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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    Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

    Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

    Allow GDK APIs to run on zIIP

    Please consider allowing the GDK APIs (primarily gdkget and gdkwrite with a streaming receive/send exit) to be called in with some ability to offload to a zIIP processor. I believe the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit only supports task (TCB) mode, but...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

    GDKUTIL enhancement

    GDKUTIL is an utility program to upload/download between MVS datasets and S3 cloud object storage. It seems that right now the data encryption is solely relying on S3 server side encryption. Another security best practice is to enable client side ...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

    CDA add new SMF records

    Hi, To secure & traceability the solution we need to have new SMF records. Cloud endpoint (url) Object name (file name transfert) MVS RACF user that did the work Bytes received/written Clock time Jobname/Stepname Best regards,
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

    Allow GDKUTIL input to be provided by a parm when called by a program

    Might GDKUTIL accept a parameter when called by a program? Where the first three words point to areas that have the same information as those three DD statements provide? EG: WORD1 -> UPLOAD PROVIDER(S3CLOUD) CONVERT WORD2-> /johnh-21st-test...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance the pptapetofile process to support tapes created with a BLKSIZE – 128

    On TPF tapes can be written to with a block size of 128. At Visa, the TPF systems utilize this setting for the RTV, RTXRTY, and RTW logging tapes. This setting was put in place to reduce tape queueing and improve performance for TPF. By allowing t...
    over 3 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 0 Planned for future release

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