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 8523 of 8523

Automatic journal feature for datasets, terminals in TXSeries for Multiplatform

RFE: Please add automatic journal feature for datasets, terminals in TXSeries for Multiplatform. CICS TS for z/OS includes a function or feature to perform automatic journaling (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.3.0/com.ibm.cics...
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

IMS Catalog does not support DBCS/GRAPHIC fields

COBOL and PL/I support DBCS or GRAPHIC fields. These are pure double byte values - no shift in/shift out characters. The IMS catalog does not support this datatype.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support the specification of PL/I BIT fields and BIT arrays

Take, for example, BIT2, BIT3, BIT4 and BIT58 in this PL/I data declaration:DCL 1 RECORD_LAYOUT_01, 3 CHR5 CHAR(5), 3 BIT1 BIT(1), 3 BIT2 BIT(1), 3 BIT3 BIT(1), 3 BIT4 BIT(1), 3 BIT58 BIT(4), 3 CHR74 CHAR(74); The IMS catalog does not support the ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

EXPIRE SPECIFIC HSM BACKUP VERISON

We would like to expire a specific version of a HSM backup. Presently this feature is not available. Please note that I selected Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm because the option for DFSMShsm was not available in the drop down menu.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

DFHSTUP reads from SMF logstreams

We have converted SYS1.MANx to logstreams. It would be nice to have DFHSTUP to read directly from logstreams instead of unloaded SMF data.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Ne plus générer de point à la fin des EXEC / END-EXEC

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NUMERO............: 831147 ( CGI 1107 ) TYPE..............: V DEMANDE D'EVOLUTION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLARER GRAVITE...........: P SEVERITE 2 ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

BSD - Alimentation d'une Structure Etat avec une source "complexe"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NUMERO............: 831146 ( CGI 1106 ) TYPE..............: V DEMANDE D'EVOLUTION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLARER GRAVITE...........: P SEVERITE 2 ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

SPOC Audit Trail feature should take Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx - Resubmit of Declined RFE 35661

It would result useful and also safe to have SPOC Audit Trail feature automatically read Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx instead of requesting user to specify it in Panel CSLUPRA .In addition to ensure a more practical usage ...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

REPOSITION Option on the READ Statement

Add the ability to reposition the current record pointer within a sequential dataset. Go back to the beginning of a dataset without closing it and re-opening it: READ FILE (MYFILE) INTO (MYLAYOUT) REPOSITION(1) Additionally, be able to reposition ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

EMAIL Built-in Function

Sending SMTP email natively from a PL/I program would be handy. CALL EMAIL(FROM,TO,SUBJECT,BODY,BODY_FORMAT,ATTACHMENT(S)); BODY_FORMAT=HTML, RTF, TEXT. Perhaps for the body argument, be flexible and allow quoted text, a variable name or a DD name...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 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.