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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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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.

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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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To capture the SC's LOCK SET NAME from the DCOLLECT

Today, DCOLLECT does not provide the lock structure information, which limits our ability to validate the definitions between the Current SCDS and the New SCDS. The below records are being generated from the DCOLLECT and used for the comparison be...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Needs more information

Streamline the zOSMF Incident Log File Transfer process.

Hello, I've been using the zOSMF v31 Incident Log feature to transfer files to the IBM Support server.Each time I use the Send Diagnostic Data wizard I have to supply config info such as UserID, Keyring and SSL settings. You'll see in the attached...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Needs more information

control length of passphrase

Hello, Regarding PCIDSS, the minimum length of a passphrase must be 12 charactersTo control the minimum length of the passphrase, we have to code an exit ICHPWX11 We'd like a RACF parameter to check that as this is done for the control of the leng...
19 days ago in z/OS / RACF Needs more information

SRB. Allow user initiation of System Recovery Boost within an hour of IPL to avoid SRB period being burned performing systems checks.

Quite often there are manual systems health checks after an IPL - emergency or otherwise - before systems are handed back to the business and productive workloads are restarted. By the time system checks are compete, most of the system recovery pe...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor Needs more information