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

GDPS

Showing 55

LCP (screen VPCPLCS3) : provide a script to export backup details and allow them to be written to a GDG.

When managing the safeguarded capacity multipliers for volumes in LCP, it would be very helpful to be able to see how exceptional volumes have behaved over the last week or so. Currently the 'EXPORT' command in panel VPCPLCS3, " Logical Corruption...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy. If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash. The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it pe...
4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

GDPS Reconfiguration Wizard : introduce ability to pause and restart the initial Global Copy

When using the proposed GDPS Reconfiguration Wizard to migrate to a new DS8000, once the new device is defined and we enter the "New DSS Configuration & Mirroring" process, a Global Copy is initiated between the current production box and the ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
7 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Capacity figure for LCP captures

Would be good to have a capacity used figure for each LCP capture in the GDPS LCP panel. Would help with capacity planning and also give an idea of the amount of time required for a restore. Could either be capacity per capture or a running total ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

GDPS/Metro ability to IPL on Subchannel sets 2 & 3

We have our GDPS/LCP recovery volumes in Subchannel sets 2 & 3 but GDPS/Metro cannot IPL systems onto those subchannel sets. We would like to see GDPS/Metro add the capability to IPL on all available z/Series subchannel sets.
about 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

GDPS CA UI filter for the workload components

When Displaying the workload components in the UI for the workload , Ability to filter only the lines with status active,
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

Hyperswap in DR Campus for a 4 Sites Solution

We are moving to a 4 Sites solution using MGM and we would like that this solution add the possibility to perform Hyperswap in the DR Campus.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Avoid GDPS Healthcheck SPOF for single rack DASD subsystems

In TS003711052 we encountered an issue where GDPS/PPRC Healthcheck claimed to detect a single point of failure - "all paths share a SPOF on control unit interfaces". This is not a real issue because the DASD is a single rack subsystem and we expec...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Future 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.