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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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Subfile size 32767 rows.

Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
13 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
19 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

More than 10000 lines in the System Debugger

We have (very) few big COBOL programs generated from an old 4GL generator. Theses programs exceed 10000 lines so we cannot acces to all the lines, and then we need to run STRDBG to debug them. We will be pleased to have more lines (20000 would be ...
21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
28 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

Fail the compile when source information cannot be inserted into the object

When a module is created, the source information is inserted into the object description. There can be a situation where the source cannot be allocated to fetch the information. Instead of failing the compile, the source information inside the obj...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

"Power Pi" - a low-cost Power-based single-board computer

The popularity of Linux was and still is fused by its easy and cheap availability. Every student or hobbyist can setup his/her own server using a "Raspberry Pi" for under 100$. A similar offering on the basis of low-cost Power hardware could do th...
2 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

IBM i - Build an hypervisor linked to a physical device (dongle) to run "IBM i Dev-Edition" in a Apple Mac with Silicon processor.

To improve IBM i adoption with new generations we need to provide them with an inexpensive and "cool" experience. IBM i runs in its own "hardware abstraction layer", so porting to a new hardware is supposed to be less complex than other OSs. Most ...
2 months ago in Power Systems Design 4 Submitted

Support *IAS to be created on an iASP

Currently an Integrated Application Server is not suppported on an iASP, For customer wanting to use an Integrated Application Server in an iASP environment this forces them to create it on *SYSBAS which more or less is not in line with the idea b...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

New command CPYMSGD

The command CPYMSGD shold copy a message description with all attributes such as message data fields, formatting information (&N, &P, &B) and reply attributes.
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Have a P05 tier level system in every new initial Power system rollout.

I understand wanting to get high end systems as they might be the first people to need the new horsepower of a new Power system. However these same people may not be allowed to go to a new Power System until that model has been certified by their ...
5 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted