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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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Abillity to specify the From Address in SNDSMTPEMM

Currently there is now option in SNDSMTPEMM to specify a From Address like the QtmmSendMail API using a mime file is able to. When many different users are sending emails from the system it will use the current users alias, but this is not accepta...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

Improve disk fencing support during LPM in PowerHA environment

PowerHA supports disk fencing using SCSI-3 reservation mechanism. It was discovered during recent testing with a customer that after LPM, PowerHA node/AIX loses access to disks. This is due to AIX device driver handling of the keys after the LPM c...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Link SQL procedure or SQL function as item in DSPPGMREF

DSPPGMREF does not identify any SQL procedure or function coded in programs. A program can be a *PGM or *SRVPGM object created from a source that is based on SQLxxx language and the usage is static in the source. Use Case: When attempting to use c...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

ACS Copy Formatted SQL to Clipboard

SQL statements that are copied into the clipboard by Ctrl+C should preserve their formatting (color and font). The feature could be optional. Use Case: Write SQL code that you want to share with others or that is to be included in a document.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Add support to "Bookmark" IFS paths in ACS

When using the IFS Task in ACS, I have a set of several directories I often need to work in. Rather than having to type in the path to the file, I would like to "bookmark" or have a set of "favorites" that I can select from. This is similar to the...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Retrieve TCP/IP Servers Attributes

There is no option to retrieve or dump the current TCP servers configurations (Telnet & FTP), the only way to display the value is using the change server attributes commands interactively, which is not useful to be used in batch programs/scri...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Single Pane for QSYSOPR messages in New Navigator

The New Nav that was released in the fall of 2021 provides a single pane of glass for each of our managed partitions and seems quite promising. What would make this new navigator more promising and will allow us to abandon older versions is being ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

ACS 5250 Screen History Archive enhancement: include /PLUGIN to convert images to folder

Screenshots are an important part of audit evidence and defense for internal and compliance audits, as well as step by step procedural trainingThe ability to export images from screen history archive is already a very useful tool for supporting th...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

TCPIP server config in NEW Navigator

Please add the Ability to configure TCPIP server in the new Navigator. Use Case: Need a was to update TCPIP server attribute that can not be updated on the 5250 screen such as SMTP relay lists.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

RPG Docs (like Java Docs) in Content Assist

Java docs is incredible useful when writing java code in eclipse, specially when the associated documentation for a method is retrieved with the content assist pop up. There's no official documentation for rpg, but projects like ILE DOCS are very ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 14 Delivered