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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).


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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:

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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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On-Demand Environments

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances to allow customers to use their existing IBM Z virtualization infrastructure to rapidly create, manage, and deprovision isolated development and testing environments. This capa...
about 17 hours ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Enable IBM Test Accelerator for Z On-Demand Environments Support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on IBM Z

This enhancement would allow customers to centrally administer TAZ ODE environments through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on Z, simplifying operations, improving infrastructure utilization, and reducing total cost of ownership by lever...
about 17 hours ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Reduce volume size required during image creation

When TAz's On Demand discovery process is identifying all the volumes required for the image creation it will capture all space on each volume where a required data set is located. In some cases, there may be only 1 smaller dataset on a large volu...
6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Optimize SYSRES Volume Build Capacity

Currently, the ODE process for building SYSRES volumes requires a full volume snapshot of the source system. For example, in JPMC, the SS60 build scenario results in a storage requirement of 17.4 TB on both the Storage Server and the target VM. Th...
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted