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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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JDBC 1371E support

JDBCWe can access DB2 for i data in Java programs by using the JDBC driver that is included with the IBM Developer Kit for Java. Please enable the full 1371E support with Unicode surrogates. Use Case: JDBCWe can access DB2 for i data in Java progr...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

ACS Run SQL Scripts - change query options

In iNavigator Run SQL Scripts a menu option is provided to alter the query attributes for the job or jobs. This option is not available in ACS Run SQL Scripts. Use Case: DB2 estimates a recursive CTE statement will exceed the time limit or storage...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Logical expressions resulting to *On/*Off

The result of a logical expression should evaluate to *On (True) or *Off (False) Use Case: DoW *On; // Infinite loopDoW *Off; // Bypass the loop. can be useful for testingDoU *Off; // Infinite loopDoU *On; If *On;If *Off;Etc. Now, compiler gives e...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

Two-way communication framework

Currently, Instana is only able to collect information from IBMi but not able to feed requests back to IBMi. This is an important piece which our team used to reply and acknowledge events directly from user interface instead of logging into each L...
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

open source Node.js iToolKit

The following languages have open source iToolkits that allow for community collaboration and contribution: Ruby, PHP, Python, .NET, Swift, shell(db2util). And the one that doesn't: Node.js (arguably the most popular open source language IBM i has...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

PowerVM LPAR flag time_ref is not working on servers with LPM capability turned off

Although LPM capability is part of PowerVM by default in Power9 servers, there are setups which have this capability deactivated due to licensing requirements of 3rd party software (looking at you, Oracle). Due to substantially less precise source...
about 4 years ago in PowerVM 0 Delivered

ACS - Add system name to title for result windows

Run SQL Scripts provide the option to display results in a separate window. The title for the result window is the SQL string run. The script window title contains the system connected to. However, there is no system name in the result windows. Us...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Add SQL URI_ENCODE / URI_DECODE Function

IBM i SQL URI_ENCODE / URI_DECODE Function required to provide native support for HTML entities conversion. Benefit: Enables decoded URI value to be stored in an IBM i table as UTF-8 and displayed in ACS. Especially useful when working with differ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

allow V7.4 BRMS to support ZLIB compression for SAVF saves on Power 10

the IBM i V7.4 and V7.5 versions of the SAVxxx command support DTACPR(*ZLIB), so there is no "good" reason that BRMS cannot support the same parameters. CALL PGM(QBRM/Q1AOLD) PARM(('PARMOVR') ('*ADD') ('SAVFDTACPR') ('*ZLIB')) '*ZLIB ' not valid f...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Dynamic LUN expansion allow expanding multiple drives concurrently

Dynamic LUN expansion is a great option to add disk capacity to existing IBM i LPARs with external storage. The only drawback is that the IBM i internal process is single threaded and only processes one drive at a time. Current project will take o...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Delivered