Skip to Main Content
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 3552

PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Jim.FyffeSubmitters Company: Fifth Third Bank PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

PLAC0213-1578 Reduce power consumption for System z I/O configuration

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0213-1578 Reduce power consumption for System z I/O configurationHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Statu...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

PCIT1231-1664 Provide connection between VM nodes using a facility other than CTCs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: william.pape@citigroup.comSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT1231-1664 Provide connection between VM nodes using a facility other than CTCsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category:...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

Consistent view of shared spool items in an SSI environment

In an SSI environment, provide a consistent view of the READER files owned by a USER from the perspective of a CLASS D user/identity (not the owner), similar to the way PRINT and PUNCH files are handled, regardless of whether or where the owner is...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

support for huge pages for Oracle running on Linux in z/VM environment

Provide z/VM support for running Oracle DB in Linux for System z (running as z/VM guest) with huge page support. Please note, we know from customer tests that using huge page support makes really a big performance difference (when running in LPAR)...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

z/VM-RACF without DASD/ECKD storage

Remove current existing pre-requisite for needing DASD/ECKD attached storage when using z/VM-RACF.There are customers who do not use DASD/ECKD storage. Especially these are new System z customers running Linux on the mainframe. Typically these new...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Relocation of z/OS guests

Baseler Versicherungen is planning to consolidate three subsidiaries at one location. Due to operational procedures the plan is that every subsidiary becomes a tenant on z/VM; under z/VM a parallel sysplex will be deployed to increase availability...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Change Timezone zoneid from 3 to 5 characters

The timezone field in SYSTEM CONFIG statements TIMEZONE_DEFINITION and TIMEZONE_BOUNDARY and the CP QUERY TIME command allow 3 characters. Official timezones abbreviations use 1, 3, 4 & 5 characters.
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Functionality already exists

Provide z/VM guest access to Server Time Protocol (STP) info

z/VM must provide a mechanism so that guest Operating Systems, such as z/OS and z/VSE, can get or be notified of a local time change when STP provides one to the Virtual Machine.
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

TKDS Support with Encryption Facility

Encryption Facility (EF) currently supports the ICSF CKDS and PKDS. The TKDS was implemented in ICSF after the initial EF support. Would be great to add that final KDS to the list of supported key stores.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration