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 8504

Command to refresh preloaded programs in all regions from one IMSPLEX

Although IMS v15 may include a similar new feature: An IMS system programmer using a command can refresh a program that is scheduled in an IFP region or preloaded in DFSMPLxx member without having to restart the region. We need a global command, t...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy. If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash. The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it pe...
3 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

DBRC Extracts

Useful for querying recovery related information
3 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

change default redirect to logoff.aspx

add the capability to change the default redirection to logoff.aspx from logoffprompt.htm. Examples: sending a postmessage to host from an iframe or redirection to another page.
3 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Tertiary SDF Focal Point option

Addition of Tertiary SDF focal point option under customization dialog NTW > SDF FOCAL POINT as well as under run time environment with new cglobal for example AOFTFP, as well as update of all impacted rexxes to support 3rd focal point, with or...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Delay processing of missed messages when NetView address space is recycled

We use the MVSPARM.Msg.Automation.MaxAge = 600 function, so NV will catch up on messages following a recycle of the address space. However, we recently missed automating a message following a recycle as it was coded in SA’s INGMSG02 table and this...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

IDz V16.0.1 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator

IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator : IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator - ex use of letters is not available (Ctrl+Shift+Z). This can be included.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 4 Future consideration

CICS T/S Named Counter services - externalize the actual name of the Named Counter within statistics

CICS provides detailed Named Counter Pool statistics but it should also externalize the actual names of the Named Counters using the pool along with detailed usage for each counter. I'm told by IBM that CFRTRFLD in DFHNCCF has the Named Counter na...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration