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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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Core OS

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    CPYTOSTMF - Add a parameter allowing you to choose whether to propagate attributes (audit) when copying objects to QSYS and the ifs

    The behaviour of the CPYTOSTMF command can lead to uncontrolled results depending on the historical files and their configuration in the QSYS section when copying to the ifs. By default, attributes such as audit are necessarily propagated identica...
    5 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Enhance(fix) the QLZARCAPI API so the messages returned are consistent.

    Currently there are 3 messages(CPF9897) returned for an LPAR that is part of other LPARs on a frame. SYSTEM INFO, PARTITION INFO, and PROCESSOR POOL INFO Of these, the second stanza "PARTITION INFO" is not terminated by a period. I have been worki...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    Fix Request: IBM i VSI WebConsole takeover with STS LAN Adapter kills actual session

    When using the PowerVS VSI's 5250 WebConsole (HMC) and taking over with a LAN Console, kills the actual session and creates a new one. This happen on both directions: LAN Console -> WebConsole or WebConsole-> LAN Console This can be really a...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Submitted

    Suggested versions of IBM i support for new Power Systems

    Power 8 (generally) supports IBM i 7.1-7.4 Power 9 (generally) supports IBM i 7.2-7.5 Power 10 supports IBM i 7.3-7.6 (and, if the pattern holds) likely not iNext Power 11 supports IBM i 7.4-7.6 and likely iNext I propose that new systems should s...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

    Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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