IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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    Allow override of GROUPEXTEND in favor of GROUP in Software Update App

    To prevent installation of a higher service level than desired by the user. Currently z/OSMF Software Update uses a hardcoded SMP/E GROUPEXTEND option to forward fix PE PTFs which automatically permits the inclusion of PTFs at a higher service lev...
    about 3 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM LinuxONE

    IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
    about 10 hours ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 0 Submitted

    Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for z/OSMF

    IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
    about 10 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM Z HMC/SE

    IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
    about 10 hours ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

    Backport z/OSMF Identity Propagation support (APAR PH68412) from z/OS 3.2 to z/OS 3.1.

    Business Challenge / Justification: Currently, the ability to invoke z/OSMF REST APIs from local sysplex clients without passing explicit credentials (such as authorization headers or certificates) is exclusively available on z/OS 3.2 via APAR PH6...
    3 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Enable ADRDSSU to copy ZFS files >4GB from SMS to non-SMS environment

    With zOS V3.2 it may be possible that USS ROOT file grows to a size >4GB which requires VSAM attribute EXT-ADDR. For SMS datasets also the EXTENDED attribute is requred. At this time ADRDSSU isn't able to copy (using COPY or DUMP/RESTORE) to co...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

    Provide the ability to activate a Couplilng Facility only dynamic definition change in batch instead of only being able to do it from the ISPF panels

    For most IODF activation changes we use batch processes that are repeatable and have been turned over to our operations team (since the batch process can be setup for exactly what we want to activate). Doing an activation via the panels requires a...
    4 days ago in z/OS / HCD 0 Submitted

    Natively emit Open Telemetry (traces, logs, metrics) from IBM z Hardware

    Enterprise adoption of modern observability practices are moving towards open standards with vendor-neutral instrumentation.IBM z hardware do not have a consistent implementation of logs, traces, and metrics, often requiring complex side-car integ...
    19 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

    ICSF CSFPTRL: add options to list objects by from oldest to newest & newest to oldest.

    Currently the sorting options for CSFPTRL - PKCS#11 Token List (ALL, RTL) sort TKDS object sequence numbers based on ASCII A-Z,0-1. For example: this makes it unable to return only the latest public certificate without additional sorting through a...
    14 days ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Submitted

    OAM resiliency enhancement

    We're using OAM object support out of CICS and by using the new OAM REST API. We would love to see some resiliency enhancements regarding OAM that would solve some possible "outages" of applications calling OAM in situations when we may face issue...
    25 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

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