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.

Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 15, 2016

Policy Based Routing to work for Sysplex Distributor traffic and VIPAROUTE

Let's say I have two Sysplex Distributor LPARs in the same Sysplex. I would like traffic that comes into S:D1 to use VIPAROUTE and flow over one set of OSA and traffic that comes into S:D2 to use VIPAROUTE and flow over a different set of OSAs. I have tried to do this with putting one set of target VIPAs in LPAR1s VIPAROUTE and another set of target VIPAs in LPAR2s VIPAROUTE but it didn't work. I believe this is because even though Policy Based Routing is enabled to do this, it doesn't work for distributed traffic. I hereby request that PBR work for distributed traffic - or come up with some other means of allowing VIPAROUTE to control which OSAs the traffic flows out of the S:D LPAR.

Idea priority Medium