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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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Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Options in ISPF interface in z/OSMF

Hi, In most installations, in TSO/E login panel the command parameter has some CLIST or REXX programs specified for execution. The same option is missing in z/OSMF ISPF interface. Please consider to add this option. In absence of this option, we a...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Export/import  across clusters (KVM)

Export/import across clusters (KVM)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Security Groups logging

to log more security group info to be consulted on the ICIC console or exported to a log concentrator
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Network node HA

Network node HA
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP/Restore MSS>=1

Because of address contraint (one SYSPLEX) we are using multiple MSS. We are using MSS 0 for MetroMirror (aka PPRC) primary devices.We are using MSS 1 for MetroMirror (aka PPRC) secondary devices. We are planning to do consistent Flashcopy for all...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Add a subsystem for Cloud Data Access

To load a file to a cloud you need to read a source file and write target file to S3. If you want to load a file to an S3, sometimes you have a file who need to be transformed. On first step you transform a source file to a target file and after y...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/os message after model conversion takes place using OOCoD or CBU

Needing z/os to report a message when a model conversion takes place with OOCoD or CBU. z/os should report this with out the use of another product.There is an IBM case number associated with this. The case number is TS002615373.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

Enhance 126char console command limit

A z/OS Console Command is limited to 126 char. For me this is a similar bad limitation as the 100 char jcl parm-limit before z/OS 2.1 (which is lifted now with PARMDD etc.) I´d like to have 1024char.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration