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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    Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

    We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Future consideration

    Dynamic HW activation support for LinuxONE III

    JPMC has purchased three LinuxONE III machines to use for IDAA SSC. This will be part of their zOS IODF. They have asked if they would be able to perform dynamic activations on this machine like they could for their standalone coupling facilities.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

    OSA SF on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S needed

    Starting with OSA-Express 5S Adapters OSA S/F functionality has moved from z/OS to Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE). We ask you to continue OSA/SF Support on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S and the following Cards.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Redesign the PR/SM to manage the IBM Spyre AI Accelerators resources and enabling the z/VM and KVM to access these AI Accelerators resourses accordingvto the PR/SM

    This idea is very important in IBM Z17 and Linux ONE Emperor5, to use the AI acceleratotors resources for virtual machines and/or Containerized AI workliads by z/VM and KVM. This will enable Thousands and may be Millions of Openshift AI containers...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    SNA support of Hipersockets

    Our customer runs Communication Server on z/Linux to communicate with z/OS VTAM.Now, they connect Communications Server on z/Linux and VTAM on z/OS with OSA-Express card(SNA protocol).But, they hope to connect with Hipersockets, but Hipersockets d...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Additional subchannel sets

    With the implementation of GDPS 4 Site, we have drastically depleted UCB's in our KPAR's and SDMPLEX, we are requesting at least 6 MSSes per LCSS in support of 4 Site and future UCB growth. We have worked for years on UCB reclamation to comply wit...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Long Reach Required for OSA-Express7S 25GbE and 25GbE RoCE

    Support for Long Reach fiber (Single Mode) is required on z15 25GbE RoCE and OSA Express7S.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

    OSA SF on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S needed

    Starting with OSA-Express 5S Adapters OSA S/F functionality has moved from z/OS to Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE). We ask you to continue OSA/SF Support on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S and the following Cards.
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    OSA internal clock sync with host time

    I am requesting that the internal OSA clock time be synchronized with an external time source. It could be the CEC/STP time or it could be an NTP source.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

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