Skip to Main Content
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

Communications Server

Showing 527 of 3555

VARY SYNTAXCHECK for OMPROUTE configuration file

OMPROUTE had failed with the following configuration statements:; Interface IP_Address=a.b.c.d Name=interface1 Subnet_Mask=255.255.255.0 Destination_Addr=0.0.0.0 RIP_Interface IP_Address=a.b.c.* Name=dummy Subnet_Mask=255.255.255.224 EZZ7830I SYNT...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Support creating PDSE V2 data sets in FTP Server SITE and Client LOCSITE command

Much to my chagrin, I found that I could not create a PDSE V2 data set using the available parameters in the SITE command, rather only a PDSE V1. I had to use the rather roundabout way of using DFDSS unload, FTP the unload file, then DFDSS reload.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Loss of packet after VIPAROUTE implementation

Customer implemented VIPAROUTE and, when any target gets recicled, RTOP destination cache sets the smallest MTU among viable routes to the destination, causing the GRE headers exceeds the MTU size causing loss of packets between the distributor an...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Operator Command for refreshing keyrings used by AT-TLS

We have over 200 certificates that we use in our different environments every day with AT-TLS. Since we require to update these certificates once a year. To keep from taking an outage we have to go into z/OSMF and update the key ring instance then...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT Manage Database

Under zERT Manage Database, provide additional pruning operation abilities based upon an import label number identifier, and / or the System or LPAR name. This will be in addition to the current Prune Database options available.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT - Allow filtering for cipher suites

Please add a filter criteria for CipherSuites, like 009D or C027. So it is a quick view over used certificates, and we could reduce our AT-TLS rules for longer unused ciphers. Alternative would be a filtering with multiple parts, like AES_CBC_128 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Request IP address override for FTP server response to PASV

We are unable to support our customers who connect through our proxy server over the internet when we turn on at/tls because at/tls does not support 3-way communications. This feature is a common feature of my Windows FTP server partners. This fea...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance zERT to Notify User that an Import is Complete.

Currently, one has to keep clicking refresh on one of the screens until it shows it's been fully imported.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Network Analyzer by providing the ability to cancel long-running import process

There is no external ability to manually free a hung data set by cancelling the operation if there is a long-running import
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zOSMF RENAME BACKSTORE FUNCTION

We need a way to rename a backing store from the z/OSMF configuration menu
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration