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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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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.

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CSSMTP TLS enhancement

It's possible to enable the SMTP server and client to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide private, authenticated communication over the Internet. As per SMTP protocol definition a client server connection will be closed as soon as the cl...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Project to replace CA TLMS wih IBM DFSMS /rmm

An Italy bank is a new GTS outsourcing customer. The Transition and Transformation project is currently underway. IBM GTS has started a Project to replace CA TLMS with IBM RMM. We opened the PMR 20595 and we request an RFE to modify IBM RMM code. ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

Reduction CPU cost for Set Rdev command of z/VM

zLinux on z / VM is running integrated DB server with 24 x 365. When adding DASD etc., I use dynamic I / O Reconfig function.In order to connect the new DASD to the z / VM system running at 24 x 365 and recognize it, the SET RDEV command is execut...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Configuration Assistant ability to select and operate on multiple rules at a time (Delete, Enable, Disable etc)

IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server: The ability to select and operate on multiple rules at one time – Delete, Enable, Disable etc. Note: this RFE created by IBM from RFE 86000. That RFE contained multiple requirements, spli...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Delivered

Capacity Provisioning Manager use of RMFIII Delay Data and Performance Index

Current Problem: CPM provisioned numerous times due to SRVCLASSes breeching their monitored performance index thresholds while using very low CPU, during high CEC/LPAR processing. Suggested enhancements: 1) WLM produces a notated performance index...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 3 Delivered

5-digit device numbers support needed because of MSS support for GDPS MTM environments

5-digit device numbers support needed because of non-sufficient MSS support for GDPS MTMM environments.
almost 9 years ago in z/VM 4 Delivered

Enhance diagnosis by providing dump format of routine storage address when interpreting BPNPCNUM when running zACS

Enhance the output of the two BPNGPCN and BPNGSVCN programs that are run for zACS - Authorized Code Scanner: provide a short dump of the storage around the storage address identified for the PC and/or SVC entry. Perhaps something like plus/minus 1...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 2 Delivered

Early warning alert indicating this BCPii caching issue

BCPii caching issue early warning alert. Also, is there any possibility of having the SE auto reboot (or be self-correcting) for the BCPii cache issue as it does for the VPD issue?
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Enable editorCompare for uncataloged data sets

Applications wishing to exploit the editorCompare function can only do so for cataloged data sets, as there is currently no way to specify a volume. The editorWithPath function allows for a volser specification, so ideally editorCompare would supp...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

HCM for Windows 11

Our corporation is rolling out Windows 11 on all workstations and to ensure functionality not only in our environment, an update is unavoidable.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCM 1 Delivered