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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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Instana integration

Instana integration: issues have been identified during some customer PoC.Key for production as they expect similar experience on x86/pub cloud.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

More user roles & access control: predefined roles

More user roles & access control MVP1: predefined roles
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

RoCE - macvtap KVM

RoCE (macvtap KVM)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Auto LUN Scan

No description provided
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered

Remote console access KVM

Emergency console access for "users" so KVM host console access does not need to be given
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Hipersockets

Customer especially Linux on z (not LinuxONE) customer has z/OS workload and hipersocket is recommended to connect between Linux and z/OS workload to gain better performance.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

cinder node HA - automation

Currently to manually migrate cinder node to another compute node (if need do maintenance work etc). Need automated solution.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

consumption-based chargeback

this requirement is about adding consumption based chargeback for zVM&KVM.chargeback is supposed a key feature to IaaS provider use case.Potential customers: Sogei, Citi; UHG; SSA, BCBS, Sicoob, etc.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered