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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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Need CompoundText converter update for AIX 7.x

CompoundText converter update for Java compatibility is needed in AIX V7.x. There is a problem in Cut&Paste, Drag&Drop between Java and AIX Motif applications for IBM Extended and NEC Selected characters. About 30-40 % of them still does n...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Outputq description view

New SQL View or enhancement to a current view (object statistics or output_queue_info maybe?) to view output_queue_info. Reasoning, a pain point for admins is when they have to create outputq’s for new printers, they dup the object, make some chan...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 10 Delivered

incorrect iostat metrics for vhost adapter

The extended metrics reported by iostat, viostat, and other perf tools are inconsistent with the column headings they're reported under. We have discussed this with Carl, Shajith, Gomathi, and Prajith, and have agreed to create an RFE to explore c...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Need a lightweight Terminal Emulator

While using the Remote System Explore of RDp, it would be really handy to be able to open up an emulator session to the i.This doesn't need to be a full featured version of i Access. But a lightweight version would be really handy Use Case: While ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Command to import/export/edit an LPAR's 'Description' field now available in the Enhanced UI

It would be great to be able to import from / export to CSV the data in the LPAR's 'description' field that is now available in the Enhanced UI.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Allow extensions of the 12 month CMC subscription with new E1080 servers

Add the ability to extend the default CMC subscription included with E1080 server purchases, allowing it to match extended warranty and SWMA options. When purchasing a new E1080 (9080-HEX) server, a 12 month subscription of Cloud Management Consol...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Delivered

Rational Developer for I code generation

We are on OS 7.1 using Rational 9.1.1 - When I convert code to free form it is still creating the FREE END-FREE statements even though they are no longer required on OS 7.1 - Can the generation if Free End-Free statements be made optional? Use Cas...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Required Samba V4.x support with Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) with Kerberos authentication

Samba V4.x running on AIX OS - need Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) support with Kerberos authentication. Active Directory support for Samba used to be there in older versions of the product such as V3.x - however with the newer V4.x versi...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Line outline doesn't show numbered indicators

When we have an RPGLE source open with the live outline open there is no reference of the numbered indicator.Exemple *IN(10) and *IN12 are used in the program. Only *IN12 appear in the outline. Even with the search, I can't find the *IN(10). The i...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Enable IBM Navigator for i to access servers running older OS releases

Using the latest IBM Navigator for i and adding a node to our V7R2 server no information on CPU usage etc. was returned. Clicking on the "View SQL" and then running that SQL via ACS returned the expected information. Turns out the actual SQL exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered