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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IBM i Access Family

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    Have more, if not all, of iACS populate CLIENT_PROGRAMID

    In an attempt to discover what versions of IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS) are currently attached to our systems I am running the following SQL: SELECT ji.job_name, GJI.V_AUTHORIZATION_NAME, GJI.V_CLIENT_PROGRAMID, GJI.V_CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS FRO...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

    ACS Run SQL Scripts - Move Tab to New Window

    Sometimes I will have 2+ tabs open in a single Run SQL Scripts window, but then have a need to pull one out into its own window. Currently this is a manual process - Open a new window, open the desired SQL script or copy/paste the original tab's c...
    4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    In RUN SQL Scripts enable common font resizing methods

    Although Run SQL Scripts does support font resizing, the controls are difficult to access quickly and do not align with common or expected methods for changing font size. This slows me down, particularly when sharing my screen during conference ca...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

    In Run Sql Scripts, visual explain, allow explanation to be refreshed

    When using Visual Explain, it would be useful to be able to refresh the explanations and recommendations after creating indexes.
    10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Enable Kerberos for secondary 5250 session

    The ACS configuration allows for using Kerberos when opening a new ACS session and it automatically signs the user in. When the user does a SYSREQ 1, a signon screen is presented for a secondary job for the same session. For security purposes, man...
    20 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...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    IBM i Access ODBC driver query execution timeout

    My organization is using PHP/Laravel and the IBM i access odbc driver to connect to DB2. We have had a few scenarios where the php application sends a sql query and then waits indefinitely for the result, until PHP's max execution time kicks and k...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

    ACS Spool File Download Options

    Be able to include the USRDTA in the file name when downloading a spoolfile to your local computer. The user data can mean something and it would be nice to be able to include that as part of the PDF file name.
    9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

    Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

    Make RSS your own Examples easier to maintain.

    The functionality in RSS to insert from Examples and to save as New Example is absolutely great. As IBM keeps enhancing what we can do with SQL, like the prompting for statement variables addes in ACS 1.1.9.2, would it not be great if we could upd...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

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