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 8508

Provide appliance for business

GMCC system can be separated into several independent module, such as client presentation, rule control, business dispatch, billing, account opening and etc. They hope we can provide some equipment to easy setup the whole system quickly. This requ...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

reduce the invocation of dbx when a bad program generates signal

GMCC wanted to reduce the invocation of dbx when a bad program generates signal, because in that scenario, most of the cpu is occupied by dbx processes. - product serviceability requirement
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries thread model support

TXSeries is using process model. GMCC need to define lots of process to support their business. However, there is limitation on process number in one system and lots of process will decrease the system performance. They require to support thread l...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Create one light weight TXSeries with extreme high performance

Our TXSeries advantage is its performance and stability. GMCC suggest that TXSeries should increase these capabilities. These are the unique points comparing with WAS. We can improve these by remove some functions while is used a little and diffic...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support different users to connect to the same database

There are over 3,000,000,000 users using GMCC system. They have to separate their database. Normally each division will have their own database. Some division only cover one city. Others will cover multiple cities. Currently they use different dat...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support add/remove notes in WLM dynamically without restarting

GMCC hopes the CICS cluster(WLM) can support add/remove nodes dynamically without restarting. During the peak time, they want to rent some additional machines and return them back later. This also need to enhance our web admin console. They need t...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

in-memory database support

Currently GMCC has thousands of stand-alone application out of CICS. The main reason is that their system need to support huge TPS and they use in-memory database Oracle TT. TXSeries doesn't support any in-memory database currently.
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

One switch to control whether print common area when transaction is forcepurged

During the development/testing procedure, many “Forcepurge” were recorded in the console file. But Huawei don't know which transaction was Forcepurged, and what is the root cause of it. They required that we provide a switch which can control whet...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

Install multiple TXSeries in one system

Huawei want to multiple TXSeries can co-existing. Sometime the customer can not provide one new machine for new TXSeries. So they want to install multiple TXseries in one system. On the other hand, they also hope that they can choose the install d...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

timeout user EXIT support

ICBC think it is difficult to do the PD if some trasaction is times out. They want to CICS team to provide an timeout EXIT. Then they can create their own user exit to handle transaction timeout
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration