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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 votes: IBM i

Log invalid authentication attempts by user profiles with a password of *NONE

IBM i should be enhanced to log invalid sign-on attempts made against user profiles configured with PASSWORD(*NONE), and these attempts should be handled in a manner consistent with other failed authentication events. Today, these attempts are eff...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Provide a way to query Db2 for IBM i members

Currently, using OVRDBF to direct SQL statements to a specific database file member is functional, but it is not an ideal solution. It requires an external override that is disconnected from the SQL statement itself, making the code less self-cont...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / JAVA Submitted

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Fix or add a working API to list files in COS

Currently, the Qicc_list_files_in_cloud API in the 5733ICC product (IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i) is not working, and there is no substitute for a list of files uploaded and/or present in COS. It is extremely important to be able to verify wh...
7 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Submitted

Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
6 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

SMB 3.1.1 support needed in V7.5

Security: CIS Benchmark for Windows 11 (CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v4.0.0) requires SMB version 3.1.1. Enforcement of this benchmark is a customer requirement
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted