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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IBM i

    Add new parameter to SNDPTFORD to not add problem record

    When a SNDPTFORD is used to download PTF's it automatically adds a new record to the problem list (WRKPRB). This requires a lot of effort to clean up as you have to close the problem and then wait a specified period of time before being able to go...
    1 day ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Determine the maximum number of array elements at compile time (*MAX16M)

    If I define an array like this dcl-ds myArr qualified dim(*auto : 40000); fld1 char(100); fld2 char(100); fld3 char(100); fld4 char(100); end-ds; then the program compiles OK because we don't exceed the 16MB limit. Now I have to make a cha...
    about 7 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Exit point for QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE Does not detect disabled profiles

    The QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE exit point does not have a trigger for when a profile is disabled due to to many invalid sign on attempts.
    3 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Have "LABEL ON FUNCTION" update the text description of the UDTF *SRVPGM object

    We're finding that we need to have this in the sql script in order to update the UDTF's object description: call QSYS2.QCMDEXC('CHGSRVPGM SRVPGM(MBMT99) TEXT(''Bill of Materials for a Parent Item'')'); Ideally we wouldn't need to use QCMDEXC but c...
    about 19 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Expose IBM i source-member edit interfaces for VS Code and IBM BOB ecosystem

    VSCODE (code for IBM i)  need safe and fast source-member editing, but today we do not have a way to open, lock, save/update source member via these editors. In essence we need to: Issue an OVRDBF to the source file and member Issue a remote...
    2 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Security Bulletins filtering search by IBM i products

    Possibility to search by IBM i products (5770JV1, 5770DG1, etc.) when searching for the latest vulnerabilities instead of just "IBM i" will significantly improve the time needed for evaluation of necessary patching.
    2 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

    Enable to search for PTFs by IBM i products and product options

    Possibility of searching for PTFs by IBM i product (for example 5770DG1, 5733SC1, 5770BR2,5770WDS, etc.) and additionally product options (as some PTFs are only for specific options) would improve by searching for the latest PTFs which need to be ...
    2 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 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...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 11 Future consideration

    Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data

    would like enhancement for Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data
    7 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    allow migration of IBM i loadsource without downtime

    You can easily migrate IBM i LPARs from one Power Server onto another one without downtime currently. You can also add/remove disks to either system or independed ASPs without any downtime. But once it comes to loadsource you need to IPL system do...
    10 days ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

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