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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    Lack of BRMS auditing

    BRMS does not log changes made to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a specific table or journal. Having BRMS log changes to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a dedicated table o...
    3 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    RDI: Possibility to force an update of the image in Screen Designer

    When editing a DDS screen file in the Screen Designer we have the possibility to switch between a Design and a Source window. So far so good. Unfortunately it happens that when changes are made to the source and you switch back to the Design windo...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Allow reuse of QSQSVR prestart jobs for multithread jobs running embedded SQL in server mode

    Please allow release of QSQSVR prestart jobs back to the pool upon thread termination for embedded SQL (SQLRPGLE) running in server mode in multithread capable jobs. Currently, when a multithreaded job running in server mode (set by QWTCHGJB) spaw...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

    When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

    Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
    7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

    Named index of current iteration in for-each loop

    I'm building some functionality that relies on several arrays that need to be filled, checked and modified on the fly. I like the for-each loop with dim(*auto: nn) for this. In the initial load proces I can use '*next' as an index, which is great....
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Improve reorganize while active

    the reorganize while active mechaniism is a very interesting mechanism and allows you to reorganize files under journal allowing you to clean up many deleted records without closing applications and services. However, the mechanism does not allow...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

    More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

    Suggested versions of IBM i support for new Power Systems

    Power 8 (generally) supports IBM i 7.1-7.4 Power 9 (generally) supports IBM i 7.2-7.5 Power 10 supports IBM i 7.3-7.6 (and, if the pattern holds) likely not iNext Power 11 supports IBM i 7.4-7.6 and likely iNext I propose that new systems should s...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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