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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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RoCE for zLINUX roadmap

Roadmap required for zLINUX RoCE support - SBSA. Is there a possibility that this could be delayed?
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Delivered

Provide pre- and post-zEDC byte counts in SMF Type 23 records

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSMVSE14006: Voting Priority=2.4.</p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p>Installations would l...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

'Take Over' support for SE from the zHMC (JPMC request)

After hearing about the HMC Integrated 3270 Console 'Take Over' capability, the JP Morgan Chase team requested that we provide a similar 'Take Over' support for the HMC Single Object Operations to a SE to force the SOO user offline so that another...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

zHMC Multi-Factor Authentication - RSA Token

RSA authentication to be added & work in parallel with LDAP authentication. Meaning the logon screen would ask for a user ID/password (which is authenticated against LDAP server), along with a RSA token field (to be authenticated in parallel a...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

zHMC Display zFLASH allocations via WEB Services API

JPMC would like the ability to issue API commands to display zFLASH allocations at the image profile level. The zOS display command only show active partitions, not images that are deallocated.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

IT Security Manager

Problem title RACF not notifying CICS on revoked userid . Problem description Running CICS/TS 4.2 under z/OS 2.1. We are having a problem between RACF and CICS on revoked USERID. . According to the manuals RACF is supposed to notify CICS immediate...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Delivered

Update CSFTTCP proc to no longer recommend port <1024; reserve port with IANA.org

Please make the following improvements to the CSFTTCP proc for the TKE. 1) Remove strong recommendation to use port below 1024; should no longer be necessary especially for customers using SERVAUTH class to control their ports. 2) Register the por...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 4 Delivered

PKI Services - Create an option to remove the private key from the TKDS

When PKI is configured to generate Private Keys in TKDS, create an option to delete the private key after user download or when the cert is expired.Ex.: RemoveExpiredKeysRemoveDownloadedKeys
about 9 years ago in z/OS / PKI 2 Delivered

More than 1 TB Real memory for z/VM

Customer needs far more than 1 TB real memory supported by z/VM running in one LPAR. Customer wants to run a Datawarehouse solution in Linux in z/VM environment. Datawarehouse of customer needs about 3 TB memory. Therefore customer thinks having t...
about 9 years ago in z/VM 4 Delivered

'Discover' function in 'system' plugin should work for DVIPA

In 'System' plugin, the 'discover' function does not work for DVIPA. Since zOSMF supports DVIPA, discover function should also support DVIPA. Users who use DVIPA will find that 'discover' can not find the correct URL, and if users modify the URL t...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered