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

Clear

z/OS

    Showing 3212

    Ability to Order and Receive PTF's through z/OSMF

    We would like to see z/OSMF offer start-to-end functionality for PTF's, providing the ability to order, receive, apply and accept PTF's. Currently it is only possible to APPLY and ACCEPT PTF's using z/OSMF. Without full start-to-end functionality ...
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

    SDSF panel CFS doesn't show primary duplexed structures

    The CFS SDSF panel can be very useful when it comes to checking upon CF structures allocation. Whenever we have to start a new CFRM policy either for moving structures or migrating CF images we use it to check the placement of the structures after...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    Request for IEBCOPY to use Storage Above the Line(31 addressing mode)

    For PDS datasets one needs to compress them on a regular basis to regain unused space. One method is to use DFSMSdss compress which will invoke IEBCOPY to do the compress. IEBCOPY issues a conditional getmain for control blocks and tables in stora...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

    zCX/Openshift Multi-Architectur Support with VMWare & zCX

    With OpenShift 4.14, OpenShift supports Multi-Architectur setup with the Control Nodes on x86 and e.g. Worker Nodes on s390x (zCX). Unfortunately, VMWare is a not supported plattform. Without that support, we'll never get the chance to go to produ...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    JCL IF statement support for system symbols

    If the JCL IF statement supports system symbols, the same JCL could be submitted on multiple systems/LPARs without modification, resulting in a different set of steps being executed based on the value of a system symbol. e.g. The following step wo...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    Increase SYSLOGD_TCPTHREADPOOL_SIZE as limit of 128 is too low or allow multiple instances of SYSLOGD for network mode

    Requirement from storage team to send logs via TCPIP. They have over 130+ devices and requesting to have all the logs sent to same system. Currently 128 is too low.
    5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

    Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

    It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    ZOWE User Redbook

    So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

    SPOF health checker support for multivolume datasets and provide selection pattern

    1) for DB2 LOGCOPY it is recommended to allocate a stripe format dataset The SPOF health checker should check that all of the volumes for DSN1 are on different CUs than for DSN2 Example : Disk Controller : CU1 with Volser V1, V2 and CU2 with Volse...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

    Allow to populate inactive logger couple dataset with logger policy

    When preparing a new sysplex, it is possible to populate other couple datasets like CFRM and SFM in advance with a suitable policy, so that the policies are in place right from the first start of the sysplex. This would be especially useful to be ...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under 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.