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 6117

LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment

LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment (LCP Manager in the GM Kr controlling systems and SafeGuarded Copies in the GM secondary site) we need to coordinate some additional operations when capturing a new SafeGuarded ...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Limit COBOL content assist proposals by user defined type

IDz code assistant proposal includes all declared literals while some of them may not be applicable in the context depending on their type.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Give a user authority to work with definition GDG-s, but not give access to files and data.

We are trying to follow the “trend” and have infrastructure as code and store everything in our SCM system. One of our source types are sources for define, alter or delete of a GDG-entry. So what we store is only the definition of the GDG. The ide...
about 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

TimeBoxing BAQCSTUB in IMS transactions

IMS transactions have high performance with very short process time measured in milliseconds. When they are enhanced to make outbound API calls using BAQCSTUB, they are subjected to latency from the network and the API providers. Currently, parame...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

NEW ELAPSED SEC PACKAGE

Create new field in KPM_DB2_PACKAGE_HIn KPM_DB2_PACKAGE_H there is PKG_ELAPSED_SEC(Total elapsed time for executing the package. From QPACSCT).In this field the value of elapsed time is very high only for DB2 Batch because in the summary the tool ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 needs to utilize the memory in the 64 bit address space for business needs and quicker access to data

Humana proposes the following changes to the COBOL 6 compiler OR, creation of a new COBOL64 compiler with these capabilities.1. Make the Compiler capable of utilizing the 64-bit address space to take advantage of the 32 terabytes of memory on each...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for a FICON connection to production disk for Testcpy manager

Remove the requirement for communications over FICON for GDPS TestCopy Manager
about 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

SafeGuarded Copy Capture capability after a DR recover

SafeGuarded Copy Capture in GDPS is allowed only when the disk mirroring is running, MM duplex or GM forming CG depending on the protocol.We need to be able to continue capturing new SafeGuarded Copy backups also after a DR restart of the applicat...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Unreferences variables reporting capability

'Unreferenced working-storage variables' report would be nice to have maybe under 'Dead Code Reports' section.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery - Handling of special characters in search file function

Function 'search in files' in application discovery doesn't retrive the special characters strings/words from the source base. There were few instance where there is need to perform scan based on the leading/trailing quote(single or double) and/or...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration