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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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Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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 ...
5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
16 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

`xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
22 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

IFS: Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.

Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.
26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

This IBM Idea is was earlier posted https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-778 with my old company name, but now we changed the name from to ASNbank I could not monitor this idea any longer. Therefore summitted this idea again. Original submmited: Why ...
26 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add documentation option to a SQL service in RSS

VS code has the brilliant option when hovering over a SQL service in a SQL request it allows you to search IBM documentation for this specific SQL service. This idea is about adding the same kind of functionality to ACS RSS if possible.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Allow means to display multi-line clickable hot spot links in ACS 5250 emulation.

Despite the intent for many to move to web based UIs, many products still have 5250 interfaces and many customers continue to want to use them. It is useful for 5250 outputs to display a hyperlink to get to web help, do searches, etc. (e.g. starti...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type to IBM i Access ACS Windows Application Package

According to the ServiceLevel\readmesp.txt in the Windows Application Package it has last been updated in May 2024. So i guess the support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type isn´t implemented in the included ODBC Driver. This results in Errors when a B...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi

Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi so the latest version can be used. Alternatively, allow users to link an existing version of ACS to RDi to be used instead of the built in version.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted