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 Product Family

Showing 448

TLS Certificate Expiration Monitor

The TLS Certificate monitor allows a customer to be notified when a certificate is nearing expiration or has already expired. One possible implementation of this is whenever the z/TPF SSL code reads in a cert from file, it will issue a warning mes...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Location of Common deployment file

Currently today there is not a there is not a good way to find out were a common deployment file is located , for a given file, whether and where it exists in loadsets (like ZDPAT C-C for programs). Having such a function would benefit the custome...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enhanced JAM recycle after activation number change

Currently any activation number change requires to recycle the JAMs. Without JAM recycle loadset cannot be accepted and deleted. In case of multiple loadset load (even these which are not related to JAM's work) it is required to either multiple re...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Performance issue with HTTP_Client_Sync_Send() api

Performance tests for a new application using the HTTP_Client_Sync_Send function shows that 42% of the CPU cycles are consumed by the SSL_load_error_strings function in CSSL.This overhead is unecessary because our application is not using the SSL ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support generating a compiler warning if iostream is included in a build

With GCC 7, including iostream results in a global object being instantiated regardless of whether it is actually used. This drives substantial (approx 5% measured) overhead at runtime. GCC 4.6 included a specific mod to defer instantiation until ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add mask possibility other than '*' to the connection details of the TPF debugger. Example of mask: 172.*.*.*

Since Covid many off use started working from home including the use of the TPF debugger. However, at home you have more than 1 IP address and we know you can supply the IP address in the advanced option of the debug session.But every day we log o...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

z/TPF Reduced Cost Testing

Marriott, DL, TVPT, 2. Headline: Reduced Cost Testing 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Marriott, and Delta desire Reduced Cost Testing such that t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

RTMC - Grafana links for orgID != 1

The RTMC starter kit dashboards provide internal links that reference orgID=1. This appears to be the default Grafana organization. When multiple organizations are defined in Grafana this may lead to 404 errors when navigating through dashboards. ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide meaningful ways of verifying right data files loaded to online

We load data files to the system thru E-type load or Image load (TLD). However there is no way to know that we loaded right ones to the system. We do have multiple revisions of the same file at CVS (source library). When Applications submit an onl...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Requesting Toolkit 4.6 Search Capabilities (similar to 4.2)

This is a request for supporting SEARCH capabilities in Toolkit 4.6 in a similar fashion to RSE in Toolkit 4.2.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 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.