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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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My ideas: IBM i

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Increase Ease of Bringing System Monitors Online

Problem Statement When the System Monitor service is down (either shutdown or post IPL) each system monitor needs to be activated individually and through the Navigator for i interface. Solution Request In addition to being able to bring the Syste...
about 9 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Copy User Profile - No Option to NOT copy TOTP

Problem Statement When copying user profiles to other systems through Navigator for i, there is no option to NOT copy their TOTP. To reduce TOTP re-use and better align with best security practices; this operation should be disabled by default and...
about 9 hours ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
about 15 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
about 20 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

USEADPAUT as a compilerparameter

According to Preventing new programs from using adopted authority - IBM Documentation systemvalue steers how new programs get USEADPAUT attribute. If a developer are permitted to set *YES, all new programs will get that attribute and developer mus...
about 23 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
3 days ago in IBM i / Security 4 Submitted

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api miss module name and library

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api, which is supposed to returns information on each module of the program, does not provide the object name of each module (that is to say, the library and the module name) but only the internal name. the case is for ...
4 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Change Y axis Graph History

It whould be usefull if the Y axis can be set to 100% in performance Graph History in IBM Navigator for i. There is a tab what should do the but this button does not respond to the input.
4 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

get full details about 5250 fields via ehllapi of ACS

the ehllapi of ACS allows a client application under windows to query the attributes of each field of a 52250 screen. This api returns some information, not all. for example, the auto-enter-field status is not returned. This put my client applic...
5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

xml-sax -- invalid characters converted to substitution character

Now and then I experience that XML-SAX in RPG throws an exception RNX0351 - The XML parser detected error code 6. This is caused by the situation that an UTF-8 character can not be converted to an EBCDIC character. It would be nice if it was possi...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted