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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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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.

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RDi 9.0.1 Table View - navigation

When clicking in the Table View area, we must be extremely careful not to accidentally change a source member name. We are used to positioning, like in the Remote Systems tree view (and Windows Explorer), by typing a few characters of the member w...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Support Content Assist on CLP control flow structure IF–THEN–ELSE.

It would be very helpful to be able to use content assist with CTRL+SPACE for complex structures like IF?THEN?ELSE for CLP inside Rational Developer for i. Eclipse uses this feature natively in Java and other languages. Programmers who are experie...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration, support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site (say ‘C', outside PowerHA Linux which is configured with ‘A' and ‘B'), then correct handling of the replication state betwee...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

support for dvd-r

would be appreciate support for dvd-r drives in backup, backupios, mksysb and so on. Today is hard use and buy dvd-ram.
about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

VisualAge for RPG

Allow users to import VisualAge for RPG projects & build .Windows applicaitons - or Java applications within RDi Use Case: Lots of home-grown software written on VisualAge for RPG. Because they were designed from the ground up (and not convert...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

AIX to support the 1.3.6.1.2.1.31 MIBs.

We are Setting up AIX servers network monitoring with Riverbed vis snmp. But Network related information is not populating in dashboard. Riverbed required 1.3.6.1.2.1.31 MIBs for network information collection. We opened IBM Case TS002477994 and s...
over 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC provides insufficient details to user when returning error, Managing existing VM may fail if the VM was previously

This virtual machine is not a candidate for import because it was previously managed in PowerVC using a different project on a non-shared network. To manage the virtual machine, convert the network to a shared network
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Senior System Support Engineer

now i can't decide.
over 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Cursor positioning

I am using version RDI 9.0.1. When a verification or compile are requested, and the Error List tab opens, you can click on the error and the cursor is positioned at that line. When you press arrow down, the cursor skips the lines added by the Erro...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Rational Developer for I version 9.0.1 freezes up

We have been using Rational Developer for Power Systems v 8.5 for quite a while. Using this IDE, we had little to no problems. Entering source code into the editor was smooth as well as scrolling, and updating the outline. (it practically never fr...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Is a defect