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

z/TPF

Showing 438

Enhancement to the FCAP0008I output message

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the FCAP0008I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well:FCAP0008I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON 0C21 - STARTEDwhere xxxxxx=tape VSN. Thank you for y...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Reduce CDC interval frequency limit

Currently the CDC minimum collection interval is5 seconds. If this could be reduced ( perhaps to 1 second), more granular data would be available. this data would be more useful for problem diagnosis, as well as provide better tivoli monitoring au...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ZTPF TS7700 Support - ZTPLF LOAD - Optional input parm of tape name

HPE would like a new optional parameter added to the ZTPLF LOAD entry that would identify the tape name that the loaded volume will become via the follow-up entry ZTMNT.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support Apache V2.4+

Apache 2.4+ is out, and 2.2+ will be out of service by 12/31/17. The Apache HTTP Server Project will only provide maintenance releases of the 2.2.x flavor through June of 2017, and may provide some security patches beyond this date through at leas...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information.

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information . Customer is asking for an enhancement request to ZDDSI to include the PCHID information that is associate with the CHIPID for the associated device. This information would be very useful in ...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Allow z/TPF to run without consoles

Allow TPF to run if no consoles are available and an attempt to fallback to the HMC is not successful. Do not crash TPF, instead, send all console data to the RTA tape via TOURC for later on analysis. We have had conditions where TPF took a catast...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Is a defect

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

z/TPF SNAP dumps - option to SERRC

We propose adding code to IBM segments that contain SNAP dump code to have an option to take a SERRC instead. The segment can interrogate a new Format-2 Global. If the IBM segment name is found in the global, take a SERRC instead of a SNAP dump. I...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IPtrace output.

Customer is requesting an option when post processing IPtrace to include both the EBCDIC and ASCII side by side on the same report. Today it lets them request either EBCDIC or ASCII
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs so zTPF can share encrypted data with z/OS.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.