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

z/OSMF

Showing 233

Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to send the client certificate via a HTTP header to z/OSMF

The z/OSMF API functionality is for applications to work with system resources and to extract system data. The authentication can only be checked through a certificate (send with the usual http header) or username + password. The authentication po...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Validate z/OSMF workflow File template contents only at runtime and not definition time

The "File template" in a z/OSMF workflow does check for existence of the respective file or Dataset and fails to save / open the workflow if, for example, the dataset is not available. This works as designed and is documented as such.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request to add support for z/OSMF started task to be supported by ARM

We have open a case TS003028593 to existing issue that z/OSMF started task not auto restart and the feed back is zOSMF doesn't support AUTO RESTART. So I am raising this RFE for the requirement of zOSMF using ARM. Please add support for this. thanks.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters

Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters, as a way to indicate that we have files that already contain the NEWLINE characters so that no additional NEWLINE characters get added.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support for generated jobs

We need a simple way of execution of JCL, REXX or shell script that were generated in a previous step of a provisioning workflow.Provisioning XML, that is part of a cloud provisioning template consists of two steps1. Step – generate a JCL by an ex...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Auto Load Callable Workflow Steps

We have callable workflow steps defined in a workflow, and when the step executes, it brings up the Create a Callable Workflow dialog screens even though all of the information is already populated.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log should support OEM FTP

Customer is running OEM FTP software and want to use this with'Z/OSMF Incident Log',editing the JCL before is not an option for the customer.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

An easy to use pre-installation CFSizer

This is a really old request for having an easy to use pre-installation CFSizer. I'm sure others have made the same request. A search in RFE reveils sort of same requests - but for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to see the full request.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Installation default jobcard

Currently Workflow default job card and the REST Jobs API requests can only be changed by individual users. We need the ability to change the current default jobcard for all users. For example, currently the default MSGCLASS is 0 we would like to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.