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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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Send TSAD data for z14 & z15 once per day instead of once per week

Currently TSAD is only sent once a week for z14 & z15. The data is propagated to Call Home Connect Cloud (CHCC) application which our clients use as reference for installed MCL levels, HMC levels and much more. Having 1 week delay means not ha...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration
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TSO/E: Implement Pipes Facility

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104946User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE011455Title: TSO/E: Implement Pipes FacilitySubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Will...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 20 Not under consideration

SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
9 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

To reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output

Have option to control (system level/step control) reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output, when no sorting is performend, hence it risk to have inaccurate data. This will avoid developer wrongly coding caused data ...
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

SDSF - update CFS panel in column Encrypt

While the SDSF 'CFS' panel provides a great overview for all details of the structure including encryption details, it would be great if the panel can incorporate the feasibility of encryption or not by structure type. By design, structures from t...
5 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Save the selection of the “Retain Last Selection” option after leaving the SDSF Panel

With z/OS 3.1 a new option "Retain last selection" for the SDSF confirmation of action characters was introduced. The Retain last selection option can be used to default the action character confirmation with the last used value for the duration t...
4 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow the specification of multiple BPXPRM parmlib member suffixes in the "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=" MVS command

We have our OMVS defnitions split up in several BPXPRMxx parmlib members. It would be very handy if I could check the whole configuration for syntax errors with a single command e.g. "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=(A1,B2,C3)", the same way I can specify the...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Use the IBM Ideas portal to report and monitor status of z/OS documentation RCF's

Recent responses to a documentation omission message sent to the regular RCF email address (mhvrcfs@ibm.com) received a response that RCF's no longer normally receive any response from the documentation team(s). Users who have taken the trouble to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Enable ZHYPERWRITE for VSAM and VSAM-RLS in IGDSMSxx

PTF UJ92354 Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It's said we should configure "ZHYPERWRITE=YES option was specified in the ACB or RPL.", so far I don't understand where to set this par...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration