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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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Prevent the action of copying in ACS products when nothing is selected

If you press CTRL+C in any of the ACS products without a selection being active you get difference values from the difference features but you always end up copying something. I don't know who's bright idea this was but please stop it and remove t...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS Data Transfer; DOS Random

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions data transfer need file type or translation for DOS Random. Use Case: ACH origination, wire transfers, and other data transfers.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Audit command needs better errors

Errors produced by the /usr/sbin/audit command are not helpful. They need to be more specific to help diagnose and solve the problem.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Add Date/Time stamp to each Phase of the nimadm process

Having date/timestamp information available at the Phase level will take the guesswork out of where "time" is being spent within the overall nimadm process.
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Command to retrieve VIOS information etc. because kdb is unreliable and dangerous

I request to create one or more commands to be able to get information of vscsi- and vfc-host AND client adapters on lpars and vios which are currently available only via kdb.kdb is slow, not reliable, dangerous and there is a "bug" in the kernel ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 11 Delivered

visual display on HMC for server health

HMC displays on an image the health of the server, for at lest:-fans-Electric Power
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Regular expression scan and replace

Please add 'replace' to the regular expression search. In particular, the ability to use back references to capturing groups is very much desired. Use Case: I had an SQL script that was several hundred lines long which I wanted to put into a CL pr...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

PowerVC - managing FC port connnections from VIOS to storage

Customer engagement, Customer would like PowerVC to surface a way to select the backend storage ports used thru VIOS to connect.Currently SCG provides the option to control how ports are used to VIOS, but cannot force port selection by VIOS to the...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Configure IBM i to return public IP on passive mode request

In passive mode request the IBM i is responding with an IP address on the system. We would like passive mode request to be configurable. For example, we would like to insert the network public address in IBM i passive mode responses. Use Case: We ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

In the Run SQL Scripts tool, when using "library.table" naming convention, double clicking on the library name should only select the library name and not the whole "library.table" string

This is how it works with "library/table". If you double-click on "library" the word "library" will be highlighted. But if you are using "library.table" and double-click on "library" it will highlight the entire string. It's cumbersome and inconsi...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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