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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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    Enable TR-31 Import / Export of AES K0-B and K1-B Key Blocks for 4767/4769 crypto cards

    For important bank compliance with MasterCard, we need use to TR-31 KEY EXPORTER in KEK value with mode of use BThe used parameters are:Key block version: VARDRV‑BValue of use: KEKMode of use: ENC-DEC In the APAR OA64883 was published for Z series...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Functionality already exists

    Optimizing SEU Usage: Balancing System Administration Needs and Developer Progress

    The justification for keeping SEU in the operating system is that system administrators need it to modify CL programs while in restricted state. However, maintaining SEU hinders developers from transitioning to modern, more efficient development t...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Functionality already exists

    Copy service definition in IWS

    Provide the ability to copy an existing service definition, so you don't have to go through all the steps to define a new service when a similar service already exists.
    7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

    On Access Client Actions add new options for Download and Upload a Save File

    Currently the easiest way to transfer a save file to or from an IBM i would be to use FTP. You can also do this via the Access Client but it is difficult to do. What I would propose to do is add two options Download Save File and Upload Save File ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

    PowerVC

    After having followed support recommendations about how to tell PowerVC to use the new wwpn brought by the new svc controllers, it appears that PowerVC is able to use only one wwpn (thus a port). This is unacceptable for me because that means all ...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Functionality already exists

    Create a system command to convert JSON files to physical files (PF) and vice versa

    IBM i increasingly interacts with external systems through APIs and JSON data. Developers often need to manually parse JSON into SQL tables using complex JSON_TABLE queries, or conversely serialize DB2 data into JSON for outbound APIs. My idea is ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

    Point SQL messages to the place where they originated

    When we see a message in the log like SQL0501 - Cursor xxx not open, and drill down to the details to find where the message comes from we see internal SQL references and not our program name and statement. This makes it hard to debug and fix. Ple...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

    NIM BOS and mksysb install in HANIM enviornment

    In HANIM environment NIM master and alternate master does not support NIM BOS and Mksysb installation for each other. So to restore NIM master or alternate master we have to have 3rd NIM master in enviornment
    over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Functionality already exists

    Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

    Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

    Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

    We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

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