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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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Clear SSL session ID for specific port and/or IP address

Hi IBM development team, We have been requested to clear the SSL Session ID in the session cache (GSKSRVR). The server certificates are updated every year and our operations team would like to confirm if new certificates are used immediately after...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Under review

OAM: Allow global defaults in CBROAMxx PARMLIB member

There are parameters in CBROAMxx that have to be specified for each Storagegroup individually. For us, that means 1068 lines of PARMLIB definition which are the same for each Storagegroup. In times of simplification, it should be possible to defin...
27 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Under review

Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Under review

Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Under review

option to evaluate the serial number or the hash value of a certificate in a name filter entry

The certificate could be uniquely identified. This is not reliably possible with issuer and subject distinguished name as the only criteria.
7 days ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Under review

Increase MAXSESSIONS Limit

MAXSESSIONS limit of 2000 isn't high enough for out needs. Can you increase this value ?
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 2 Under review

Allow for inspection of Local PIs before Sysplex PI

Currently WLM looks for candidate receivers by first examining all the sysplex PIs at a given importance level before moving onto the local PIs at that importance level. But today’s sysplexes tend to be much more heterogenous than originally envis...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Under review

IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Under review

Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review