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

Monitoring

Showing 268

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON XE password length

US DOD Auditor are requiring all DOD servers to use. passwords greater than 8 characters long, mixed case and all special characters. OMEGAMON XE for z/os and MVS doesn't support pass phrase therefore we cannot meet the US DOD auditors requirements.
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RMF CPC Report Retrieval Reliabilty Improvements

To obtain CPC-level metrics for all LPARs running on a CPC the OMEGAMON PlexView agent KM5PDAG issues a system level query that drives a system level agent (KM5LDAG) on an RTEMS selected from an internally built list of all M5 RTEMSs running on th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon/IMS TEP and e3270UI functions not available

Following on from the following PMRs (and others):17291,101,61617292,101,61617293,101,61638495,999,616we have the following requirements not currently provided: 1. How do we find the Application Support coded in the TEMS from either the TEP or e32...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

CICS PA needs improved messages related to dictionary processing

CICS PA needs provide more robust and detailed informational messages related to why the default dictionary record is chosen.
about 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Workspace with an enterprise overview about the current status for each CPC RMF DDS CPC report

We need a workspace that shows the current RTEMS selected for each CPC's RMF DDS CPC report retrieval. With that overview it would be easier to anaylse communication issues and prevent switching on the PlexView agent tracing to provide a friendly ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

'Yesterday' selection in Cics PA Plugin

Please change meaning of 'Yesterday' from 24 hours prior to the current time to common meaning of yesterday.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF to support ICSF PAUSE function

The ptf UJ04367 will stop or reduce the number of KCG0080W messages under most circumstances, but it will not completely address the ICSF PAUSE scenario. So re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF processing is required in order to completely support the I...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration