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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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Software Update app needs more granularity.

The Software Update app needs more granularity and options if it is ever going to be a viable alternative to the SMP/E ISPF panels. For example, the ability to select by sourceid, and the option to specify groupextend or bypass modid. Also, it wou...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

The Change Mirror Time on the SE does not show what it is currently set to

The Change Mirror Time option on the SE for a z15 and z16 does not show the current time the daily mirror is already set for. It only shows the current time in the window. It would be useful to know what it is set to currently so it can be checked...

Fit z/osmf validation type TSOUSERID to the underlying RACF rule

The validation type TSOUSERID does only allow userid names up to seven characters.But RACF itself allows to use even eight character long names.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=consider-8-character-user-id Correct the regular expression...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Sort Unicode positive / negative values with DFSORT

Company:SJNK: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Systems, Inc. Back Ground;· The customer want to sort numeric string (positive / negative numerical value) of character code UTF-8 using DFSORT.· The customer tried to sort positive / negative value of...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Delivered

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

ICSF TR-34 support

In order to comply with PCI 3 (Payment Cards Industry) requirements for elimination of the usage of SHA-1 in RSA cryptography, as well as the requirement for "key bundling", NCR has elected to implement support the following "technical recommendat...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Delivered

Support for querying PTF/APAR/SYSMOD/USERMOD status from REST API

Hi, I work for the GTS Global Service Engeneering team and we are developing some automation solutions around SMPE and we need a function to query for status of a certain PTF via REST API. This is very critical for IBM GTS in order to automate wor...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Unix Syslogd Support as additional transport mechanism for messages on HMC and SE to remote syslogd gatherer

To comply with PCI DSS requirements a central syslog gathering server is installed in our infrastructure and especially the distributed systems send all their relevant messages to this instance using the syslogd function. To integrate the HMC and ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Diffie-Hellman (DH/DHE) Hardware Support in Crypto Express/ICSF

Add support in hardware (CPACF or more likely, Crypto Express 6S/7S) for Diffie Hellman operations performed as part of DH/DHE/ECDH/ECDHE key exchanges and make the necessary coordinating changes in ICSF to expose this support to the software stac...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Delivered

Add FEAT command to FTP server

Add support for FEAT command to FTP server on z/VM
over 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered