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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

RDi (Rational Developer for i)

    Showing 613 of 4993

    Keyboard shortcut for Change Compile Defaults

    In PDM you have the option to use F18=Change defaults to be able to set the; - Object library - Batch processing options - Job descriptionWhich is fast and efficient.In RDi this requires; Navigate to ==> windows > Preference > Remote Syst...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Add Maximum Line Length as a preference in Free-form SQL Formatting

    The SQL Auto-formatter in Rational Developer formats long predicates with the end-of-line preference passed the savable source column length.The SQL Formatter within ACS Run SQL Scripts allows you to specify a maximum line length. This same prefer...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Create/Amend filters using search results

    When I access PDM's "find string" from within RDP (or through a remote search), I would like to add the results into a new/existing member filter, object filter and/or iProject folder with a click of a context option. This will allow large filters...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    RDi 9.6: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM

    Rational Developer for i (RDi) 9.6.0.7: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM.Actually in RSE is not possibile to filter the member list (filter or show in table view) by modified date. Use Case: For example: I ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Add "Open for Edit" shortcut in IBM Rational Developer for i

    When the developers browse source codes using IBM Rational Developer for i, they often open source members using mouse right-click option 'Browse With" as they do not want to lock the source member while browsing.When the developer decides to actu...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

    Locking source in IFS when opening with LPEX editor

    When opening a source in the LPEX editor, which is located in the NFS in a source file, the member will be locked. When opening a source in the LPEX editor, which is located in the IFS in a stream file, the stream file will NOT be locked. The stre...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    RDi: Support iRPGUnit & IBMiUnit

    RDi & command-line code coverage support RPGUnit, however that tools is not actively maintained. Please support iRPGUnit (maintained by Thomas Raddatz and Mihael Schmidt) and IBMiUnit (supported by Marina Schwenk) as alternatives Use Case: Use...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Add optional capability similar to Source->Format, to allow developer to sort declarations by type. Source->Sort Declarations.

    To improve programmer productivity and source readability. When reviewing programs, it would be helpful to be able to sort declarations into sequence by types, ie. DCL-C, DCL-DS, DCL-S, DCL-PI, DCL-PR would all be grouped together with like type v...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Include Python and Perl IDE in RDi

    IBM wants developers to use open source languages, therefore IBM has delivered Python and Perl. There is no IDE for these languages with IBM i integration.Please deliver plug-ins and perspectives for Rational Developer for i (RDi) for these new la...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    Add keep alive for Service Entry Point port

    Add a keep alive to the service entry point preferences so that 3825 is not timed out. Use Case: In this scenario, the IBM i has keep alive for ports 8475 and 8476. The debug job seems to be staying alive with the login keep alive action, but the ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.