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

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

Showing 770

Message when shared data table is full

Currently, when an EXEC CICS WRITE is issued to a Shared Data Table a NOSPACE condition is raised if the dataspace DFHDT001 is full. A DFHDTxxxx message is requested instead.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Trandef shutdown=enabled/disabled (GSE Requirement DBCICD99021)

DESCRIPT : If a transaction is defined shutdown disabled and is running WITHOUT a terminal, nevertheless the transaction is starting up in the PLTSD-processing. IBM said, that CICS is working as designed. But this is a failure! Tehe problem is doc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow CEMT, CECI & EXEC CICS INQUIRE display residency status of programs

Currently the only way to see a program's attribute of resident|reusable is to look in a dump. This is cumbersome in a production region because it requires a dump to be taken. CEDA view does not necessarily show the residency status of a program ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DFHRMUTL enhancement to check for WMKP indicator at STARTUP

The information in the global catalog whether CICS was previously ended right should be considered by DFHRMUTL. So that if, like in the manual written, a COLDSTART is possible at that time, should only be made when we have a WARM KEYPOINT indicato...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow a Specific Library name to be specified on a PPT definition (SHARE requirement SSCICS08024)

Allow a Specific Library DD Name to be optionally specified on a CICS Program or Mapset Definition in CEDA, or via auto install. TimeLimit: Until this is provided we can't for see using the new Library feature, due to its excessive I/O and CPU ove...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Receiving big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS in smaller chunks

Customer thinks that would be a great idea to be able to receive big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS; now the customer has the EDSA limit where they have to allocate the storage required to save the whole HTTP request (if the file being s...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS does not cancel the terminal message when online transaction abended with ADCS in CICS and back out was completed in IMS

This problem was caused by the side-effect of APAR PQ48343, which was developed for solve the problem of transaction routing and running local were working differently. PQ48343 fixed that problem but in so doing made deferred sends get sent to the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Having SYSTEM DUMP CODE and TRANSACTION DUMP CODE managed as RDO object for CICS

Currently to manage entries in the system dump table of CICS Transaction Server we only have to use CEMT command to define/modify entries It would be interesting to have an RDO object to define an entry in the system dump table It would allow auto...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Problem with CICS Server: HTTP TRACE method

CICS CWS Server answers all request HTTP TRACE method, so it could trigger attacks type "cross-site-scripting".
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide a CPU threshhold cancelation feature

Currently there is no mechanism in CICS to cancel/abend a task in a yielding loop from consuming CPU. CICS only has protection against non-yielding loops by specifying the RUNAWAY parm on the transaction definition.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered