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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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Allow ACS installation exits to be reloaded without an IPL

According to the manual and validated by our testing the ACS installation exits (IGDACSDC, IGDACMDC and IGDACSSC) can only be refreshed with an IPL. These exits should be controlled by the Dynamic exits facility and one should be able to modify an...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Delivered

Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console

Enable the Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console. So a user can copy or paste data between the ASCII console and their desktop (i.e., Windows Notepad). Today users have to manually type data that they wish to copy or paste. That make...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Create z/OS Unix symbolic link with ZOSMF Rest API

We would like to see the ability to create and delete symbolic links added to the ZOSMF File Rest API.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Simple Ordering of rules in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

When managing the order of rules by selecting the radio button and chose 'Move up' the focus on the selected rule gets lost and I have to select it again which is very cumbersome. The focus must remain on the selected rule to move it up few levels...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

CFRM Policy Editor Should Ask for Confirmation Before Overwriting or Renaming an Existing CFRM Policy

The CFRM Policy Editor currently will overwrite or rename an existing policy without asking the user to confirm that that is their intention. It would be better if the Policy Editor could check to see if there is already a policy with the same nam...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Update SYSLOGD to support sending data via TCP

We have a requirement to send SYSLOGD data to another server but we need to send it via TCP and use ATTLS to encrypt the data. The current implementation only allows for sending via UDP and doesn't allow for a different port specification.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Add GDG Extended Support to ISPF 3.2

Add the ability to specify GDG Extended keyword and define more than 255 GDG LIMIT when using ISPF 3.2 - Option V for Data Type Generation Data Group
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Delivered

rm -r protection when spanning multiple file systems

A user accidentally issued an rm -r .* * command from /The user was unaware that he did this. This deleted files across thousands of our USS file systems. There needs to be a warning message when this kind of destructive command is issued that spa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

Improve BCPII availability during SE switch

During a concurrent SE switch BCPII is unavailable drint at least 10 minutes.I ask you to reduce this time less than 1 mn
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Prepare a single-phase power feature code for the IBM Z power supply

Japanese data center facilities are mainly single-phase. When IBM Z is selected, we would like you to prepare a single-phase power supply mechanism that can be installed in the existing equipment environment.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered