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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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LPEX New Procedure Wizard defaults for Free-form

With RDi 9.1.1, the defaults in the New Procedure wizard are "not checked" for both "Generate free-form D-spec and P-spec code" and "Generate free-form C-spec" check boxes. This is a regressive change from the behavior of 9.1.0, and should be corr...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

IBM i Access Client Solutions 5250 Session Emulator - Expand Window Size when changing Display Mode to 132 x 27

When using 5250 Display Emulator that is configured with display size 132x80... When you display a screen that uses 132 x 80, the size of the application window should expand, like the previous emulation program (IBM Personal Communications iSerie...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

ACS SQL formating using generate SQL

ACS generate SQL does the SQL formating completly different than earlier versions of client access.The "old" formating was much better than now. I attached a description as pdf file and two sql-files as example. Use Case: make the SQL's more reada...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

NEED ADDED FEATURES FOR AIX TRUSTED EXECUTION

Hi Team, We use AIX trusted execution in our environment for some of critical AIX servers. The application is such that it undergoes some or other update very frequently and we have to repeatedly whitelist files in TSD manually. This becomes tedio...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

Provide ACS Session Icons, making session switching clearer

Allow Icons to be set for each 5250 session, as Client Access had.I currently have:Version: 1.1.6.2Build id: 7031 Use Case: For users that have connections to multiple systems, having unique icons per session makes switching between sessions/syste...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Create SQL Service that produces a list simliar tp dsppgmref

develop sql service that does a similar role to dsppgmref. Use Case: In modernizing our system, I wrote a program that uses this command, populating a file with program references, display files, files etc. For a report. I was surprised to see tha...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS

We try to configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS We can send the email to a receipt that having the same domain as sender. However, when sending to a receipt that with different domain, the receipt cannot get th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Delivered

AJS within iASP without iASP in JOBD in Navigator for i

We'd like an option to set the iASP for the Advanced JobScheduler (AJS) within the Navigator for i without having the iASP in the jobdescription. Use Case: We're running the AJS library within the iASP but as administrators we don't get the iASP t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Add image deploy on exsisting lpar in powerVC

Using PowerVC we can not deploy image on existing lpar. Deployment will use only for new lpar. We want to use PowerVC to deploy images on existing lpar same like Nim restore image.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

NPIV VFC driver change request

AIX NPIV VFC driver must be more aggressive in error recovery in cases where VIOS is not servicing commands in a timely manner. The issue can be easily recreated by stopping the VIOS in kdb.
over 6 years ago in AIX 6 Delivered