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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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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...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Submitted

Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with...
15 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - SSO should support JWT

In our environment we are not allowed to use LTPA for authentication anymore and would rely on JWT to keep Single sign-on working in our zOSMF instances. Or even create an integration with OAuth2/OIDC.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Integration of Data Privacy for Diagnostics (DPfD) into z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard for sending data

We need to upload a lot of data, e.g. dump data, which quite often contain sensitive customer information. To make the process more transparent and integrated, we would like to request an optional step to be added to the z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Reinstate Import Policy feature in Network Configuration Assistant

When onboarding clients this feature provides the ability to convert them flat files to NCA in a timely and efficient manner with minimum error opportunities. In the past I have used it to import the running configurations from the Stack, so I hav...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Validate result for the BPX.CF service in the zOSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Customers will get a notification "No CF levels are available for sizing calculation" if the BPX.CF service under Security configuration assistant is not defined. If there is a generic FACILITY class profile *.* defined, the validation result for ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Support Intrdr File Encoding header for all Submit Jobs requests

The z/OSMF API for submitting jobs supports a “X-IBM-Intrdr-File-Encoding” header, which has the following limitation:> This header is effective only when the JCL for the job to be submitted is included in the HTTP request body. This header is ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted