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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    bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi

    bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi, session based, fully supported natively by IBM, fully integrated with the operating system and workflow, as a normal display file for a RPG would be. Some solution exists indeed in the aftermarket usi...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

    System Debugger in ACS SQL Scripts does not support SSO

    In ACS "Run SQL Scripts" you can select "Run" and then "System Debugger" to debug stored procedures and functions. This option however prompts for system name, user name and password. We run SSO so user profiles have password(*NONE). This applicat...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Future consideration

    create a BIF for transliteration/transform facility (ICU BASED)

    String replacement and transliteration is an extremely common task in business applications and communication to external parties in international settings. This produce a lot of custom code (and a lot of substandard one) in IBM shops. To do it pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

    Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    TLS support for iACS Graphical Debugger

    The Graphical Debugger included with iACS connects to insecure port 8475 (as-rmtcmd) instead of secure port 9475 (as-rmtcmd-s) for the remote command service. I have not performed a line trace but suspect the remote debugger service running on por...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

    Smart assist support for NFS server

    We need smart assist support for NFS server
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Add a flag to the Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API

    We are using the API to get the command definition such as the Parameters with it's keywords and values. However if the command has a choice program, that program is executed. This can cause unexpected things to occur. In one example, the choice p...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Create an API for Code Coverage SEP

    Getting Code Coverage with a Service Entry Point (SEP) is only possible through interactive processes with RDi. Having the same feature through API would enable to work in a CI/CD pipeline.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

    Binding Directory Explorer for IBM i Access Client

    There is a high need for a more mature version of WRKBNDDIR. This new version, visioned to be part of IBM i Access Client, acts as an explorer of service programs as seen in the binding directory with the ability to allow the user to expand each s...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Future consideration

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