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 6116

NATURAL source code needs to be split up by build configurator/build client into "mode" subdirectories

State of Colorado has large NATURAL application that needs Application Discovery analysis. NATURAL source code can be parsed in two different modes depending on which mode "structured" or "reporting" it was developed. This mode information is avai...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Improvement to NUMCHECK to report Ahead of Invaild data being passed

We are currently moving all the modules from V3and v4 to v6. During that process we came accross one issue reported by teh application support people that when we move alphanumeric number to number variable , it converts last alphabet to signed nu...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Destroy hanging UOWs

It should be possible to destroy an UOW by CEMT S UOW(...) PURGE to avoid an CICS initial start.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Moving LSAVs into OTMA ITASK block itself for removing any storage management overhead

Add the 20 save areas into the main OTMA ITASK block DSECT, for example DFSYQAB. Get the one block, chain its save areas together, and then pass SA1 to DFSCIR. This will get rid of LSAVs and the DFSBCB GET for save areas all together.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Set HTTP 504 for timeouts

For asynchtimeout the HTTP code should be 504 NOT 503.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Can set SYNCONRETURN(NO/YES) in RDO PROGRAM DEFINE.

Can set SYNCONRETURN on a program-by-program basis by using a new REMOTE ATTRIBUTE in RDO PROGRAM DEFINE.The SYNCONRETURN option in EXEC CICS LINK instruction obviously will override the new SYNCONRETURN attribute in RDO PROGRAM DEFINE.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Can set CBLPSHPOP(ON/OFF) in RDO PROGRAM DEFINE.

Can set CBLPSHPOP on a program-by-program basis by using RDO DEFINE PROGRAM.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Resource availability in CPSM with 3270 transactions.

CPSM has the ability to detect if a resource (transaction, file, etc...) as long as the transaction is non-terminal attached. For any terminal attached transaction CPSM does not have the ability to detect if the resource is available or not in the...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add heartbeat messages to show status of IMS database backout processing

Add "heartbeat" messages to show status of IMS database backout processing, especially during IMS emergency restart.
about 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 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.