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

Post an idea.
Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.
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.

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 8503

1 VOTE

make userdefined extensions for unit testing thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Support for SYSIN and ACCEPT during recording and replay

If a COBOL program performs an ACCEPT on SYSIN then its replay fails with an abend U4038. It works if a SYSIN DD is added during replay. In a pipeline build, it will be better if the Dynamic Test Runner could record and replay SYSIN DD like any o...

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Currently Unit testing with IDZ 14.2.2 does not support this case: the list of files are opened in other programs..

We have tested zUnit on simple standalone batch loads however we are now trying to create test cases for individual programs (csects) with a load module. We are getting file open errors in the case where the main program has the open for the file,...

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Input file with >7000 lines leads to JAVA heap issue

Large input file in zUNIT with number of lines ( > 7000 lines ) leads to issue. Need solution or best practice to work with large input files. IBM CASE: TS009275317

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

When recording the test cases, the folder should be defaulted to JCL folder and not the PROGRAM folder

Since we have a JCL folder for zUnit, when ever we do start recording, it should point to JCL folder in default, which will help developer avoid manual selection and its time consuimg as well.

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Test case prefix is actually not required and its creating some other issues

Test case perfix overridng other program test cases and its a very high potential issue

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Support Standard Secure TN3270e (i.e. TN3270e over TLS) console connections

Since this is now supported by OSA-ICC and more customer networks and IBM products are moving towards a "zero-trust" environment, this is often braught up in security audit reviews. Likewise a statement about the encryption mechanism between the S...

10 days ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

In OMEGATOM v5.6, desire the Performance Summary History panel to have the ability to sort on region names

Desire the Performance Summary History panel to have the ability to sort on region names. Note the Region Summary Panel does have the ability to sort. Why useful-In our environment there will be 300+ regions. Need the sort to be able to effectivel...

10 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

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.