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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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M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

zAware support for SYSLOG

We need the ability to have syslog fed to zAware realtime like operlog. zAware cannot be used for non-Operlog systems currently.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

zAware Feature to Wildcard Messages

The ability to ignore zAware messages with a wildcard and applying changes to all monitored LPARs with one submission.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

PDMD1202-509 Dynamic ICF Expansion into extra CF engines not shared by other CF partitions

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: jes.jessenSubmitters Company: DMdata PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PDMD1202-509 Dynamic ICF Expansion into extra CF engines not shared by other CF partitionsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Techn...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

P0914-1737 (BoA) SubGroup / SuperGroups for

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: phil.pinto@bankofamerica.comSubmitters Company: Bank of America PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: P0914-1737 (BoA) SubGroup / SuperGroups forHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status:...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

Improvements in zAWARE

It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Jim.FyffeSubmitters Company: Fifth Third Bank PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

PJPMC1013 - 1639 Allow System Specific Parameters for zAware

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: larry.plett@jpmchase.comSubmitters Company: JPMorgan Chase PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PJPMC1013 - 1639 Allow System Specific Parameters for zAwareHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCur...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

PJPMC 1013 - 1640 Alerting Enhancements zAware

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: larry.plett@jpmchase.comSubmitters Company: JPMorgan Chase PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PJPMC 1013 - 1640 Alerting Enhancements zAwareHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: R...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

PJPMC1013 - 1641 Web UI Enhancements

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: larry.plett@jpmchase.comSubmitters Company: JPMorgan Chase PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PJPMC1013 - 1641 Web UI EnhancementsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedC...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration