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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Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Issues with the Idea Portal

Compare this https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 with https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 The ideas.ibm.com is almost unusable, does not show the votes or how to vote, and the link to the aha portal (the ...
16 days ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
2 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
19 days ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
19 days ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS c...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

STP handle multiple DST dates

Z15 with multiple LPARs using multiple daylight savings dates. Meaning some are US Central, US Eastern which can be setup using the Image profile time offset and be automatically changed using STP Daylight savings option as their DST falls on the ...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 5 Not under consideration

Error message to be produced when LNKLST concatenation datasets experiencing severe performance degradation, especially Sys1.LINKLIB.

This will indicate that there is a problem with LNKLST concatenated datasets, and that LNKLST is is under performance degradation constraints, when datasets were removed and added back to the LNKLST concatenation.Current error messages for LNKLST ...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

Add Certificate Information to TLS command

When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
9 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IRR.PASSWORD.RESET profile should be provide more flexibility

CONTROL access to the profile permits to a user to: 1) Reset a password with NOEXPIRED operand or 2) Reset the password or password phrase within the minimum change interval for a user who does not have the SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, AUDITOR, or PROTECT...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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