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

All ideas

Showing 8286

GDPS PREVENTS USE OF XCF FUNCTION

Bradesco bank uses GDPS for all Sysplex related maintenance as recommended in the GDPS manuals. However, when there is a need for updates in the CFRM policy customer would like to make use of the DISPLAY XCF,REALLOCATE,TEST command to check for po...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Extend GDPS BCPii functionality to alter LPAR Image (ICNTL) values such as Weight and Cap values

We would like to be able to alter LPAR Image and Cap values using GDPS.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

Health Check about IC Definitions

We simulated a Site1-Outage in the Production but loose all Images sysplexwide (except the Master KSYS). IBM told us in the Case that we use not the newest Inital Clists (IC) for the Operators. It would be very helpful if a GDPS Health Check can c...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Support RMTCMD IP for the Blog, CANZLOG and labelled commands

We are trying to run our Netview RMTCMD setup with SNA being turned off and using only RMTCMD IP mode. The BLOG command is coded to use only RMTCMD SNA using the keyword LU= and not the DOMAIN= and IP= keyword that can allow the RMTCMD over IP. Th...
2 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Enhanced DBB User Build results view

Today, DBB User build is prompting the developer after the execution with a dialog to list the programs build log and the build report.When the developer closes the dialog, the information need to be retrieved from work directory on USS, which tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Dynamic SGC volume expansion from GDPS

It would be great if GDPS could initiate and validate the completion of a Dynamic SGC volume expansion instead of client should do it manually from DS8K GUI/CLI.It would give great value if we can do our work from GDPS directly instead of having a...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 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.