IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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    Increase / disable the size limit of 100 MB for uploading files from our workstation.

    Some vendors don´t have the option to sFTP files direct from their servers to mainframe environment. SMEs needs to download required data (from vendor web site) in their workstation and upload it using WINscp or any other vendor tool (license cost...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Add YAML support to ISPF HILITE function

    The increased use of YAML in z/OS, this would be helpful for app programmers and systems programmers.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    Syntax check for configuration member

    It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

    z/OS Health Checker HZSPRINT utility enhancemnet

    z/OS Health Check utility HZSPRINT provides the user with good information about the checks in place, however it doesn't show the state of it as it could be verified in SDSF for example. Using the the F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS it provides t...
    10 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Future consideration

    Add schema from RFC 2307

    More and more, z/OS is moving into the Open environment and working with other Open platforms and software including Red Hat, Docker, and containers. This should be an incentive to include more schema attributes and object classes into ITDS z/OS L...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 3 Future consideration

    Rust Language Support for z/OS

    Rust is a very powerful, memory safe system programming language that would be extremely useful on the mainframe platform. Rust would also be able to use existing z/OS C libraries as it natively supports linking to C libraries. My hope would be s...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Not under consideration

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

    ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

    ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    JCL Maximum 255 steps

    Good afternoon, Due to an incident that occurred on 12/19/2025, we have noticed that some of the processes in our installation have failed because they reached the maximum of 255 steps. We know this goes back to the beginning of JCL. However, we w...
    7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    CSSMTP - Exploit HashiCorp instead of LDAPBIND to retrieve password

    Since CSSMTP supports authentication with TCP/IP APAR PH61015 a user requires the password in clear text to add it to the LDAPBIND section with a RACF command. However, it would be of great benefit if CSSMTP would connect to HashiCorp password vau...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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