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

IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

Showing 13

Configuration Manager should allow symbolics in the EMBED dataset RTE parameter

When adding the RTE_X_OVERRIDE_EMBEDS_LIB parameter in the RTEDEF RTE configuration, it is not possible to include symbolics in the dataset name. Symbolics are allowed when using the RTE_X_SECURITY_EXIT_LIB parameter! Please also allow the use of ...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Configuration Manager needs to support the KD2_OMPE_DSHL parameter for remote configurations

If using the CFM GENERATE action with the KFJ_LOCAL_PLIB_HILEV parameter added in the KCIVARS DD. The GENERATE fails when the RTE configuration has defined the KD2_OMPE_DSHLQ and KD2_OMPE_VSAM_DSHLQ parameters. The KFJ00213E failure messages repor...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Delivered

Configuration Manager - provide a variable for the Linkage Editor module or hard code exec PGM=HEWLH096

By default, when running Configuration Manager, it calls the IEWL Linkage Editor module. We would like an enhancement to Configuration Manager where a variable is provided for the Linkage Editor module so that you can set it to something else such...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

Allowing migration from PARMGEN to Configuration Manager to reuse same HLQ as the ones from PARMGEN

Currently when performing MIGRATE from an existing PARMGEN environment does not let one to reuse the same HLQs for an existing RTE. This is painful since the RTE datasets and libraries are referenced in several different locations (Jobs and STCs)....
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Delivered

IBM Z configuration manager program KFJOMEGA

REXX program KFJOMEGA for Omegamon Configuration manager supports dataset length up to 20 characters for combination of RTE_PLIB_HILEV _ RTE_NAME. In the previous tools (CICAT and PARMGEN) we defined this name up to 25 characters with no error. T...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Write error messages and failed utility messages to (additionally and seperate) KCIPRINT file in the job-output

We are using the “Config-Manager” method to configure the IBM Z OMEGAMON environment. In our environment the GENERATE-process generates more than 90 files and 600.000 lines of output. During the GENERATE-Process most time we have to terminate the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Delivered

Monitoring Configuration Manager - Change Generate so that the USS write is not mandatory

Z Monitor Configuration Manager Generate batch job does a mandatory USS write. USS write should not be mandatory for Configuration Manager Generate. Configuration Manager should have another option for the USS write, or provide the USS information...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

TACMD on TEP

When MFA fix applied TACMD receives security error on TEP window server REFER to original CASE: TS004167238
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

TS003667440 - RE: KOBHUBS : All Known Hubs in TOM E3270UI

TS003667440 - RE: KOBHUBS : All Known Hubs in TOM E3270UI
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

PARMGEN support for Omeg/DB2 NTHDB2I=WAIT in RKD2PAR(OMPEOPTS)

IBM introduced parameter for Omegamon/DB2:NTHDB2I=WAIT in RKD2PAR(OMPEOPTS) . The parameter currently needs to be added manually, each time PARMGEN is used for configuration.
about 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Delivered