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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IBM i Access Family

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...
11 days 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Fix .HOD file icon associations on MacOS version of ACS

After installing the latest version of IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) on the latest version of macOS, I encountered several issues when attempting to associate .hod session files with ACS. Steps to Reproduce Install ACS using the standard mac...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

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 u...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Stack Column Headings in RUNSQL Scripts output ResultSet

Today the 3-component database "Column Headings" are stored a 3, 20-byte text strings for 60 bytes in total. Today IBM ACS uses those column headings as resultSet column headings but treats them as one long 60-byte string. This request is to stack...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

IFS and folders properties

When handling IFS, when an object's properties are requested, all are returned very quickly except the size and number of objects and folders. The size and number of objects are updated fairly quickly, but if the folder contains a large number of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Add size column to Performance Monitors in SQL Performance Center | IBM i Access Client Solutions

Add size column to Performance Monitor and Plan cache Event Monitor for easier monitoring of the current size multiple of the monitors just refreshing. Currently it's possible to check going into properties of the monitor one by one.
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

On the check of update window show the current version and the available update version number

it is always helpful to see what version number you are upgrading to and from. cheesy example ------------------------------------------------------------ IBM i Access Solutions An update is available on: SYSNAME Available update : Date and time c...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

ACS Windows App Pkg English (64bit) Version: 1.1.0.29

Hello IBM ACS users Hello IBM, In the latest IBM ACS Windows App Pkg 1.1.0.29, ODBC SSL encryption is not available for 32-bit applications (typically MS Excel and MS Access). We use a large Citrix farm, where both Citrix and Microsoft recommend u...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

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