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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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Add GNU tools to PASE or 5733OPS

We have developed a build system for native ILE code that we are preparing to release as open source. When coupled with a source control product like Git and bug tracking software like Trac (or Jira), it should provide a free (or nearly free) chan...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Ability to omit fields in WebService reply when they are optional

I'm working with the integrated web services server and have run into a problem. My service has several optional elements, but I can't seem to find a way to indicate that it's optional so they are returned as blank elements. It is a restful interf...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Delivered

RPG - options(*autostring) in prototypes

To get a more "polymorph" approach to transfer parameter to API's - it would be nice if a prototype could be declare to automatically convert date, time, timestamp, int, packed, zoned, char's and varchar to zero terminated strings with that same c...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

MPIO should provide a mechanism to degrade path that return errors

Currently, AIX MPIO PCM provides a mechanism to mark paths as degraded and even fail them when reaching rw_timeout.In some cases (fabric physical degradation) those paths may have been showing errors well in advance or the storage may have aborted...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Change flag changed commands in the IBM i Knowledge Center

When a new release is delivered, all the features are documented in the Knowledge Center. Change flagging and "What's new" sections identify the changes from the prior release. However, for IBM i commands, there is no change flagging. You can find...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 4 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

RDi : open include/copy from IFS

RDi is able to open the /include or /copy members only for physical source files : add the capacity to open /include from the IFS Use Case: Very usefull for ILE development.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 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...
over 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

Add AUTO-EXTEND Attribute to QUSCRTUS API

The only extra attribute that is not on the QUSCRTUS (Create User Space) API is the Auto-Extend Attribute. Since the overwhelming vast majority of end-user created user spaces need to be auto-extend, please add this property to the QUSCRTUS API. U...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Delivered

licensing without depending on system serial number

Need a new API to make licensing without depending on system serial number. Use Case: Rocket iCluster is a HA/DR tool on IBM Power system for 20+ years.We use GENLICKEY command to generate license keys for our customers. This command requires the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Delivered