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

IBM Developer for z/OS

Showing 1159

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing

Artificial intelligence application for DevOps entire software development evaluation ,software testing etc provide patent right and royalty reward (provide 50% of profit only in my name) only in my name and donot include any external elements in ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability.

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability. It will improve developer to read screen properly.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

LPEX editor should hilight debug lines depending on setting

Similar to the COBOL editor, LPEX should highlight debug lines (lines with 'D' in column 7) depending on the existence of the 'With Debugging Mode' phrase of Source Computer command.COBOL editor highlights these as active code or as comment lines,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top .And to the favorit "bar"
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Preprocessor should always run for included COBOL copybooks

In our property groups we have self-written COBOL preprocessors defined. If there are preprocessor statements in included copybooks they will not get resolved and therefore editor shows errors in the code. This is not the expected behaviour. If on...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Call Perform Hierarchy from Program Control Flow

You show a Cobol programm in the Programm Control Flow View. Please add an entry to the contextmenu to link this view to the Perform Hierarchy View. Something like "show this section in the Perform Hierarchy". The two views show different but cloe...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

CARMA support for Endevor long names

Our development team doesn't have any more access to ISPF, they develope their work using IDz. Recently we implemented zCEE (z/OS Connect) and we developed the promotion mechanism using Endevor (our SCM). The problem is that IDz CARMA don't suppor...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration