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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis

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PFA_COMMON_STORAGE_USAGE Health check parms

At zOS 2.2, new parms e_low, e_med, and e_high result in exceptions based on severity and the number of minutes before the exception will occur for health check PFA_COMMON_STORAGE_USAGE. (E)SQA is designed to overflow into (E)CSA, so an exhaustion...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 7 Delivered

PFA to monitor for above the bar storage

In late March, we experienced an MQ outage on our main production system. Analysis by IBM concluded that the cause was a leak in 64bit storage.Currently, PFA has a check for private storage below and above the line. It would be beneficial to us, a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Delivered