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

General TM

Showing 86

Allow IMS to regenerate the message DFS996I without needing to restart it.

IMS WTOR message DFS996I *IMS READY* is normally outstandingto provide operator communication with the IMS region. The customer deleted by mistake the IMS message DFS996I so it had to restart the IMS in order to recover the control (please see als...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Option to turn off checkpointing for GSAM files

Currently, IMS sets the DS1CPOIT flag in the Format-1 DSCB for all GSAM files used by an IMS program, such as a BMP. This flag is left on regardless of whether the program terminates normally or not, leading to many thousands of checkpoint files l...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Translate Authorization ID in IMS MPP

Translate Authorization ID into another before calling Stored Procedure in DB2
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Expiration Time (new features)

We have started using Expiration Time in our environment. But as it is known Expiration Time only runs for primary transactions. This means half of our overall daily transactions. Also for our subsidiaries we have a separate Plex where almost 100%...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Need a UTC time added to IMS log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612'

We need a UTC time added to log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612' in order to avoid problems with OMEGAMON IMS RTA computing response times during the time change (Spring-forward and Fall-back).
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

IMS Recovery status when reading OLDS datasets

While IMS is in recovery/backout processing - we would like a message to be displayed when it is reading the IMS OLDS similiar to when it is reading the IMS SLDS to provide us confidence the recovery is moving along.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

IMS TMRA Support to pass application name in IRM_APPL_NM field

Have the ability to pass the application ID in the IRM header so IMS Connect can validate the user's passticket using this field instead of the APPL parm in HWSCFGxx proclib member.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Angela LabateSubmitters Company: RBC Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^THo...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Informatio...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.