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 483 of 9166

Authentication for BuildClient/BuildClientConfiguration

Hi Moving BuildClient & BuildClientConfiguration from ADDI server to "normal" windows client is possible but it's not possible then to control access to BuildClient. Wish to add authentication/authorization to BuildClient/BuildClientConfigurat...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Please add JCL include into explore project tab

The JCL includes are loaded into the AD project, it would be good if it can be viewed in the explore project tab under the resource type drop down list. I'm aware the JCL includes can be viewed in search in files, but I had to only select JCL incl...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Addtional information on check report

Check report in AD incorrectly miss some information about IDMS components (schemas, subschemas, records and modules)
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Ability to recognise Jobs submitted by Jobs (where a Job submits another job by passing a JCL member to the Internal Readern

Customer has a common technique in batch execution of having a Jobstep within a job which will submit another job by passing a JCL member to the internal reader. If Job A submits Job B, Application Discovery can analyse both Job A and Job B, but c...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Bundled IBM JRE with AD installer

AD should be delivered with IBM JVM for Windows, so the dependency on Oracle JVM is removed. Oracle JVM with security fixes is not longer a free product.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Folders are not getting cleaned for the old gdb databases in \data\tmp\gdb

We are on v5.0.5.2 and we having a multiple folders for a project in \data\tmp\gdb folder. Seems that when project is being re-built, an older version of gdb database folder is still remaining. Looks like that either something is not quite ok with...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
over 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Duplicate Code Detection

Show programs with duplicate code / logic in addition to dead code.
almost 9 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show more information in graphs (customizable)

Show more information in graphs through color-coding, line thickness, ...- Show program complexity scores in program box (red=complex, green=simple)- Show number of call-statements on connection (bold line = many different calls, light line = only...
almost 9 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for REXX

Provide support for REXX
almost 9 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration