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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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DSWAITTIME

Make DSWAITTIME not only available for DISK files but also for TAPE files
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

If only one CTG instance in a Sysplex and its health is zero, Sysplex Distributor should't send work to this CTG instance

CTG daemon health is used by Sysplex Distributor in order to make a decision about to send requests to a particular CTG instance in a Parallel Sysplex scenery. If there are n CTG instances, each one on one of n LPARs, SD doesn't send requests to t...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OS CS OMPROUTE: Add subnet mask conflict check for IPCONFIG DYNAMICXCF used for Samehost, EZAXCF, and IQDIO devices

Issue error message to indicate subnet mask conflict between the one coded on an OMPROUTE interface definition (OSPF_INTERFACE and INTERFACE) used for Samehost, EZAXCF, and IQDIO devices. For example, similar to OMPROUTE message EZZ8164I: EZZxxxxI...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration