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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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Increase the performance of IWS lists by filters

Calling up the list of deployed services takes a long time. With 50 services it takes 20 seconds. Whenever I perform an action (e.g. stop or start a service or display the properties), it always takes 20 seconds until the entire list has been upda...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Identify where in the code you are at.

When editing or browsing through a source member in the LPEX editor, it would be helpful to know in what subroutine or procedure you are at. This would eliminate the need to find BEGSR Previous. SImilar to how the Show Date Area toggle works curre...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 14 Delivered

Include Response for HTTPPOSTCLOB Errors

Currently, the HTTPPOSTCLOB command discards the response received from the remote server if the HTTP response is not 200. We would like to be able to see the response regardless of success or error. Use Case: We have built an application to set u...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Do not mark data structure or other container as unreferenced when any subfield is referenced

In recent releases of RDi, unreferenced variables and file declarations are marked with an information annotation. If a data structure is not, in itself, referenced, it is so marked. But any subfield that IS referenced is not marked. I want the co...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Change default for PowerVC Host Maintenance Mode Panel

'Enter Maintenance mode panel' on PowerVC GUI has 'Migrate all virtual machines to another host' selected as default - requesting that this is either set to 'None' by default or a configurable parameter to allow customer to chose what the default ...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

AIX rw_timeout =40 didn't work over 491 seconds becaus of current AIX FC behavior

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout hit as defined in ODM. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant SAN switches and even redundant servers. But rw_timeout=40 didn't ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

IBMi IWS ILE service program procedure limitation of 7 parameters

We use IBM i IWS (Integrated Web Services Server) to expose ILE service programs as REST web services. Each REST resource (represented by unique URI) is mapped to an ILE service program and corresponding REST methods to procedures within the servi...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Delivered

Access Client Solutions IFS timestamp format and timezone

Currently the Access Client Solutions IFS component shows file timestamps in a textual format, eg. "9 February 2022 at 16:30:29 GMT". There is no alignment and a varying width font is used. The timestamp is shown in local (PC client) timezone. 1. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Power Systems to support replacement of WWPN's on HBA Cards

On Power9 the EN1C/EN1D cards use hard soldered SFP's; when a SFP fails the HBA must replaced, which requires SAN Zoning Changes These cards have the capability to replace the WWPN/WWNN, and we require a method to update the replacement HBA's WWPN...
almost 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

SAN Tape Support in AIX LKU Live Kernel update

We using Spectrum protect LAN Free Backup with SAN NPIV Tapes for backup big Oracle SAP Databases fast. Currently there is no Live Kernel update possible because of the missing support of LKU with NPIV Tapes.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered