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 3549

Add new DFSMS Flag in SSSA1 to support zSecure

zSecure module CFCOLL is calling DFSMS and writing logrec records for IGDCNSAQ when there is no error. DFSMS Development have suggested that they could provide an enhancement to provide a new flag in SSSA1 for callers to tell them if they need to ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

ABARS - filters in the SYSIN to select the datasets

We are using ABARS as a backup solution for a new project. However I have to select different datasets, including GDG's and I cannot find a way to use DFSMSDss resources in my ABARS (ABACKUP) SYSIN. As far as I can see I can only use INCLUDE and E...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

z/VM Improve IP wizard

IPWizard functinality need to be improved. we are using portgroup with LACP and (multi) VSwitch configuration to provide TCP/IP connectivity.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Allow blank lines in AMASPZAP input

Allow blank lines in SYSIN for AMASPZAP to help readability. Already discussed with Jim Mulder and Barry Lichtenstein. Barry also suggested allowing for an * in column 1 to be consistent with Binder.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

&TRIM

Can a &TRIM built-in function be added to CLIST? I am aware that you can use this:SET MYVAR = &MYVAR But, this does not work if an ampersand or math operator is contained in the variable. Instead, a do loop is needed. Similar functions may...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

LLA refresh on large PDSE

DEVSERV macro needs a release all verb to improve the performance of an LLA refresh in a PDSE.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 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.