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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    Enable GitHub integration with Run SQL Scripts

    This enhancement would allow organizations to create a central repository of SQL scripts that can be shared across team(s) with version control. There is functionality for a SRCPF to keep files, but the 10 character naming constraint can be limiti...
    1 day ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Allow %ERROR to evaluate a TEST operation directly

    Currently, validating a date, time, or timestamp value requires a TEST operation followed by a separate check of %ERROR: test(DE) *ISO rawDate;if %error; // The value is invalidendif; I would like %ERROR to support evaluating a TEST operation dire...
    4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    BRMS - need method to bulk-expire and or bulk-remove

    While normal BRMS maintenance will expire any number of tapes, there are situations where clients have migrated to new systems and or left a networked BRMS environment without properly addressing the volumes owned by other systems Currently we can...
    2 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    Phonon Engineering in Layer-by-Layer Assembly for Selective Ion Sensors

    Problem: An LbL sensor's signal can drift with temperature, and the film's layered interfaces scatter phonons in ways that make one part of the film warmer than another under the same ambient conditions. That uneven heating can shift binding equil...
    34 minutes ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Hydration-Shell Dynamics in 3D-Printed Porous Scaffolds for Heavy-Metal Capture and Resource Recovery

    Problem: A printed scaffold's architected pores create channels of different widths, and water inside narrow channels structures differently from water in wide ones, so an ion's dehydration cost varies by channel. A scaffold designed only for flow...
    41 minutes ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Save and restore structures only, without records

    The 'SAVLIB', 'SAVOBJ', 'RSTLIB', and 'RSTOBJ' commands do not provide an option to save and restore solely the structure of tables—whether SQL-based or defined via DDS—without including their records. For instance, the 'OUTMBR' parameter only off...
    about 4 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Add CommandCall support directly to the SQL JDBC interface in JT400

    To make running CL commands works and to get the feedback returned from them and have them run in the same job as SQL statements which is required, we either have to use COZZI's CMD_RUN SQL UDTF which returns everythning or QSYS2.QCMDEXC which ret...
    about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Provide option to reset expired WORM media

    BRMS has the option to specify Write Once Read Many (WORM) in a media class. This helps create sudo immutable media if not using real WORM media. However, if a volume is enrolled in a media class that is WORM enabled, and it expires, BRMS will pre...
    1 day ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future 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...
    2 months ago in AIX 16 Submitted

    Automation workflows and disk initialization.

    Automation demands for initiating disks as part of workflow. Today I deploy IBM i LPARs/VMs with disks using Ansible - PowerVC. The work here runs well until the IBM i VM is running and all disks are visible. However I cant initiate the extra disk...
    7 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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