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

PL/I Compilers

Showing 118 of 8231

PL/1 web connectivity and web service support

Currently, no web connectivity can be set up from PL/1. As a consequence, we cannot call web services from PL/1 batch programs on z/OS.We prefer to have some builtins to set up web connectivity and to call web interfaces described with WSDLs, XML ...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Simplify Json builtin routines

1) We tried the json commands in PL/I, but sorry, they are programmer unfriendly. If I want to use them well I have to write a program around them and this is really not what I want. 2) a variable type json would be interesting ... sample json get...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add XDECLARE/XDCL to declare sth. if it has not been previously declared in the current block.

New RFE separated from RFE 99587, which will be used to deliver XDEFINE onlyhttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=99587 Inspired by %XINCLUDE and the support of multiple %DCL of the same named variable in the MA...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Listing typed structure without the elementary member

Provide the support of listing the typed structure without the qualified name of an elementary memberfor DEBUG TOOL in z/OS and with RDz. This is currently returning the value ???? from the monitorview. It is working if running on iDZ with the zPI...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Reduce compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line

Enterprise PL/I V5.2 issues too many compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line. Please see the attached file. It is an example code of issuing same messages for a line performing arithmetic operations of FIXED DEC using structure name...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

JVM bytecode

A compiler that generates JVM byte code would be a great thing I think. If the compiler runs on IBM OS-es only then your customers will keep to develop on your hardware...A PL/I <==> Java direct call facility would be the hit.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enhance FILEDDWORD Built-in Function

Please add support for LRECL and BLKSIZE.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Provide utility which reports missing prerequisites for a specific compiler version in a specific environment

We would like to be able to run a utility from SIBMZCMP library which checks and reports, which prerequisites for the current compiler build are missing in a specific environment.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Additional I or W type message for questionable code

I've recently been asked to look at code that relies on compiler dependent initialisation of FIXED DEC variables. The code works from (at least) OS PL/I (V2.3.0) all the way up to EPLI V4R5M0, the IBM Innovation Center - Dallas system hasn't yet i...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 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.