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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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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,

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  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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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My ideas: Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE

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z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
over 1 year ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the pptapetofile process to support tapes created with a BLKSIZE – 128

On TPF tapes can be written to with a block size of 128. At Visa, the TPF systems utilize this setting for the RTV, RTXRTY, and RTW logging tapes. This setting was put in place to reduce tape queueing and improve performance for TPF. By allowing t...
over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 0 Planned for future release