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 1348

RDz compare program in different CARMA environment

When compare 2 programs in 2 different CARMA Endevor environment, it not show the environment name in the comparison windows. So it is very inconvenience to user to know which one (right or left) is actually in which enviornment. Also missing is s...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Shortcut to toggle the vertial line in the editor

We are using the PL/I editor and our developers who test IDz 14.0.0.5 like the possibility to have a vertical line for alignment of code - this is a big help. But they do complain about a missing shortcut to turn it on/off.It is too time consuming...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Find Unreachable Variables using RDz

Enhance RDz to find dead or unreachable variables in a COBOL or PL/I file. Usually when I get asked this question, I reply with the ?identify unreachable code' option available in COBOL and hopefully soon in PL/I, but that doesn't get very far. Wh...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

IDz client 15.0.1 has error getting dbg profiles from EQAPROF server

There is a defect in the IDz 15.0.1.0 client, when accessing the debug profile service. Specifically, I get the following error in my 15.0.1.0 client .log file (in the metadata directory of my workspace):!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during:...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDz Content Assist for SQL EXEC statements does not provide correct information.

The RDz Content Assit for DB2 is working fine for an EXEC SQL SELECT and in some cases( like EXEC SQL DECLARE or EXEC SQL INSERT) the Content Assist for DB2 does not work properly.. The RDz Content Assist for DB2 should not be reserved to simple S...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Automation to export WebServices Project and import into a new workspace

Users would like to be able to copy WebServices Project from one workspace to another including the configuration without having to manually regenerate the project.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

RDz remote preprocessor - cannot view declaration for variables within the mouse over code for generated statements.

Would be nice to be able to look at (mouse over) the declarations for variables within the mouse over area of the flagged preprocessor statements. ie. as we can for variables within the input source itself. We can already see declarations for copy...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz Remote Preprocessor not flagging some lines generated by Netron CAP Processor

We have configured the RDz remote preprocessor to execute a Netron COBOL preprocessor on the host...via REXX. The process seems to work OK for most Netron source but for some cases, many of the lines are incorrectly identified as preprocessor stat...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support refresh in SQL Outline view in RDz v9

in RDZ v9 integrated with Datastudio 4.1, it allows users to extract SQL from a cobol program into SQL outline view, and then run it separately. However, it don't have a way to refresh the view, that means when we remove the Cobol program from pro...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 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.