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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 LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
12 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Easier/quicker way to report CVE related PTF’s being applied to systems.

Goal: be able to quickly respond and prove to audits and adhoc management requests for ensuring CVE related z/OS fixes are applied in a timely manner. Description/Why/How: Currently, CVE information for z/OS and z related products are provided fil...
4 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Basic/Large Format Dataset Encryption min LRECL and Blocksize option

Allow customers the option of bypassing encryption of basic/large format datasets if they do not meet the minimum LRECL requirements
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

Make diagnosing IXC440E easier.

when IXC440E message is received the documentation IXC440E - IBM Documentation is complicated. There are multiple displays required to capture required data: Issue DISPLAY XCF commands to get more information about the stalled group members. Use D...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Automatic Backup for UNIX-Files

DFSMShsm in FILE-Mode (for UNIX-Files) should support automatic backup like CLASSIC-Mode. SETSYS INUSE should also be considered because files are often in use.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

Intrusion Latch Detection on z/OS

When a crypto express card encounters an intrusion latch detection error, this error may not be externalized to z/OS.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improvements deleting variables

In z/OSMF SCA, you can define variables to complete the resources in the "configurable" tab. It would be helpful to have the following options: Remove all variables at once, i.e. return to the initial display with the placeholders for the variable...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration