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

z/TPF

Showing 311

Raise cylinder limitation for 3390 devices

Enable support of >64K cylinders for 3390 devices.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Online warning message for RLOG records

Customer is ask for an online warning message when RLOG records reach 75% full in order to prevent the system from going catastrophic with a C117 dump.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

MQ SVRCONN sends "Recycle MQ Svrconn" Console Message when long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Activate" or "Acceptance"

MQ SVRCONN or OLDR sends "Recycle MQ Svrconn" Console Message when long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Activate" or "Acceptance" of loadset that contains "C" Library Component CTAL 1. The Travelport z/TPF Complex has distributed servers which connect...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance" of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL

MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL 1. The Travelport z/TPF Complex has distributed servers which connect to the z/TPF MQ Server using the MQ Client. 2. These generally support l...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow configurable data header use in the High Speed Connector

Allow configurable data/transport protocol header use in the High Speed Connector. Possible solutions could entail a configuration in the endpoint group xml file. Or could provide User Exit in the High Speed Connector to manipulate the stream to t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

PJ44697 Alternative method to avoid IPL of LGF to apply IPL Text to online IPLable Modules

Provide an Online zEntry command that will apply any given IPL TEXT to the IPL'able Online modules. This function would be similar to what ACPL does during a LGF IPL. Additionally, the function should also include the capability to fallback the IP...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Delivered

Provide ability to set and enforce a limit to the number of concurrent LP ECBs

There are tuning (core allocation and shutdown threshold level) implications to running large numbers of LP ECBs. A customer really needs to determine a max number of LP ECBs they will allow to run concurrently. If tuning values are set based on a...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

6. z/TPF Automated Generation of zREST Artifacts from Swagger Document

1. TVPT, Citi, Amex, Delta, 2. Headline: Automated Generation of zREST Artifacts from Swagger Document 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Amex, and D...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF Kafka Client

a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire a z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) Dispatch Adaptor that will send an zEV message to a topic on a Kafka Bus b. The Event Message will have been through zEV's "Build ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support for CDC_TPFDF to RTMC

Real-time runtime metrics collection supports multiple CDC data types but currently does not support CDC_TPFDF. Requesting CDC_TPFDF be added to the CDC data types supported by RTMC, i.e. DBOPN, DBADD, DBRED, DBDEL + 3 additional user metrics, by ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered