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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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IBM RDi 9.5 RPG, Cobol Provide RSE port number parameter in eclipse.ini

Rational Developer for i 9.5 (SP2) is installed in a Citrix environment. We noticed that occasionally developers encounter a TCP port collision for Rational Developer (Remote Systems Explorer) or RSE component. Error message RSEC2201:E is issued w...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Default the same location to the open path of the SQL script

The ACS Run SQL Scripts tool saves the last location of the last save of scripts, which is fine to a point. The ablilty to save results to a file also defaults to this same location. Please change the product in one of two ways. 1. Default the fil...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS Printer Output Date Time enhancement

In IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), Printer Output module, the creation date and time are separate columns. Also, the date and time are being translated to another timezone and do not match the create date and time on the wrksplf application. ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Multiple lpar performance

Enhancement to monitor multiple lpar performance from HMC at managed system level. Presently only individual lpar performance can be monitored. To understand and better utilize resources by comparing or analyzing multiple lpar performance at manag...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Enhancement to ACS Plugin PWCHANGE

For many end-users, they are not given the ACS interface - simply an icon to click for the system or system(s) they have access to. For these users, they would have to click each icon representing each system they have access to change their passw...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

CRTBNDRPG should additionally support CCSID parameter

Eclipse Orion and Git now support RPG Source located in IFS, which will be tagged with CCSID 1208 or UTF-8 as default. On the other hand, the RPG compiler (CRTBNDRPG command) doesn't support CCSID parameter and is not compatible with IFS located R...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

WebQuery sort order for Filter in IA-Reports

In InfoAssist-Reports (fex-files) it is not possible to define a sort order for Filters. It is only available in HTML-Reports but not in Info Assist.A option to define a sort order would be very useful. Use Case: In InfoAssist-Reports (fex-files) ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 6 Delivered

Run site discovery (or refresh/clear configuration of HMC hosts) without any host added to ksys

VMRM is not able to refresh configuration without any host. All details in support case: TS001971159
over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

VM Recovery Manager VM turns automatically to Managed after discovery and LPM

VM Recovery Manager after discovery or LPM(on HMC) is turning all machines to Manage mode by default instead to unmanage. All details in Case: TS002040830
over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

ACS - Run Command

IBM has done a good job replacing "System i Navigator" with the "Access Client Solutions" product. However there are a few features that System i Navigator provided that are not present in the ACS product. One feature I would like to request that ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered