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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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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:

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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,

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  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.


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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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Require DFSMS DSS to provide detailed messages about the encryption status of data sent to the cloud, and also to enquire on crypto status of cloud-resident data.

Any enterprise sending data to the cloud must be confident the data sent is encrypted at the target and on the wire with customer keys and not just the provider keys. Messages should be issued displaying the status. In addition a query command nee...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

Add advanced encryption algorithms for DUMP/RESTORE

Right now, DFSMS DSS dump/restore support the following encryption algorithms. CLRTDES - This option specifies that the dumped data is encrypted with a clear triple-length DES key. CLRAES128 - This option specifies that the dumped data is encrypte...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

Allow RESTORE with REPLACEUNCONDITIONAL of source single-volume sequential to multi-volume pre-allocated target

RESTORE of Non-VSAM data set causes diagnostic: ADR380E (002)-FRLBO(19), DATA SET USERID.TEST.SEQ1 NOT PROCESSED, 80 Data set was allocated with DATACLAS allowing 20 candidate DASD volumes, of which 1 was used to contain a number of data extents. ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review