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

Clear

z/OS

    Showing 3200 of 3844

    Modify IKJPARS so that the parse service routine obtain storage above the line

    DFSMSrmm is not able to load a large defaults table. DFSMSrmm is abending with S878 and in some cases DFSMSrmm can't be restartet and an IPL is needed. See the details in case TS016867492. We have converted a retention file with 13.300 entries to ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 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

    Backup/Restore During zOSMF Software Update

    Scenario: A user would like to apply updates to their Software Instance in Software Update on z/OSMF. Current: Right now, you can perform a corrective install, recommended install, or functional install and the environment is updated with no backu...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

    New informational messages with options of being enabled/disabled

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Extending the generated CPM informational messages, and allowing them to be dynamically switchable in a similar fashion as via the “Planner.ExplanatoryActivationMessage” parm, and the CPO4444I ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Allow the use of EKMF to create/store GDK keys

    We use EKMF exclusively to manage the content of our CKDS, as a policy choice. I have been getting push back from our Key management team to allow us to use the current CDA setup for generating and storing keys. It would be helpful if CDA allowed ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

    In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

    Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for YAML

    YAML will be the configuration language on z/OS from V3R2 going forward. ISPF should highlight this language.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    Determining CPU Usage per Application in TCPIP Stack

    We would like to determine the cost and CPU usage of each application running under each address space. Specifically, we need to identify how much CPU usage is consumed by each application under the TCP/IP workload. For example, if the TCP/IP addr...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Improve CPM LP handling to follow PR/SM best practices

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM the current logic regarding “LP adds” and “LP removes” is unbalanced, and tends towards allowing systems to run with over-configured online LP counts. If PR/SM treats “LP’s Parked by Hip...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

    Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future 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.