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 8532

Ability for CICS Explorer Administrators to disable default Menu Options and Perspectives.

Specifically we would like our CICS Explorer Administrator to be able to modify the default .exe file such that the “FILE” Menu “Switch Workspace” option was disabled. This is critical for CICS Explorer Deployments where the .exe file is shared an...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

FM V12 Have the parameters members in a library other than the system PARMLIB concatenation

Have the parameters members (FMN0PARM and FMN2PARM) in a library other than the system PARMLIB concatenation.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Selection Criteria is not user friendly

Using File Manager and adding a selection criteria, has no impact.No change in output is reflected by adding/changing Criteria.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RSE Dataset Filter Improvement

Creating a filter is easy but hard to manage when many datasets with no distinct pattern is returned. Today we modify the filter, adding one dataset at a time to the filter criteria. Instead after the initial filter is created, I'd like to highlig...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Format data using layouts from CA-Easytreive

Looking for the ability to use CA-EasyTreive macros as formatting layouts in File Manager.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Ext File Handler in PLI for AIX

The PLI compiler for AIX should have an interface to an external file handler which acts like and looks like the external file handling capability in the PLI for Windows compiler.
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

support RMODE(64)

CICS only support Rmode 31 and 24. ICBC wants CICS support Rmode 64
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Be able to click the field to extract in an extract action.

Add the capability to the HATS studio such that the user can simply click a field to be extracted from the screen rather than needing to draw a box around the field. The Rational Service Flow Modeler does this today. HATS should be able to do it. ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 4 Not under consideration

Debug Tool. Access to set monitoring of PL/I local declared variables from outer scope.

Debug Tool. Access to PL/I local declared variables from outer scope. As PL/I works with local declared variables, it is not possible in Debug Tool to work with local variables until the point in processing where local variables actually are addre...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

JES Pop-up/Alert when job is completed

Today we have to refresh or set poll configuration to refresh the JES job status. We need an alert msg similar to RTC alerts that the job has completed and the option to turn off the alerts if the user chooses.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 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.