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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    Improve usability of Investigate Data charts in IBM Navigator for i

    a visible and intuitive zoom function, more screen space dedicated to the chart and less to navigation controls. These changes would significantly improve the usability of Investigate Data charts.
    4 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Submitted

    LPAR CPU Placement on mulit CEC systems

    When you create an LPAR on a multi-CEC system, such as an E1080 or E1180, its placement is determined by its maximum virtual processor and memory configuration.If the system already hosts many smaller LPARs, a new LPAR may be placed across two or ...
    11 days ago in Power Systems Design 3 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...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Submitted

    Edit option in ACS not available

    Hello,As you can see in the attached image (as an example), it's not possible to edit files through ACS. Being able to edit files directly would be very helpful.Currently, to edit a file, you have to download it, use a text editor, and then upload...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Submitted

    The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs

    The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs. We must search the HTML page to find the list of corrective PTFs. It would be nice to have a field with the list of corrective PTFs and also to get the affected pro...
    12 days ago in IBM i / Security 3 Submitted

    Native needrestart command for IBM AIX

    IBM AIX would benefit from a native needrestart command similar to the functionality available on Linux systems. After installing updates, Interim Fix (iFix), Service Packs, or Technology Levels, administrators currently have no simple and standar...
    12 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add Job Search in ACS - SQL Performance Center - Plan Cache Snap shot

    The SQL Performance Center along with the PlanCache Snapshot option is a powerful tool to search for SQL statements and their behavior. I am still missing a Filter to search for Jobs. We now have the option to search for QRO's but mostly we know a...
    9 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Access Client Solutions – Documentation.

    Hello,There is currently a need for a "Documentation" button regarding the utilities found in libraries such as SYSTOOLS, SYSIBMADM, etc. The idea is to implement this via ACS. By right-clicking on a procedure in the grid, a documentation option w...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

    Add the text description to all BRMS files, tables.

    When running command WRKOBJ QUSRBRM/*ALL *FILE or via this SQL: SELECT OBJNAME, OBJTYPE, OBJATTRIBUTE, OBJTEXT FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('QUSRBRM', '*ALL')) ORDER BY OBJNAME; This is an example of what is returned: QA1AAF *FILE QUSRBRM PF...
    2 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Support extended simple case expressions

    It would be nice if the extended simple case expressions introduced with SQL:2003 were supported. CASE colWHEN 'A', 'B' THEN 'open'WHEN 'C' THEN 'done'ELSE 'unkown'END CASE colWHEN < 10 THEN 'low'WHEN < 50 THEN 'medium'ELSE 'high'END This wo...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

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