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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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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    Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

    With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Proposal for enhancing Alarm functionality with integrated calling feature

    I am writing to propose an enhancement to the alarm functionality in mobile operating systems, specifically the integration of a calling feature alongside the alarm on iOS. The idea is to provide users with an option to automatically place a call ...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Change severity of CPD5D1D message

    When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Extend 32763 limitation on display file record

    HTML keyword is useful to our environment as we use enhanced 5250 displays running IBMi Access for Web. However, the record length limitation makes it where our html portion of the output is limited.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

    We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Remove ability to set 0777 permissions

    I cannot think of a situation where this is needed, and I frequently come across this being set out of ignorance and laziness.
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    create a BIF for transliteration/transform facility (ICU BASED)

    String replacement and transliteration is an extremely common task in business applications and communication to external parties in international settings. This produce a lot of custom code (and a lot of substandard one) in IBM shops. To do it pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Not under consideration

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    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    New API to return a Pointer to Associated Space of User-Objects

    Today, some objects on the IBM i system do not have a DSPxxx command that supports either OUTFILE or in some rare cases, no DSPxxx command at all. In addition there is no API to get some of these object's properties. This request is to provide an ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    IBM and Huawei SAN Disk MPIO

    IBM Deosn't recognized Huawei SAN Disk with using basic MPIO in maintenance mode. When client server boot in maintenance mode, rootvg disks presented from Huawei storage appears with multiple disk due to the basic MPIO of AIX cant combine Huawei m...
    about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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