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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    ACS Printer Output Favorites

    Daily operations on the IBM i require our staff to move/delete/download spool files filtered on several output queues, Userdata and Job Information. Many of these filters are the same every day and it is very time consuming to change the informati...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

    Ability to download *IPDS spool files using ACS

    Would like the ability to view / download spool files with *IPDS data stream using Access Client Solutions. This function was supported in the old IBM i Access for Windows. Use Case: Distribute spool files to customers
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Consolidate ACS 5250 Display and TAB Preferences into one Tabbed Dialog

    Currently we have: Edit->Preferences -> Tab SetupEdit->Preferences -> Appearance->Tab Appearance The first changes the Active Tab propertiesThe second changes the inactive Tab propertiesPlease place them on the same dialog and use t...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Save SQL Scripts results with Labels

    Access Client Solutions- Run SQL Scripts will allow me to display the field names and the field labels in the results screen. But when I select the 'Save Results' option, the labels will not transfer into the saved document. Only the field names w...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Functionality already exists

    ACS RSS save to Source Physical File remove hex 25

    When saving to an IBM source Physical file (PF-SRC) DO NOT save with X'25' line endings. It makes it impossible to use script elsewhere plus there is no need for line endings in PF-SRC. If you need line ends in ACS RSS tool then add then for PF-SR...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

    Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

    Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

    Speed up IFS upload function in iACS

    Version: 1.1.8.5I open up IFS for one lpar. I tell it I want to upload from my pc. I have a directory with three 3.8gb binary files which are part of an image catalog.I started uploading one with the iACS function.I gave it a 10% head start.Then I...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Add option to open spooled files in AFP Viewer in IBM i Access Client Solutions Printer Output

    It is difficult, if not impossible, to view *IPDS type spooled files in AFP Viewer using Navigator for i with the latest browsers. IBM used to provide a version of the AFP Viewer with IBM i Access for Windows and this is the Viewer that was used t...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating. See attached screenshot for example. At the moment, if in tabbed mode, ALL tabbed sessions are locked and can not be used whilst the "Signon in Progress" dialogue displa...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    On Access Client Actions add new options for Download and Upload a Save File

    Currently the easiest way to transfer a save file to or from an IBM i would be to use FTP. You can also do this via the Access Client but it is difficult to do. What I would propose to do is add two options Download Save File and Upload Save File ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

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