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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM i Access Family

Add Job Search in ACS - SQL Performance Center - Plan Cache Snap shot

The SQL Performance Center along with the PlanCache Snapshot option is a powerful tool to search for SQL statements and their behavior. I am still missing a Filter to search for Jobs. We now have the option to search for QRO's but mostly we know a...
30 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

ACS 5250 Font is too Small! Mocha much better.

acs tool for System I has way too small Fonts for larger monitors. Its 2026 and we are still using small fonts. I really have to use Mocha, because they do such a great job. Its a beautiful Emmulator. With the unlimited money IBM has can't you jus...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Support HMC Password Changes for Expired Passwords in IBM i Access Client Solutions 5250 Console

Problem:Many organisations restrict access to the Hardware Management Console (HMC) web interface and SSH for security reasons, leaving users with access only through the 5250 console provided by IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS).When an HMC use...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Need ability to specify what ports the "Verify Connection" button polls

When verifying connections, the process goes through an IBM created list of ports. Some of these ports are not valid for our environment including ports that are not even valid for our OS level. Every time the verification hits a port that does no...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Scott Forstie

At COMMON PowerUP, clients shared that they love to use ACS (via SQL) to generate CSV style spreadsheets.However, the current support generates a CSV that uses the comma character (',') as the delimiter.Clients are asking for the ability to influe...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Add Multiple Result Tabs to Run SQL Scripts

I often need to run multiple queries in different tables to analyze and compare results. For every query I run, the existing results are cleared and the new results are displayed. I would like the results to be retained until closed. I would sugge...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Add SSH auto-tunneling to ACS so we can use a bastion server

Please, add an automatic tunnel or transparent proxy option so we can connect to IBM i using a bastion server or SSH port. This could help developers or PoC users to connect to cloud or hosted LPARs (IBM Power Virtual Server or any other) without ...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Supported OS for IBM i ODBC

Regarding the operating systems supported for IBM i ODBC connections, I understand that Ubuntu is categorized as "Debian-based" because it is built upon Debian. May I interpret this "Debian-based" designation to mean that Debian itself is also a s...
26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted