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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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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.

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Port nano text editor in PASE as a simpler alternative to vi/vim

vi/vim is superior and great for reasons that I will never understand but will blindly accept as valid. While I try to learn it and become efficient with it, something more 'practical' like nano would be a fantastic addition to the existing PASE t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Navigator for i Message Monitor - ignore a message ID

I want the ability for specific messages to be ignored by the Navigator for i message monitor. Use Case: I set up a message monitor for QSYSOPR inquiry messages. It sends me emails and a text if one occurs. I want it to ignore CPA7025, however, an...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

HMC command to retrieve lpar description and group tags

The LPAR general properties allows the specification of a "description" and the specification of "group tags". However there is no mechanism to retrieve these values from the command line.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Allow multiple LUNs to be unmanaged

When unmanaging LUNs in PowerVC we are only allowed to unmanage an indidual LUN as multiples cannot be selected.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Changeable java heap size used in ACS

Sometimes ACS has displayed OutOfMemory, so we want to change Java heap size used in ACS. Only when I use the command, look like (java -Xmx 1024mb -jar acsbundle.jar), we can change heap size. But when we have clicked the .hod file to start acs se...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

SQL service to retrieve Monitored resources

to easily check which objects are replicating in the monitored resources it would be convenient to have a SQL service that retrieves the list of all the objects present in the monitored resources Use Case: to easily check which objects are replica...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Delivered

ACS - shortcuts to Schemas function

Access Client Solutions has shortcuts for accessing the Run SQL Script function: plugin RSS for the start program and menu command "Run SQL Scripts" for 5250 window. It would be nice to have the same functionality for the new Schemas function. Use...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

customizable columns in the viewing panels

Adding the ability to change/add/remove columns in the GUI. Look at the SVC GUI, it does that just fine ! In addition, it would be nice to be able to save the configuration of the columns, to multiple "profiles" (default, myview, mybeautifuldetail...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

New column to Storage view

Currently the Storage view shows only Available capacity on the Storage (see attached screenshot). However, when you are using Thin provisioning (which is nearly always nowadays) , it would be valuable to see also the total Allocated capacity.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Support RPGLE hyperlink for procedures and subroutines

The new hyperlink functionality added in 8.5.1 allows to goto a variable definition from one of its references in the code. I'd like that support to be extended to procedures and subroutines.I know that go to definition function already exists wit...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered