IBM Power Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. 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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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.

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    Runtime reflection for variables in ILE languages: new BIF/API to retrieve variable metadata (type, length, precision)

    Synopsis Provide a supported, performant way to obtain metadata about variables at runtime in ILE programs. It can be a language-level built-in function in RPG or a system API callable from any ILE language. Problem statement ILE RPG offers only a...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Functionality already exists

    End-to-end FC SFP Diagnostics via Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP ELS)

    Background info Current-generation Fibre Channel adapters expose SFP transceiver diagnostics, which are readable from the OS.On IBM i, the fcioa -sfpinfo macro in SST/DST already surfaces this data.With the November 2025 GA of V7R5 TR7 and V7R6 TR...
    about 2 months ago in AIX 16 Submitted

    PROJECT OPERATIONAL HEALTH SHIELD

    IBM IDEAS SUBMISSION PROJECT OPERATIONAL HEALTH SHIELD Full Title: Project Operational Health Shield: An Evidence-Based Artificial Intelligence Framework for Healthcare Fraud Prevention, Clinical Integrity, Patient Protection, and Financial Accoun...
    about 8 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    PROJECT STRATAVIA Autonomous Data Reliability, Cross-Platform Intelligence, and Geospatial Sensor Fusion

    PROJECT STRATAVIA Autonomous Data Reliability, Cross-Platform Intelligence, and Geospatial Sensor Fusion Project Type: Proposed advanced research and engineering concept Originator: Individual inventor / independent proposer Proposed Duration: 18 ...
    about 9 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Submitted

    PowerVC Appliance – LDAP users at restricted shell level

    Issue: PowerVC appliance utilises LDAP at the application/GUI level, but this doesn’t progress down to the restricted shell CLI environment. LDAP users for the PowerVC appliance are only at the applicable to GUI logins. In many environments, it is...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    IBMi HTTP Admin services needs for the support of higher version of Java like 17 , 21

    Hi Team , Currently Admin1 and Admin3 jobs supports Higher version of java But Admin2, Admin4 Admin5 job are still using Java8 . Java8 is considered as obsolete in our Firm and we are getting Break to get enhancement to use higher version of java ...
    2 days ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

    Adding support to compile display and printer files from sources in the IFS rather than only via dds stored in source phisical file

    In modern development environments, traditional display and printer files are far from being completely obsolete.The SRCSTMF compilation parameter has long been added to the CRTRPGMOD, CRTSQLRPGI, and CRTCLMOD commands.Adding it to the CRTDSPF and...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Submitted

    Add support of FOR-CURSOR-SELECT statement to SQLRPGLE pre-compiler

    In SQL/PL it is possible to repeat a block of code for each row of a SQL SELECT statement. SQL/PL Example: BEGIN DECLARE fullname CHAR(40); FOR vl AS c1 CURSOR FOR SELECT firstnme, midinit, lastname FROM employee DO SET fullname = lastname || ', '...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Change behavior of SNDPTFORD to order DB and HIPER for any CUME release ordered

    Currently the design of the SNDPTFORD command only includes the DB and HIPER PTFs when it is run for the same release CUME which is installed on the system. For example, ir you run SNDPTFORD for SF99750 on a 7.5 system, it will get the CUME, DB. a...
    3 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    Add additional user profile parameter associated with OWNER(*GRPPRF) to close security vulnerability.

    Lately I discovered a new security risk when user profile has GRPPRF(XXXX) and OWNER(*GRPPRF) specified. When such user creates another user profile or authorization list all XXXX group members can use these objects to get unauthorized access at l...
    20 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

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