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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Showing 802 of 4961

    Create %PROGNAME built in function

    We have the RPG built in function %PROC to return the name of the current procedure, I think it is time that we have the same for the name of the current program. By all means we can get this from the program status data structure, it would just b...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Submitted

    Allow %RANGE & %LIST with ON-EXCPT

    In a MONITOR group with the ON-EXCPT operation code allow it to use the %LIST & %RANGE built in functions that can be used with the IF operation code. For example: monitor ; read TESTFILE ; on-excpt in %list('CPF1234' : 'CPF1235': 'CPF1236') ;...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.

    I'm missing a way to define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.It could either be an extended version of LIKE() or a new LIKEFLD() For example:dcl-s myField1 LIKEFLD(fldref.format2 : myField : +5)dcl-s myField2 LIKE(fldref.forma...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    18 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Extend Eval-Corr to ignore empty or null subfields in source Ds

    The eval-corr opcode is extremely convenient for all functions that require sharing a template type definition and ensures that adding new fields to the base template is easily extended to the eval-corr target DSs by simply recompiling the affecte...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Provide *true & *false figurative constants for indicators

    To align with modern languages, please consider adding new figurative constants *true & *false for indicators.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    New *EMPTY constant

    Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Extend prototyped procedure calls with "keyword parameters"

    SQL has the nice feature, to use optionally use keyword parameters instead of positioned parameters. My idea is, also extend RPG prototyped procedure calls with the option to use keyword parameters. Imagine the following procedure prototype: dcl-p...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    VARDIM for RPGLE

    Quick explanation. VARDIM is to DIM what VARCHAR is to CHAR. Background Interfacing with RPG complex structures can be done, however the implementations are not homogeneous. Examples. In IWS you need a pseudo variable suffixed by the array name ...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.