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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).


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.

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Sign the z/OS Customized Offerings Driver for Validated Boot

The IBM Customized Offerings Driver (IBM Program No. 5751-COD) should be digitally signed by IBM so that it can be optionally checked in the field using Validated Boot for z/OS procedures. Although IBM Z installations can already validate the inte...
24 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Extend z/OS Validated Boot Protections to z/OS Sysplexes

Currently z/OS Validated Boot only operates within the scope of a single z/OS LPAR (or z/VM guest in limited fashion) — what I'll refer to as a "Stage 0" configuration (in Enable mode). Thus it's currently possible for a z/OS Sysplex to consist of...
26 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Enhance Msg IEA602I ADDRESS SPACE CREATE FAILED

A Start Operator cmd or using the ASCRE Service by other methods trys to start an adress space,that may fail with IEA602I Msg START ABCDEFG,parm=xxx IEA602I ADDRESS SPACE CREATE FAILED. A STORAGE SHORTAGE EXISTS (or other reason) Automation may se...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review