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

Runtime

Showing 983

Trace point AP 04BA for CILOCK=NO

With SIT parameter CILOCK=NO, create trace point AP 04BA illustrating the task number, transid, and FCT of the conflicting task holding an ENQUEUE on record-id after a READ for UPDATE. This ENQUEUE may cause waiting task to be force purged with an...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Be able to read/write spanned VSAM records larger than 32K.

Customer would like to be able to read/write spanned VSAM records larger than 32K in CICS/TS. The maximum record length that CICS is capable of processing is approximately 32K. One of the interfaces imposing this limitation is the LENGTH keyword f...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS SOS Condition Handling

Improving SOS condition handling: + Consider raising 'max task'-like condition to inhibit starting of newtransactions, allow actives to finish and free storage before starting newtasks + Secondary entry to SOS within short interval, consider expan...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CEDB Logging

The CICS CEDB transaction does not log activity or changes to CICS transaction definitions. - The CEDB transaction can change the security characteristics for transactions. - The analogy to the CEDB transaction is RDEFining and RALTering profiles ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add FTP functionality to the CICS environment.

Allow CICS to function as an FTP client and/or server using APIs for the various languages.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide INQUIRE support for XPI enqueues

Add support for XPI enqueues to the API EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ command or create an XPI INQUIRE equivalent.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM parameter.User specifies DYNAMIC(YES) ROUTABLE(YES) and REMOTESYSTEM parameters on the CICS transaction definition but th...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

End CWS Transaction if Socket is RESET

Our customer has a three Tier application with a client, borker and CICS linked together with TCP/IP using CWS on the CICS side. The broker has a 30 second time-out where it will terminate the connection sending a "TCP/IP Reset" back to CICS. Base...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Have EXEC CICS INQUIRE return all the values that can be specified on EXEC CICS CREATE

You can issue an EXEC CICS CREATE TRANSACTION and specify forexample TPURGE(NO), or EXEC CICS CREATE FILE and specify NSRGROUP(xxxxxxxx). However when you issue and EXEC CICS INQ TRANSACTION or EXEC CICS INQ FILE it will not show TPURGE or NSRGROU...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CETR showing the status of special tracing

Once CETR is used to activate special tracing for a terminal or transaction, there is no external way to see if special tracing is still enabled.Excessive CPU usage was found to be the result of activating special tracing for one or more transacti...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration