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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Add support of FOR-CURSOR-SELECT statement to SQLRPGLE pre-compiler

In SQL/PL it is possible to repeat a block of code for each row of a SQL SELECT statement. SQL/PL Example: BEGIN DECLARE fullname CHAR(40); FOR vl AS c1 CURSOR FOR SELECT firstnme, midinit, lastname FROM employee DO SET fullname = lastname || ', '...
about 1 hour ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

IBM i ILE Reflection: Runtime Symbol Tables, Source Cross-References, and AI Introspection

Synopsis Introduce native reflection capabilities to IBM i, allowing compiled programs to expose compiler-generated symbol tables through a supported ILE API. Inspired by Java Reflection, this would enable applications and tools to discover variab...
38 minutes ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Runtime reflection for variables in ILE languages: new BIF/API to retrieve variable metadata (type, length, precision)

Synopsis Provide a supported, performant way to obtain metadata about variables at runtime in ILE programs. It can be a language-level built-in function in RPG or a system API callable from any ILE language. Problem statement ILE RPG offers only a...
about 3 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Add IP Address Details Visibility in HMC for AIX 7.3 Partitions

Description: Currently, IP address information for AIX 7.3 logical partitions (LPARs) is not readily visible in the Hardware Management Console (HMC). It would be highly beneficial if HMC could automatically display the configured IP address(es), ...
about 8 hours ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Adding support to compile display and printer files from sources in the IFS rather than only via dds stored in source phisical file

In modern development environments, traditional display and printer files are far from being completely obsolete.The SRCSTMF compilation parameter has long been added to the CRTRPGMOD, CRTSQLRPGI, and CRTCLMOD commands.Adding it to the CRTDSPF and...
about 18 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

IBMi ACS does not show NFS mounts. System I navigator show mounted folder as special icon as mounted.

Identify mounted folders and contents and able to mount and unmount
about 23 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Issue message for Transform Services if required subsystem QUSRWRK is not started

At IBM i OS V7R5 and V7R6, Transform Services (5770TS1) requires subsystem QUSRWRK to be started. If the subsystem is not started, it can cause a variety of different scenarios depending on how the product is being used. For example, if using IBM ...
1 day ago in IBM i / Print Submitted

Soft Delete for Spooled Files on IBM i

Background On IBM i, when a spooled file is deleted, the deletion is permanent — there is no native mechanism to recover or restore it. Accidental deletions, whether caused by user error or unintended behavior in a runaway job, can occur at any ti...
2 days ago in IBM i / Print Submitted

Provide vHMC support on Nutanix AHV Hypervisor

It will allow customers with an existing Nutanix AHV hyperconverged environment to be able to run Hardware Management Console as a virtual machine. Currently, IBM does not officially support running the virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) o...
2 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

LANEB notification probe idea

LANEB-NOTIF-PROBE
2 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

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