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IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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More than one statement per line

It would be nice to be able to put more than one statement per line in free format separated by the Semicolon. If X = 1; X=2; Else; X=3; EndIf; Would be an easy solution without changing the whole language to be similar to what other languages com...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

automatic reports out of CMC

it would be great to receive on a regular base (monthly) automically created reports out of CMC. 1) overview of core and memory usage2) overview of used credits
about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Not under consideration

ACS Java Print doesn't work, with OpenJ9(java)

ACS 1.1.8.0 can print a document with Oracle Java.But it can't print a document with Eclipse OpenJ9. Use Case: In the ACS 1.1.8.0, java print is supported. But install OpenJ9 instead of Oracle, java print doesn't work.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS - Please add menu option in Win 10

When installing ACS on Win 10 it does not create a menu option like previous versions. The is a problem as users will periodically delete the icons on the screen and they can then not start ACS. We need the menu option to allow users to access ACS...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Search for a string in a spool file

I would like to beable to search for a text string in a spool file. Use Case: When I compile a program I have to goto the green screen to check the error in the program listing. Would like to be able to check for error without going to the green s...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Enable block nesting in RPG source members

When editing and RPGLE source member you can use the block nesting function to have RDp connect the IF/ENDIF, DO/ENDDO, FOR/ENDFOR (etc.) statements. This is really nice if someone didn't do a very good job of indenting or if the group spans multi...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Not under consideration

[AJS] Notification encoding

French special characters are not correctly formed when AJAX is sending notifications if smtp server use UTF-8. Use Case: SNDDSTJS RCP(PIERREYVES) SUBJECT('éèçàù') MSG('éèçàùêë')
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Integrate Configuration Health Check with Firmware and HMC Code Update Process

This marketing field requirement requests a fundamental changeto the way IBM delivers firmware and HMC code updates tocustomers. Currently warnings and specific details about theinstallation of a newly released firmware and HMC code areprovided th...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

Change Threshold for Ineligible Job

According to this document, threshold for ineligible job is reset to 255 in IPL.http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1017756 There is no way to change this initial threshold number. If it can change, it could reduce alert message. Use C...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Add conversion to/from RPG Date/Time/Timestamp and Axis types in WebService client (wsdl2rpg.sh)

Wsdl2rpg.sh generates a web service client based on Axis, and an RPG wrapper.This RPG wrapper provides the classical C structure for the RPG variable types Date, Time and Timestamp : D xsd_tm DS align qualified template D sec 10i 0 D* seconds afte...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Not under consideration