IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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Store dataset creating id in automatically during allocation

Provide a mechanism where the creating ID of a dataset can be stored in a place that can be easily displayed and reported on using standard tooling like Dcollect.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Not under consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer allow cancellation

When having a big list of datasets being imported, it is not possible to cancel/stop a task. The only way to stop a task is to restart the full zOSMF instance which is very bad as other services rely on zOSMF. A full Server restart just because th...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Support for CCM algorithm in SystemSSL

For TLS1.3 there are 5 official supported ciphers: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256 And zOS SystemSSL does not support:TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SH...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: retain original abend of secondary enclave

In our new application release we use the new capability to run AMODE 31 programs and AMODE 64 programs together in an application in the same address space. First we start a Java 17 JVM 64-bit environment via JZOS to run our Java-Framework that c...
7 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Provide option for dubbed processes to inherit environment from init process

Please provide options - a global default in BPXPRMxx and user level option in user's OMVS segment for a "blind dubbed" process to inherit its environment from the "init" process (PID 1). Currently, an address space that is not started by USS Logo...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Issues with the Idea Portal

Compare this https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 with https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 The ideas.ibm.com is almost unusable, does not show the votes or how to vote, and the link to the aha portal (the ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Create a workflow for zERT Provisioning - Database, RACF

At the moment, one has to customize members (IZUZNADT, IZUZNADI, IZUNASEC ) in SYS1.SAMPLIB to provision a database for zERT and grant access to zERT. My idea is to use a workflow which would allow to do the same but inside a z/OSMF workflow.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

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