Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Db2 for i

Showing 174

SQL enhancement - allow mixed case in unqualified external names

Please allow the use of mixed case in unqualified external names when defining stored procedures or user defined (table) functions. Currently it is not possible to specify an unqualified external name where the routine name is in mixed case. The f...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Add Find Member option parameter to RUNSQLSTM

Need to be able to specify a source file, such as SRCFILE(QSQLSRC) without a library (hence, *LIBL) and have the command search for the member in QSQLSRC anywhere on the library list. Similar to how Find Member Processing = 1 option of theQUSRMBRD...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

ILE SQL Precompiler commands like CRTSQLRPGLE Parameter DBGVIEW should support more than just the Values *NONE and *SOURCE

As of today it is only possible to either request DBGVIEW(*NONE) or DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) when precompiling ILE SQL programs.Using *SOURCE is actually passed as *ALL to the backend compiler, which causes all possible debug views to be generated. Usuall...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Name the SQL programing language PL/SQL on IBM i

When coding stored procedures, UDTF and compound statement we have a nice language without a name. To be consistent across the industry it seems like the name PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is used for other databases - inc...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Generated Column Client IP return no value when updated via 5250 UPDDTA Command

Generated Column Client IP return no value for 5250 command line altered rows. e.g. DFU of a file. Use Case: If you issue the following Alter Table then DFU the altered table, the database will not return an IP address in the Generated Column ALTE...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Object Statistics option to show data from ALl libraries including iASP

Currenly there is no option search all libraries including iASP Request is to add *ALLAVL All libraries in all available ASPs are searched. Adding above value will make it consistent with CHGOBJAUT and similar APIS Object Statistics currently has ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Add support for *LAST in CREATE ALIAS

CREATE ALIAS command allows to create aliases for a specific MEMBER of a physical table on IBM i, but the alias has to be explicitly named. Many applications add members periodically and start filling rows in the last member. Having the ability of...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Delivered

hope to use "WITH RESTRICT ON DROP" for tables

DB2 UDB have below function, it can add a flag on table, forbidden user drop the table:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSAUZ9_11.2.0/topics/adbu_build-sql_restrict-drop.htmlIf a table has the Restrict on Drop attribute, users are re...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

SSD Fuel Gauge SQL Service

Add a new IBM i service to return the SSD Fuel Gauge information. Use Case: Allow writing monitoring tools using SQL instead of having to run the SSD Fuel Gauge command (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Retain values in IBM i SQL Table Audit columns when copying rows using SQL INSERT or UPDATE

In V7R3M0, the option of new audit column types were added to tables. These are often, though not exclusively, being implemented for use in temporal tables.An example of the audit column definitions in a CREATE TABLE for a non-temporal table state...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered