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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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Allow condition indicators at record level in screen designer

The SDA and Code/400 Designer products have always had the ability to set condition indicators during the design mode in order to overlay or hide fields on the display.This function is needed when there are multiple fields on a record occupying th...
almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

provide a way to opena PMR directly from within RDP

Make it much easier for users to report problems from within RDP. Use Case: If it is not easy to report a problem, many users will not bother, especially if the process requires many steps (open a browser, go to the IBM web page to "Open a PMR", e...
almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Prevent Download of 5733OMF Cover Letters

When ordering PTFs via SNDPTFORD, we receive numerous cover letters for the 5733OMF product even though we do not have that product installed, and we did not request fixes for that product. We opened a case with IBM about the issue and were told ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Future consideration

Support case insensitive (double) quoted names for PARMS and VARIABLES in SQL/PL

When creating user-written SQL functions or procedures, the name of the parameters with the recent NAMED parameter syntax is difficult to use. The end-user is made to guess the upper/lower case specfiied for parameter that contains quotes but not ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add AUTO-PROMPT job attribute for F9=Retrieve(d) CL Commands on Enter

When using the IBM i command entry F9 or F8 to retrieve a prior CL command, I would like a job attribute that controls whether or not that CL command can be run directly via Enter or Prompted on Enter. This would give us an "Are you sure" failsafe...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Not under consideration

Allow to mount NFS without a ping response

There are some NFS services (cloud storage gateways, cloud NFS services, etc) that block echo icmp response, so you won't receive an answer from ping. This change could allow to work with more cloud services
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 6 Future consideration

ibmveth

followup 131910:modinfo ibmveth filename: /lib/modules/4.12.14-95.24-default/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.koversion: 1.06license: GPLdescription: IBM Power Virtual Ethernet Driverauthor: Santiago Leon <santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com>++...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Allow "Display Path Status" from command line

currently the only interface to view the current Disk Path Status is in Service Tools. Would like to be able to see that information from the WRKDSKSTS screens (via a F-11 option view) Use Case: only way to view disk path status is to logon to Ser...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

AIXPCM - ODM Attribute

A ODM attribute svc_sb_ttl (“SVC time to live”)now exists starting with the 2.6.5.0 release of SDDPCM.This hdisk attribute denotes the time that an I/O remains active since it was first issued, if a split-brain condition occurs. This variable is u...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Referential Constraint issues job log

The problem: qsqsrvr running an SQL request and it receives back an error: SQL0352. The qsqsrver job then job logs. I am depending on the database to give me this feedback (SQL0352) however I want to control whether or not it job logs. Per the PMR...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration