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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Core OS

Please put SJ08079 on the next resave of IBM i 7.6.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7066410 I'd rather not see these false flag messages upon first upgrading to IBM i 7.6 so they need to incorporate SJ08079 into the next resave of IBM i 7.6. It's not on any cume or group so I'm afraid if I d...
1 day ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

IBM removed certain commands, MRGFORMD being one of them. IBM failed to consider the ramifications of this on CHKPRDOPT.

CHKPRDOPT PRDID(*OPSYS) *CMD MRGFORMD in QSYS38 not found for product 5770SS1 option 0006 release V7R6M0. Exit program processing found error in product. Product 5770SS1 release V7R6M0 option 0006 load 5050 not correctly installed. IBM removed cer...
1 day ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Have more, if not all, of iACS populate CLIENT_PROGRAMID

In an attempt to discover what versions of IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS) are currently attached to our systems I am running the following SQL: SELECT ji.job_name, GJI.V_AUTHORIZATION_NAME, GJI.V_CLIENT_PROGRAMID, GJI.V_CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS FRO...
4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Query Temporary Address Table to determine useage

Customers with large temporary address usage need to research what has been allocating the addresses so they can be addressed in their code. Would like to know more information about when it was created such as job name, program, etc. They ability...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 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) ?...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

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