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 154

    We need a capacity dashboard to keep track of capacity usage for CoD offerings

    Customer wants to know how much time they have spent activating their flex capcity, OOCoD etc.
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    Request for IEBCOPY to use Storage Above the Line(31 addressing mode)

    For PDS datasets one needs to compress them on a regular basis to regain unused space. One method is to use DFSMSdss compress which will invoke IEBCOPY to do the compress. IEBCOPY issues a conditional getmain for control blocks and tables in stora...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

    HMC - Enable DNS over TLS or HTTPS

    To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Support in-place editing for sed

    The Linux version of sed has a "-i / --in-place" option that allows a sed script to modify a file in-place. The z/OS versions of sed found at /bin/sed do not support this option. Without this option, users resort to a shell redirect and rename usi...
    10 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

    Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

    To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 3 Planned for future release

    Allow programmatic determination if a zIIP engine is online temporarily for System Recovery Boost

    We have had several customer requests for determining if a zIIP engine is online due to a System Recovery Boost or not (to prevent accidental activation in an LPAR). Currently the only way of doing this is by issuing a D M=CPU operator command and...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

    add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

    In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

    Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

    When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Planned for future release

    Spot compatibility issue before run-time

    Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

    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.