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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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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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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.
22 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 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.
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

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

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...
8 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 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.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Windows 11 Pro ARM support with 64bit ODBC drivers so PowerBI Desktop and Excel can pull data from IBM I DB2. For all Mac M(x) ARM systems. Support for modern tooling

Power BI does not run on Mac Arm, but does in Parallels with Windows ARM. IBM 32bit drivers will install in Windows ARM, but 64bit will not. All modern tooling is requiring 64bit support. This kills MAC as a dev platform for IBM I with many modern...
4 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...
almost 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

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted