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

Pinned ideas

PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

All ideas

Showing 8523

DASD unit with no mounted file should be not bve seen as ready in OS

ZD&T allows to define DASD Units that have no associated file in the host filesystem behind. This is necessary since the device map does not allow for dynamic changes. All devices (UCBs) must be defined Right from the beginning otherwise they ...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Not able to export a copy template from template editor

From the template editor, there is no possibilityto export the copybook as it is possible using choice 7.2 on ISPF.
almost 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

INGTWS : Logging and use of Exit AOFEXC21 for Displays needed

We use INGTWS to do requests against our IWS-Controller in production environments. In normal cases the interface works fine, but we are unable to analyse failure situations which occured with REQUEST=DISPLAY in the follow up. With REQUEST=MODIFY ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the TPIPES

Each TPIPE control block for an IMS OTMA consumes stores of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. It has associated other control blocks also allocated at Extended Private Storage.Using 64-bit storage could be a very good enhancement.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Lock sharing of database tables between TXSeries and WAS

We are looking for a feature where Java EJB program and COBOL need to the update the same DB2 table without bothering about locks, even if they are against the fundamentals of XA protocol.
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

Circular hops between Java and COBOL transactions

we have CICS applications that make circular hops between Cobol program and Java EJB application and they perform update on RDMBS database that are belong on same LUW ,need to work in two-phase commit . Opened same RFE on CICS TG CTG-I-134
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in EXITC processing

As requested by IBM, opening an RFE for what was previously in a PMR.PMR: 68273 004 000 Problem Details . Product or Service: Z/TPF 1.1.0 Component ID: 5748T1501 . Operating System: TPF . Problem title STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in E...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration