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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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Allow partial pack minidisks to reside both wholly or partially above cylinder 65520

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0308133010User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0308133010Title: Allow partial pack minidisks to reside both wholly or partially above cylinder 65520Submitted By: Chris J Barwise/UK/IBMOriginators Area: UK STGFP...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

RACF z/VM needs the Help Desk functionality of RACF z/OS.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0123127345User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0123127345Title: RACF z/VM needs the Help Desk functionality of RACF z/OS.Submitted By: William Garvin/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: IBM - z/VM Software Servic...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

www 30 timeout should be controlled by command

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR091004669User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR091004669Title: www 30 timeout should be controlled by commandSubmitted By: Kurt Acker/Endicott/IBMOriginators Area: CP level 2 for PerfkitFPOC: Daniel Griffith/End...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Perfkit crashes when a file having a filtype of PERFLOG is on the user A disk.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0926063753User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0926063753Title: Perfkit crashes when a file having a filtype of PERFLOG is on the user A disk.Submitted By: Patrick Rihon/Belgium/IBMOriginators Area: Technical S...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Enhancement to support the z/OS function PASSWORD(MINCHANGE(minimum-change-interval) in z/VM RACF

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0405123351User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0405123351Title: Enhancement to support the z/OS function PASSWORD(MINCHANGE(minimum-change-interval) in z/VM RACFSubmitted By: William Garvin/Poughkeepsie/IBMOrig...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

MDISK support for EAVs

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0628112740User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0628112740Title: MDISK support for EAVsSubmitted By: Monika Kamm-Willisegger/Switzerland/IBMOriginators Area: MTSFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endicott/IBM Submitted Date:...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

RACF/VM ALTUSER REVOKE or RESUME without a date clears both date fields.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1113124112User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1113124112Title: RACF/VM ALTUSER REVOKE or RESUME without a date clears both date fields.Submitted By: William Garvin/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: IBM - z/VM ...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Improved Automation/Documentation required for Disaster Recovery for 6.2.0 (and above) systems

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0712134455User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0712134455Title: Improved Automation/Documentation required for Disaster Recovery for 6.2.0 (and above) systemsSubmitted By: Tim Reynolds/Endicott/IBMOriginators A...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

RACF z/VM - MINCHANGE setting

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0803127352User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0803127352Title: RACF z/VM - MINCHANGE settingSubmitted By: Lennie J Dymoke-Bradshaw/UK/IBMOriginators Area: IBM SWG - Tech ProfessionalFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endic...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

Controlling Performance ToolKit display interval for Omegamon XE

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR081607340User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0924024650Title: Controlling Performance ToolKit display interval for Omegamon XESubmitted By: Roger Thibault/Quebec/IBMOriginators Area: ISC Canada VM SupportFPOC:...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered