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

HMC/Support Element (SE)

Showing 55

Allow Web Services to Change Properties of Objects Under Custom Groups

Per HMC/SE DE, Web Services does not have the granularity to be able to change the properties of objects that are under custom groups on the HMC. Regardless of where objects appear under custom groups when the members of the groups are listed unde...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Provide 'authorisation via LDAP' on HMC

In the current HMC code only authentication can be done using LDAP. Authorisation is managed in HMC code. We would like to have the possibility to add authorisation so that a request to authenticate a user on LDAP also verifies if that user is all...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance LDAP Support in hmc

We want to be able to manage hmc users in specific groups and not as single users.Clarification based on the fact that:1) Users belonging to a group has the role and auhorization define for this group.2) if for example, user "xxxx" belongs to Grou...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Need to know what are the snmp TRAPS that zSeries will send from HCM

In order to monitor the zSeries machines my customer would like to receive the SNMP TRAP events send by the HMC in their monitoring tool and define an action for each one of them. We have not been able to locate the list of TRAP IDs and their mean...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Would like to prevent HMC window going full screen when logging on.

When I logon to the HMC Via web interface, the window that is opened in such a way that it becomes a full screen window. I would like a method to prevent this behavior.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Change GroupCap settings with HMC/SE Scheduler

We often have to change the capping values of our lpars on our CECs. DC-Limit changes I can do with HMC/SE schedulers, but when I have to change the GroupCap value I have to go online and change it. It will be very helpful for us when this also ca...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

zHMC Certificate expiration of 10yrs is too long

The 10 year expiration certificate does not meet JPMC requirements as defined by ATCS-840 of a two year expiration period. We explained that we normally go through a CEC upgrade every 18 months – 2 years in which we upgrade the HMCs so it never re...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

zSeries HMC or API to query the Support Element to extract the time adjustment messages from current PTS or future PTS

We are requesting the ability for the zSeries HMC to query the Support Element of the PTS (or any processor that could become the PTS) for Audit log information in an effort to be able to create a schedule operation by which the time adjustment me...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Add bulk processing to HWIQUERY for activation/load profiles in zEC12 and up

Expand the BCPii "bulk processing" improvements for HWIQUERY in z/OS 2.1 to retrieving the activation and load profile attributes (HWI_IMAGE_ACTPROF and HWI_LOAD_ACTPROF). This is in conjunction with the BCPii RFE#83196, as I understand the limita...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

TKE SSL support

the new TKE shipped with the z13 processors included a change to the way that the TN3270 client interacts with a TN3270 server that requires a protected (encrypted) connection via TLS. Typically a site will share a common server certificate across...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

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.