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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).


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Discrimination Between Data And Code.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027615User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SAAPDE82022Title: Discrimination Between Data And Code.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 4 Not under consideration

MVS - IMGLIB SVC Must Interface with All

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027708User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SOMVSE85076Title: MVS - IMGLIB SVC Must Interface with AllocationSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara Mc...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

DFP chained VSAM reads for control inter

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027958User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG91001Title: DFP chained VSAM reads for control interval/block optionsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Generic Naming of Catalog Aliases

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00046369User Marketing Field Requirement Number: JOOS0294001Title: Generic Naming of Catalog AliasesSubmitted By: Yutaka Nikkoh/Japan/IBMOriginators Area: N/A / 81-3-3808-3795FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Erika...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Include new volumes in ISMF statistics o

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023012User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93033Title: Include new volumes in ISMF statistics on SGsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDo...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 2 Future consideration

ISMF: Select Criteria for DASD Based on

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023810User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93019Title: ISMF: Select Criteria for DASD Based on SMS Status(ie.disnew)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FP...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 3 Future consideration

ISMF: Add parameters to sum and average

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023812User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93021Title: ISMF: Add parameters to sum and average numeric columnsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Ba...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 2 Future consideration

Support MVSLOGIN for non-interactive use

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00073933User Marketing Field Requirement Number: Title: Support MVSLOGIN for non-interactive userSubmitted By: Kathy Fieber/San Jose/Contr/IBMOriginators Area: SSD / 408-256-7883FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Er...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Planned for future release

Converter/Interpreter JCL Security Check

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0325114051User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE013507Title: Converter/Interpreter JCL Security CheckingSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MV...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Avoid High SMSVSAM CPU Consumption

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR070413309User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE12038Title: Avoid High SMSVSAM CPU ConsumptionSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Larr...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration