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

Host Install

Showing 14

Notify and TSO SEND aus JCLs

The NOTIFY Parameter in the Job Card and a TSO Send Command have no effect when using the RDz. The messages are send to the users TSO session. These messages should be send to the RDz session of the user.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 10 Delivered

Logger of RDz access for Security Auditor

There are several security concern from system Z customer view.The system Z customer who is using TSO/ISPF can enable the monitor function to log who and when access. Which member is deleted by whom.However, RDz access don't go through the TSO ses...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Delivered

Security Policy setting in RDz for disable Copy/Paste function

Security Policy setting for RDz disable Copy/Paste function From system Z customer's (IT manager) view, they don't want the application developer to copy the file to local window system. If RDz allow to setting the security policy to user and enab...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Delivered

Rdz & CPU consumption whith DEBUG_LEVEL=2

The request concerns product improvement in CPU usage when collecting diagnostics data (by debug_level=2).
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

Avalability of use variables for all RDZ USS tasks

Customer wants the product to be enhanced to support any variables parameters for the server tasks RSEDx as it already works for the RSED task. The need is to support the following definitions for any RSE MVS & USS tasks.1) rsed.envvars : RSE_...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

CARMA - expanded folders should indicate environment

When you open folders in CARMA, for example, a copybook folder in TEST environment, the list gets very big. If you open a few folders at the same time (for example you need to work with elements in different environments, it is difficult to say in...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Delivered

Special Load-Lib for IMS SOA instead of usage of the RDz - FEK.SFEKLOAD

Hi all, we have here just a ongoing POC proceeding to test the usage of IMS SOA with the help of RDz 8. In order to use IMS SOA properly the IMS-colleagues were told, that they should add the RDz-library FEK.SFEKLOAD as steplib to the concerned IM...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

'Return first found' option is not part of CARMA

In Endevor there is an option 'Return first found'. If an element exists in all three regions and the option is set up to 'Y', on the next screen you will see an element in Test; if set up to 'N', you will see an element in Test, Acceptance and Pr...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

Allow RDz Host to use something other than /tmp

We do not allow users write access to the /tmp directory under Unix System Services. This policy will not change. We need a way for RDz to accept a another path for the /tmp directory. This can either be 1) honor the TMPDIR environmental variable....
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

For ceiling the storage usage, set limit of total size or reuse of output log of RSED when set debug_level=2

When set debug_level=2 in RSED, it needs huge storages in the case of 500 developers using MVS member concurrently.A log output is necessary for debuging the RSED errors which occurrence time is unkonwn. So setting debeg_level=2 and starting RSED ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered