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

Clear

Ideas

Showing 149 of 9160

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

field containing CVTSNAME in log record x'56FA'

we need a new field in record x'56FA'.this field should contain value CVTSNAME (euqal to field ST4500_OSNAME in record x'4500')
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IMS display commands

When a dependent region cannot schedule a PSB due to a pool space failure, the IMS display commands ( such as /DIS A ) should identify which pool caused the schedule failure.This has already been done for EPCB pool but it would be useful for all t...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Fault Analayzer should be able to provide abended file and records involved in the abend

When I open a fault analyzer report for abended job I want to get the file name and all the bad records information which causes the abend.
over 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Lock Manager incompatibility between PI and IRLM

We are implementing IMSPLEX configuration for a customer (see diagram attached). Currently we have IMSP instance running on MVS2 LPAR and we are going to add IMSO (IMSP clone) into another new LPAR, using Shared Databases and Shared Queue. See det...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Have IDIS leave a re-usable ASID after it's stopped.

Fault Analyzer's IDS STC leaves its ASID un-reusable. Modify IDIS to allow its address space to be reused.
almost 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration