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 3635

ACS Read only variable required for RECFM

We are converting our sequential data to extended format in preparation for pervasive encryption. We use the zbna software to identify files unsuitable for EF, due to utilising EXCP. We have identified a lot of files with a RECFM of FS (mostly SAS...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

Improve MAN command

The current MAN command uses a z/OS unique man page format and man database. As others port tools (see the z/OS Open Tools project on Github at https://zosopentools.github.io/meta/#/) to run under OMVS this presents challenges and a great barrier ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Future consideration

getmain smf performance improvement

Performance optimisation I'm looking into a ZOWE performance problem, and I can see an are of z/OS which could be optimised.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / General 3 Not under consideration

JES2EDS : add card SYSTCPD to specifiy stack affinity

Hello, Our TCPIP is the default stack and the RESOLVER has this definition. We would use JES2EDS on secondary stack TCPIPA. Because our z/OSMF uses stack TCPIPA. Usually we need to add a SYSTCPD DD on the proc to force the use of this specific fil...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Needs more information

Enhance ISPF Services to Dynamically Support 8 Character Userids

Today the user code is responsible to determine if the userid is 8 characters and thus require, in the case of LMMSTATS the use of USER8, instead of the USER keyword. The service should be able to determine this dynamically so the developer using ...
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF SMF support

Based on an already closed z/OSMF RFE request (RFE ID: 47399) in 2014 I want to re-open a similar request to ask for SMF support again.We are in need of a central logging feature for actually ALL z/OSMF activities (e.g. Login-Logout, invoking plug...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Changing Allocation Libraries Values during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change allocation dataset values via ServerPac while installing a new zos version. We used to do this trying to avoid space jcl problems while applying RSUs and PTF during the whol...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server

The EZANS Netstat dialogue is a vital tool for suporting z/OS Communications Server TCPIP. It is not supoorted and is frozen as a level of z/OS 1.12.IBM should formally support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server:1. to accept PMRs for faul...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow changing a internal MIH value set by MODULE IOSVDPDR and IOSRRRSV

There are some Japanese banking customers who issue VARY dddd,OFFLINE,FORCE command when an I/O timeout occurs on a device which have a redundancy by software (ie. IMS OLDS). As a result, these devices for being no-response are separated out and a...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 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.