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 301

CPSF Critical Record Filing during catastrophic dump processing

System global records corruption when a PSW Restart. Unfortunately, the GAT was not in the dump, and the theory was that the GAT was corrupted and the non-keypointable global records became keypointable, and CPSF filed the header-stripped global r...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Updated version of OpenSSL

z/TPF is currently running on version 0.9.7 of OpenSSL. This is a fairly old version and there have been many security updates since that time. Including a fix (RFC5746) to the SSL_renegotiate function that is currently disabled.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

deleting dumps from the dump data base

When using the all option on the ZDDMP delete/sync entry , the records in both the file system and in the TPFDF database should be deleted/synced for both active and inactive processor in the complex.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zddmp wildcard support

Customer Travelport is requesting wildcard support for the ZDDMP entry . Today zddmp only support a four character name. So instead of having to give a four character program name, be able to do :ZDDMP DISP PGM-ACI*, or ZDMP DISP PGM-AC*, or ZDDMP...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Multiple debugger macro breakpoints

Currently today the TPF debugger does not allow multiple macro breakpionts to be step. up. The customer is asking that thus restriction be lifted.An example of this is that a user may want do an ‘enter’ macro group breakpoint for all programs ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zddmp keyword parameter and column header match.

Customer is asking that the keyword parameter and column header match on the zddmp entry. zddmp disp complex-tgr proc-a date-08may dump-000003 pgm-ctal ---> SOUTH Entered: zddmp disp complex-tgr proc-a date-08may dump-000003 pgm-ctalDDMP0010I 2...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Need to understand what dump viewer or ECB monitor sessions are running on the system.

There currently is no way for an operator to know what dump viewer or ECB monitor sessions are running on the system. Need an enhancement to the zdbug display and zdbug clear functional messages to display and kill dump viewer sessions. Today, the...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

snap dumps in dump viewer

Customer is requesting for the z /TPFdump viewer to support snap dumps. The current product that they use on TPF4.1 supports this function. What the application programmers like to see is the listc information that can be specified as part of the ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

message when dumps are not added to dump viewer

Customer is asking for more information either a message or reason code why a dump was not added to the dump database. For example no ECB, R9 not pointing to an ECB etc.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Remove Channel Redrive from ZSTAT ENVIRON

ZSTAT ENVIRON is displaying TPFMODE inconsistently. After some IPL's its YES and some NO.Requesting IBM fix it or remove it. IBM inclined to remove it because TPFMODE not critical for FICON.IBM needs RFE to make that change.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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.