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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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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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My ideas: IBM i

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Add P7-zip to IBM i YUM repository

P7zip/7zip is an amazing compressor with many options, multithreading and encryption Use Case: We have a tool for IBM i backup based on scripts (CL and BASH script) using JAR and PZIP from PERZL. P7ZIP allows to compress using multiple threads and...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

HTTPGETBLOB result to IFS

Currently, HTTPGETBLOB results can't be easily pushed to the IFS. Use Case: My specific use case is for bootstrapping installation of the forthcoming PASE yum packages that were announced at COMMONs17. Conceptual syntax: SELECT SYSTOOLS.HTTPGETBLO...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

We need the possibility of creating PDF-files with QRCODE (Barcode) using InfoPrintServer

More and more of our Customer requires some information as QRCODE (Barcode) on documents which are sent as PDF via Email using InfoPrintServer. Use Case: Many of our Customers requires to have the document number (e.g. invoice no), partnumber, ord...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 15 Delivered

RDi: Error list does not position to correct source line if any source lines have been added or deleted

System: RDi for RPGActor: User needing defective feature to be fixed RDi currently provides the ability to quickly position to compiler errors by double-clicking the error in the Error List. Issue: If you modify your source code by adding or delet...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Display additional parameter information in RPGLE content assist

RPG content assist shows only data type and length of parameters in a prototype. Prototypes in RPG allow parameters to have names, mainly for documentation. These parameter names, if available, along with keywords like OPTIONS(*NOPASS:*OMIT:*VARSI...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a Universally Unique Identifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format (rfc4122) This makes the type a...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 9 Delivered

%join() to catenate strings to one string

In Java there is the method join() to catenate strings into one string including a delimiter. I would like to have a function like this. For example%join( '/' : 'dir' : 'subdir' : 'file.txt')resulting in the string 'dir/subdir/file.txt' or if you ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

RDi show full qualified member name in member comparison

In a member comparison, only the member name is displayed in the title bar. Use Case: In the case of the same member names in different libraries or source members, it would be helpful which member is displayed on the left and right. Please show t...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

ACS Sql scripts F4 Prompt is too slow

IBM does not support CA for Windows so IBM is wanting users to move to ACS. IBM wants us to move away from greenscreen SQL and use the ACS SQL Scripts. Well there have been many issues I have found with this ACS software. But this case concerns th...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

Content Assist to slow in resolving fields

Simply put the resolution of potential field makes content assist almost unusable. I can usually find the field information faster by switching to an emulator session and looking up the fields faster than it comes back. This is mentioned in 146722...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered