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

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    Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

    More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 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.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 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...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 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...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

    Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

    Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 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...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

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