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 8511

Change externally stopped/started APL status to STUCK/STARTED2 if APL do not STOP/START within expected threshold

Improve IBM SA for z/OS to mark Externally stopped/started resource to PROBLEM status if resource is taking too long to STOP or START. The SR (74898,001,866) was raised to resolve the issue when applications that have EXTERNAL STOP FINAL were left...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Data Flow Visualization

Data Flow Visualization (Graph/Report/Source Code view)
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Automatic functional test in EGL

when we coding using EGL in RBD, there are no a unit test framework like Junit. But the unit test is important and we expect RBD can automatic generate the test code like Junit framework. this topic have been discussed in this community(http://www...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

CKTI starts with specific user under TXSeries

CKTI is using defaul CICSUSER at start on TXSeries. I'd like start CKTI transaction with different user
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

ClearCase support in Application Discovery

AD support many SCM tool: Endevor, Changeman and RTC, however it did not support clearcase, which was used by many GCG banking customers.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

z/OS PT Standalone CPSM Training Environments

We would like the ability to provision standalone CPSM environments (ie: WUI, CMAS, DREP, etc.) for internal CPSM Training
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Future consideration

Capture line counts for non-IPDS printers

Line counts are not being reported in QAUDJRN system journal.
over 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Speed up HoD connections to hosts not in DNS

For some reason, HoD emulation does a reverse lookup even though an IP address has been supplied. If the host is not in DNS, then connectivity is delayed up to 30 seconds before the reverse is bypassed. Have an option to bypass reverse lookup upon...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CPSM's LNMI tran to handle CMAS shutdown without abending

If a CMAS is shut down while it is updating a partner CMAS (CMAS-to-CMAS link), one of the CMASes will output "Transaction LNMI running program EYU9XLOP term XYZ has failed with abend ASP2." CPSM should be enhanced to handle this disconnection gra...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration