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

Application Discovery

Showing 65

PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Add functional group column in "Project explorer" view

Have a new column to group multiple projects in "Project explorer" view.Be able to set up the group to put a list of projectsFunctionality for administrators only (AD Configuration Servers Admin for example).Please see file attachement.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CPSM to CSD conversion

Currently there is no utility available in ADDI to convert CPSM resources to CSD. We are looking for a function to be available in ADDI tool itself for the conversion.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Have a Cobol program Outline available while viewing source

Purpose: to enhance the ability of viewing and navigating Cobol code by the use of an outline of the program structure. Clicking on the different divisions, sections or paragraphs will take you to that point. This makes the engineer's job easier a...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Instream temporary file names in Callgraph are unclear

To track this future enhancement, L3 support has asked for an RFE to be raised asking for improvement to the display of temporary datasets so it does not show strange names such as EZ_SYSIN_2613 for temporary datasets.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Evolution of occurs numbers in program IMS DB import

The same like in the PMR.We have an issue with the occurs numbers in program IMS DB report. This is a consequences of the counting of every programs.After discussion with AD Architect, we have a solution by adding two columns : inner occurs (just ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Shared Resources Report - add more details

On the Shared Resources Reports - include more information and group together. For example: on the JCL Physical Dataset shared resources report - include information on the report or allow for a detailed report to show all the JCL & datasets e...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Remove browser requirement for servers' install/upgrade

We are not able to upgrade to ADDI 6.1.1 as it requires an Internet browser, which are not allowed on servers as it creates an unacceptable risk to our organization.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration