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 1503

Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to EZASNMPD

I discovered this problem when working with the SNMP agent, EZASNMPD. However I believe it to be more systemic than just EZASNMPD. If you provide more than 100 characters as parameters then it abends with CSV043I REQUESTED MODULE EZASNMPD NOT ACCE...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance FTP DIR Results for PDSE

Enhanced the results of the FTP subcommand DIR to report a PDSE as PE or PO-E, instead of as PO where it can be confused with a PDS.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance TSO TELNET command to be able to pass parameter 'Srcip'

Allow source IP parameter to be used with the TSO TELNET command, or an equivalent command/service.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

extended ip-address support for netaccess

Include the ip-address of the network resource that is being accessed to the ICH408I-netaccess-message and not just in the smf-audit-log. Everytime netaccess is denied for a user the ich408i message occurs.As administrator it's much easier to dete...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

enhance UUID@GEN to generate ITU compatible uuids

UUID@GEN data set is a member of hlq.SEZALOAD. (alias of member ezauidgn) currently TSO UUID@GEN or TSO ezauidgn generate for exampleuuid (458487b55160.02.c0.64.02.03.00.00.00)containing time_high := 458487b5time_low := 5160family := 02host := c06...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Update ISRDDN enqueue function to include SYSTEMS and not just LOCAL enqueue

ISRDDN ENQUEUE display only displays local enqueue information.Updating ISRDDN to be able to display SYSPLEX enqueues would make it conisistent with other ISPF services, such as QUERYENQ
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

IP CICS Sockets - IP address for listeners in EZAC

IP CICS socket listeners need to be configured to provide CICS remote debugging features in a product we use. It is recommended to use the IBM-supplied listener implementation (EZACIC02). However, you can set the port but not the IP address for th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Kerberized FTP with Sysplex High Availability

FTP is a highly used way to transfer files from/to the mainframe. In the modern time it is a well known way to use Kerberos for authentication and Single Sign on. Currently, FTP on z/OS can be configured to use Kerberos only with the Host IP addre...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Override system wide LE STORAGE(,,0,) setting within FTP to avoid high cpu when transferring tape files

We recently entered a case TS009032448 at IBM in which we addressed a FTP high cpu issue. Transferring a file from disk took less then 1 cpu sec and when transferring the file from tape it consumed 36 cpu seconds. After thorough investigation it a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration