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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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Edit option in ACS not available

Hello,As you can see in the attached image (as an example), it's not possible to edit files through ACS. Being able to edit files directly would be very helpful. Currently, to edit a file, you have to download it, use a text editor, and then uploa...
about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Submitted

LPAR CPU Placement on mulit CEC systems

When you create an LPAR on a multi-CEC system, such as an E1080 or E1180, its placement is determined by its maximum virtual processor and memory configuration. If the system already hosts many smaller LPARs, a new LPAR may be placed across two or...
6 days ago in Power Systems Design 3 Submitted

Provide a way to query Db2 for IBM i members

Currently, using OVRDBF to direct SQL statements to a specific database file member is functional, but it is not an ideal solution. It requires an external override that is disconnected from the SQL statement itself, making the code less self-cont...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Submitted

The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs

The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs. We must search the HTML page to find the list of corrective PTFs. It would be nice to have a field with the list of corrective PTFs and also to get the affected pro...
7 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

Add Job Search in ACS - SQL Performance Center - Plan Cache Snap shot

The SQL Performance Center along with the PlanCache Snapshot option is a powerful tool to search for SQL statements and their behavior. I am still missing a Filter to search for Jobs. We now have the option to search for QRO's but mostly we know a...
4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Native needrestart command for IBM AIX

IBM AIX would benefit from a native needrestart command similar to the functionality available on Linux systems. After installing updates, Interim Fix (iFix), Service Packs, or Technology Levels, administrators currently have no simple and standar...
7 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

administrator role is able to use public shared images

Currently, only the administrator role is able to use public shared images. The advanced roles have rights and permissions concerning images inside the project alone. Please change that the advanced roles are able to use shared images. This will h...
6 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Function usage for tape activity

We have service users as well as operators who are used on our systems to perform backup and tape duplication operations via BRMS. Now, for some auditors, we need to minimize the special authorizations for those users, so we created them as *SYSOP...
4 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Add an “After IPL” Scheduling Frequency to Advanced Job Scheduler

Add After IPL as a Scheduling Frequency option in IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i (5770-JS1). This would allow a customer to define a job that is automatically submitted once after each successful IBM i IPL, without requiring a custom system star...
about 11 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Support VS Code Language Model API (vscode.lm) for extensions in IBM Bob

Problem Our organization currently has several internal Visual Studio Code extensions that use the VS Code Language Model API (vscode.lm) to invoke language models programmatically from an extension. These extensions work in Visual Studio Code, bu...
2 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted