Skip to Main Content
IBM Z Software


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. 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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

Showing 396 of 9300

Provide expiration time for CTC token in response

Most industry standard token providers will include an expiration time/duration in the response. This helps applications to automatically refresh the token prior to expiration reducing failed auth attempts. Applications usually cache authenticatio...
20 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Submitted

To be able to stop & start Liberty microservices via CEMT commands

We can refresh a microservice via CEMT commands and we can stop & start microservices via Collectives and Broadcom SYSVIEW, but it would be really useful to be able to issue CEMT commands to stop and start a microservice, which we could then u...
25 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Needs more information

Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

CICS webservices migration assistant tool to migrate existing WSDL as an openapi3 document. Thus, facilitating easy migration of CICS webservices to z/OS connect based API's

As CICS webservices feature is stabilized. We would like to convert existing webservices into json based api's. That could be exposed via z/OS Connect both for Provider and Requestor type services.Thus, a tool that can migrate exiting WSDL files, ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Request for Documentation on MCP Server Function Capabilities

[Summary] The MCP Server function became available starting with CICS TS V6.3; however, the current documentation does not provide sufficient detail about the toolset exposed by the CICS MCP Server. While it is possible to build a CICS TS V6.3 env...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

E3270UI - HUB DISPLAY PANEL needs to show ALL HUBS that are configured in the environment and ability switch between

Currently we have 2 hubs and 2 teps that we need to be able to switch between for e3270ui Queries... and yet we currently only show the PRIMAY HUB.. No Secondary HUB is displayed and this used to be available in prior releases...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

We would like to see the CEC Serial Number added to the Kafka metadata/header to better identify where the data record is coming from.

We will be receiving data stream records from multiple CECs to a Kafka cluster. Adding the serial number would be a unique identifier for determining the identity of the CEC/customer. For example, the system name is in the metadata/header portion,...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Add Opensearch as a ZCDP subscriber

Currently, OpenSearch cannot be used as a ZCDP subscriber, but we would like this functionality to be implemented in a future ZLDA release.
2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 5 Under review

Changing CESN to permit password phrases via IBM Feature Toggle

Hello, We have been reviewing the guidance provided in IBM documentation regarding enabling password phrase functionality when customers utilize IBM default lists such as DFHLIST and default groups like DFHSIGN. However, we do not believe it is ap...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Needs more information

Protect OIDC Certificates and keys with ICSF

As described on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.4.0?topic=oidc-performing-sso-by-using-node, the nodeJS certificates can be stored on RACF database and is exported at runtime during NodeJS initialization using azfsso_launch utility. If the certi...
4 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review