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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    Font Mapping for 5770TS1

    System: Power System/Post script printerActor: User needing new feature this process is directly sending the PDF file including 'WT Sans J' font. It is very useful because customer doesn't need PC on the way of Printer.The customer is printing car...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

    CPYSLF OVRPRTF tooutq

    With OVRPRTF and CPYSPLF you are able to create a PDF in the IFS. Today normal Printers are able to print PDF directly. It would be really great when IBM could provide a new option to leave the PDF output as *usrascii in the outq and not to save i...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Not under consideration

    Enhance the SNMP or PJL driver to allow drawer control for PDF files

    Enhance the SNMP and/or PJL driver to allow the inclusion of PJL drawer commands to allow PDF files to print to specific drawers. Currently IBM i does not support PCL6, and that, combined with the ease of using color with PDF files, has meant that...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    PDF/A with ZUGFeRD

    Due to EU laws, we need the ability to create PDF/A files with ZUGFeRD.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

    Printing AZTEC bidimensional barcode on Iseries

    Scenario:We produce packaging for the biggest Worldwide online retailer.Customer wants on our pallets a label that fits to their logistic system.The label has an AZTEC bidimensional barcode in it. IS Series supports QRCODE but not AZTEC Use Case: ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

    Infoprint Server and Datamatrix Barcode bug

    PSF for IBM i (5770SS1 option 36) or Infoprint Server for iSeries (5770IP1) seem to have a bug regarding AFPDS/IPDS output for Datamatrix barcode developed by DDS. The size of the barcode is very small and has always the same size, regardless of t...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Print 5 Is a defect

    Add commands that can be used to automate managing PDF MAP Entries. ADDPDFMAPE, CHGPDFMAPE, DLTPDFMAPE.

    Currently to manage PDF MAP Entries the WRKPDFMAPE command must be used interactively which makes automating this process using CL commands not possible. The QPQAPME API could be used but there is significant work in developing this process, the u...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

    Provide CHGSPLFA API and include SPOOLED FILE OWNER User Profile

    SPOOLED Files have 3 user profiles associated with them: 1. The User Profile under which the Job that created the SPOOLED file was running ("job user").2. The Creator User Profile3. The SPOOLED File Owner Currently none of these three attributes m...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    DBCS Support for WSCST(*PDF)

    When IBM came out woth PDF transform capabilities for Spool Files using Transfor Services 'WSCST(*PDF)' we were very excited. Our hope was that it would alleviate our current transform solution which takes a lot of development cycles to maintain. ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

    Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

    I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

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