Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Core Infrastructure

Showing 2923

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

It will be useful, the standard PERMIT command syntax include a WHEN clause for time-based conditions.

Use Case 1: Restricting Access During Business Hours Scenario 1: A company wants to restrict certain administrative commands during business hours to prevent unauthorized changes while employees are working. Example: PERMIT EZB.INITSTACK.SYSA.TCPI...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

SDSF panel CFS doesn't show primary duplexed structures

The CFS SDSF panel can be very useful when it comes to checking upon CF structures allocation. Whenever we have to start a new CFRM policy either for moving structures or migrating CF images we use it to check the placement of the structures after...
12 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Delete elements like channel , control-unit , unit in IODF with HCD batch

With PGM=CBDMGHCP,PARM='MIGR,........' we can add or update elements but not to delete elements. It would be fine to be able to delete elements in batch before to do MIGRATE in batch. We have messages : CBDA563I SPACE EXHAUSTED IN WORK IODF NSYSTK...
2 months ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

zCX: Provide Sysplex Distributor Support for High Availability

Currently zCX only supports Dynamic VIPAs, no Sysplex Distributor support is available. In case of a Docker Swarm, or even a Single zCX Container within one zCX, there is a timing window in that the application within the Container is not availabl...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 5 Future consideration

Enable OCOPY to create and maintain ISPF statistics for PDS members

Currently, using OCOPY to update a PDS does not generate ISPF statistics, which would be useful for a number of reasons. FTP allows this now as long as the ISPFSTATS configuration statement is present.
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

zCX/Openshift Multi-Architectur Support with VMWare & zCX

With OpenShift 4.14, OpenShift supports Multi-Architectur setup with the Control Nodes on x86 and e.g. Worker Nodes on s390x (zCX). Unfortunately, VMWare is a not supported plattform. Without that support, we'll never get the chance to go to produ...
12 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Enable use of OS Level Filtering in IEASYMxx member

We'd like the ability within a single IEASYMxx member to assign the value of a symbol based on the level of z/OS the system is IPLed under. SYSOSLVL(Z1020500) SYMDEF (&PRDVER='V1') SYSOSLVL(Z1030100) SYMDEF (&PRDVER='V2') This will aid in ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Future consideration

Expanding CCA Callable Services and Crypto Express Support for zCX/OCP

Presently, there exists a limitation in invoking CCA (Common Cryptographic Architecture) callable services, particularly those pertinent to financial services, (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=services-financial) from Java applications...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Provide a REXX API to EzNoSQL

There is a wealth of REXX applications on z/OS, many utilized under ISPF, that would benefit from this capability. REXX is also a fantastic, no compile, proof-of-concept/prototype language that can be used to validate a concept. Having this API wo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 1 Future consideration