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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    Make installing Visual Explain optional

    When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included. I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Provide Cursor Hover Row Highlighting in ACS RUNSQL resultSet

    I would like to suggest an enhancement to improve data review and usability within result sets. When a result set is displayed in ACS RUNSQL, it would be highly beneficial to introduce a cursor hover highlight feature. This functionality would: 1....
    12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    ACS should reestablish connection to session when comminication is lost.

    ACS is extremely sensitive when the communication is lost. Every time this happens a new session is started. Instead of this behaviour I would like that the connection is established to the original session. The problem happens for example when th...
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

    Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
    2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    ACS Run SQL multiple Systems in one window separated by tabs

    Currently, in ACS in order to run SQL statements on multiple systems you need to open each System in a separate window. I would really like to have the possibility to group those systems into one window separated by Tabs.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

    Fields for system name and system description should be filled for lldp requrests on SR-IOV adapter

    This feature will prevent failure in handling and configuration and enhance failure determination. When requesting lldp information of Power systems from the switch port the network department can confirm that they are working the the correct syst...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Replace LAN Console with vHMC light support in ACS

    Is there anybody on this earth that does not absolutely hate LAN Console? Every Power system ships with an HMC port and a service processor behind it. Please use that as the one and only console interface. Use Case: Package the following component...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

    Access Client Solutions (ACS) - Make it possible to remotely deploy and manage ACS

    In our enterprise (and many others) the software on our users' workstations needs to be managed centrally using tools such as InTune, SCCM, etc. Currently there isn't a supported way of doing this for ACS. This is becoming a serious issue/challeng...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Rename session in iACS

    Provide the ability to rename a display or printer session in iACS session manager. Rename function should be available on the edit menu and right click popup menu. Use Case: When users copy & modify display & printer sessions in iACS sess...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

    ACS - make panel colors configurable

    When using different colors on desktop (like dark mode or dark themes in Linux desktops like Ubuntu) panels become hardly, to nearly un-readable. Please add options to configure colors used in panels.See attached doc for screenshot samples. Use Ca...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Future consideration

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