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

All ideas

Showing 4755

Provide tooling to migrate zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts from one enviroment to another

Add support for packaging, deploying and/or replicating zConnect and IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts for IMS REST service configuration/implementation to different environments such as DEV,System Integration, Prod Acceptance, Prod and DR...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Delivered

Option to turn off z/OS DBA (dynamic buffer allocation).

Allow disabling of the z/OS DBA (dynamic buffer allocation) function introduced in z/OS 2.2. We would like to have a SIT option which would turn this function off, or place it in "advisor" mode, rather than actually changing the buffer sizes.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow the use of PATH pointing on DFHTEMP and DFHINTRA

Hello, it would be nice to be able to use PATH instead of the VSAM cluster in the allocation of DFHTEMP and DFHINTRA. It is not permitted now and it return the following messages :DFHTS1342DFHTD1261 As a reminder, it is allowed for other files (DF...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile as an available server target runtime.

WebSphere 8.5 introduced the lightweight "Liberty" profile for use by developers. RBD 8.5 supports WAS 8.5, but the Liberty profile is not available as a deployment target in RBD.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Update of AD audit for new services

AD audit needs to be improved with information from new services and better metrics report.As well as better search criteria

PREPEND ('add before') option in the PUT CONTAINER command

Note : PREPEND = ' add (something) to the beginning of something else.' Opportunity : Currently CICS TS supports PUT CONTAINER with the APPEND option. This is extremely useful when concatenating data structures into a single Container - and is als...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Date-Time service interface mapping.

Opportunity : Currently z/OS Connect provides support for mapping for Date and Boolean elements. However; it does not provide support for Date-Time (as defined by OAS standards). The 'idea' is for Date-Time to be introduced an additional mapped el...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Add CA Reclaim dataset attribute to DADB

Since the introduction of CA Reclaim a new data set attribute in the SMS Info category has been available displaying CA Reclaim status. The DADB collection in OMEGAMON does not capture this value. In addition this attribute flag should be availabl...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

CICS IA should support FILE control remote access information

RFE 17778 addresses the lack of remote file information in file control GLUEs.Customer needs this information in order to rationalize her CICS architecture. This implies to get the relationship between programs, files and the CICS regions owning t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Screen Help (Resource Attribute) information for all screens

Screen Help (Resource Attribute) information is not built for all the screens, as it is in the WUI
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Delivered