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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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make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
1 day ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Make option "Format" available in Remote Systems and i Project views for bulk formatting

Currently, the IBM formatters can only be invoked within the LPEX Editor via the "Source -> Format" option. It would be highly beneficial if the "Format" option were also available in the following views: Remote Systems i Project Project Naviga...
2 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Submitted

SST via SQL

It would be nice to have access to SST logs via SQL view. IBM recently introduce something very helpful: PROBLEM_INFO SQL view which mirror WRKPRB; it would be great to have the same for SST.
2 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
11 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
22 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Would it be possible to add option on Security Bulletins to search by IBM i products when searching for vulnerabilities on IBM i.

Searching by IBM i products would significantly improve the search results. The other option would be to define a list of IBM i products for Subscription to receive notifications about vulnerabilities for the specified products such 5770DG1, 5770J...
1 day ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Enhance QTE* Debug APIs to support batch jobs

Enhance QTE* Debug APIs to support batch jobs. It works great when using the QTE* debug APIs on an interactive job but not batch jobs when using the STRSRVJOB command.
2 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Empty QSYS/QS9MENUCE Menu and Continued Availability of Pre‑V5R3 Electronic Service Agent Menu Access

This is a remnant of the Electronic Service Agent from the 5798RZG LPO that was integrated into the base operating system, likely around V5R3. There are two traditional Electronic Service Agent menus, GO SERVICE and GO SERVICECE, that still persis...
2 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Add PowerHA support for volume group snapshots as alternative to flash copy

Currently IBMi PowerHA supports remote mirror and policy based replication. PowerHA also support flash copy to copy an iASP from a source cluster node to a target cluster node. We use this technology to refresh our dev and acceptance systems with ...
7 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Enhancement for SELF: exclusion list

In production environments, running SELF with *ERROR monitoring enabled is highly valuable for identifying potential issues in SQL executed on production LPARs. However, a challenge arises when frequently occurring and well‑understood SQL errors—s...
17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration