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 8620

threshold on taskcnt for profiling report

I'm using profiling report. But analyzing performance on a small value of taskcnt is not significantI would like to set a "threshold" for a taskcnt value to exclude small activity from analyzis
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

snapc and wtopc baseless

Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind. Here's an example of an application error.00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC00001364 AF02 0000 ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

CICS CM report of defined configs

Provide a CICS CM batch report of all defined configs and associated CSDs.
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty

System : CICS Liberty - Registry Actor : User who has the dist LDAP ID by ID Propagation and SAF ID in z/OS In the CICS Liberty, the ID Propagation can be configured to support mapping the distributed LDAP registry ID and SAF ID. In this case, the...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Memory usage of programs in a task.

We use CICSPA for analyze CICS tasks performance. We want to see memory usage of programs in a tasks. CICSPA provide this information only in task detail.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve "Delay Debug Mode"

To debug subtasks within an STC, we use the "delay debug mode". We found that it is very inflexible due to the way it was implemented:- a special EQAOPTS module has to be created- this module must be placed in a dataset which then has to be concat...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RoCE without IP on AIX 7.2

We like support for “RoCE without IP” with Aix 7.2
over 5 years ago in IBM Communications Server for Data Center Deployment / Other 1 Not under consideration

AD Build Client settings allows customizations about windows

In AD 5.1.03, during the project build process, the Settings on AD Build Client , it would help if the selection window size(On Settings) is customizable (to be able to view entire path/folder name).
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Improve AD download process

One thing probably to note is that once one type of source is downloaded into AD, the saving/processing of that happens only if the user initiates some other activity on the Build Client. This adds to the wait time between downloads.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration