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 4794

BANK HAPOALIM LTD

The Customer developed user-written rules to be tested with Code Review and wish to run them all in a Batch process on the zSystem:They used the provided JCL proc AKGCR to run the code review.The job was successful but the elapsed time was long, a...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Debug: Rewind / History of performs before a breakpoint/abend (COBOL)

Hello IBM, we use the IBM Debug plug-in in IDz in connection with the DBGMGR and COBOL. We miss a function, which we currently use in Compuware Xpediter (simply called "monitor" there): If you activate "monitor" or "monitor COBOL", Xpediter stores...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

CSD import (enhance ADDI to work with CICS definitions from multiple groups)

Our CICS definition file (CSD) uses different groups for different CICS resource types. We have one for Transactions in Program Control Table (PCT) and a separate group for defining Programs (PPT). If Transaction and Programs are in different Grou...

Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Sort for entry date in jes spool monitor

We want to have the option to sort the job output in the jes spool monitor in remote system view by entry date, so that the latest jobout is shown at the beginning.With IDz 14.2 the sort order of job output is by jobid, but this is not a usefull s...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered

Control who will be proxy of proxies, in an environment where there are several sysplex (each one with his own proxy)

There is no way to control which Sysplex Proxy TEMS becomes (or can become) the PLEXVIEW proxy. It is done on a first arrive first serve basis. Every Sysplex proxy TEMS checks on a regular basis to see if there is a PLEXVIEW proxy. If there isn't,...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Delivered

Omegamon for Networks OSA7 support

When trying to monitor OSA7 in the OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS product you do not get any data. This request is to provide the monitoring for this feature. The OSA-Express7S 25 Gigabit Ethernet (25GbE) feature was introduced on z14, and with z15...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

CTG 9.3 : Direct extraction of the RACF ID from a JWT instead of going through a distributed ID mapping

he support for JWT authentication in CTG V9.3 assumes that the JWT contains a distributed ID that then needs to be mapped by CICS to a RACF ID using a RACMAP definition. We would like to send a RACF ID in a JWT claim so that the CTG then extracts ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Raise IMS/Connect 50 port limitation

Increase the IMS/Connect port limitation of 50.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Delivered

Enhance Display of Channel/Container Info in CICS Dumps

Currently FA displays Channel info in Level, Commareas, and Channels.This display is inconvenient when inspecting a dump with a lot of levels and with channels which contain a lot (sometimes hundreds) of containers.The display of one container con...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered