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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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Position line selected from COBOL outline more usefully

PMR (or SR) 36551,422,000 actually dealt with which editor view was positioned from a selection in the outline. This is a request to have the selected line appear at or toward the top of the editor window. Currently, the selected line (paragraph,s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

WRKJOB: CPI1157-Duplicate jobs found; can it return back to the list?

WRKJOB currently returns a list of matching jobs and asks me to select one. After having done so and examined the selected job, I get returned to a command line. Can it be enhanced to return to the list of jobs? Or the list be enhanced with a 5="W...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

Changes to CHGACTPRFL command

The CHGACTPRFL command only allows you to specify individual user id's. Use Case: It would be very beneficial if the command allowed you to "wildcard" the USERID parameter field. For example: ABC* versus ABC123, etc.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Change description of temporary RSE members of RDi

In the temporary RSExxxx members, used to save by RDi, add in the description the user and original source name. Use Case: -
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

ACS 5250 emulator crashes on Mac in dark mode

After upgrading to MacOS Catalina I switched to the dark mode. After that I was unable to start any 5250 session. I got the message "Invalid session profile". Switching back to normal mode solved the problem.Logging:2019/10/24 9:19:15.292 #36 SEVE...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Screen/Print Designer allow setting properties on multiple selected fields

In the Screen and Report Designers we cannot select multiple fields and change common properties. This functionality was available in CODE Designer. For instance, on a screen, we want all headings a certain color. In Screen Designer we have to mak...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Enhance QWCCVTDT API

Idea removed by author.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the POS keyword to support a location of *NEXT similar to OVERLAY.

The OVERLAY keyword is required when its "field" parameter is the data structure name. However OVERLAY does not allow *NEXT for the position of that field, a hard-coded value must be specified otherwise it defaults to 1. The POS keyword support ov...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

HMC bonding of private LAN

I would like to be able to team the private LAN as well as the public LAN on the HMC. Now that the HMC supports bonding, I'm not sure why it doesn't work for the private LAN to the managed node FSPs.
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Add FC-NVMe N-Port ID virtualization support to Power9

In October, 2022, IBM announced N-port ID virtualization client support for FC-NVMe which provides ANA support for storage that support it (like NetApp). AIX 7.3 TL1 delivers enhancements that can help you respond faster to business demands: Impro...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration