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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. 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).


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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,

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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.

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Preserve application-level User Abend Code upon JVM termination instead of overwriting it with U4094

The inability to propagate application-defined user abend codes through JVM shutdown is a fundamental obstacle to modernizing z/OS batch jobs with hybrid Java/COBOL architectures. When running hybrid batch jobs (Java + COBOL) inside a JVM on z/OS ...
29 days ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

Allow HEAPCHK / STORAGE / ABTERMENC to be modified via CLER

I order to allow for easier debugging of COBOL application user heap overlays under CICS, it would be helpful to allow for HEAPCHK to be part of the subset of run-time options that are modifiable via CLER. Often times HEAPCHK needs to be used in c...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

allow one parameter in CEEENTRY that would control DSA stack storage type with 31/64 bit storage

While calling CEEENTRY under HLASM , it is difficult to control DSA storage type by the user. Goal is to allow user to control DSA stg either 24/31/64 bit.
14 days ago in z/OS / LE Submitted