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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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Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SDSF Not under consideration

Enable Sysplex Distributor traffic draining (Disable/Quiesce) for zCX EXTTRG targets

Description In environments using IBM z/OS Container Extensions together with Sysplex Distributor, zCX instances are commonly exposed as TCP targets so that inbound traffic can be distributed across multiple zCX environments running on different L...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

When the z/OSMF workflow completes, auto generate the "Export Workflow as Printable Format"

z/OSMF workflows are used to perform product customization via input from customers. The workflows take that information and perform tasks. The ability to export the workflow as a printable format would be very useful to capture that work effort w...
11 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

WLM: REST-API Support for z/OSMF Workload Management task

In our environment, WLM Report Classes are essential for our accounting and chargeback management. However, it is currently not possible to automatically create, modify, delete, or even read Report Classes and Classification Rules when application...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Increase MAXSESSIONS Limit

MAXSESSIONS limit of 2000 isn't high enough for out needs. Can you increase this value ?
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA Future consideration

Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

PFS UDS MAXSOCKETS for AF_UNIX

Currently, our application development department is using the C syslog() API to send logs to SYSLOGD. SYSLOGD forwards these messages to another syslog server which puts the data into Splunk. During our load and performance test, we hit the barri...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Under review

OAM: Allow global defaults in CBROAMxx PARMLIB member

There are parameters in CBROAMxx that have to be specified for each Storagegroup individually. For us, that means 1068 lines of PARMLIB definition which are the same for each Storagegroup. In times of simplification, it should be possible to defin...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Planned for future release

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities Not under consideration