Skip to Main Content
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 1798

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

Enhance zERT discovery to be more accurate in recognizing and recording TLS sessions with very large handshake messages and unusual timing

zERT discovery is currently unable to recognize TLS sessions when handshake messages exceed the maximum TLS record length. It also relies on timers in specific situations that can sometimes generate misleading information regarding TLS sessions th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Avoid out of storage abends in LLA

LLA should not try to honor LLACOPY when there is not enough private memory available to do so. A better behavior would be to reject the LLACOPY and produce a proper CSV message to indicate this anomaly. Maybe it is possible to delay the LLACOPY t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Store/create/use SSH public-private key pairs in RACF and/or ICSF without using SSL certs

provide a means (similar to RACDCERT) to create, store, import, export, display, etc., SSH Public-Private key pairs within RACF, associated with a User ID, for use with SSH Ported Tools functionality (and ideally won't conflict with Dovetailed ven...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 records contain last step condition code instead of End-of-job condition code

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 (EOJ or end-of-job) records should contain the highest condition code of the job in the SMF5JCC field. The current condition code information is not representative of the entire job but only of the last step run in the job.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Multiple OMVS file for STDENV

I would like use multiple OMVS file for STDENV. Usage of concatenate file in MVS environment for STDENV is authorise but not for the OMVS file.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Availability of Cryptographic Services

When ICSF is started it will check the Master Key Verification Patterns(MKVP) in the header records of the CKDS and PKDS. When an MKVP is found then a check is made to see if that Master Key is found in the coprocessors. If it is found and it matc...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Add nosetuid option to a Mount request in the z/OS Data set and file REST API

Without the nosetuid option a mount request requires a user have authority to the SUPERUSER.FILESYS.MOUNT resource which is usually reserved for administrators or sys progs, and most average users do not have this authority. With nosetuid a mount ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support JESLOG parameter on job card with the master subsystem

We execute our Netview STCs under the master subsystem rather than under JES2 and they can stay up for months at a time. The JESMSGLG can grow to several million lines which consumes a non-insignificant amount of spool space. We don't need that in...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

JES_NJE_SECURITY Health Check Modification

Our environments unique design does not require only one component of the JES_NJE_Security check. We've determined that we are unable to deactivate just this component and are therefore requesting that the component be separated from the original ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration