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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 CREATOR/DEFINER Attribute to File Members

    We need 1 to 3 new User Profile attributes added to Source File Member descriptions.Creator (Added by user profile)Change (Data Last Changed by user profile)Custom User Profile (application controlled) The creator user profile should be assigned t...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    MVP for PowerVM VIOS

    Today, IBM supply ISO images for the target PowerVM VIOS levels via entitled software distribution channel. However considering the overall security and audit posture for the clients ,can IBM look at providing a 'slimmer' VIOS image that only cont...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    provide readable format when consuming .xlsx using qsys2.ifs_read

    Functionality will eliminate having to save xlsx as a csv prior to consuming with qsys2.ifs_read
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Allow use of RPG procedures in embedded SQL as host "variable"

    When writing embedded SQL, host variables should be real variables instead of expressions which requires additional step to define extra work variables and assign the expression in advance to the work variable. Use Case: An example might be as fol...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

    Add IMPLICITLY HIDDEN to SQL VIEWs

    The TABLE feature to implicitly hide certain columns/fields when "SELECT *" is used, is great. However ,we need that feature extended to SQL VIEWS. Use Case: If I create a VIEW that contains a subset of columns, including implicitly hidden columns...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Support WITH TIME ZONE in DB2 for i

    Timestamps are stored by default in the current timezone which causes problems if you need to support an application in different timezones, compare historical data with other systems or on DST events. It would therefore be useful if DB2 for i wou...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

    Provide hash_row functionality to UDTF, Stored procedure that returns table, Cover all columns of a View over multiple tables.

    hash_row is an handy function to get hash/check sum value of the complete row. However there are exceptions. Expanding that benefit to all exceptions will be very helpful.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Getting the response as a stream from the HTTP functions in QSYS2

    The HTTP functions wait until the entire response has been received before returning it. Returning the response as a stream, without waiting for it to be complete, it would result in better performance particularly with very large responses.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Nested calculated columns in SQL

    Today you are not allowed to use nested result columns in calculations and expressions. The work around is to rewrite the statement to use common table expression. This, however, removes the focus from what need to be done - just to satisfy the na...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    Increase VARCHAR() Scaler to 65KB, 16MB or 2GB

    Currently SQL VARCHAR() scalar function under DB2 for i supports lengths of up to 32k or 32k-1 w/Nullable values. HLL on IBM i support 64k Varchar column/fields as well as 16MB Varchar lengths. Other Platforms (Microsoft) also support much longer ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

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