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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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LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

SDSFAUX Service Class

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 03/19/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The current documentation ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=customization-us...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

realtime HMC/SE logging at a syslog server

We have the requirement to collect all messages, logs,... at a central point like a syslog server (e.g. Splunk).It has to became possile to collect all HMCs and SEs messages (Logs, API-Requests, HW-messages,...) there in realtime. The aim is to re...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Add stepname and step number fields to SMF Type 42.6 records

There are times when data set accesses don't result in Type 14/15 or 64/65 records. The SMF type 30 records for the associated job show CPU and I/O info at the step level, but they don't include the data set name. The 42.6 records show the jobname...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Delivered

zOSMF view or change tenant associations for template

Once you've completed the Add Template and Resource Pool for Tenant panels and specified which resources are associated, there is no obvious way to review or even change these definitions.For example, how can one know if the 'Allow resources to be...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

More than 2TB memory limit for z/VM

Customer's Oracle DB 19c is growing rapidly as the end-users increase from 14k to 20k. In the coming year, they expect to reach 60k users. More memory is required to eliminate performance and log-in issues. The current z/VM 7.2 LPAR only has 2TB r...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

ICSF utility support to display CKDS/PKDS user metadata

We are interested in an enhancement for the TSO ICSF utilities used to manage keys in the CKDS and PKDS. We would like the metadata display panels to include a full dump of the metadata. Currently, the panels show the formatted metadata associated...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Delivered

z/OSMF system variables should provide a way to retrieve just one system variable (instead of all variables)

I want to use the z/OSMF system variable API (e.g. https://s0w1.canlab.ibm.com:8136/zosmf/variables/rest/1.0/systems/ADCDPL.S0W1) but would like to be able to specify the retrieval of just one system variable, e.g. with:https://s0w1.canlab.ibm.com...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Delivered