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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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z/OS

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Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Submitted

Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
27 days ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Issues with the Idea Portal

Compare this https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 with https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4059 The ideas.ibm.com is almost unusable, does not show the votes or how to vote, and the link to the aha portal (the ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Under review

SMPE Management Plugin

It would be useful to add basic SMPE management functions into z/OSMF. Currently, when using Software Update, if there is a problem with the CSI you have to switch to the ISPF Plugin to enter the panel to make appropriate changes to the CSI (such ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enable DIAGxx operator command parameter modification function

The ability to be able to issue an Operator command would enable real-time dynamic modification to the individual DIAGxx parameters without the need (or permission/authority) to update a PARMLIB member. This would also enable automation code (Rexx...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Under review

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration