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

All ideas

Showing 3539 of 3539

DFDSS DUMP to have options to process HSM migrated datasets

Users have asked me to raise this issue that they would like DFDSS to be able to dump HSM migrated datasets - possibly by recalling them with NOWAIT, or even by performing some kind of COPYDUMP process directly from the migration volume
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

drivining z/OSMF REST API from uss without credentials

I want to be to invoke z/OSMF REST API while I'm logged in uss without providing credentials that I have passed when I logged to uss.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

simplfy system z HW-logging

merge all logs of a system z server to one, to make it easier to identify issues
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

RDW support in the zNFS Server

We are using MVS data with mixed bytes need to be transfered in binary mode(no conversion).The zNFS server should support the usage and handling(transport) the z/OS RecordDescriptorWord(RDW) as FTP for example.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Planned for future release

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DFSMS 42 subtypes 21, 24, 25 and 26 to include job number, reader start date & reader start time

Please enhance the DFSMS 42 subtype records 21, 24, 25 and 26 to include job number, reader start date & reader start time.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Planned for future release

IARV64 macro to return guard area

We use the IARV64 REQUEST=LIST macro to list all HVCommon memory objects. If you calculate the size of the memory objects using the V64WAEND64 and V64WASTART64 addresses returned from the IARV64 macro, it is possible for those numbers to be off be...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

SAF Resource Protection for Port 0

Create a SAF Resource or some other type of protection to protect port 0 from IDs requesting BIND / LISTEN. IDs must then be permitted the specific access to be able to do so.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration