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 3544

Server and user authentication using X.509 certificates

As of now it is not possible to authenticate users or servers using X.509 certificates using OpenSSH. We want to be able to authenticate users (coming from Windows) using X.509 certificates.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration

Make z/VM TCPIP FTP server RFC 3659 compliant

We've recently implemented z/VM 7.1 after being away from z/VM for many, many years. During the setup and installation we tailored TCPIP and specifically the FTP server but discovered that it is not compatible with GUI FTP clients like the FileZil...
over 5 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

Make DFDSS handle any type of dump file

DFDSS (ADRDSSU) writes variable-length records to a RECFM=U dataset. First, it would be good if it also supported RECFM=V for output, as that is a natural match for variable-length records. Regardless, if that RECFM=U file is ftp'ed to the PC and ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

Add Certificate trust verification in CSNDDSV service

Currently the option to verify the trust of a certificate is possible only by adding the CA and Intermediate CA certificates using TKE into ICSF adaptor. This is new and overhead for the limited ICSF admin team. Add option to verify the signature ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 7 Future consideration

In ISPF, requesting a change to allow more than one one control data set for each logical screen to avoid ISRS083 error.

Under certain conditions, an ISPF Allocation Error ISRS083 will occur when stacking commands. Details on how to recreate the error using ISPF SRCHFOR are documented in the attached file. It appears the failure is occurring on the SPFTEMPn.CNTL dat...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

CMSSTOR macro support relative addressing instructions

Change the inline re-entrant expansion form of the CMSSTOR macro to use relative addressing, thereby eliminating the need for a base register in the CSECT. The sequence of CNOP 0,4 / LA R1,*+8 (Plist address) / BC 15,Around_Plist / (inline_plist) ...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Ansible support for z/VM unique functionality

NatWest would like to be able to use Ansible to automate/orchestrate its z/VM unique resources such as z/VM customized z/OS guests (both virtual hardware and software), virtual coupling facility, z/VM customized z/Linux guests (both virtual hardwa...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Create ISPF Statistics when adding a member via IEBUPDTE

Can a parameter be added to the ADD statement of the IEBUPDTE utility to optionally create ISPF statistics when a new member is added to a PDS? We realize that the statistics are created when/if the new member is edited, but that may or may not ev...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Please change behavior of IDCAMS utilitty ALTER commands

If IDCAMS ALTER detect that backpointer to catalog points is not user intended one.then ALTER issue some WARNING or INFORMATION message. <User case> <<Background>>User used IDCAMS DELETE to delete VSAM but got below message: IDC3...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Request TR31- SECMSG Support

It is required to extend the ability to export SECMSG type keys in TR-31 format using the CSNBT31X command
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Not under consideration

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.