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

Add new warning message to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN

Please add a new warning message like “Variable *variable name* declared as *declaration attribute* is passed as *argument attribute* and could be modified.” to prevent modification of variables with INONLY or NONASGN in the following 3 cases: - I...
about 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

exclude DB2 columns from RULES(NOEVENPACK) messages in COBOL V6

COBOL for z/OS V6 RULES(NOEVENPACK) compiler option generates messages for data that are not prone to errors such as system variables (EIBDATE, SQL CODE...) and DB2 columns. Add a noew sub option to remove control for these items.
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Provide a mechanism to clone a change package. The cloned package will inherit from the donor package, attribute values (e.g. Description, External Reference, etc) and packaged resources and commands, but not history or state information (e.g. Ready state, Approval states). The donor package remains unchanged. The cloned package appears like a new change package that is prepopulated with resources and commands.

Background: Applications development create change packages and promote these to testing levels in the development lifecycle. At some point, production controllers will clone the packages for use in the production transfer process. Cloning ensures...
over 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Empty SubMenu

If a submenu list (KLSOPTSL) of 'TSO,CICS,CUA,SSTRM' is declared and a user does not have the right to access what SSTRM contains, the latter still appears in the menu of this user. How to make it not appear? I would like to have the possibility t...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

INITACCROSS initialisation for arrays of structures

Several releases ago, the language introduced a "DIMACROSS" attribute, to quote the Language Reference: "The DIMACROSS attribute specifies a DIMENSION attribute on a structure, but one which will be removed from the structure and propagated to its...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Delivered

Use locale in log records of HACP Licensemanager

Case TS004323939we are using the Licensemanager and have recognized that alle the log entries are logged in GMT. Is it possible to change the time of the logging entries to local time. Is there any properties file which can be used to change the u...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Delivered

CL/SuperSession user login details

Based on PMR TS002573070We have been ask by security team to deliver more tracking information of logged on users to our systems. A message in syslog like user xx logged on to yy at t t IP XX - userid yy - Supersession APPLID tt -Terminal ip - aaa...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: substring operations

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include substring operations
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enhance File Manager IMS to use same Security for DLI mode as BMP mode uses.

File Manager IMS We are converting from FileAid/IMS to File Manager IMS. With FileAid we relied on its built in security for BMP and DLI mode. We would like File Manager IMS to use the same security setup for DLI mode as BMP mode uses. Without thi...
almost 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Perform UNASSIGN Dialog Needs "Force" Option

In the "CICSPLEX Definitions" table, when I right-click on a CICSPlex and select "Unassign from CMAS...", there is no "Force" option on the resulting dialog box. Can the Force option be added to Explorer? Doc for unassigning: https://www.ibm.com/s...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

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.