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` ...
Share feedback 0

All ideas

Showing 8517

Change EQQN180W to EQQN180E and terminate NMM immediately

As documented in 65928,L6Q,000 and follow up internal PMR 77462,999,000 there is an easily recreatable way to compromise the integrity of the current plan by overwriting JT files which have not been archived. This needs to be prevented.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Issue informational message when QBUFMAX parameter was reached

Customer faced two hung situations where QBUFMAX parameter was reached. They would like to receive a message when this parameter was reached and also if, during initialization the QBUFMAX value is the same as QBUF specification
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 5 Not under consideration

Make it clear what resources are in-scope of a user issues a stop request name/SYG/name

User inadvertently issued a stop against the system resource name/SYG/name APG. This obviously resulted in Automation shutting the system down, but this was not what the user intended!
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Support for ESP scheduler

Support for ESP scheduler
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DEF for VSAM with AIX in FileManager brings only Cluster, no AIX or PATH

Re-Engineering an VSAM-Cluster with AIX and PATH with FileManager-Command DEF brings only "Define Cluster"-Statement. AIX and PATH have to be generated separately. But VSAM with AIX is like a Bundle, in nearly all cases you need all parts of it.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Customer BNYM - AD check report functionality should support "Retrieve Operational Info" of CICS configuration

Currently the AD build client Project check function does not use information retrieved via "retrieve operational info" of the CICS configuration.- This information is used for analysis purpose only. The AD project check function in the build clie...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add EXEC CICS JOURNAL as Event Application Capture Point

Add EXEC CICS JOURNAL as an Event Application Capture Point with the journal data available for capture.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

License check during zD&T Deploy

Enhance the Deploy capability so licensing is verified and reported if failures.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Sub-Program Calls not correctly resolved

Call graph resolution does not work completely when a constant variable defined in working storage is used for a call. Calls are shown as "Unknown Program" in that case.Good is that the calls are listed. But the deeper level information of those "...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries IPIC heartbeat function

The CICS IPIC heartbeat function discovers and reports connectivity problems with idle connections by sending a heartbeat message over a connection during periods when no other messages are being transmitted.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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.