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 4791

indexed by ... in autocomplete

I'm using RDz 7.6.1 / lpex-ispf. When a table is defined with an indexed by statement. The index isn't avaiable in the autocompletion. referring to RDz forums http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=346550&tstart=0
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Display z/OS Connection info in Web Services for CICS wizards

Introduce some visual connection info such as a very simple hover help ("a bubble") that contains connection information when mouse hovers over the "Interface file container" field? So for example, it would display For z/OS Unix files: sample.amer...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

RSE daemon loops

RDz RSE daemon was found using high CPU, suspected to be looping. This is discussed in PMR 70070,057,649.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Canceling syntax check or local build during the process

Pressing the Cancel button on the Progress Information window has no affect after a local or remote syntax check or during a local build. When performing a local syntax check of a COBOL program with many copybooks which contains an error RDz may t...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Enhance Content Assist

Enable RD/z Content Assist to search C libraries on the mainframe (when in the C/C++ editor) for C code even if a specific include is not in the code. For example, when using the XL compiler under z/OS, I do NOT have to put an include in for "stdi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Showing the stepname in JES monitor

Customer wants to be able to see the stepname of an executing job when using the JES monitor
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Change behaviour for naming the IMS SGW converters

RDz 8.0 Beta 3c has the following (undesired) behaviour for naming a generated converter: If in ServiceSpecification.xml the DriverSpec/@fileNamePrefix has the value OX0810 the following names will be used to generate the converter files:OX0810D.p...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RSE MVS Files Sortable on Name only

In the RSE View under the MVS Files Tree structure, the sort is first PDSs alphabetically, and then Seq Files alphabetically. There should be an option where both PDSs and Seq Files are all alphabetically sorted together
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Rdz: Refactor for PL1

In rdz when coding cobol you have the "refactor" menu option when right clicking the source in the editor (lpex). In PL1 the option (or rather the menu items) has been disabled. We need the "rename" part of refactor available for PL1 programmers a...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Need "dump" memory display in RD/z

A previous RFE was submitted for this functionality and rejected with NO THOUGHT really give to what this customer was requesting. The request was for a "dump" format memory display (this would be as ONE VIEW and not two separate renderings as the...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 14 Delivered