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 465

DAE should include functionality to purge/discard dumps by a customizable duration of time.

DAE currently requires manual intervention to ensure dumps are no longer suppressed. It is not uncommon that problem scenarios can involve many of the same dump being produced within a very short duration of time (such as 10 minutes or 1 hr). In t...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm for files exclude criteria in data set

Our current Spectrum Protect environment uses a standard set of criteria to use for all of the backups. The DFSMShsm BACKDS, HBACKDS, and hbackup commands need the ability to specify a file or data set containing the necessary Exclude criteria dur...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

Allow DIRMAINT to sense actual physical volume sizes when volumes are added to available disk pools

Any DIRMAINT user
over 2 years ago in z/VM 6 Delivered

Message GFSA728E should show causing userid

Message GFSA728E shows invalid mapping for a user through Kerberos authentication but not which userid it is.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Delivered

A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern.

LE team already knows about this and what we need, but here are some details of what can go into the case:A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern. This will possibly also affect FA and APA. __demangle is in the ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Delivered

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 3 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Externalize HILITE values to ISPF Z variables

Externalize the HILITE values to ISPF Z variables (e.g. ZHILANG, ZHICOLOR, ZHIPAREN, ZHIFIND, ZHICURSR)
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Delivered

Document the LOGSTRX bit flag in ICHRFXP DSECT

This bit is referred to as "BIT12" in the ICHRFXP DSECT. This bit indicates the format of the data found at the LOGSTR pointer. This bit is needed to know what format the provided data is in for exits that process RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH calls.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Delivered

TCPIP startup message

There are a lot of tasks depending on TCPIP startup.Actually there is no real TCPIP startup finished message issued that can an automation tool pick up. There should be a message issued when all functions of TCPIP are ready to do work so that the ...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.