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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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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,

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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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DFSMStvs have a hard upper limit set in PARMLIB that cannot be overridden by JCL

Currently the TVSAMCOM in PARMLIB can be overridden by including TVSAMCOM=(n,n) on the JCL EXEC statement. in our case, we've had a couple of instances where an application did not take the default set in PARMLIB and flooded the CF and SMSVSAM wit...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Is a defect

Rebuild masterkey - securise the masterkey change procedure with ICSF

Two Security Officers (OS) want to build a masterkey with two key parts from the menus ISPF/ICSF 1. The two OS are connected on the Panel CSFDKE50 ( ICSF - Master Key Entry) at the same time 2. The first OS informs: • Key Type: ECC-MK • Part: Firs...
4 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Is a defect

HMC add support for Client authentication

Please have a look at IBM SR TS011062840 we need Client Authentication support in our Manage Syslog server Option of IBM Z14 ZR1 HMC @ R51 microcode level.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Is a defect