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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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Allow Sysplex Distributor to monitor ATTLS health

In the event of an ATTLS Group failure, all connections to the system which are secured with ATTLS would fail. Sysplex Distributor would still forward connections to the sick system even when the other destinations are healthy. Sysplex distributor...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Control Over TCP Listeners Binding to Port 0

Description: Our organization enforces strict controls over all TCP listeners on our stack using the UNRSV TCP DENY WHEN LISTEN logic and SAF resource keyword definitions. This approach ensures that only authorized listeners, explicitly defined in...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - Network Configuration Assistant - Traffic Descriptor smart filtering

Currently in a Traffic Descriptor the Job Name filter does accept wildcard character as the last character. This works but depending on jobname pattern this can result in a large list of traffic types in a traffic descriptor. If the differentiator...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF to protect the Enable attach/detach crypto as a separate class of device from non-crypto devices

With the expansion of security concerns surrounding workload and therefore the increase in demand for crypto functionality. It has become imperative that we control the access to the crypto domains, which could be done by restricting attach/detach...
4 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Allow System Symbols in PAGENT Konfiguration files

Currently, it is not possible to use system symbols in the PAGENT configuration files. It would be advantageous if it were possible to use system symbols in the configuration to identify system specific configuration files. This is important when ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

We need Symbols for zERT Policy

Unlike IPSEC, zERTPE does not have stack symbols. This would be helpful with IP Addresses as in different systems I will have different IP addresses but need the same rule. This will reduce the toil of what I need to do. i.e. If I were to have a s...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow the option to enable Policy Based Routing for routed traffic

In our company we have serveral different customer networks and different default gateways, to handle this we use Policy Based Routing (PBR). We want to provide zCX instances to those customers, but zCX is routed traffic, which currently is not su...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP - Exploit HashiCorp instead of LDAPBIND to retrieve password

Since CSSMTP supports authentication with TCP/IP APAR PH61015 a user requires the password in clear text to add it to the LDAPBIND section with a RACF command. However, it would be of great benefit if CSSMTP would connect to HashiCorp password vau...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration