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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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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Send TSAD data for z14 & z15 once per day instead of once per week

Currently TSAD is only sent once a week for z14 & z15. The data is propagated to Call Home Connect Cloud (CHCC) application which our clients use as reference for installed MCL levels, HMC levels and much more. Having 1 week delay means not ha...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Under review

Enhance zHMC to add SYSLOG entries for FCP/FICON error conditions

The zHMC appliance contains valuable information about the health of Mainframe Fiber Channel (FICON) connections. This information could be used for alerting and troubleshooting but its proprietary and can only be assessed interactively from the H...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Under review

Add Certificate Management functions to the BCPii APIs

Hello team, Our team is working with a customer to automate certificate management for certificates installed on RACF, installed on DS8K, and installed on zHMC, to facilitate this process, reduce the amount of effort and decrease the change of hav...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Under review