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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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Pressing Alt+key to execute macro sets focus to File in the Tools line

After opgrading to 1.1.7.1 an irritating thing has started when executing macros. I have defined macros to be executed when pressing ALT+F1, ALT+F2 etc but now it executes the macro and then focus is at the "File" option in the Tools line so when ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Is a defect

IBM Cloud Support Notifications

When sending email updates on support cases, can you include the current case status (maybe former too)? I ask because, often I create cases and your team will update it in the portal to say they are researching or something similar. I then get an...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

Refactor the Network tab when deploying new LPAR

In PowerVC 2.0.3 when you deploy a VM from the UI, when you have more than 500 networks in the list, the page is totally unusable correctly. Instead of having the list of ALL the networks already populated, it would probably be better to be able ...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

make landscape PDF display as portrait

Request to a product of a IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS).Outputting PDF with ACS (Java Printing Service) and opened with PDF viewer, even landscape orientation files are always displayed vertically.We request making landscape oriented PDF file...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Updating COD on HMC

Updating COD on HMCRequest For Enhancement to change this dialog behavior.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Ability to automate mass spool file downloads

I would like a command line plug-in to be able to specify a library/outq name and a folder path and have the ability to download all the spool files in that outq to the folder path. It would also be helpful if there was a switch to download as PDF...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Tabbed formatting in report headers, footers

I need to be able to set tabs in the headers, so I can align information correctly. Currently, I have a need to put a location name to the left, a field description to the right on a right tab, and a field total on a decimal tab on the right. IA d...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 6 Not under consideration

Additional ctrl-/ comment format option

In free form RPG code (any kind), how about a commenting option for "place two slashes in front of the selected line(s) where the left-most line currently begins and shift the selected line(s) right 2 spaces". The lines are already shifted right 2...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Maintenance mode : Migration Evaluation upfront to detect failures and prevent canceling all migrations

We would like to see the whole maintenance mode (also known as "evacuate mode") , check first if there are errors in the precheck and validation steps, and then put them aside if they are failed, and run the migrations of the good ones . At the sa...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Code colapse/expand for subprocedures/subroutines

This feature is to have the possibility to colapse/expand blocks of code such as subprocedures or subroutines.Just like the expand/colpase option in the Java editor Use Case: An [+] or [-] symbol should appear on the left side of the subprocedure ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

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