check to verify if sysplex root is not mounted READ ONLY

if sysplex root is not mounted READ only, a rogue unix shell command rm / can remove system symbols - $SYSANME,$VERSION and other files that can cause a plex-wide outage. Am IBM Health Check to warn if Sysplex root is not mounted READ only OR when...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

SSHD Support for zVM OS

SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
8 months ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

z/OS Health Checker HZSPRINT utility enhancemnet

z/OS Health Check utility HZSPRINT provides the user with good information about the checks in place, however it doesn't show the state of it as it could be verified in SDSF for example. Using the the F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS it provides t...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

Resolving Persistent Fabric Monitor Exceptions

Following a valid fabric monitor exception additional exceptions are received highlighting DDB/Manufactured errors. These exceptions persist after the source of the exception is resolved until the check is deleted, and health checker is stopped an...
12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

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))
about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

PAV/HyperPAV alias Support

Base devices between subchannel sets, aliases associated with and in the same real subchannel set in the active configuration allows these devices to then be referenced by 4-digit RDEV numbers in various commands which only affect active configura...
about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration