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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IBM i Access Family

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    Custom screen size

    Provide an option for custom screen size.Example:Colum: 25Row: 25 Use Case: Using ACS over VNC with small devices like mobilphones.
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Pass SQL statement from RPG to "Run SQL Scripts"

    I would like to pass a sql statement (SELECT) from RPG to "Run SQL Scripts" (Access Client Solutions ). The "Run SQL Scripts" application should execute this statement and present the result set in a separate window. Use Case: Execute predefined s...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

    make landscape PDF display as portrait

    Request to a product of a IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS).Outputting PDF with ACS (Java Printing Service) and opened with PDF viewer, even landscape orientation files are always displayed vertically.We request making landscape oriented PDF file...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    ACS library list

    JDBC Config needs some way to identify the library list being used by the app. If we choose "Use library list of server job" can the screen show that list so we will know what it consists of? If we don't want that list can there be some indicator ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    Add User Input History to IBM i ACS

    I'm in the process of migrating 66 countries from a 3rd party tool Seagull to IBM i Access Client Solutions. There is a function that Seagull has that IBM doesn't and our users are asking for IBM to add it. In Seagull, Auto-Entry can be found unde...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

    When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

    Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Password manager integration in ACS

    It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Add a Save Results As... option to the File or Tools menu.

    Having to launch the 1980's File Transfer Program to pull down data is embarrassing. When I have a resultset in the lower pane, I should be able to simply save that resultset as XLSX or CSV to my local PC.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    IBM i Access Client Solutions request

    I would like another option under the New tab Action. Under the New Tab selection I would like to see a system selection option like we have on the main menu. Use Case: When I click on New Tab +, I want the drop down list of my systems like I have...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to automate mass spool file downloads

    I would like a command line plug-in to be able to specify a library/outq name and a folder path and have the ability to download all the spool files in that outq to the folder path. It would also be helpful if there was a switch to download as PDF...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

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