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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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Core Infrastructure

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zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Define KEYRING_OWNER in PARMLIB instead of local_override.cfg

If you use a shared KeyRing (one certificate for all services on one LPAR) you have currently to alter /global/zosmf/configuration/local_override.cfg inserting a line "KEYRING_OWNER_USERID=certOwnerID"The KEYRING_NAME is configured in IZUPRM00.Thi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

ICSF Hardware Support for (EC)DHE Key Exchange & TLS1.3 Handshakes

Even for TLS1.2 and for TLS1.3, (EC)DHE key exchange becomes more and more required. (EC)DHE based Ciphers are currently only minimal supported by Hardware (CPACF/Crypto CoProcessor). Also, TLS1.3 has a much larger footprint in terms of CPU consum...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Add option in SDSF z/OSMF Plugin settings to set global default TSO logon procedure

Having an option in the SDSF z/OSMF Plugin settings to set a global default TSO logon procedure for all z/OSMF users would be beneficial, as this will allow users to start using the SDSF z/OSMF Plugin right away with minimal user intervention.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Allow the use of zOS system symbols in catalog entries

When defining a catalog entry, you can specify VOLUME(&SYM1) for example but not (NAME(HLQ.&SYM1..LLQ)). For that you need a catalog entry then an alias with SYMBOLICRELATE. There are instances where we would find it useful to have a symbo...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Make diagnosing IXC440E easier.

when IXC440E message is received the documentation IXC440E - IBM Documentation is complicated. There are multiple displays required to capture required data: Issue DISPLAY XCF commands to get more information about the stalled group members. Use D...
10 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Ways needed to change single options of IEAOPT

We need a way to set single options out of the scope of IEAOPTxx member without overwriting all the other options. There should either be a command "SETOPT option=value" that only changes the specified option. Or "SET OPT=xx" should only change th...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

Provide config option to IBM LDAP to allow suppression of ' ICH408I, IRR013I ' Logon Error Msgs from its JESLOG and LPAR SYSLOG.

We recently converted from Broadcom CA-LDAP to IBM LDAP (LDAPSRV). Both accessing a RACF database. We have '.net' web service validations coming in for userid / pswd. With IBM LDAP, we're now seeing dozens of ICH408I, IRR013I Logon error messages ...
3 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future 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 ...
8 months ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration