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

Clear

z/OSMF

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Allow for uncataloged PDS members to be listed via the REST API

Users may have the same PDS in different volumes, most of which may not be in the catalog. In order for them to list members, it would be good to allow the z/OSMF REST API to accept a volser as a query parameter. Operation HTTP method and URI path...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

Concurrent REST requests for downloading PDS members results in several abended IZUFPROC jobs

Say that I have a sample application that makes multiple, concurrent requests to the z/OSMF REST API to download PDS members. It uses the endpoint for retrieving the contents of a data set member: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=interf...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

z/OSMF - SSO should support JWT

In our environment we are not allowed to use LTPA for authentication anymore and would rely on JWT to keep Single sign-on working in our zOSMF instances. Or even create an integration with OAuth2/OIDC.
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

z/OSMF REST API for spawning UNIX shells, executing commands

Users of z/OS UNIX who are already leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs currently have two options when trying to remotely interface with z/OS UNIX: Avoid z/OSMF entirely and use SSH. This has a number of downsides, including re-authentication concerns, in...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

enhance Parmlib validation API to support symbols from dataset content.

This will be a common scenario where client will prepare their parmlib for other systems and would like to validate the parmlib before IPLing system with that parmlib. So, it's better user experience when symbols are involved to generate warning i...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

Easier tool to help with structure sizing during CFLEVEL upgrades

We would like to have a tool that would read the current CF structures and generate a new CFRM policy source with all the structures increased simply based on the current CFLEVEL and a specified TARGET CFLEVEL. The tool would assume that the curre...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Would like z/OSMF Deploy to create the USS directories and mount the zFS files for the SMP/E target datasets defined in the DDDEF's.

In the past when you order IBM software the old ServerPac service would prompt you for the USS path and the zFS files. z/OSMF does this also. Then as one of the last stepsthe product would run a job to create the USS directories and would also mou...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Support recalling migrated datasets in z/OSMF desktop data set list

This feature would increase the usability of z/OSMF desktop data set list.
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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.