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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    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...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Functionality already exists

    Please add referential integrity (RI) to the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS) GUI part of Navigator for i

    Currently it is possible to delete a recipient from AJS while it is still being used. I would like to see RI implemented in every database aspect of AJS.
    1 day ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Make the ACS option "Journaled Objects" complete

    Currently the option "Journaled Objects" which can be found in Schema when selecting a journal only shows a tab for Physical Files and Logical Files.If *DTAQ or *DTAARA objects are only journaled they are now shown. This situation is misleading an...
    1 day ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 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...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 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 || ', '...
    8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    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

    .NET Provider connect string should have property to trim spaces from CHAR fields

    We are having issues because of iOS upgrade from 7.4. to 7.5 and our original data access driver (HitSoftware Ritmo) is not working after the upgrade. We were looking at using IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries driver as a replacement. It seems to work but does...
    2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    add support to JSON_KEYS in SQL

    The JSON_KEYS() function is used to extract the property names (keys) from a JSON object, without retrieving their associated values. This is particularly useful when working with JSON objects that contain dynamic property names, meaning that the ...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Evaluate USFS for inclusion in a future AIX release or the AIX Toolbox

    I propose that IBM evaluate the open-source USFS project for inclusion in a future AIX distribution. If inclusion in the base AIX distribution is not feasible, please consider providing it through the AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software. USFS pro...
    8 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    IBM i ILE Reflection: Runtime Symbol Tables, Source Cross-References, and AI Introspection

    Synopsis Introduce native reflection capabilities to IBM i, allowing compiled programs to expose compiler-generated symbol tables through a supported ILE API. Inspired by Java Reflection, this would enable applications and tools to discover variab...
    8 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

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