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

All ideas

Showing 465

zVM dynamic reconfiguration capability to support devices in Subchannel set 1

Make possible dynamic reconfiguration for new or existing devices to reside in Subchannel set 1 - 3390A or 3390D devices.
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 4 Delivered

zHPF phase 1 support for normal minidisks,not only for fullpack minidisks in z/VM, so that it can be used by z/VSE V6.2 guest

For better I/O performance I need strongly the zHPF support in z/VSE V6.2 for my DL/1 database minidisks. These disks are normal minidisks and NOT fullback minidisks. But because "a few zHPF features are limited to fullpack minidisks or attached D...
over 5 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Creating and Deleting Profiles on HMC/SE via BCPII

We have been using BCPII for quite a while to automate the control of the "defined capacity" in our z/OS Images. This was an important milestone for us because the defined capacity values can change very frequently based upon our clients requests....
about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

CSDATA: ACEE and CICS

We would like to be able to choose if we want to access or not RACF Custom Fields from CICS. Via a parameter, for example in the SIT we could be able to decide if, automatically the CF should be brought into storage and anchored from the ACEE. Thi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Delivered

SMP/E SYSMOD Publish Date

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/30/2022 Submitter Name: Todd J Gagle (Software Architect) Submitter Email: todd.gagle@broadcom.com Description: The SYSMOD element currently contains several dates associated with PTF. These include INST...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

SDSFAUX Service Class

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 03/19/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The current documentation ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=customization-us...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Add member information to Jobclass panel on SDSF

JC panel on SDSF is lacking the member information (available with D action char). The 82 SSI provide this data at the member level: Active? PXEQ? max, current, ... New columns or JC MEMBERS should show the detailed data in a tabular form.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

realtime HMC/SE logging at a syslog server

We have the requirement to collect all messages, logs,... at a central point like a syslog server (e.g. Splunk).It has to became possile to collect all HMCs and SEs messages (Logs, API-Requests, HW-messages,...) there in realtime. The aim is to re...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 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.