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 8530

install a modify command to show current parameter for the PDTCC

Current installation of the PDTCC Server has possibilty to display current parameters. Because the server does only minimal validation of parameters, this will be chance to ensure whether current configuration parameters have been honored by the s...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Reduce amount of manual input for program definitions in an APP. Bundle

When Creating Application bundles it is very common to have close to 1 hundred programs, and manually entering all the program's values, is very time consuming!
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Need a way to inhibit and resume CARMA connection

We have Endevor maintenance task that need all users to leave Endevor, such that we can perform the batch job such as reorg, backup, etc. In ISPF we can do this by inhibit the Endevor panel, or even force users to logoff from TSO. With introdcing ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

confirmation pop-up when SAVE or PF3 key is entered in edit session

I'm in edit DB2 object and I modified data.when I type PF3 the edit session ended and tha data was saved. as in SPUFI can I have a confirmation pop-up when SAVE or PF3 key is entered ? with the number of modified rows, then I can confirm data chan...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dump Viewer SQL trace

The customer is requesting that the dump viewer as part of TPF-Toolkitand within z/TPF ensure that SQL trace is collected within z/TPF plus then enable means to view it within TPF Toolkit..
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool: High CPU consumption of CICS transactions using E.C.LINK

The CPU consumption of a transaction in CICS performing about 20.000 E.C.LINK calls is 26 times higher when running under a debugging session. (IGNORELINK is set ON)The Debug Tool should not increase the CPU usage of a debugged transaction in such...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on auxiliary and GTF trace record formats

Provide documentation on the contents and layout of CICS Auxiliary trace and GTF trace records.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 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.