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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    Crypto Express: Should show "Standby" status after setting OFFLINE within an LPAR to safely toggle crypto card

    After MCL Update on a IBM Z CEC you may have to toggle the Crypto Express Cards to activate the new firmware code on these cards (Pendig conditions). A good description can be found in doc: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/best-practices-toggling...
    13 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    Epoch Time LE Functions for COBOL

    z/OS COBOL 6.4: Epoch time formats (also called UNIX time) are used in many programming environments/applications. To properly interface with an application, I had to write my own COBOL pgm to derive the proper Epoch time. Useful LE functions to c...
    9 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

    Add composite patterns to sh

    Composite patterns are a regular expression-like extension to shell glob patterns. For example, the composite pattern *(a) matches zero or more "a" characters. Composite patterns are useful. In my experience, they are often used in KornShell scrip...
    5 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

    Add capability for additional users to be able to delete a request for HMA z17 Dual Control

    During evaluation of the IBM HMA z17 Dual Control code we noticed that only the original requester is allowed to delete a request. It would be beneficial to allow additional users to be able to able to accomplish this process This will be helpful ...
    6 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    Update for allowing duplicate named request for Dual Control HMA z17 code

    While doing some evaluations of IBM HMA dual control z17 features we ran across a situation where we could not use the same name for a request if that name was currently in progress, or completed. We realize we could once it was deleted but we are...
    6 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    Set https certificate for SSC lpar in HMC

    At the moment when you start a SSC lpar in installer mode, the lpar starts with a self signed certificate and https isn't secure. Since connecting to the lpar via this connection is an admin connection, a direct connection between 'server' and 'us...
    13 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

    Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

    U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 0 Submitted

    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Planned for future release

    Split 31/64 Bit environments create 2 enclaves both think they own //SYSOUT and over-write each other when writing //SYSOUT to Disk DataSet. //SYSOUT needs to be owned by the initiating Enclave only.

    With the need to go to the 64-bit Java JNI for storage reasons, three of our customers all write //SYSOUT from some jobs to Disk. From Discussions with IBM both with Tickets: TS019872641 (COBOL) – closed - Low Severity, Question on JCL/JES //SYSOU...
    20 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

    Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

    Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected. It would be n...
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Under review

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