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

Debug for z/OS

Showing 138

Provide an additional filter for TIM or DTSP (and EQAD3CXT) for IMS to select data in the input message

Customers need a way to select specific instances of transactions based on a specific content of the IMS message.
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow Compare of two CodeCoverage Runs

With Debug Tool Code Coverage you can generate a readable report and a xml file which contains all the statements and the information, which statements were used in a session.Sometimes it is interesting, which differences exists in comparison to a...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide own userid per default on creating a new CICS debugger profile

Hello IBM, when you create a new CICS Debugger Profile in IDz / Remote Debugger, the userid field as one of multiple possible filters should be prefilled with the current connected userid per default. That's pretty important to prevent users fro...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

EQAOPTS option EQAXOPT DLAYDBGTRC and Tracelevel in EQAD3CXT should have an option to suppress evaluating trace entries

The customers (i.e.) Fiducia are using trace level2 either in EQAD3CXT or EQAOPTS, because if the Debug Tool does not start up, they can see exactly what the user did wrong, but the system Log and Job log are flooded with other evaluating messages...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Debugging in IMS with Debug Tool

1) It is common to have IMS transactions switching to others, so, we should have how to specify different transaction codes (I suggest 15), to better filtering. Filtering by CU names must be maintained, as long as the multiple tx. id filter. 2) Sp...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Need to override class for a private region (IDz for IMS application with isolation)

Hi,We are working on an ADFz POC.When we want to set up a debug session for an IMS 3270 transaction in IDz debugger (IDz for IMS Application with isolation), we have a problem. The region that starts on mainframe is always started in the same clas...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enterprise PL/I's LISTVIEW(SOURCE) Compile Option Support for taking code coverage in IDz

・Request for user interface improvement when conducting interactive debug using IBM Developer for z/OS Client In case of LISTVIEW(AFTERALL), debugging is done against source which include the output source text by PL/I preprocessorBecause our cust...
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

IMS generic id mapping is not working for save/set data naming parttern

If generic userid's are used, then userid mapping does not work for setsave and setbps datasets
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

EQA9924U should be replaced with an ICH408I message

There is no new feature.This is not an enhancement. Debug Tool development needs to tell RACF to issue an ICH408I message.
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Support for Jobname and Stepname in DTSP and other ISPF panels

The customers need more Debug Tool selection criteria for DTSP and for other ISPF Panels like TIM. The JobName and the Stepname are needed for delayed debugging
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered