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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2 GB large pages for native (non Java) heap

We currently run in-memory java computing applications that leverage long lived memory(> 1TB per instance), we do run with 2GB large pages for the heap via JVM option Xlp:objectheap:pagesize=2G but the majority of the data is stored off heap, f...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LE Under review

CELAAUTH support for message handling in authorized environment

Background: We are upgrading the 31-bit implementation of our product to a 64-bit version. As with the 31-bit implementation, the objective is to run the 64-bit version under an Enclave SRB so it can be zIIP enabled. Historically, we have relied o...
2 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

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...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

64bit version of USRHDLR

More clients are moving to 64bit these days and have complex multi language calls; and sometimes they need to register their own user condition handler. In 31bit, this is possible using USRHDLR: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=options-...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

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