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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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SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
21 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
7 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

Set IBM i tagged I/O via api/cli/ansible

The idea is based on setting up via api/cli or ansible tagged i/o for IBM i systems to allow automation of the deployment of such partitions
2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

Enable image catalogue entry to use a specific size or the same size as the first volume.

When a save runs to a virtual tape device and the last volume is used MSG:CPA6798 is issued. The message can be replied to with *GEN which will create a new volume with the following attributes.  ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG (same as previous volume)  FROM...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
5 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Enable NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.

Enabling NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.As per the IBM support team, the remote install of any ptfs or images through image catalogue ov...
2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted